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any-former period. ‘The well-earned re- 
putations of Mr. Stothart and Mr, Heath 
would give celebrity to any thing; and of 
the edition, with prints, defigned by the 
former, and engraved by the latter, we 
have feen two numbers. The firft is 
from The Midfummer Night's Dream, Act 
4. Scene 1f?. Oberon, ‘* Now my Titania, 
crake you my frvest Queen.” 
In this defign we think Mr. Stothart 
has not been {fo fucceisful as we fheuld 
have expected. The Fairies are not 
poetic, they. are mere creatures of this 
world, and. the figure of Bottom is not 
welldrawn. The vignette title page is 
in a very fuperior ftyle, though we think 
Hippolita, being Queen of the Amazons, 
 fheuld have been rather more mat{culine. 
No. 2. The.Two Gentlemen of Verona, 
AG 5. Scene.3d. ‘* Ruffian, let go that 
rude uncivil touch.” : 
This defign is extremely beautiful ; but 
the engraving is, perhaps, rather too open. 
This manner looks too like network. 
‘ Two numbers of a very neat edition, 
with copies on both large and {mall paper, 
are publifhed, with defigns by Thurfton, 
engraved in wood by Nefbit. ‘This is, in 
the phrafe of the trade, very neatly got up. 
‘The vignettes are {mall, but. engraved 
with a neatnefs, precifion and labour that 
we have {carcely ever feen equalled. The 
Arft, which is printed-on all the covers, is 
emblematical, and reprefents the heart of 
the poet, with emblems of a tragic coro-'_ 
net, robe, &c. furrownded by a ferpent, as 
an emblem of the eternity of his fame. 
The vignette in the firf title page repre- 
fents a poet writing. ZT he face has character, 
but the bard is rather ‘more fat than bard 
befeems.”? The motto, ‘ Phe poet’s eye in 
a fine frenzy rolling.’ , The frontif{piece:to 
the Tempeft prefents us with Trienculo 
and Cahban, in A&t 2. Scene 2. “* What 
have we here, a man or a fifh?” 
In No. 2. from.7le T-wo Gentlemen of 
Verona, we bave iwa figures of the Duke 
and Valentine. —Duke, ** Whai's bere 2” 
(reads), 
«¢ Silvia,.this night I will enfranchife thee: 
*Tis fo, and here’s the jadder for the purpofe.” 
‘The two figures are well drawn, and the 
engraving moft remarkably neat. | 
Another edition is publifhing with de- 
figns by M.ceLouiheroourg,but of this and 
fome others our room does not admit our 
noticing, until a future retrofped. 
The late Mr. Girtin’s. Panorama View _ 
of London, ftill continues epen to the pub- 
be, and may, when taxen in every peint 
Retrofpec? of Fine Arts. 
Feb. 4, 
of view, be fairly confidered as the con- 
noiffeur’s picture. 
Dobourg’s Exiibition of Cork Models, 
reprefenting ancient Yuins of temples, 
theatres, &c. is, perhaps, better calculated 
to give a correét idea of the objects repre- 
fented, than could be done by any other 
materials; as the {pongy nature .of the 
cork has a great fimilarity of appearance 
to the ravages made by the teeth of time. 
All this gentleman’s {pecimens, with the 
addition of the large model of Yefuvius, 
are now exhibited in the ufwal place in 
the day ; but the exhibition by candle-light 
is fulpended. 
In an age fo generally marked by the 
frivolity and diffipation of our women of 
tank, the few who by the cultivation of 
the fine arts emancipate themfelves from 
the /e fathionable fetters,and difplay the ele 
gance and tafte fo fafcinating in the female 
fex, are entitled to peculiar honours, The 
Countefs of Mansfield has lately finithed 
feveral exquifite produétions from the an- 
tiqué, in a very fuperior ftyle. uA 
A coloffal Marble Statue of Marquig 
Cornwallis is juft finifhed by Bacon, to 
be ereéted in the council-chamber, at Cal 
cwtta. It reprefents the Marquis hold- 
ing a fheathed {word in his left hand, and 
offering an olive branch, as an emblem of 
peace, with his right. On the plinth ef 
the ftatue refts a cornucopia, pointing 
out abundance as the confequence of peace. 
On each fide of the pedeital are two &- 
gures, of Fortitude and Prudence, com- 
memorative of thofe virtues for which 
his Lordfhip’s government and command 
in India were diftinguifhed. The bottom 
of the pedeftal is emblematically decorated 
with trophies of arms. The likenefs of 
this.diftinguifhed charaéler is admirably 
pieverved, and the limbs finely proportion- 
ed: the figures of fortitude and prudence 
are exquifitely modciled, and difplay the 
happieft contraft of charaGteriftic expref= 
fion; indeed, the whole may juftly be 
deemed a chef-d’ euwre in this clafs of the 
Brith Arts. 
We are concerned to ftate, that letters 
from Conftantinople ftate the total lofs cf 
all the antiquities colleGed by Lord Elgin, 
in Greece. This colle&tion, containing 
many invaluable fpecimens of ancient 
{culpture, &c. was fhipped on-board a 
veflel, which put into Crigo Bay, in &refs 
of weather, and the pilot letting go the 
anchor in too deep water, the thip was 
driven on the rocks, and funk ip fifteen 
fathoms. . : 
