1803, ) 
(ico? 12) 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
(Communications and the Loan of al! new Prints are requefted.) 
Portrait of ‘Sfobn Sheldon, Efg. Profeffor, of This is engraved in mezzotinto, in 
Anatomy to the Royal Academy, F. RS. 
J. Keenan pinxit. W. Say feulps. 
This portrait has a charactereftic re- 
femblance to the original, and is very 
well engraved in mezzotinto. 
Dorothea, Theophilus Clarke pinxit, W. Say 
| feulpte 
The different charagters defcribed in 
that very popular and attractive Spanith 
Romance, Don Quixotte, have long been 
confidered as a mine from which artifts 
might extraé the moft interefting fcenes, 
and the painters and engravers of almott 
every country in Europe have availed 
themfelves of the circumftance, and deli- 
neated them. They have, by this means, 
diffufed through their country, prints of 
the various fcenes fo admirably defcribed 
by Cervantes. The piéture from which 
this is engraved was in the laft exhibi- 
tion at the Royal Academy; and much, 
and defervedly, noticed ; and the print is 
an excellent copy of it, though it muft be 
admitted that the fhadows in the back- 
ground are rather more opaque than they 
ought to be. 
Le Fugement de Paris, Peint par A. Vandere 
werf. Gravé par M. Blot, 
The paintings of the Chevalier Vander- 
werf were fo exquilitely fin.fhed as to af- 
fume the appearance of enamels ; the co- 
lours appear fo {mooth, that they feem to 
have been floated on the canvals, as it is 
not eafy to conceive that any human hand 
could finifh fo Inghly with the pencil. 
Such produttions as thefe demand a very 
peculiar ftyle of engraving, and to give a 
femblance of his manner is not eafy ;_nei- 
ther is this printin his manner. The ar- 
tilt has given us glitter initead of fplen- 
dour ; the lines are lo highly polifhed, that 
the eye literally aches at infpecting them, 
It reminded us of a {pecies of printing, 
not now fo much in requeft as it was when 
Bafkerville was confidered as the firft in 
his profeffion. 
A print from a pifture in the chapel of 
the Foundling Hofpital, painted by Ben- 
jamin Welt, Efq, Prefident of the Koyal 
Academy, and engraved by Valentine 
Green, Efg. motto, ‘ Suffer little children 
to come unta me, for of fuch is the Kingdom 
of Heaven’, 
Monruty Mac. No. 97. 
Green’s beft manner, and, both in defign 
and execution, may be conlidered as a very 
fine print. 
Summer and Winter, companion prints, defigned 
by Morland, and engraved by W, Barnard. 
Nothing can be more fimple, unaffected 
and natural, than this very charming pair 
of defigns. A few fheep and heifers, 
and a fhepherd, are all they contain, buc 
thefe are managed fo fkilfully, and with fo 
judicious an attention to nature, that they 
become extremely interefting. The light 
and fhade is uncommonly fine. They are 
admirably engraved in mezzotinto; but 
the prints, which are in colours, are moft 
execrably daubed. 
View of the Wet Docks, Ifle of Dogs. Daniels 
del. et feulpt. 
This is defigned in the very firt ftyle 
of grandeur and fimplicity. Itis engraved 
in aquatint, and coloured in a ftyle much 
fuperior to the generality of coloured 
prints. 
View of a Defign laid before the Committee of the 
Houfe of Commons, from a Plan prefenied by 
Mr. Dance. 
This is a companion to the above, and 
is equally excellent. 
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell. R. Walker pinxit. 
F Bartolowzi feulpt. From a pitture in the 
collection of Hans Winthrop Mortimer, E/z. 
This is evidently intended as a com- 
panion. portrait to a print lately publithed 
of the head of Bonaparte ; and as 
*¢ Heroes are much the fame, the point’s 
agreed, 
From Macedonia’s Madman to the Swede !” 
they may be very: proper compunions. 
From Walker’s acknowledged abilities, 
it feems probable that the portrait of the 
Proteétor is a charaéteriltic retemblance ; 
and if that of the Firft Conful isthe fame, 
the features of thefe two ambitious, en- 
terprizing and fortunate individuals, will 
afford a curious ftudy for tne phy bogno- 
milt who wifhes to read th- mind’s con~ 
ftrustion in the eye. In the marking of 
Cromweil’s face there is great energy, and 
this is a very {pirited and forcible chalk 
late. 
New and decorated editions of Shake. 
fpedre avound more than they ever did at 
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