"1802.7° [ 
AC a 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
(Communications and the Loan of all new Prints are requefted.) 
The Boar that killed Adonis brought before Venus. 
Drawn by R. Weftall, Efg. R. A. engraved 
by W. Holl. 
“¢ Swift as birds each fluttering love, 
Haftens through the mazy grove, 
Soen the guilty boar they find, 
Fearlefs run and feize and bind, 
This to guide the beaft along, 
Panting pulls his cords of thongs 
That, to make the felon go, 
Beats him with his little bow.” 
HE fubject of this beautiful drawing 
is fingular, but it gave an opportu- 
nity for Weltall to difplay his very pecu- 
liar tafte and talent in the delineation of 
‘female beauty and infantine grace. The 
figure of the Venus, is, as may be fup- 
pofed from the artift who made the draw- 
ing, extremely graceful; and the little 
Loves, who lead, and drive forward the 
boar, are eminently attractive and engag- 
‘Ing: they reminded us of Fiamingo’s 
beautiful models, which are the moft 
fafcinating imitations of children that art 
has hitherto produced. The whole is 
very delicately engraven, and in colours, 
js an uncommonly pleating print. In fup- 
jects of this defcription, the chalk ftyle 
niay be fuccefstully employed, and, pro- 
perly managed, produces a foft and pic- 
turefque effect. 
Mr. Ackerman, of the Strand, has juft 
publifoed ibe following prints : 
A View of the Britifo Fleet entering the Sound, 
and pajfing the Cajfile and Fortre/s of Cronen- 
burgh « drawn by Mr. Pococke, from a Sketch 
taken by Robinfon Kittoe, E/g. and engraved 
by Bluck. 
_ Though the war is happily terminated, 
yet a view of thofe remarkable events 
which diftinguifh either its commence- 
ment,. continuance, or conclufion, and 
difplayed the fuperiority of the Britith 
navy, muft always be interefting to every 
Jover of his country ; and to thofe who 
are converfant with marine painting, this 
mutt rank as very fuperior to the common 
delineations of fuch fubjeéts, both in ac- 
| curacy and general effect. 
A Pair of Prints; Attention and Inattention 3 
| from Piftures painted by ‘F. R. Smith, and 
engraved by R, M4. Meadows. 
To the firft is the following motto, by 
Peter Piadar. 
- duced by it. 
‘¢ When love’s the theme, what eye can 
clofe, 
The minutes fteal the lightning’s wings 5 
Adieu at once to dull repofe, 
For who can fleep when Ovid fings ?”” 
Shakefpeare fays, that 
——-'* Loving goes by haps 
Some, Cupids kill with arrows, fome with 
traps.” ’ 
Ovid's Art of Love, has been invariably 
confidered as one of thofe traps, and the 
hero of this delineated hiftory is evidently 
‘availing himfelf of the effect to be pro- 
The print reprefents a gal- 
lant young man ina Spanith habit, read- 
ing this dangerous poem by torch-light, 
to a beautiful and very young girl, who 
greedily imbibes the intoxicating lines, 
and looks with evident delight at the 
reader. Her whole foul feems engrofled, 
her eye is fixed on her lover, and her 
figure prefents mute dttention perfonified. 
The lamp wiich irradiates the room is 
fupported by a Cupid fixed on a pedettal ; 
and through the window in the diitanee 
appears thenew moon. |... 
The fecond print reprefents the fame 
young female feated with her srandmo- 
ther, who is reading to her a book of a 
very different defcription; Fox's Book of 
-Martyrs ! and this gloomy volume appears 
to have had a very natural effect, and 
‘naturally thrown the girl intoa deep fleep. 
To this is prefixed the following appro-. 
priate motto by the fame whimfical writer. 
«¢ Read Fox’s Martyrs to fixteen, 
How dull, how ftupid it mut prove ! 
How it would brighten up her mien, 
Would granny read her thofe of loye!”? 
‘This print makes a very good compa- 
nion to that which preceeds it, and repre~ 
fents as complete Inatiention as can be 
imagined. The old woman, as well as 
the young one, is corre%ly drawn, and 
properly difcrimated ; and both the prints 
are well engraven in the dotted manner, 
by Mr. Meadows. 
A Pair of Prints; Fighting Dogs, and Dog 
and Cat; Painted by G. Morland, and ens 
graved in Mexxotinto, by F. R. Smith. 
The fir of thefe prints has a great deal 
of. truth and nature, but in a pigture that 
was painted by the late Mr. Gajntbo- 
rough, we remember to have feen added 
to the dogs, two boys, who are their 
mafters 5 one of whom is fetting on his 
ses Haz . favag 
