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Price of the fet 2). 3s. in colours. 
Lwo Views of Bedibam Cafile in Suffex, from 
the Drawings by Mr. Edward Twopenny. 
This caftle is the property of Sir God- 
frey Webfter, bart. to whom the plates are 
infcribed. The fubjeéts are ealy, and well 
adapted for copying in water-colours, 
Price 1]. qs. the pair, in colours. 
Four Views in tne environs of London, 
intended to match with the Lymington and 
Effex Views, from piftures by J. Rath- 
kone, confitting of 
Plate 1. North-end, from Hampftead 
Heath. 
2. Caen Wood, from ditto. 
3- Brent Bridge on the Edgware Road 
4. The Hyde: on ditto. 
Price xl. 1s. the fet. 
A. fecond fet of Four Views on the river 
Wye, being a feries of celebrated {cenery, 
to be continued in progrefhve  fubjeéts 
coating down the river and its vicini- 
fv, VIZ. 
Plate 5. Goodrich Caftle.—6. Mon- 
routh.—7. Llantony Abbey. —- 8. Tin- 
tern Abbey. 
The drawings are by Mr. Edward 
Dayes, draftiman to the Guke of York, 
and the prints are engraved and publithed 
by Mr. Jukes. 
"The Richters have juft publifhed a pair 
of prints, which, both in defion and execu- 
tion, difplay a confiderabie portion of tafte 
m idea, they are fomewhat 
St. James’s_and Se. Giles’s 
very popular prints), and 
may be denominated delineations of Art 
and Nature. TVohe fir is the Garden Rofe, 
and repretents a safliionable fuli-dren figure 
with an ornamented garden, &c. in the 
back ground. The fecond is an unadorn- 
ed and fimple figure of a girl 
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herfelf with a wreath of wild rofes; a 
heath, cottage, bank, &c. on one fide of 
the print,.1s conceived witn fimplicity, and 
a claflical attention to nature. “They are 
defigned and engraved by Henry Richter, 
who is alfo engraving a print from a very 
beautiful drawing by Lady Bedingfield, 
entitled The Pacr Soldier. 
Richardfon, in the Strand, has lately 
publifhed, part ath of Englifh pertraits ; 
containing 48 portraits to illuftrate Grain- 
gers Biographical Hiftory of England ; 
price, quarto, boards 3]. 13s. 6d. He has 
alio publifhed a portrait of Sir Ifaac Fen- 
ton, while Bachelor of Arts in Trinity 
College, Cambridge, engraved by Bennet 
Reading, from a picture painted by Sir 
Peter Lely, price 7s. 6d.—and a portrait 
ef Mr. Robert Barker, painter of the 
Panorama, engraved by Singleton, after 
‘LT. Ralph, price 2s. Od. 
Retrofpect of the Progrefs of the fine Arts. 
ornamenting 
| [December, 
Chaucard’s Maps of Germany, Italy, 
&c. on 16 large fheets; 9 feet by 7, toge- 
ther with a reduction of the whole on two 
large fheets, price to fubfcribers 3 gui- 
neas, is republifhed by Stockdale, where a 
fpecimen of the original work may be feen. 
Tt is allowed to be the beft map extant of 
thefe countries ; the original cannot now. 
be purchafed at any price; and were it to 
be procured, it is fo worn down as to be 
fcarcely of any ufe. 
The Rev. Mr. Tooke is engaged in 
tranflating from the Ruffian language, a 
hiftory of Ruffia, which was undertaken 
at the command of the late Emprefs, by 
whofe order fifty-eight medals, each about 
the fize of an Englifh half-crown, were en- 
graven. ‘The medals contain on one fide 
the portrait of an Emperor, and on the 
other fome remarkable event of his reign; 
only one fet of them are in England, and 
they are now engraving as vignettes for 
this work. 
It appears from the Hiftory of Buona- 
parte’sCampaigns, latelypublithed in Paris, 
that the French under his command got — 
from Italy 66 pieces of fculpture, and 47 
capital paintings. Among the former are 
the following celebrated chefs Pauvre: 
the Apollo, Antinous, Adonis, Dying Gladia- 
tor, Lacoon, the two Sphinxes, and: the 
Tomb of the Muses. Among the latter, the 
principal paintings of Raphael, Perugino, 
Guerchino, Annibale Carache, Guido, 
Titian, and Coreggio. | 
In the Catalogue of the articles fent to ° 
the national library, are a manufcript of 
the Antiquities of Jofephus on papyrus; a 
manufcript Virgil of Petrarch’s, with notes 
in his hand-writing, brought from the li-” 
brary of St. Lorenzo at Florence, 1s among 
the laft {poils -of Italy, which have been 
depofited in Paris. A few of the Bucolics 
only are wafting in this ancient exemplar ; 
it is placed in the national library with 
the other copies of the fame author brought 
from the library.of the Vatican; which 
they have alfo defpoiled of more than 500 
other manufcripts, fome of them extreme- — 
“dy curious. 
Mr. Rofl, the ftatuary of Mary-le- 
bonne Park, is proceeding with the model 
of a coloflal figure of Britannia. The™ 
figure is fitting, and in a proportion of 15 
feet. Itis to be executed in artificial ftone. 
Beechey’s admirable piéture of His Ma- 
jefty reviewing the Prince of Wales’s regi- 
ment, adorns the Queen’s audience-cham- 
ber in Windfor Cafile. . 
At a late eleétion in the Royal Aca- 
-demy, Mr. W. Turner was chofen an af- 
fociate of that inftitutten. 
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