1801.] 
the fortrefs he fo long, and fo ably de- 
fended. 
Since the death of this great Artift, 
Sir William Beechey, and fome of our 
firft-rate painters have difplayed a por- 
tion of his fpirit; bat the mafs of them 
have invariably drawn figures that feem 
Sitting for their pidiures.. In this portrait 
that common and glaring error is avoid- 
ed, for the figure is put in aétion, and in 
an action very naturally and well-chofen ; 
it reprefents him in the engagement ‘at the ‘ 
Cape of Good Hope, and is intended asa 
companion to that of Admiral Lord Dun- 
can, and is extremely well engraved in 
mezzotinto. 
A Series of bighly-finifhed Engravings from 
Shakefpeare’s Seven Ages of Man, by Mr. W. 
Bromley, from Defigns, by Mr. Stotbard, 
R. A. accompanied with Defcriptions, Hfto- 
vical, Mor al, and Entertaining. By an emi- 
nent Lit Charader. Publifbed in Four 
Numbers, Price 7s. 6d. each, by H. D. Sy- 
monds, Paternofter-row. 
This very beautiful work, which we 
ought to have noticed ina former Num- 
ber, confilts of feven exquifitely fine en- 
gravings, eleven and half inches, by eight, 
charasteriltic of the Seven Ages of Man, 
and ahighly finifhed vignette, evidently 
taken from Pope’s Effay. Without .en- 
tering, at large, into the merits of each 
plate, all of which are done in a very fu- 
perior ftyle, we cannot help recommend- 
ing, to public notice, the School boy, wm the 
firft Number ; and the picture ot Second 
Childifbnefs, in the laft, as two of the 
fineit pieces of compofition we have feen ; 
the tardinefs of the former, in his road to 
{chool, and. the debility of the latter, 
*¢ fans teeth, fans eyes, fans tafte, fans 
every thing,”’ cannot fail of leaving deep 
imprefiions in the mind of every {pectator 
of the tafte and execution of the artifts. 
The illuftrations are well adapted to the 
different fubjccts : as an introduétion, the 
commentator has traced the different au- 
thors. of Antiquity, as well as thofe of 
more modern times, who have divided the 
round of human exiftence into feparate 
ages. 
The other plates are illuftrated by hif- 
torical obfervations and by quotations from 
ancient and modern Pcets. In contem- 
plating the fecond period of life, the au- 
thor has, we think, fuccefsfuily combated 
the common notion, that childhood is the 
happieft part of mortal\ exiftence, and has 
thrown out hints for the imprevement of 
that part of education which is devoted 
to the attainment of the dead languages. 
The Jover is illuftrated principally by re- 
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ferencestoAnacreon, Horace,and our own 
Poet, Thomfon. In the two next fcenes 
he has made Shakefpeare his commenta- 
tor, and has fhewn that the defcription of 
the foldier was evidently taken from the 
character of Hotfpur. The obfervations 
on old-age and childi/bnefs, are highly ap- 
propriate to the impreflions naturally ex- 
cited in every feeling breatt by Mr. Brom- 
ley’s plates. They are fuch as tend to 
awaken the tendereit emotions of the hu~ 
man heart ; to inculcate filial piety in the 
young towards thofe in declining years, 
and to excite and encourage patience and 
chearfulmefs, and at that period of life 
when old-age and infirmities difqualify a 
man for the aétive fcenes of the world. 
The whole work is executed in a manner 
that is highly creditable to the prefent im- 
proved ftate of the Fine Arts in this 
country. ; 
Four Prints, engraved from Defigns, by Mrs. 
Cofway, from the Ballad in Indilcretion, u hich 
was fung by Mrs. Ffordan. The Words by 
Mrs. Plowden. Publifhed by Ackermann, No. 
tor, Strand. Price, 3s..6d. cach, Coloured, 
7s. each. 
This muft be confidered as exhibiting a 
fort of frio of female genius. The de- 
figns are from the following verfes, di- 
vided into four parts, two lines to each. 
¢¢T rife with the morn, I gaze on the fun, 
Aurora’s bright luftre I fee ; 
But I figh with regret when day-light is 
gone, 
For night brings no comfort to me. 
I wander at night where the nightingales 
fing 3 
I traverfe the fands of the fea; 
They hear not my fighs, fo no comiort they 
bring, 
For what can bring comfort to me.” 
Thefe prints are neatly engraved; the 
firft, by WMiriaz, reprefents a female fi- 
gure, recumbent on the ground and gaz- 
ing on the rifing fun, while a figure of 
Aurora, of Guido’s family, is flying and: 
{cattering flowers in the air. ‘The fecond 
is by Cardoz, -and reprefents a female 
leaning on a rock, with the ocean in the 
diftance, anda figure of night throwing 
out her fable-robe. The third, engraved 
by. Delatre is a moonlight {cene; on the 
fands of the fea, beaten by the furge, an 
elegant female is reprefented as flying from 
the tempettuous {cene. The fourth, and 
laitis by Cardoz, and exhibits a female in 
apparent grief, leaning upon a rock, and 
wringing herhands, 
figure is expreffive, but borders on the ex- 
travagant, and though it may, on the 
whole, 
The attitude of this, 
