1803.] 
lands peopled by flying fiery dragons, 
and birds with tails forty times as long as 
their bodies. This taftelefs grote(que 
creation of a crazed imagination was uni- 
verfally admitted and admired, until the 
introduction of the elegant forms brought 
from Herculaneum by Sir William Ha- 
milton, which, being copied byMr. Wedge- 
wood, gave a Grecian turn to our orna- 
ments, and a new form to our furniture. 
Upon this model Mr. Burney has formed 
the above defigns; and they are elegant, 
claflical, and correét compofitions, en- 
graved ina delicate and pleafing ftyle. 
It is not very long fince Sir William 
Beechey painted a very charatteriftic and 
fpirited portrait of the prefent Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, which is thought a re- 
markably ftrong likenefs. The picture 
was painted for Lord Wodehoufe, and is 
now engraving in {troke, in a very capital 
ftyle, by Mr. James Parker, for Mefirs. 
Boydell, and will be publifhed in about 
four or five weeks. The publifhers take 
the names of fuch gentlemen as with to 
enfure good impreffions of the plates, but 
they do not take any depofit-money. 
Naval Architefure——A Reprefentation of the 
Lranfit, (a Veffel confru&ed by Richard Hull 
Gower, Efg.) in Two Points of View, froma 
Picture painted by T. Whitcombe, engraved 
by F. Feakes. 
The many points in which this veffel is 
fuperior to thofe built on the common 
conftruction render it extremely interefting 
to the amateurs of fhip-building. The 
gentleman who invented it, being imprefied 
with the idea, that the weight and in- 
volved nature of a fhip’s rigging was in- 
compatible with eafe, velocity, and eco- 
nomy, has here endeavoured to conftruct 
a veffel on a fyftem which removes thefe 
inconveniences, and combines many ma- 
terial advantages. Among others, it fails 
fat with a lefs proportion of canvafs; re- 
quires lefs weight of cordage and lighter 
mafts, which materia!ly reduces the la- 
bour of working her. She is under great 
command of her helm, lefs fubjeét to ftern- 
way, and performs every neceffary man- 
ceuvre in a fuperior manner. The fails 
are eafily reduced, and feldom require 
going aloft, and, being generally {mall, 
are not fo liable to be fplit and torn by 
the force of the wind. The matts do not 
depend upon each other or upon the bow- 
{prit for fupport, which renders the veffel 
lefs liable to be difmafted, for one matt 
may fall without doing any particular in- 
jury to the ret. We have not room to 
enumerate many more advantages, and 
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Retrofpect of the Fine Arts: 531 
fhall only add, that the defign gives a 
very good idea of the veffel, and is allo 
picturefque, and extremely well engraved. 
The Tranfit is now in the merchant- 
fervice, on 4 voyage to Conitantinople, 
and the ports in the Mediterranean Sea, 
commanded by Captzin Muirhead. 
Phyche and Tove. F. Gerard pinxt, F. Gode- 
froy feu, pte 
A large French modern print, and a 
good enough fpecimen of the prefent gu/iq 
of the French artifts; it is of courfe two 
naked figures, but conceived ina tiyle fo 
local, vapid, and cold blooded, that from 
a fubje€t which to an elegant imagina=" 
tion would afford the fineft {cope for 
beauty and luxuriance, it has been labour- 
ed into a dry, meagre, high-finifhed per- 
formanee. If the delineator copied his 
Cupid from nature, we fhould fuppole, 
from the proportions of the figure, he'had 
a Dutch model. The engraving is in 
chalk, and feems a fair and correét copy 
of ihe original. 
Raphael. C, C. Schultze, Drefden, feulp. 
This is a Madonna in Heaven, fur- 
rounded by {aints and angels; it is large, 
and may, on the whole, be denominated 
a fine print. It is engraved in the line 
manner; and the principal fault.is, that 
the lines are too polifhed an! fteely, which 
to a print gives a glare fimilar to that 
which we fometimes fee in modern pic- 
tures, that are gaudy without being fplen= 
did. 
A mall Copy from the laft Supper, painted by 
Leonardo da Vinci, engraved by Francifcus 
Rainaldi. 
We have denominated this a {mall print, 
as compared with the celebrated engraving 
by Raphael Morghen, which has been no- 
ticed in more than one of our preceding 
retro/pects. From that very fine print 
this muft be confidered asa copy, and it 
is a laborious, correct, and good copy. 
As the original piQure,, in the refeGtory 
at Milaa, has been fome years fince paint- 
ed over, we are gratified to fee another 
good engraving irora fo admirable a per- 
formance, at a moderate price. 
Sculpture.—The monument dedicated 
to the memory of Captain Richard Run- 
dle Burgefs, who fo nobly lolt his life ia 
the fervice of his country, was opened 
to public-infpeétion, in St. Paul’s Cathe- 
dral, the middle of laft October. 
Mr. Banks was the architect; and the 
monument, which is allegorical, exhibits 
the Captain receiving a {word from Vic- 
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