be found. What little is left of Barto- 
lozzi’s etching is good; the reft is neither 
worthy of G. Ponify, nor of thofe whofe 
names are engraved under it. 
Giles, the Furmer’s Boy: vide Bloomfield’s Po- 
ems. G Morland pinxit. W. Ward feulpt. 
We have here a winter {cene, repre- 
fenting fome fheep, and a cow in a fhed, 
and aman binging them food. It is de- 
figned with Morland’s ufual fimplicity, 
and attention to nature; but, though four 
lines from Bloomfield are faftened to the 
print, it is evident enough that Morland 
did not paint the picture fiom Bloom- 
field’s lines. 
The laf} Litter —G. Morland, W. Ward. 
This is intended as a companion to the 
above, and the pigs are moft admirably de- 
ficned. It is in every point equal, and 
in fome refpeéts fuperior, to the other. 
Two Pair of Prints, viz. Repairing to Market, 
at Market, Returning from Market, Returned 
from Markett—.F. Wheatley, R. A. del. 
W. Annis {culpt. 
Thefe are very pretty fimple defigns in 
Wheatley’s beft manner. They repre- 
fent the market-day of a cottager’s daugh- 
ter. The lait is perhaps the belt of the 
four. The girl having purchafed fome 
cloth is, inthe joy of her heart, difplaying 
it to her mother. For defign, character, 
and general citect, it is fuperior to molt of 
this mafter’s works, and has alfo the ad- 
vantage of being extremely well engraved 
in mezzotinto. 
The High-firect, Oxford.—L. Garnerit agua-tint. 
Fan. 1803. 
A good writer obferved of this very 
fine ftreet (indiiputably the fineft in Eng- 
_land) that he never faw it without think- 
ing of Athens in its beft ftate. It is 
printed in colours, engraved in a clear and 
bright ftyle, gives a very good idea of the 
architecture, is taken in a good point of 
view, and has very much the appearance 
of a drawing. 
The Crucifix. Le Brun pinxit. Ganguin fculpt. 
This, being a fingle figure, cannot be 
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confidered as an hiftorical pitture, but ra- 
ther as a ftudy or exhibition of character 
and anatomy. Fora fubject of this na- 
ture, it is too rough and unfinifhed ; if 
not exquifitely and correctly fintfhed, it 
can have litile claim to praife. ‘Phe en-~ 
graving is in the chalk manner. 
Our readers may recollect, that we fome 
mcenths ago noticed 2 plan for difpofing of 
a very large and valuable colleétion of pic- 
tures then in Germany, the property of. 
Count Truchfes. His plan was not tuc- 
cefsful, and he has fince that time been 
enabled to import them into tnis country. 
Thicty-fix caies have been landed, and 
twelve of the cafes examined and valued at 
the cuftom-houfe, and the duty upon them 
is tavo theufand pounds. From this, fome 
idea may be formed of the’ whole value. 
We have often been told of the patience 
and perfeverance of the Dutch {chool of 
artilts, and fome of their exquifitely high- 
finifhed piCtures afford indifputable proofs 
of it; but there was never perhaps a ftron- 
ger example than in a work lately con- 
figned from Holland to Mr. Ackermann. 
It is a very large model of that moft fta- 
pendous piece of architecture, St. Peter's 
at Rome, in the completion of which the 
accurate and ingenious Woodman (who 
died about twelve years ago) pafled more 
than twenty years of his life. ‘Tis is 
certainly along time to be engaged in one 
work ; but, when it is infpeéted, the fpec- 
tator will rather wonder, that it could be 
done at all, than that it fhould have tiken 
fo long atime. It 1s finifhed with the mott 
exquifite neatnefs, and every part, even 
the moft minute, in the exact proportion 
of the original. It is, in one refpect, very 
peculiar—the infide is given with the fame 
exaét attention to the admeafurement, and 
as high-finifhed, as the outfide. It may, 
when confidered in all its poin’s, be very 
fairly claffed as the firft production in this 
branch of art now in the world. 
The relative proportions of St. Peter’s 
and Sr. Paul’s Churches are carious, and, 
not having room in this, we purpofe to 
give them in our next Retrofpect. 
NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
MR.BARKER CHIFNEY’S(LONDON) fora are taken from the wet faws. The ope- 
néW METHODOf PREPARING aud LAY- 
ING SLATES 07 the ROOFS of HOUSES. 
HIS invention confiits chiefly in a 
mode of cutting the flates afer they 
MOonrTHLY Maa, No. i100. 
ration is performed by meaus of a move- 
able table, and two toothed circular faws 
fixed on the fame center.: New methods 
are alfo defcribed in the f{pecification for 
ZZ placing 
