1801. ] - 
Peas hd 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
(The Loan of all new Prints and Communications are requefled.) 
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Two Prints, one reprefenting a Girl returning 
from Milking, and the other a Peafant Boy. 
R. Weflall, Ejg.R.A. del. Gaugain, feulpt. 
Size revelve Inches and a Half, by feventeen 
Inches and a Half high. Price to Subfcribers 
1/. 1s. the Pair; Proofs 11. 1058.5 printed in 
Colours,and highly finifbed, after the Originals, 
ol, 25. 
N times not very diftant, we had artifts 
| whd peopled Englith landfcapes with 
Arcadian nymphs and fwains, arrayed in 
fuch habits as were never known in this or 
any other country. From this, outrage of 
nature and propriety we were re{cued by 
Mr. Gainfborough, who gave us Englifh 
figures and Engiifh {cenery. | 
Mr. Wettall, with an uncommon por- 
tion of taite and talent, has adopted a 
fimilar plan, and, taking truth and nature 
for his euides, delineated fuch figures as 
we all know, and which, from their cha- 
racteriftic fweetnefs and ‘fimplicity, muft 
attract and intereft the man who has no 
other knowledge of a work of art than from 
the refemblance it bears to nature, as well 
as the highly educated and. {cientific con- 
noiffeur. Of many of this gentleman’s 
productions we have had occafion to {peak 
in very high terms, and the two now be- 
fore'us are as’ deferving of praife as any 
of them. They are very well engraved in 
the chalk manner. 
The publither of the above is at pre- 
fent at Meflrs. J. and J. Boydell’s, 
Cheapfide, but fhortly removing to Lud- 
gate Hull. He has given out propofals 
for publifhing by fubfcription, from pic- 
tures by Weitall, two other prints of 
Sappuo and St. Ceciira, dedicated by 
permiffion to the Princefs of Wales, and 
to be engraved by E. Scriven and H. R. 
Cook, late pupils to Mr. Thew. Size 13 
inches, 17 high. Price to fubfcribers 
x]. rs. the pair; proofs rl. x1s.. 6d.; 
printed in colours, and highly finifhed 
zl.2s. The two pictures are in an ad- 
mirable tafte: that of St. Cecilia exqui- 
fitely beautiful; but as we learn they 
- are to be exhibited, the public will have 
an opportunity of deciding on their me- 
rits. ‘The two young artifts who are to 
engrave them have had fo able an inftruc- 
tor, and have befides exhibited fuch proofs 
of their knowledge of the art, that we 
have no doubt of their being executed in 
a mailerly and capital ftyle. 
The Transficuration. Amen dico Vobis quia 
Unus Veftrum me traditurus ¢ft.—M. Fer- 
dinand JI]. Auflriaco Magno Hetrurie Duci. 
Leonardo da Vinci pine. Mediolani in coena- 
culo. Fratrum S. Dominici. 
Raphael Morgen feulp. D.D.D. Teodorus 
Matteini del. Nicolaus de Antony ex. 
This print is juft publifhed by a pupil . 
of Volpato’s, and it is faying little to re- 
mark that he excels his inftructor. Indeed 
it is a model of the art, and worthy the 
ftudy of our young Englifh engravers, 
who are fometimes rather too eager to get 
their plates out of their hands with as 
little labour as poflible. This, on the 
contrary, is in every part finifhed with the 
utmoft care, yet every, track tells. The 
French artis were formerly unrivalled in 
the clearnefs of their ftroke, but this is as 
clear as any of them, and in a much more 
pure fiyle ; for thefe gentlemen, in many 
inftances, facrificed correétne({s of drawing, 
character, and beauty, to the twifting and 
twirling of the line, which they called 
freedom, and which by this means bore a 
ftronger refemblance to the flourifhes of a 
writing-mafter, than to the ftroke of an 
artift. 
The painter has difplayed infinite 
knowledge in his grouping of the figures, 
and in the character of the heads, though 
we think the Salvator Mundi, and the St. 
John, are inferior to the others. But this 
ought not to be alcribed to the engraver ; 
it mutt be an original fault in the picture, 
and the picture we never faw, 
The Redeemer. W. Miller pinx. Teftolini exe 
cudit. T. Gaugain, feulp.  Publifoed by 
Teftolini, No. 73, Gornbill, April 1801. 
Price 11. 1s. 
This is the jargeft head that has been 
publifhed of late years: the face is well 
marked ; the hands are not fo well de- 
figned—they are vulgar. It is extremely 
well engraved in the chalk manner; and 
to thofe who want a framed print to place 
at a confiderable height, it may be inte- 
refting. 
Apolini, defigned by Loutherbourgh. The Like- 
_ neffes copied from Cameo Miniatures, by H. D. 
Fanvry, No. §, Litchfield-flreet, for whom it 
is publifhed, and alfo for Colnaghi and Thompe 
fon, Newport-freety and Akerman, Strand, 
Price al. 15. 
The defign is novel and ftriking: it 
reprefents 
