1801.] 
believe has been attempted, of forming 
Retrofped? of the. Fine Arts. | S45 
The above meafures, which will be dif 
fmall phials for this purpote, the lips ef tinguifhed by the name of Lane affixed to 
which are ground exaétly to the fame di- 
menfions in every refpect, 
them, will be foon ready for fale at Mre 
Blade’s, Ludgate hill, 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS, 
(Communications and the Loan of all new Prints are requefied.) 
The Birth-day Prefent to the Old Nurfe. Bigg, 
del, Gaugain fculpt Publifoed by Moltena, 
Pallmall. Price 11. ts. | 
Health and Sicknefs 5 the Companion Print to thé 
above; the fame Painter, Engraver, Pub- 
lifher, and Price, 
E have had frequent occafion to no- 
tice Mr. Bigg’s delineations, and 
very rarely withoutpraife, Theyarealmoft 
invariably fairhfuland unfophifticated copies 
of nature. The praife to which his former 
produétions are entitled may very fairly 
be extended to thefe two prints ; their 
leading excellence is fimplicity ; though the 
fickly femalé figure in the laf print, is 
ery properly of a higher rank than thofe 
Mr. Bigg ufually introduces; but, though 
pale, languid, and enervated, elecant and 
attraftive. Both of the prints are neatly 
and caretullyengraved,and are marked with 
the charafteriftic manner of, the painter. 
Mr. Molteno now poffeffes the plate of 
Hall’s engraving from Sir Jofhua_ Rey- 
_ nolds’s very capital portrait of Mr. R. B. 
Sheridan, and has reduced the price from 
one guinea, at which it was originaily 
publifhed, to 15s. 
dhe Profpecs of Britannia, engraved from a 
' Defign by Thomas Martin. Publifoed for 
Moiteno, Pallmall. Price in Colours, 21. 25. 
During the time this plate was in 
Mr. Martin’s poffeffion, there were no 
impreffions taken off in colours, The 
fubje& is allegorical, and reprefents 
Britannia arbitrefs of the world, and en- 
jeying {uch hieffings of peace and plenty, 
as we truft are in ftcre for her at fome 
_ future day; but like many other prophe- 
cies that have been gravely given out by 
Seers, who have flourifhed in this our 
day,—we mujh wait for the period when 
they are to be fulfilled. 
Lieutenant General George Harris. Price 7d. 6s. 
Publifped for Fefferies, Clapham-road. 
’ The portrait from which this is copied 
mut be in the recollection of many rea- 
ders ; it was painted by Mr. Porter, and 
in the Royal Exhibition of laf year. “The 
priure was an ageravated likenels of 
a refpeGtable-looking man, and rendered 
fo fat, (in this-reprefentation) that. it 
might have paffed for Sir John Falftaf on 
his march to Coventry. In the print this: . 
is foftened down, or melted down, 
which the reader pleafes, and it isnowa 
likenefs of the original, and a tolerably 
good print. 
Cleopatra on the Cydns, going to meet Mark 
Antony—The Trial of a Veftal Virgin, by 
carrying Water ina Sieve.—Drawn by Bur- 
ney, engraved by Agar, and publifbed by c= 
kermann, Strand. — Price 3s. each, plain; 75. 
each, coloured. - 
- Thefe are companion prints to 4erip-, 
pina, and Sopheni/ba, which we have noticed 
in a former/retrofpect: the defigns are airy 
and elegant, and the engravings neat and © 
{pirited. 
The Birth of the Thames. Painted by Mrs. 
Cofway, and engraved by Mr. Tomkins, and 
publifbed by Ackermann, Strand. 
No. VIL. of the Coftume of China,byW. Alexander, 
No. 42, Newman-fireet, is publifbed, as the 
preceding Numbers have been, for Meffrs, G. 
and W. Mict, Pallnall. 
This interefting work, from the manner 
ia which it has been conduéted, we ought 
to have noticed in a more particular 
manner than our room has yet allowed 
‘us. Itis defigned, engraved, and coloured 
ina ftyle that does great honour to the 
tafte-and talents of the author; and has in 
no ref{peét deviated from the crigival plan, 
but in fome of the latter numbers we 
think rather improved upon it. Each 
number contains four coloured prints, and 
is fold at ros. 6d. We {hall take this op- 
portunity of enumerating a few of the prints 
that have been publiihed fince the lait retro- 
fpeét of the work, and the fubjeéts are of a 
nature that gives us a greaterinfight into 
the manners, cuftoms, &c. of this fingular 
people, than we can have from any thing 
hitherto publifhed. In No. V. the firft 
print is, **A Soldier in Full Uniform.” Itis 
noteafy to conceive a habit more clumfy, in-. 
convenient, and inimical tothe performance 
of military purpofes, than that here exhi+ 
bited ; yet, from the gaudinefs of the co- 
lour, 
| 
