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Monthly Retrofpec? of the Fine Arts. 
a April T, 
hered to the prepollsruns fafhions of the A Series of Twenty Plates, reprefenting the moft 
day, which, gravifying as it might be to 
their wives and daughters, could- not be 
tolerated by pofterity. From both thefe 
errors Mr. Hoppner is exempt; for this 
portrait is ae imagined, and engraved 
with great richnefs and force in the mez- 
zotint. 
Portrait of the Right Hon. William Robert Earl 
of Leinfer, Ge.-GHe. MM. A. Shee, R.A. 
z inxit, C. Turner feulpfit. Publifbed by the 
Engraver. 
This print is refpectfully dedicated to 
his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales, 
and the Hon. Charles James Fox; and 
when we add, that the execution of it is 
worthy of the talents and tafte of the 
painter, itis giving'it high praife. It is 
a whole length portrai it, and very well 
engraved in mezzotinto. 
Six Views of the Metropolis of the Britifh Em- 
pire, by W. Daniell. 
Mr. William Daniell, if we reici eG 
aright, was with his uncle in India, and 
they went three or four days journey far- 
ther into the interior part of the country 
than any European artift ever had been 
before. The views which were then 
taken were many of them painted and ex- 
hibited, and afterwards engraved and 
poplifhed. ‘They have been occafionally 
noticed in this Retrofpect, and the notice 
and the praife were neceffarily united, for 
they mult, as works of high art, unquef- 
tionably be placed in the very firft clafs 5 
and though many ef them are views of 
palaces and temples which we never faw, 
and built in an order to which we are ut- 
ter rangers, imprefs the mind with an 
idea of magnificence not to be paralleled 
in Europe. In the work now before us, 
which is properly enough dedicated to 
George Dance, Ef R. A. architect of 
the city of London, we have fix views in 
eur own metropolis, drawn, engraved, 
and publified by Mr. W. Daniell. We 
heartily with nim all the encouragement 
and petronage which fuch productions as 
tacle deferve ; for they are, indeed, ex- 
ecuted inthe very firft Ryle of extellence, 
aud entitled to particular attention. 
Picw of Chichefter Cathe edral, 
rs neavit, Lewis ‘ala tH 
This view of the eo iicdrdl a is dedicated> 
to the Bifhop of ‘Chichet fer, and, as far as 
we recoliest the build ding, it is taken ina 
good point of view, and is, in many re- 
ipeSis, a print of great merit and ficelity. 
* Buckler deli-, 
curious and interefting Remains of Antiquity, 
in Buildings, Portraits, fiained Glafs, armo- 
rial Bearings, &Fc. at the Archiepifcopal Pa- 
lace of Lambeth. Price, to Subfcribers, plain, 
1, 1s. coloured and gilded, to imitate |the Ori- 
Wk a. ris. Gd. Publifbed by cae : 
Muarfh Gate, Lambeth. 
"Many of thefe remains of ancient times 
muft be extremely interefting | to the anti. 
quary, and the portraits muft be valuable 
toa collector, fome of them being old 
indeed. Among them are, Archbifhop 
Arundel, temp. Henry IV. copied from a 
valuable and unique portrait preferved in 
the Penfhurft collection; Archbifhop Chi- 
cele, from an anc.ent painting, on board, 
temp. Henry V. Queen Catherine Part; 
Luther and his wife (wide Pennant’s 
London, 2d edit. p. 25, and Sele&t Views 
of London, No. viit.); Cardinal Pole, 
from an ancient painting on board. Be- 
fides thefe, there are fac-/imil’s of various 
hand-writings, and fundry {pecimens of 
ftained glafs, arms, 8&c. from the library, 
and fteward’s parlour. On the whole, 
we think the views, portraits, &e. &c. 
form a yery curious, and, in many re- 
fpeéts, an interelting feries, and will form 
a valuable addition to the prints. of the 
loversof Englifh antiquities. It is care-= 
fully, and well engraved. Bye tu 
We have frequently exprefled our dif- 
approbation of the mixed ftyle made up 
y dotting, and ftroke, and aqua tint— 
but Mr, Ackerman has lately difplayed 
fome little decorative prints, in a different 
walk from any of them, of the effect of 
which it is not ealy to write a defcription 
that will convey a proper ideas They 
are in bronze colour, and appear to be 
fingularly bold in their relief, and have an 
effect, near as poffible, as little figures 
cait inbrafs. They are much approved, — 
and, we think, may be cariied much far- 
ther than they yet have been, at leaft than 
they have been in any that Mr, Acker- 
mann has publithed, which we have feen. 
The firft ts a fall lenoth of 
Hippodam’ a, who firj inf: seated Female Races at - 
the Olympic Games. Antom Zucchi delincarvity 
Pafleroni feulpfit 
Four other figures, in tive groupesy 
compo‘ed of Urania and Terpfichore; 
Clio and Calliope, have a very pleafing 
effect ; as have alio four groupes of boys, 
infcribed Mufic, Drawing, Geography, 
and Commerce ‘Thefe little Genii are 
managed with a great deal of tafte. 
We iiale theve is every probability of 
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