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the surraznding scenery picturesque and 
appropriate. They are well engraved in 
the mezzotinto, and coloured with great 
beauty and taste. 
Marquis Wellesley, and Lord Melville, from 
Busts modelled by T. Nollekens, R.A. En- 
graved and published by Fobn Young, Char- 
loite Street, Fitzroy Square, Fan. 1808. 
These two Prints are. companions to 
the two mentioned last month, of Wil- . 
liam Pitt and C. J. Fox. They are well 
executed in the mezzotinte, and fully 
equal to the former ones. 
The Witch sailing to Aleppo. * Ina Sieve IU] 
thither sail, Gc.” Painted by F. Halls. En- 
-graved by C. Turner. 
This picture was exhibited last year at 
the British gallery; it is an imitation of 
Fuseli, and a successful one. As it gene- 
rally happens to imitators, the pupil ex- 
bib:ts the faults of his master: the subject 
is ugly and repulsive. If the axiom of 
Sir Joshua Reynolds be true, that the ob- 
ject and end of the Arts, is to delight the 
imagination, it must be acknowledged 
that both master and pupil sometimes 
travel in an uncouth path to attain it. 
No. I. of Supplemental Pnnts to 
Smith’s Antiquities of Westminster, price 
£1. 1s. is just published, and contains, 
‘Yen Prints of great interest and value to 
the antiquary; of these we shali give a 
particular description in a subsequent 
_ number; suffice it to say, they are admuir- 
ably engraved It also contains a vindica- 
tion of Mr. Smith’s conduct in a disagree- 
ment with John Hawkins, esq.; but our 
Retrospect, is a Review of Prints only. 
The Muse of Painting, also mourns the 
loss of her fairest daughter, Angelica 
Kauffman, who died lately at Rome. The 
elegance and delicacy of her genius was 
strongly -felt in this country—in Italy it 
was idolized. Her corpse was attended 
to the place of interment by the princi- 
palnobility and gentry of Rome. Herpic- 
tures were borne in the funeral procession, 
and every testimony of their esteem and 
veneration for transcendant merit, shewn 
by all ranks of people. 
In Ackermann’s Microcosm of London, 
the second number of which will be pub- 
lished on the first of February, Rowland- 
son, who designs and engraves the figures, 
Monthty Retrospect of the Fine Arts. ¥eb. 
has been peculiarly happy, they are high- 
ly characteristic and spirited; the archi- 
tecture, by Pusin, is in a style which does 
great credit to the artist. The little de- 
scriptions of each subject, though pro- 
fessed to be generally taken. from prece- 
ding publications, contain many original 
and whimsical anecdotes, 
On Monday the 18th of January, the 
Royal Academicians held their usual an- 
niversary dinner at the Crown and An- 
chor, in honour of her Majesty’s Birth 
Day. Mr. B. West, P.R.A. took the 
chair, when many loyal and appropriate 
toasts were drank, and the evening con- 
cluded with harmony and hilarity. 
Death, the imsatiate archer, has lately 
scattered his fatal arrows among the Sons 
of Art: within a short period, three have 
fallen his victims. Opie, Gilpin, and a 
few days since, that elegant and classical 
painter of Landscapes, Freebairn. 
Messrs. Boulton, Watt, and Company, 
of the Soho, Birmingham, have executed a 
very beautiful bronze medal, commemora- 
tive of the giorious Victory off Trafalgar. It 
was done under the immediate direction 
of Sir William Beeehey and Lady Hamil- 
ton: of this medal, they have struck of 
between 18,000 and 19,000, the précise 
number of the British seamen engaged in - 
that great and decisive battle, and which 
are now distributing to them, their wi- 
dows or heirs, at the office of Boulton, 
Watt, and Company, London-street, 
Fenchurch-street, London. ‘These me- 
dals have been exeeuted by the Messrs. 
Boulton, upon a truly patriotic principle, 
at the expence of S000I. and are deliver- 
ed gratuitously at their office to the per- 
sons for whom they were designed, and so 
strictly have they confined it to its origi- | 
nal destination, that the moment the pre- 
cise number of medals were struck off, Mr. 
Boulton ordered the die to be destroyed 
in his presence. An application from the 
lords of the admiralty, and from several 
persons of distinction, for impressions of 
this medal were rejected ; it was only for 
the British seamen; even the officers of 
the navy, are not intituled to them: and 
the grateful feelings of the gallant tars 
who have at present received them, prove 
that this noble instance of patriotic gene~ 
rosity has not been misapplied. 
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