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height of a Britifh beauty. 
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Ruffian Heffars and Coffacks atracked by French 
Horfe and Foot. - Merke fculpt. . »Auffrian 
Hufjars charging the Enemy through a Town. 
. F.Bluck feulpt. . 
This pair of prints difplay war in all 
its horrors. : 
An Officer of Cuiraffiers leading on bis Troops. 
Ff Black feulpt.—Heffian Huffars, ona Night 
Patrol. C. Ziegler feulpt. ne 
The effeét of the peafant’s lanthorn in 
the laft of thefe prints, though rather 
violent in the blaze, is ftriking. 
Saxon Huffars attacked by French Infantry from 
an Ambufcade, F. Bluck fculpt—A Recon- 
noitring party of Aufirian Dragoons ree 
treating from the Enemy. ‘Ff. Bluck feulpt. 
Thefe two prints, like the others, have 
great fpirit, but would not have been in- 
jured by being, in the painters phrafe, a 
little kept down both an drawing and co- 
louring. 
To the gentlemen of the army, thefe 
fubjects have peculiar intereft, and we are 
fold that among the military, the fale has 
been confiderable: . 
Swearing-in the Lord Mayor. Painted by Mil- 
der. Engraved by B. Smith, Publifbed by 
Meffis. Boydell, Cheapfide, and the Shake~ 
fpeare Gallery. Price 31. 33. 
This print is forcibly engraved, and 
derives a large portion of its intereft from 
the number of portraits; a greater num- 
ber, we believe, than were ever inferted in 
any one print. A key-plate with refe- 
rences to them all, is delivered with the 
print. The internal view of Guildhall is 
correct, and comprizes the full length por- 
traits of Sir Matthew Hale, and the 
other judges, who, after the dreadfullfire in 
1666, regulated the rebuilding of London 
by fach wife rules as to prevent the endlefs 
train of law fuits which might otherwife 
have enfued, and-would have been little 
lefs chargeable than the fire had been. 
Thefe portraits were painted by Michael 
Wright, a tolerably good painter. ‘The 
key-print deicribes many of them. 
Agrippina landing with the Afbes of Germani- 
cus. Burney del. Agar feulpt.—Sopbonifba 
receiving ber Nuptial Prefent from Maffiniffa. 
Burney del. Agar feulpt. Publifbed for 
Ackermann, to1 Strand: Price 3s. Plain. CGo- 
loured 75. 
Thefe are two very elegant little. vig- 
In the firft of them, the figures 
are antique, though that of Agrippina, 
if the ftood upright, would be above the 
The figure of 
Sophonifba in the fecond, is voluptuous, 
Rétrofpeél of ihe Fine Arts. 
[Aug. 1; 
but the difplaying a cornucopia as the 
nuptial torchy though it may be warranted 
in the Court of Paphos, would, in an En- 
glith Court, excite fome whimfical ideas, 
which might lead to Doctors’ Commons, 
and the Court of King’s Bench. We are 
at a lols to conceive how the loofe drapery, 
to which the horn and garland are ful. - 
pended, is fupported. If we fuppele it 
the wind, it muft be Boreas, for, Zephy- 
rus would not have fufficient power. Not- 
withftanding all this, it is a light and 
tafteful defign, and very neatly en- 
graved. i 
A Drawing-book, confifling of Four Heads. 
Maria. Cofway del. Samuel Phillips feulpt. 
Publifbed for R. Ackermann, Print Wareboufe, 
No. 101, Strand. Price 10s. 6d. Plain. 21s. 
Coloured. j Be lh 
-Thefe heads are in the antique ftyle, and 
intended for Bacchus, Ariadne, Innocence, 
and Simplicity. 
The face of Bacchus is rather feminine, 
though the profile, which is perfeétiy Gre- 
cian, refembles a figure that was fome 
years fince at the late Mr. Hamilton’s gar- 
dens at Cobham, in Surrey. The head 
of Ariadne is in a fingular pofition, but is 
a good model to draw from. The heads 
of Innocence and Simplicity are characterif- 
_ tic, and well difplay the two paffions they 
are intended to perfonify. The whole are 
admirably engraved in.the chalk manner, 
by Mr. Samuel Phillips, whom we have had 
former occafions to notice, and who dif- 
plays marks of improvement, that we 
expect will in time raife him to. emi-’ 
While we are on the fubjeéts defigned 
by Mrs. Cofway, we cannot refit noticing 
a defign which Agar has lately engraved, 
as a vignette toa bill of Ackermann, 
Suardy and Cos. Water-proof Manufac- 
tory atChelfea. ‘The procefs which cioth 
or wearing-apparel undergoes at this 
place, renders it impenetrable to rain, and 
Mrs. Cofway has well defcribed this by a 
whimfical and poetical concetio. ‘ 
A figure, which by the courtefy of al- 
legory, and the. practice of allegorical 
painters, muft we believe be called a dol- 
phin, is reprefented {wimmiing in the o- 
cean, and {pouting water to a confiderable 
height from each of his noftrils. Upon 
the animal’s back, ffands a little Cupid, 
holding a piece of light drapery, which 
the.wind very complacently blows a’ little 
higher than his head. It is infcribed 
Rain defied—Health preferved. Partly 
enveloped in a claud immediately above 
it, isa little Genius prefling sie his 
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