1803.] 
Statue in honsur of Marquis Cornwallis. F. 
Bacon, jun, fecit. Painted and engraved by 
George Dawe. 
This defign is broad, and marked with 
fimplicity and tatte. The Marquis, in the 
habit of a Roman general, ftands on a 
pedeftal, at the foot of which are emble- 
matical figures of Fortitude and Prudence. 
The ftatue is very much in the ftyle of 
the elder Bacon; and the print, which 
gives a very good idea of it, is extremely 
well engraved in mezzotinto. The figure 
of the Marquis is coloffal, being eight 
feet high; the allegorical figures are the 
fize of life. The expence of this very 
fine piece of fculnture was defrayed by a 
fubfcription entered into, in honour of the 
Marquis, by the inhabitants of Bengal, 
and it is to be there erected, 
The Benevolent Tar, and Maternal Enjoyment. 
A pair of Prints. F. Stothard, R. A. pinxt. 
*f. Young feulpt. 1303. 
Many of our artifts who defign little 
ruftic fubje&s, feem to have contemplated 
the fluttering flourifhes of the old French 
fchool, or the fantaftic fan-paintings of 
the imitators of Watteau and Lancret, 
rather than mature, which in their eccen- 
-tric wanderings after the prettinefes of 
the-art feems to be very little attended 
to, The painter of thefe two littie fafci- 
nating fudjects has adopted a very differ- 
ent conduét, and made his defigns with a 
very different fpirit. They are diftin- 
guifhed by fimplicity and tatte, and mark- 
ed with nature, with Ezgli/b nature. In 
the firft, a poor family, the father of 
which is fick, is relieved by the generofity 
of an Englith failor: and in the fecend, 
the mother is cutting fome lufty flices of 
bread and butter for her children, and 
her hufband feems already fomewhat re- 
vived by the liberality of the charitable 
tar. Stothard has conceived thefe fubjects 
‘with great tafte and feeling, and Young 
has engraved them very finely in mezzo- 
tinto-; but thofe prints which we have 
feen in colours, aie not entitled to any 
portion of praile. 
Portrait of Lieut. General Sir Robzrt Laurie, 
Bart. M.P, for Dumfries, Knight Marfhal 
ef Scotland, and Colonel of the 8th, or Royal 
drife Regiment of Light Dragoons, IW. Owen 
piixit. Fames Ward feulpt. 
Lhis portrait is admirably painted, and 
in the ftyle of defign, breadth of light and 
fhade, and general air, reminds us of the 
bet manner of Sir Jofhua Reynolds. 
This is no flight praife; and we are forry 
thar an opportunity of paying fuch a trie - 
MontTugey Mac. Ne. soz. 
Retrofpect of the Fine Arts, 
565 
bute to the talents of our prefent race of 
portrait-painters does not more frequently 
occur. The print, which is in mezzo- 
tinto, is extremely well engraved. 
Portrait of William Saunders, Ef7. M.D. 
F.R.S. and S.A. From the original Pi€ture 
in the poffeffion of Dr. Curry, 14.D. Phyfi- 
cian to Guy's Hofpital. Ff. R. Smith pinxt. 
et feulpt. 
The fpirit, appropriate air, and ftrik« 
ing refemblance of feveral of Mr. Ra- 
phael Smith’s portraits, we have recorded 
in fome of the former Retrofpetts of the 
Arts. In thefe leading traits, this print 
bears a very high rank; it is extremely 
well engraved, and has as ftrong a refem- 
blance of the original, as the full-length 
portrait of Mr. Charles Fox, painted by. 
the fame artift. 
The Parting of Heétor and Andromache. Ene 
graved by W Ward, from an Hifiorical 
Drawing by Emma Smith, 
The fair artift, who made this defign, 
is daughter to the painter of the preced- 
ing article: From fome of her former 
performances we augured that this very 
young artilt’s abilities were of fuch a de- 
{cription as would lead to improvement 
and future excellence. The above deli- 
neation juftifies our expectation, and it is 
extremely well engraved. We were gra- 
tified to fee a collateral proof that our opi- 
nion is not fingular,in the Records of the 
Society for promoting Arts, Manufac- 
tures, and Commerce, where it appears 
that the honorary palette of the fociety 
for an hiftorical drawing (clafs 110) of 
Achilles imploring Thetis to revenge the 
wronos he had fuffered from Agamemnon, 
was adjudged to Mifs Emma Smith. 
Mefirs. J. A. Atkinfon, and James 
Walker, are preparing for publication in 
a feries of one bundred plates, 
A piéturefque Reprefentation of the Manners, 
Cuftoms, and Amufements of the Ruffiansy 
with an accurate Explanation of each Print in 
French and: Englifb. 
This work will be completed in three 
volumes, imperial folio. Volume I. is 
now ready for delivery at Meffrs. Boy- 
dells, and the other two volumes will be 
pudlifhed in the courfe of next winter. 
This work is dedicated, by permiffion, 
to his Imperial Majefty, Alexander the 
Firft; and it muft be acknowledged that 
the plan, as relating to Ruffia, is per- 
fetly original. From the innumerable 
objects afforded in an empire fo extenfive, 
fo important in every point of view, and 
hitherto fo -little inveftigated, great va 
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