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Mr. Rae, of the Theatre Royal in the Hay- 
market, in-the Character of Sir Edward Mor- 
timer, in the Iron Chest. De Wilde del. 
Published by T. P. Datoson, Brydges-street, 
Covent- Garden. 
In the delineation of this portrait, Mr. 
de Wilde has displayed his usual taste 
and ability; and the engraving, which is 
i chalk, makes an uncommonly. charac- 
teristic and pleasing theatrical print. 
Mr. Buckler’s Series of Cathedral Churches. 
North West View of the Cathedral Church of 
Lichfield drawn and etched. by Ff. Buckler s 
and chgraved by R Reeve. Published by F. 
Buckler, Bermonesey. f 
This cathedral, which is one of the finest 
specimens of Gothic architecture in the 
kimdom, is drawn in the accurate and 
magierly. style which has distinguished 
the preceding part of this series; and the 
aqua-tint engraving has an impressive rich- 
mess of elleet that we scarcely ever saw 
equalled, Itis (with permission) dedi- 
cated to the Lord Bishop of the diocese. 
A South West View of the Cathedral Church of 
Norwich, drawn and etched £9 the.same Arta 
ist, ond engraved by F. C. and G. Lewis. 
The lightness and elegance of this fine 
structure, ave admirably transferred to 
the print, which, as well as Mr. Buckler’s 
design, is worthy of the publication of 
which it forms a part. 
mission) dedicated to the Lord Bishop, 
the Dean, and Prebendaries, of the cathe 
ral. : 
Feur Plates, Hare-kunting ; Fenr Plates, Phea- 
sant-shocting 3; Wolsterbolme pinxt.  En- 
groved and published by Reeve, No 7, Vere- 
street, Oxford-rcad. 
To.a very numerous ciass of respecta- 
ble individuals, prints of these and simi- 
lar subjects are extremely interesting. 
These are engraved in aquaetint, and 
though. in some respects they are rather 
eareiessly executed, and are consequently, 
in some little points not quite so correct 
as they nught have been, yet considered 
on the whole, they are picasing and ex~ 
tremely spirited. 
Preparing for the Chace. Breaking Cower. 
The Chece. The Death. 
The subjects of these four prints will 
te deemed equally interesting with those 
of the sets which precede them, by the 
numerous class which we have there al- 
luded to. They are designed and engraved 
in aqua-tint by BR. Pollard, and P. Jukes ; 
and published by R, Pollard, Braynes’- 
row, Spa- Fields, As furniture prints, 
they rank high, being agreeable and lively. 
ja the effect, and the subjects being treat- 
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ed in a manner that will certainly be 
pleasing to those amateurs to whom they 
are principally addressed. 
Sailors carousing. Ff» Ibbetson pinxt. W. Ward 
sculp. Dedicated (vith permission) to H. R. Bu. 
the Duke of Clarence, and publisbed by F. Lin- 
nel, Strathan-street, Charlotte: street. 
This is a very good mezzotinto, and 
though the humour is rather coarse and 
vulgar, it will probably be popular and 
please a large number of those persona- 
who are not too fastidious to object to a 
seasoning of buffoonery, being mixed up 
with the wit of a delineation jn which the 
subject may perhaps very fairly admit of 
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Charon’s Boat; or, the Ghosts of All the Talents, 
takmg their last Voyage. Gillray del. et 
Sculpt. if 
Tn this very ludicrous print, Mr. Gill- 
ray has displayed ‘such a portion of irre- 
sistible humour that the warmest ad- 
mirers 6f the characters that are satirized, 
will be compelled to smile at the whimsi- 
cality of the ridicule. The general effect 
is forcible and spirited. \ 
The Picture of the Deagp of Lord Nelson, 
by Devos, which has lately been exhi- 
bited at Messrs. Boydell’s, has been much 
inspected, and is so universally approved, 
that it is not necessary to enter mto any 
particular enumeration of its merits in this 
Retrospect. The print from it will be 
published in as short a time as it- can bé 
properly completed; and of the manner 
in which it will be executed, we have 
every right to form great expectations, 
from the known abilities of Mr. Bromley, 
who, we have been told, means to devote 
his whole time to the completion of this 
engraving. : 
Mi. Ackermann has just published the 
Sirth Number of Progressvze Lessons, i 
Landscape, &c. and this number is in a 
more finished style than any which have 
preceded it, and thus advancing by de- 
grees, seems to be better calculated to 
improve the young practitioner in the Fine 
Arts, than any other method that has or 
can be adopted. 
He is preparing for publication a work 
In imperial quarto, of a very singular de- ~ 
scription. It may be denominated a Pic- 
turesque Tour through the Cities of Lon- 
don and Westminster, contaiuing views, 
principaily interior, of the most remark-_ 
“able buildings, with short descriptions 
and foures, of a rank appropriated to the 
scenesin which they are introduced. The ~ 
designs will be the joint production of two ~ 
very eminent artists; the figures are by 
Mr. Kowlandson; and the architectural 
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