440 Reirofpedl 
of view fuch incidents as were not very 
gifant from’each other in the time they 
happened, and the whole is compofed with 
a regard to the principles of the art, that 
is not always confidered by Marine-pain- 
ters. The Battle of the Nile, which 
is the Companion Piéture, is now en- 
graving, and in a confiderable ftate of for- 
wardnels. 
Scotia Depifta, being Views of the Antiquities, 
Caftles, Public Buildings, Seats, Cities, Pic- 
turefque Scenery, &e. of Scotland, in a Series 
of finifhed Exchings, by Fames Fittler, A.R.A. 
and Engraver to His Majefty, from accurate 
Drawings, made by Fobn Claude Nattes, 
from the Tear 1797 1 1800. The whole ac- 
companied with Defcriptions antiquarian, bif- 
torical, and pi€turefque. \ Publifhed for the 
Engraver, by William Miller, Old Bond 
fireet; R. Evans, Pall Mall; and Wh'te, 
Fleet-frect ; at 10s. 6d. each Number, where 
Subjcribers’ Names are received. 
The fir Number is publifhed, and con- 
tains Wallace Nook, Balgonie Caftle, 
Ruins of Pitflego, and a Water-fail; and 
being in the Exhibition at. the Royal 
Academy, the public will appreciate its 
merit, which is very confiderable. he 
prints are etched in avery mafterly ftyle, 
and the fucceeding Numbers, of which 
four will be publithed every year, will 
contain the fame. ‘Iwelve numbers will 
compleat the volume, and with the. laft 
will be given an additional plate, as a 
frontifpiece, a title-page, &c. &c. 
Highly finifhed etchings trem original 
{ketches have ever been confidered as in- 
finitely more ufeful to the ffudent, and 
more picturefque to the amateu', than any 
other {pecies of engrayng. They havea 
precifion and Ktreng'h, as well as eale and 
delicacy of outline, which is very rarely 
to be feen in any other manner. 
have alfo, when properly executed, a {pi- 
rit, energy, and fire, not often feen in 
more laboured performances. ~ 
Boydeli’s plended Edition of Shake 
peare draws near a conclufion. The fe- 
venteenth number will be publifhed in 
une or July. 
Smirke’s Pi€tures from the Seven Ages 
will be publithed immediately. The sft 
is engraved by Tomkins—the 2d, and 
4th, by Ogbourne. The 3d is moft in- 
comparably conceived by the artift, and 
exquifitely engraved by Thew. The 
sth and 7th by Simon; and the 6th 
by Lency. The whole, forming a moft 
interefting and admirable picture of man, 
from the cradle to the tomb, is happily 
imagined by the paipter, and. well trans. 
ferred to the copper by-the engravers. 
o Pine Arts, 
beet of th 
They. 
[ June x 
The print from Mr. Copley’s picture 
of the Death of Lord Chath:m, is deemed 
the moft valuable affemblage of hiftorical 
portraits that has hitherto appeared in this. 
country. The print which Mr. Skelton 
announces his intention of engraving from 
Wheatley’s piéture of the Irdh Houle of 
Commons, as a companion to it, we 
flightly noticed in Jaft Month’s Retrofpec&t. 
When we confider the importance of the 
debate (the Repeal of Poyning’s Law) 
and the confequences that have refulted 
from that repeal;—-when we add to this 
the importance of the charaéters, and con- 
fider, that this great affembly is now in- 
corporated with the fifter kingdom, and 
many of the leading cnaraéters that com- 
pofed it are now no more; fuch an affem- 
blage becomes eminently valuable, and 
eculiarly interefting to their furviving 
friends; and as it is declared by the pro- 
prietor (Mr. Skelton) that the prints thall 
be delivered in the order fubferibed for, 
thofe who mean to put down their names, 
and confider the fupericrity of an early 
impreffion, -will unqucitionably be early 
in their application. is painted in the 
manner of De Neef; the figures are well 
drawn, and grouped in a way -that does 
great credit to the talents and tafte of the 
painter. There are more than two hun- 
dred portraits, and the few that we know 
are ftriking refemblances. For all the 
names we have not room, but fome of 
them are as follow :—~ 
George Agar, Lord Cullan, Earl of 
Aldborough, Sir Fitzgerald Aylmer, Right 
Hon John Beresford, Lorde Blaquiere, 
Hon. William Brabazon, Right Hor. Sir- 
A.:Brooke, Lord Kilmaine, Right Hon, 
Waler Burgh, Vilcewnt Carleton, Vif- 
count Carlow, Earl Carysfort, Sir Henry 
Cavendifh, Earl Charlemont, Earl Cler- 
mont, Right Hon. Thomas Connolly, 
Earl Belmore, Dennis Bowes Daly,- Vif- 
count Cremorne, Ear] of Weftmeath, Earl 
Dyfart, Dr. Ellis, John Fitzgibbon, Earl 
Clare, Sir Frederick Flood, Right Hon. ~ 
John Forfter, Luke Gardiner, Vifeount 
Mountjoy, Henry Grattan, Vifcount Ox- 
mantown, Right Hon Sir Richard Heron, 
Hon. J. Hely Hutchinfon (Provoft), Ro- 
bert Jephfon, Lord Kingfborough, T. 
Knox, Vilcount Northland, J. Knox, Sir 
Hercules Langrifhe, David Latouche, 
Lord Farnham, Earl Moira (deceafed), 
Lord Rawdon (now Earl Moira), Eari 
Mornington,2Vif{count Mcuntmorres, Ed-~ 
ward Neville, Right Hen. Sir William 
Ofborne, bart, Sir John’ Parnel, bart, 
Lord Pery, Vifcount Harberton, james 
Carique Ponfonby, Earl Cionmell, &c. ns 
