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&c. and fome other public exhibitions, 
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work, will be publifhed in a few months, 
and will contain a portrait of the king, 
frontifpieces to the two volumes of large 
plates, accompanied with title-pages, and 
lifts. The publication has been an- 
nounced by the following notice. 
-«¢ Meffrs. Boydell and Nicoll beg leave 
to acquaint the fubfcribers-to the great. 
national edition of Shakefoeare, that the 
eighteenth and laft number of that work 
wil] be publithed on the 4th of June, 1803. 
«s They cannot, however, part with 
thofe high and refpeétable charaéters who 
have fupported them in this very arduous | : : 
P * tivo men ride upon a horfe, one of them 
undertaking during the very wort of 
times, without giving them fome fmall 
mark of the fenfe they have of that obli- 
gation. They have applied, therefore, to 
Mr. Boulton of Soho—-a name dear to 
his country and the arts, who, with a li- 
berality peculiar to bis character, has 
kindly undertaken to fuperintend the exe- 
cution of a medal, to be prefented to the 
fubfcribers. Mr. Boulton has, in this 
line of art, given the public already a very 
fatisfactory proof of his powers, in mak- 
ing even the copper farthings of Great 
Britain fuperior, in point of workman- 
fhip, to the.gold coin of all foreign na- 
tions. 
<¢ They intend that the name of each fub- 
{criber to the Shakefpeare fhall be en- 
gravenonthemedal prefented; and that this 
may be done with accuracy, they entreat 
the favour of every fub{ecriber to fign his 
name, with his cwn hand, on fheets of 
vellum, which will be prefented to him 
for that purpofe. Thefe fheets will af- 
terwards be bound in a volume to be 
placed in the Shakefpeare Gallery. 
‘© All the fubfcribers who refide in or 
near London, are entreated to do them 
the honour to call at the Gallery, or at 
Cheapfide, fer this purpofe. Thole who 
refide at a diftance from the capital are 
refpe€tfully informed that fieets of vellum 
will be forwarded to them for their fizna- 
tures in the way they fhali point out.’ 
The engravings being now finithed, the 
one hundred and fixty three hiftorical pic- 
tures, all painted by Britifh artifts, to 
illuftrate this great work, are exhibited 
at the Shakefpeare Gallery, Pall Mall. 
There are exhibited in the gallery, befides 
the above pictures, twenty-eight capital 
drawings, by Mr. Weftall, executed on 
purpofe to illuftrate a magnificent edition 
of the poetical works of Milton, printed 
exactly uniform with the Shakefpeare. Of 
this gallery, and Mr. Barker’s Panorama, 
Retrofpeét of the Fine Arts. 
| [July 1, 
we purpofe fpeaking more at large in our 
next Retrofpect. jl 
A Poultry Market, and a Vegetable Market, 
a Pair of Prints. “fames Ward pinxt. et 
Sculpt. 
Morland’s beft piftures have fe much 
unfophitticated nature, that coarfe and vul- 
gar as the fubjeéts fometimes are, they mult 
pleafe and gratify every eye from their 
truth and adherence to the genuine charac 
ters of the objeéts delineated, Thecelebrity 
which he attained in confequence of them 
has naturally produced imitators; and if 
muft be behind. We are forry to apply 
this remark to the prefent fubjeéts ; for - 
Mr. Ward has abilities in his own walk, 
but here, the imitations are palpable, 
cold, copying; the prints are crowded © 
with different objects, and the light -is 
broken and diftracted. 
The Difcovery; or, the Angry Father.  F. , 
Opie, R.A. pinxt. ‘Ff. Ward feulpt. 
Mr. Ward has here a claim to great 
praife for the produétion of a rich, bril- 
liant, and fpirited mezzotinto, from an 
admirable picture, which many of our 
readers will recolleé&t in the laft year’s 
exhibition of the Royal Academy. The 
fubje& is, a father’s difcovering a love- 
letter in his daughter's trunk. ‘The 
embarraflment of the young female, and 
the wifh to palliate in the mother, is'ad- 
mirably contrafted by the ftern and harfh 
expreffion of countenance of the old man ; 
and the-combinatien of the whole is fuch 
as tells the ftory with perfpicuity and ef- 
fect. 
“ To the Treafurer and DireGors of the Miffion- 
ary Society, this Print, reprefenting the Ceffion . 
of the Difiriét of Motavia, in the Ifand of 
Otaheite, to Captain Wilfon, for. the ufe of 
the Miffionavies fent thither by that Society, 1 
the Ship Duff, is moft refpectfully Dedicated 
by their moft obedient Servants, W. Feffryes - 
and Co, 1803.” ——Smirke, R. A. pinxt. 
F. Bartollowzi. R.A. feulpt. 
The above print is engraved from a 
very beautiful picture painted by Mr. 
Smirke, and exhibited at the Royal Aca- 
demy about two years ago, The picture, 
with all its merit, was, as far as we re- 
member, thought rather deficient in force; 
be that as it may, in the print there is no 
fuch deficiency, for it unites with that _ 
breadth, and fweetnefs of effeét, for which 
Bartolozzi is fo defervedly eminent, the 
Tt is very 
{pirit and energy of a fketch. | 
finely engraven in the chalk manner. 
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