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rather a flely manner, and as it confifts of 
only a fogle figure, more attention ought 
to have been paid to the accuracy of the 
irawi ng. 
the portraits, difplays much promife of fu- 
turee xcellence. 
No. 3, Commemoration of the victory 
of the rith of Oftober, 1797 3 reprefents 
Riitannia, feated in a car drawn by fea- 
horles, and attended by Tritons, Sea- 
nympus, &c. with portraits of ie Dan. 
ca», &c. engraved by Parker ; the por- 
traits of the captains, from ae by 
Smart, are on a'tablet beneath. This is 
a very fine defign, but the anatomy, or 
rather the want of it, in the. naked fi- 
gures of the Tritons, &c. is a giaring 
defcét, the fin of which feems to lie cn the 
head of the engraver. The portraits are 
enuraved by Noble. 
No. 4, Viétors of the Nile. A River- 
ged (intended to reprefent the Nile) is 
ieatcd with his urn,cornucopia, &c. at the 
toa: of a lofty palin, on which Fame is 
hanging a medallion with the portrait of 
Lord ‘Nelfon, which the deity of the 
itream is contemplating with reverence. 
©n one fide isa fphynx, and in the dif- 
rance, a view of the pyramids ; and on 
the other, a view of a fea-fight. Repre- 
ientations of a fea-engagement are alfo 
intreduced into the other three prints, and 
clouds of fmoke from the cannon, form a 
boundary to the whole. 
No. 4 is engraved by Bromley, and it 
is not flight praile to fay that it is not un- 
worthy of the arti& who engraved the 
excellent print of the Stege of Valen- 
ciennes, from Mr. De Loutherbourgh’s 
picture. It is marked with tafte and feel- 
Ing, and though not an highly finifhed 
performance, evinces that the artift is 
capable of any exértion in which his ta- 
lents may be employed. Lord Nelfen’s 
portrait is from the buriz of Mr. Brom- 
ley—the portrait on the tablet, from that 
of Mr. Leney. 
Mr. Smirke has been very happy in this 
cefign ; the venerable reprefentative of the 
Nile, contrafted with the graceful figure of 
Fame, and the elegant waving’ palm, 
forms an oppofition that is extremely pic- 
turefque. 
Confidered as a whole, this publication 
combines together a fet of princs which 
muft be highly interefting to an Englith- 
man ; the portraits being all new and an- 
thentic, ffamps them with intrinfic value, 
as genuine refemblances of men who are . 
an honour to their country. The prints, 
when framed, exhibit elegant andfriking 
ornaments for the drawing-room 3 or 
ofpedl of Pine Arts. 3 
The young artitt whoengraved . 
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bound together, they make an hiforical 
and interefting folic. 
The Lion in Love; fiom Efop’s Fables; F. 
Northcote, R. A. pinxt. Charles. Turner. 
feulpt. 
Few painters fi fince the time of Francis 
Barlow have much affe&ted feeking the. 
fubje&t for the exercife of their pencils i in - 
the ancient fables of 4Afop; and the 
prints from Barlow’s works did him 
more honour than the works themlelves ; 
as ke had the-good fortune to have Vorie 
of them engraved by Hollar and Faithorn, 
One of theni indeed he engraved himfelf; 
it reprefents an eagle foaring in the air, 
with a cat in its talons. This circum 
ftance Barlow faw in Scotland, as he was 
drawing views there. The cat’s refiit- 
ance brought both animals to the ground, 
whence Barlow tock them up. 
Mr. Northcote’s defign has confider-° 
able merit, and is engraved in mezzatinto, 
in a manner that does credit to the abili- 
ties of the artift, The ftory of the fable 
is well told—as it may not be in the recol. 
leé¥ion of fome of cur readers, we have’ 
fubjoined: a flight abridgment from Sir 
Roger L’ Eltrange’s ZEfop, with one of 
the knight’s curious and quaint moral 
refieétions upon the application it bath unto 
snen and womei. 
«¢ A lion fell in love with a country 
lafs, and defired her father’s confent to 
have her in marriage—The anfwer was 
churlifh enough; He'd never agree te 
marry his daughter to a beaft, but upon 
condition that he would agree to have his 
teeth drawn, and, his nails pared, for thefe 
were things, (he faid), that the foolith: 
girl was terribly afraid of.” Thelion fends 
for a furgeon immediately to do the work, 
(for what will not love make a body do?) 
and fo foon as ever the operation was over 
challenges the father to perform his pro- 
mife. The countryman, feeing the lion’ 
difarmed, plucked up a good heart, and 
with a fwinging cudgel fo ordered the. 
matter that he broke off the match.” 
MORAL. 
‘¢ Here’s a beaf in love with a virgin, 
whic is but areverfe of the prepofterous 
paffions we meet with frequently in the 
world, when reafonable creatures of both 
fexes fall in love with thofe that in the - 
alluficn may (almoft without a figure) 
pafs for beafts. There is nothing fo 
fierce or fo favage but love will foften it ; 
nothing fo generous but it will debauch 
it ; nothing fo fharp fighted in other pee 
ters, but it throws a mift before the 
of it. It puts the eg Jos befide his 
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