1802. ] 
Japping them over each other a {mall dif- 
tance, and fewing down the edges. ° 
The patentee propofes to apply this ma- 
nufacture to a great number of articles, 
fuch as bed-fide and coach carpets, ufing 
the wool-fide in the winter, and the plain 
jeather in fummer; bed-mattraffes and 
Monthly Retrofpect of the Fine Arts: ae 
hammer-cloths ; the ftands for urns; rugs 
"for the hearth, and for the door, to clean 
the feet : and, by being able to unite dif- 
ferent fkins, they may be made of any fize, 
fo as to appear but of one piece. Hemeans 
alfo to apply his invention to the manu-~ 
fagture of muffs, fhoes, &c: 
- MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS, 
(Communications and the Loan of al! new Prints are requefied.) 
WM VE, in a former Retrofpect, noticed 
feveral engravings from defigas, 
that were made in a very exquiiite ftyle, by 
Weftall, and publifhed by Clay and Scri- 
ven. In the choice of thefe fubje&is, the 
publifhers difplayed a good tafte; and fome 
things which they have lately announced, 
lead us to hope that they will continue to 
felect the defigns of thofe mafters who are 
capable of making fuch delineations as are 
worthy of being transferred to the copper. 
They have juft publifhed a pair of prints 
from Mr. Cofway. The firit, entitled 
Sportive Innocence, is admirably engraved by E. 
Scriven, Hifforical Engraver to the Princefs of 
Wales. 
It reprefents two very engaging chil- 
dren, one of whom holds up a large para- 
fole, while her little companion ts playing 
with a rough water.dog. ‘The children 
have anealy, innocent, and natural air ;— 
the dog difplays the kind attention which 
is natural to its {pecies ; the fluted pillar 
and holyoak have a good effect, and the 
foreground is properly broken, and, as 
well as the figures, admirably engraved. 
Lhe companion print is.entitled The Young Shep- 
herd, and is engraven by H. R, Cook. 
This reprefents a young, a very young 
fhepherd, reclining on the earth, and re- 
minded us of the paftoral fimplicity of the 
golden age, and of fome of the old mal- 
ters’ delineations of St. John. » In colours 
it hasa very pleafing and picturefque ef- 
feét, but in black and white has rather too 
decided and firm an. outline to give adif- 
tinét idea of Mr. Cofway’s manneg; for 
the beauty of this artift’s pictures is in 
a very great degree built on the peculiar 
tenderneis and delicacy with which they 
are executed : and though the ftroke of the 
burine here given is entitled to very great 
praife, and would have an admirable ef- 
fe& in an hiftorical print from Opie or 
Weft; for Mr. Cofway we think it ts ra- 
fher.too trong and fombre. 
Al View of Londons taken from Albion-place, 
| Blackfriars-road. IN. R, Black pinxit, Fe 
C. Stadler feulpt. “i 
The point of view from which this deli- 
neation is taken, is extremely well chofen, 
and the whole difplays a moft brilliant 
and ftriking effeét. With a little more 
keeping it would be infinitely the beft 
view of London that has ever been taken ; 
but, with all its excellence, there is not a 
fafficient difference in the ftrength of the 
objects in the fore-ground and thofe in 
the diftance. 
Mary Wollftonecraft Godwin. Opie, R. A, pinxit. | 
W. Annis {eulpt. 
‘To make a mere map of the face, with 
the fame fort of accuracy that an architect 
would make adefign of the front of a honfe, 
is not a very difficult undertaking; but 
to delineate the mind beaming in the eye— 
to difplay the charaéter—the foul—mark- 
Ing every feature of the face—is the great, 
we had almoft faid, the exclufive privilege 
of Mr. Opie, who was therefore the artift 
beft qualified for painting a marked and ' 
faithful refemblance of the very eccentric, 
ftrong-minded, and unaccountable Mary 
Wollftonecraft. Such were the merits of 
the original picture, and the print is ex- 
tremely well engraved. 
The Little Domefticmand the Girl and Pigs 3 a 
pair of Prints. R. Wefall, R. A. pinxit.— 
The firft engraved by Hollyer and Gaugain ; 
the Jecond by Ogbourne and Gaugain. 
Thefe area very pretty pair of prints, de- 
figned with Weftall’s ufual tafte and fim- 
plicity, and they are very well engraved 
in the chalk manner. 
Lieutenant General Fames Stuart. Lawrence, 
R. A. pinxit. F. Clint feulpt. . 
A. very fine portrait, well engraved in 
mezzotinto. | 
Charles Fames Fox. GF. Re Smith piaxit. 8. 
WY, Reynolds fculpt. 
The whole-length portrait of the Man 
ef the People, from which this was copied, 
was 
