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fubfcribers, and is a moft beautiful en- 
graving. Coloured imprefiions are una- 
voidably delayed for a thort time. 
We(itminier Abbey is fo crowded with 
monuments, that the beautiful effect which 
would otherwife refult from the Gothic 
archite&ture, is in a great meafure deftroy- 
ed. The walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral 
have long looked naked for want of mo- 
numents: this is to be remedied; and 
four monuments to the memory of the 
heroes of Britain are now gcing on with 
by Flaxman, Banks, Roffi, and Weftmacot. 
Mr. Dayes is now on a tour through 
Italy, and is commiffioned by Sir Simon 
Clark to purchafe thirty or forty of the 
moft capital pictures from the fineft col- 
leétions on the continent. 
The wonderfully fine print of The Laft 
Supper, engraved by Raphael Morghan, 
from Leonardi de Vinci, which we in a 
former Retrofpeét recommended to the 
ftudy of our Englifh engravers, is as 
eagerly fought for, and fells at as high 
prices abroad as it does in England. 
Sele Views of the Ifle of Wight. ff, Brixe 
ton Church, near Yarmouth. and. Mirables, 
with Mr. Arnold’s Cottage, at the Back of 
the Ifland, 3d. Carifbrook Cafile. 4t? 
St. Catherine’s-Head, from Frefh Water Bay. 
Thefe four very beautiful prints are 
engraved in acquatint by Cartwright, 
from defigns by Walmefley, and drawn 
and coloured in a very fuperior ftyle. 
Tivo Views in Bobemia. Walinfley pinxit, Black 
feulpt. 
Thefe are alfo in acqua-tinta, and in- 
tended as companions to the preceeding, 
with which they in every refpeét admira- 
bly affimilate. 
Henry 2’ Efterre Darby, Captain of his. Majefty’s 
Ship Bellerophon, on the xf of Augufi, 1798. 
From the original picture in the poffeffion. of 
‘Sohn Darby, efg. to whom the print is infcrib- 
ed. Sir W. Beechey, Portrait-Painter to bis 
Majefiy pinxit. R, Earlom feulpt. 
This is an extremely fine portrait, and- 
admirably engraved. 
The wandering Vagrants, or the Gypfies deteGed. 
The Peafant’s Integrity, or the loft Lamb re- 
frored. Painted by W. R. Pigg, and cn- 
graved by W. Barnard, Fitzroy-fireet. 
Bigg’s pictures are generally the mir- 
rors of nature, but thefe two mezzotintos 
are in a tame and cold ftyle; they almoft 
_ freeze one to lock at them. 
The Storming of Seringapatam: infcribed to the 
King. Painted by R. K. Porter, engraved 
by Vandermani. . 
This is only a third part of the fubjeé, 
Retrofped? of the Fine Arts. 
[June f, 
which is to be wholly copied from the pic- 
ture exhibited at the Lyceum, and, when 
complete, will be fold at fiz guineas. It is 
engraved in chalks, in a very bold and 
{pirited manner, in which, without enter- 
ing into a laboured detail, the generak 
mafies are given with the happieft effect. 
The engraver is, we believe, in partnerfhip 
with Mr. Bartolozzi, and much of that 
inimitable artift’s manner is very percepti- 
ble in feveral parts of the print. 
Francis Duke of Bedford. Inferibed to bis Grace 
Fobn Duke of Bedford. Hoppner pamxit, P- 
Tomkins, New Bond-fireet, feulpt. ; 
This is a very pleafing chalk portrait ; 
but there was a manly character about 
the late Duke which the print does not pof- 
fe(s, We think that the painter, in endea- 
vouring to make the face handfome, has 
rendered it rather effeminate. 
From a Painting by Sydenham Edwards, Part 
of the Corps of the Wefiminfler Volunteer Ca- 
walry performing the <ttack and Defence at 
Speed. Inferibed to Major Elliot, the Ojficers 
and Gentlemen of the Company. Engraved by 
Schiavoncbsi. 
The above is on the whele a very good 
plate ; but being almoft wholly compofed 
of portraits, gives it rather a fiff formal - 
air: but this to the friends of the parties © 
is compenfated by their being, as we are 
told, very clofe refemblances of the ori- 
ginals. . 
The Britifh Fleet under the Command of Admiral 
Sir Hyde Parker, with Vice Admiral Lod 
Nelfin, K.B. and Rear Admiral Thomas 
Graves, entering the Sound, and paffing the 
Cafile and Fortre{s of Cronenburgh, on the 28t& 
of March, 1801. Drawn by Mr. Pocock, 
from a Sketch taken on the Spot by Redinfox 
Kittoe, efg. late Secretary to the Rear Admiral, 
and engraved by Black. Dedicated to Earl 
Spencer. 
This capital print which muft be very 
interefting to the admirers of marine paint- 
ing, is intended as a companion to The 
Battle off Copenbagen, which has been no- 
ticed in a former Retrofpe&. The fize of 
each of the prints is 30 inches by 22. 
The view being taken on the {pot by fo 
good a judge of naval architecture as Mr. 
Kiltoes, and afterwards copied by fo accu 
rate a draftsman as Mr. Pocock, gives a 
certainty of correéinel!s in the view of the 
fortrefs, the caftle, and the difpofition of 
the veflels and the coaft; the whole is 
picturefque, and well engraved by Mr. 
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