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exhibited at the Royal Academy, and: 
mutt be in the recollection of many of our 
readers. They are drawn in fuch a ftyle, 
and‘engraved with fo much effect, and of 
fuch a fze as has been long wanted for 
furniture-prints, and we would recom-" 
mend to the publifhers to go on. with a 
feries of the fame dimenfions from ‘fub- 
jects of a fimilar defcription. Defigns of 
equal merit, engraved by Mr. Scriven in 
the manner of thele two, suff fucceed. 
With refpect to the St. Cecilia, to tread 
the ground that has been previoully walked 
over by Sir Jothua Reynolds is very dan- 
gerous: his St. Cecilia, being the por- 
trait of fo beautiful a group as Mrs. She- 
ridan and the two Mifs Linleys, was a 
fafcinating and popular picture, and the 
rint was very weil engraved. The face 
of Wefall’s figure is exquifitely fine; it 
has all the divinity cf the charaGter, and 
is calculated to raife a feraph to the fries, 
or draw an angel dawn. ‘The ret of the 
figure is not quite fo ftriking, 
The figure of the Sappho, which is the 
companion-print, is fupericr. Itis grace- 
ful, fpiritcd, and original. In thefe prints 
of fingle characters, we have often wifhed 
that part of the fpace which is allotted to 
the dedication might be appropriated to 
a few lines from the poet, defcribing the 
point of time, or fome leading circum- 
itances in the hiftory of the Heroine. Sap- 
pho, in Pope’s imitation of Ovid, de- 
fcribes her own. perfon in the following 
Jines :— 
*< To me, what Nature has in charms denied, 
ds well by Wit’s more lafting flames fupplied: 
Tho’ fhort my fature, yet my name extends 
‘To heaven itielf and earth’s remoteft ends: 
Brown as | am—an Ethiopian dame 
Icfpix’d young Verfeus witha generous flame.” 
Some fuch infcription under prints'of a 
fimilar deicription would furely be in- 
terefting to the admirers ef Englifh poetry, 
and pleafing to the admuers of Enelith 
engravings. , 
Lady Elizabeth Gray, imploring of Edward IV. 
the Rejiitution of ber Liufband’s Lands.’ ~ R. 
Wefiell, pinxt.' F. R. Sith, feulpt. Pubs 
lifbed the 3a of OGober, 1802, by Smith, 
Fang fivect, Govent-garden. Price 11, 1s. 
An engraving by W. W. Ryland wa$ 
fume years ago engraved frem this ftery 
from adrawing by Angclica Kauffmann ; 
but Weftall has trcatcd the fubje& in a 
different and. more hiferical manner, and 
Mr. Smith’s engraying does ample juflice 
to the orginal. 
Retrofped? of the Kins Arts, 
[ Jan. 4, 
Foanna,' Motiser of the Emperor. Charles Vs 
watching over the Dead Body of her Hufban!. 
R. Weftall, pinxt. W. Ward, feulpt. Pub- 
lifbed by Ward, Newhan-fireet, OGober 35 
1801. Price r/. 1s. my 
. This print is the fame fize as that which 
precedes it: from its being publifhed on 
the fame day, and at the fame price, it is, 
we fuppole, intended for a companion. ., 
Many of our readers muft recollect the 
very fine picture from which it is en- 
graved, being feveral years ago exhibited 
at the Royal’ Academy : the face was con-' 
fidered as one'of the fineft that ever was. 
painted ; the drapery was rather metallic. 
In the print the {pirit of the face is pre- 
ferved, and \the drapery is foft and pic- 
turefque. 
Mr. Defenfans has juft publifhed Anec- 
dotes of Painters, and Kemarks, in a de- 
{criptive Catalogue of piétures bought for 
his late Majefty the King of Poland, which 
will be exhibited and fold by private con- . 
tract, by a Committee at No. 3, Berners- 
ftreet, Oxford-ftreet, in February next.. 
Thefe two volumes contain a number of 
curious and whimfical anecdotes, fome of 
which bear no {mall refemblance to thy 
legends of the Saints recorded in the Ro-. 
man Kalendar. je he ‘ 
Mr. W. R. Daniel has publifhed the 
firft vol. of his Rural Sports, price 21. 2s. 
It is embellifned with neat and fpirited 
engravings, from defigns by Stubbs, 
Gilpin, Reinagie, Chilon, Elmer, &cq 
and to country gentlemen muft be an in- 
terefting and ufeful work. 
‘We in a former Retrofpeé& noticed Mr. 
J. T. Smith’s engravings from the paint-_ 
ings, ornaments, and other decorations 
diicovered in the Houfe of Commons, 
Thefe, with a variety of original particu- 
lars relapive to the ancient ftate of Weft- - 
minger, with a hiftery of painting and 
Gothic architecture, byJobn Sidney Haw- 
kins, efy. F. A. S. is now publifhing by 
fubfeription, and we are happy to find the _ 
feblcription fo Irberally encouraged, andy 
to fee that it is already honoured with. the 
names of many of the moft diftinguified 
characters in the fcience of which it-treats. 
The paintings and f{pecimens of the en-_ 
gravings are to be feen at Mr. Smith’s, | 
No. z20,° Great Portland-ftreet, Oxford-- 
ftreet, where fubfcriptions for the work / 
re received. 
“Mr. Bromley’s admirable engraving of 
the. Siege of Valenciennes, is now pub-. 
lifhed, and the manner. in which it is ex- 
ecuted amply compenfates for the time the 
fubicribers have waited. « It is one of the 
fine& 
