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which was in the Royal Exhibition lat 
year; but in the general effect it is not 
equal to many of Mr. Ward’s other per- 
formances. 
Mr. Cook in the Charatter of Iago. Sames 
Green, pinxit. Engraved and publifbed by 
G. Ward, New-fireet, Price 10s. 6d. 
The point of time which the artift 
has taken, is that where Iago addrefles 
Othello: «OA! my dord, beware of jea- 
loufy!? This being a time when the 
villain affumes the character of honefty, 
does not give an opportunity for the dif- 
play of that malignity which was de- 
lineated in fuch colours, as thofe that 
van might read, ina tketch made of the 
ate Mr, Henderfon, by American Stuart, 
which was afterwards engraved by 
Bartolozzi. It is rather theatrical, but 
on the whole,a good print. ‘The hand is 
the worft part of it. 
Portrait of Mr. Cook, engraved by G. Whaffell, 
froma Drawing by F. Corbet. Publifbed 
April 6, by T. Simpfon, St. Pauls Church- 
yard, and Thompfon, New-fireet, Price 3s. 
This head is engraved in chalks, in a 
fancy dreis, but no charaéter named ; it 
is not equal to that in the preceding ar- 
ticle. 
A Print of the Irifh Houfe of Commons. 
When the queftion for introducing a 
Bill for the repeal of Poyning’s Law 
was the fubject of debate, Francis 
Wheatley, Efqg. R.A. who was then 
in Dublin, painted a large picture, in 
which he has introduced more than two 
hundred portraits of the feveral mem- 
bers and others affembled in the Houte, 
painted from the life. From the cir- 
cumftances which-have happened fince 
that time, a picture containing fo many 
portraits (feverai of them gentlemen of 
great celebrity) by an artift whofe fide- 
lity of pencil is fo well known, be- 
comes peculiarly interefting. This has 
induced Mr. Skelton to engrave it iz 
the line manner, and the picture is now 
exhibiting at No. 49, New Bond-ftreet. 
The abilities of Mr. Skelton as an en- 
graver are well known. The many 
admirable prints which he has engraved 
for the Shakefpeare and Poet’s Gal- 
leries, and feveral of his other pro- 
dutions from pictures by our greaielt 
painters, are before the public, do great 
credit to his tafte and talents, and place 
him in a very high rank in his art. 
He propofes to publith this by fub- 
fcription. Common impreffions, with an 
additional plate as a key to the charac- 
Retrofpect of the Fine Arts. 
_ters, at four genineas.—Proofs 
335 
L eight 
guineas. Itis publithed under the pa- 
tronage of Lord Moira, to whom it is 
by permiffion dedicated. 
Portrait of Buondparte, by Mefquer:er. 
Hiftorical Pifture of Buonaparte, at ihe Grand 
ae of ae naar ae a Deas 
9 160° 5° two ays after the Exploficz 
of is Machine in Hy Rue St. pee oie 
tng Rea Pale 
This picture is fomewha jy 41, e fyle 
of the Panorama ; and, Oe eke 
artift as avery young man, has ae 
greater degree of merit than could re 
expected. It is faid to have been paint- ~ 
ed from thé life, and therefore may be 
fuppofed to be an accurate likenefs of 
the Chief Conful, who, we are inform- 
ed, admitted the artift three times dur- 
ing’the half-hour of his breakfaft. He 
is reprefented on horfeback, in the grey 
great-coat which he wore at the battle 
of Marengo: has a remarkably fallow 
complexion, and a fickly appearance ; 
but a face of charafter, and an eye of 
penetration. He is accompanied by 
General Lafue, commander of the Con- 
fular Guards, a tall Mout man, faid to 
have been a journeyman dyer; by Gene- 
ral Durocg, his aide-de-camp ; and Ge- 
neral Alexander Berthier, the War Mi- 
nifter; young Beaubarnois; General 
Caffarel ; and Rouffant, a young Mame- 
luke Chief, who accompanied the Chief 
Conful from Egypt. The houfes are 
not fo well painted as the figures. 
Tallien, when in England, faw’ this 
picture, and has left his written tefti- 
mony of the refemblance it bears to 
the criginal. A fpirited copy from this 
portrait has been engraved by Charles 
Turner, and is fold, price 1os. 6d. at 
No. 22, Piccadilly. 
Portrait of Buonaparte, by. Northcote. 
This portrait is exhibited in Bond- 
ftreet, and difplays a grand effect. The 
Chief Conful is reprefented feated upon 
a white horfe in a commanding attitude. 
The light and fhade is well managed 
and extremely picturefque: in fome par- 
ticulars it brought to our recollection 
Sur J. Reynolds’s portrait of Lord Ligonier: 
the compofition of which, the Prefident 
frequently declared, he borrowed from 
a half-penny ballad, ftuck againft the 
wall of St. Anne’s Church. Of this pic- 
ture a print in mezzotinto, by S. W. 
Reynolds, is in great forwardnefs. 
Of Mr, F. T. Smith’s drawings from 
the 
