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Seven Prints fromthe Seven Ages of Shakefpeare, 
painted by R: Sniirke, £9. R.A. and engraved 
by Meffrs. Thew, Simon, Ogborne, Tomkins, and 
Lenoy 3 publifbed by F. and F. Boydell, Cheap- 
_ fide, and the Shake/peare Gallery, Price 5/. 55. 
Prints are 21 inches long, by 18 inches bigh. 
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_ Thefe are an admirable fet of fub- 
jects for a painter, and Mr. Smirke has, 
in general, executed them in a manner 
that does honour to his taite and talents, - 
tho’ we think, in one or two cafes, he has 
weakened the effe& inftead of firengthen- 
ing it, by introducing a ftory not warrant- 
ed by the Poet. For example, in his 6th 
plate, he has introduced the lean and fit - 
pered Pentaloon, driving away an old 
foldier, &c. Shakefpeare defcribes his 
Jullice with beard of formal cut; Mr. 
Smirke’s Juflice has no beard at all. Not- 
withftanding thefe little errors, they area 
very pleafing and well conceived fet of 
prints. 
Lavo Prints, Going to School, and After School 5 
Maria Spilfoury, pinx. Charles Turner 
feulpt. publijbed for Ed. Orme, Fan. 1$02. 
Mifs Spilfbury, we believe, is very 
young, but has, in thefe prints, dilplayed 
a great deal of tafte; they are conceived 
ina ftyle that gives great promife of fu- 
ture excellence, and well engraved. 
A Bravura Air in Mandane, Gillray; pub- 
liked for Humphreys, St. Fames s-fireet. 
Mr. Gillray, who, with a whimficality 
and genius peculiar to himfelf, teizes on 
every paffing folly as it flies, has naturally 
enough availed himfelt of the popular rage 
for Mrs. Billington’s notes, and given a 
moft fpirited caricature’ of that popular 
performer in the character of Mandane. 
Playing in Parts, Gillray. 
This very ludicrous and animated etch- 
ing reprefents a private concert; the fi- . 
gures are drawn with {pirit, and contraft- 
ei with great judgment. 
Fat-Cattle, Gillray, and the fame Publifeer. 
Whether the feeding cattle fo exceffive- 
ly fat, that it fhould feem as if they were 
made by fome of nature’s journeymen, 
who forgot to infert the lean, is beneficial 
to fociety or not, muft be fettled by thofe 
who make it the fubjeét of enquiry; be 
that.as it may, the rage which has for 
fome time prevailed for this grofs feeding, 
yenders it a fair object of ridicule, which 
willteud to excite a hearty laugh in every. 
one who fées it, except the fat fcullion, 
who has the kitchen-ftuff for her pergui- 
Retrofpedi of the Fine Arts. 
“fite. 
[Feb. 1, 
It reprefents a noble Duke, fur- 
rounded by his full-fed beats. 
Patterns for Working in Worfieads ; to be pub- 
lifked in Numbers, Number I. containing aight 
Prints, defigned, engraved, and publifbed by 
R. Ackermann, Strand, Price 11, 1s. 
‘Thefe patterns are in colours, and in 2 
tafie admirably calculated for the pur- 
poles intended, and it feems that thefe fort 
of patterns are now highly and univér- 
fally fafhionable. 
Mr, J. T. Smith, No.-20, Great Port- 
land. ftreet, is going cn rapidly with his ~ 
publication of copies from the ‘pittures 
difcevered on the walls of the Houfe of 
Commons. Among many other curious 
circumftances, in the defcription written 
by Mr. Hawkins, is an exact {cale of the 
proportions of Gothic architeéture. This 
is what has been long wanted, and will 
render the book peculiarly ufeful to ar- 
_chiteéts, for it is a fubjeét {c little under. 
ftood, that we have had more than one 
inftance of modern architeéts having ereét- 
ed a Gothic building with a Saxon buttrefs. 
Weftminfter Abbey has been long fo 
crowded with monuments, that one de- 
ftroys the effet of ancther, while the 
walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral have been 
left naked. ‘This ys in the fair way of 
being corrected. A monument is ereét- 
ing, in the fouth tranfept of St. Paul’s, to 
the memory of Captain Burgefs, who was 
killed in an engagement with the Dutch 
fieet ; and for Howe, Abercrombie, Ricu, 
Zc. flations are already allotted. 
Melirs. Boydell will, in the courfe of a 
few months, publith prints, from accu- 
rate paintings, by Mr. James Ward, of ail 
the improved breeds of the ufeful ani- 
mals, viz. cattle, fheep, horfes, hogs, &c. 
&c. with defcriptions of each, pointing 
out their improvements, and appropriate 
advantages, as to foil, climate, dc. 
Four Children at various Employments, 
intended to form a fet of fix, including the 
Fern-cutter, &c. by R. Weltall, Efq. 
R. A. Four Rural Scenes, defcribing the 
Seafons, 27-22, by the fame, to be en- 
graved by Gavgain, Ogborne, &c. ‘The 
Boar that killed Adonis entangled by 
Cupids, and brought to Venus, are up- 
rights, py the fame, 26 by 20, engraved 
by Hall. : An old Female Peafant opening 
a Gate, with a Child afleep, upright, and 
a companion to ditto, by the fame, ens 
graved by Gaugain and Pluyter. 
Four prints, to be engraved ftom paint- 
ings by Mr, Weft. Mr. Kemble, -in the 
character of Rolla, to be engraved from 
a pifture painted by Mr, Lawrence, 
. by 
