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- MONTHLY. RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS: 
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( Communications and the Loan of all new Prints are requefted.) 
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To bis highly valued Friends and Patrons Bcnja- 
min and Abram Goldjmids, Efgs. this Por- 
trait of the Reverend Salomon Kirchel, High 
Pricft of the: Fewifh Community, is dedicated 
with profound refpec by their grateful bumble 
Servant, Frederick Benjamin Barlin, Auguft 
23, 1803. F. B. Barlin pinxit. 
feulpt. 
HIS high-polithed dedication is pre- 
fixed to a head which {fcems to have 
been painted with confiderable ability. Te 
is the portrait of a very handfome Jew, 
with a countenance’ of pectiliar animation. 
Tt is engiaved in ‘the chalk manner, and 
would have been a mich better print, if 
the arti bad not been fo anxious to dif- 
play the means by which he produced the 
work. © There is what the: chalk- enora- 
vers call ‘a regular grain” over “the 
whole plete, an effe&, which, as it co‘ts 
‘them much labour to achieve, they are 
very anxious to preferve unbroken; the 
confequence is, that effential merits are 
facrificed to it ; atid where it would be of 
the utmoft advantage to blend and foftten 
the tints to produce that roundnefs and 
rélief, which fhadows produce in nature, 
they are left, as here, with hard cut- 
ting edges, which neceffarily gives a. flat- 
nefs that injures and impoverifhes the 
whole. 
How infinitely fuperior to this tame 
mechanifin js the rich and vigorous ftyle 
of Hayward’s Mrs. Siddons, from Sir 
Jothua Reyvolds. This plate, feconded 
by the opinion of the late illuftrious Pre- 
Aident of the Royal Academy, fhould prove 
tovall artifts, that, in proportion-as they 
are oftentatious of difplaying the means, 
they lofe fight of the end, and fink frum 
men of f{cience. into mechanics.:», Thete 
obfervations apply to moft of thes chalk- 
engravers ofthe prefent day.. The fate 
Mr. Thew gave the lead; he found that 
he could render a mechanical grain of 
fervice, and »he; ufed: sit with great 
ability, The whole ftring of his imis 
es have been in. fuch hot purtuit 
this mere mechanical operation, 
Alo. they have too often negleéted the 
higher requifites of the art, for the 
gauzy tiviel effet this mechapiim natu- 
rally produces. 
MonTuty Mac, No. 109: 
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W, Hail . 
His Grace Francis Duke of Leeds, Knight of the 
Moft Noble Order of the Garter ; late his Ma- 
jéfv’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign 
<ifjairs.. From a@ Portrait by 1. Lacerence, 
R.A. Prefented to her Grace in the Year 
1797, by the Gentlenzen of the Foreign Depart- 
ment. R. M. Meadows fculpt. 1803. 
This pi&ture was exhibited, and had a 
remarkably rich and fplendid effeet ; the 
engraving is accurate, and std Gane 
but it has a gauzy flimzinefs that wants 
body, and gives it too much the ap pear 
ance of an aérialbeing. " 
It is in the chalk manner. hip 
Mr. Kemble, inthe C hara&er of Rolla. ce Laws 
rence, R.A pinxit. S.W. Reynolds feulpts 
Boydell’s, 1803. 
This is a moft. fpirited and aaromiad 
portrait, and the mezzotinto is engraved 
with great vigour and tafte. 
Mr. Fobnfton, as Sir Callaghan, in Lowe-a-Ta- 
Mode. M. A. Shee pinxit. WW.) Ward 
Sculpt. 
A very ftriking likenefs of the. origi inal, 
admirably well marked in the dramatic 
character, and very well engraved. 
The Dutch Minftrell —Rembrandt. Fellas 
Michael Angelo. Venus and Cupids,-R.Coj- 
way. §. Bennet fculpt. 
OF thefe three prints, the firft is in the 
line, but the lines are fo coarfe and extra- 
vagant, that it is not poffible for Rem- 
brandt’s beautiful claro-ofeuro to exit 
amongft fuch barbarous bars. The 
other two are in the chalk manner, but 
they do dot poffefs any ttriking merit ; 
they have on the whole a woolly and hazy 
effect. 
The Four Evangelifis. 
Pictro Fontana encife. 
Four feparate defigns of halflength fi- 
gures, but the defigns are neither new nor 
rave. ° If’ examined as engravings, they. 
will be found of the fchool of Raphael 
Morghen; but they are abe and ii 
boured productions. 
Dominici del Frate delt. 
Priam, on bis Departure for the dak forbs 
W. Hamilton, ies R. A pinwit. A. Fogg 
jfeulpt. 
This is intended as a companion toa print 
of Priam entreating Achilles to let, him 
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