1903.) 
honour of prefemting to them, is now finifhed 
atthe mint of that ingenious and valuable 
member of fociety, Mr. Boulton, of Birming- 
ham. 
great pubdlic undertakings in his line 3 but 
they flatcer themfelves that its beauty will 
make amends.for the delay, 
‘< They intend that the name of each fub- 
‘feriber fhall be engraven en the medal pre- 
Tented 5 and that this may be done with ae- 
curacy, they intreat’ the favour of every fub- 
fcriber to gn’ his name with his own hand 
on a fheet of vellum which will be prefented 
to him for that pyrpofe ; or this may be done 
at No. 90, Cheaptide, or No. 53, Pall Mall, 
where the medal may be feen. 
And now this great national work: is con- 
cluded, they cannot take leave of their fub: 
fcribers without returning them their moft 
grateful thanks. for their long-continued and 
generous fupport. They once thought of do- 
ing more ; as itisy they maft content them- 
felves with knowing that they have pat it in 
the power of every iubferiber to pofle(s in his 
own library a monument to the memory of 
the immortal Shakefpeare which has coft 
them confiderably above onE HUNDRED 
THOUSAND PoUNDS. The encouragers of 
this great national undertaking will aifo have 
the fatisfaétion to know that thelr names will 
be handed down to pofterity as the patrons of 
native genius, enrolled with their own hands 
in the fame book with the bef of Sovereigns. 
‘the father of his people, the encoorager of 
. all good works. Tlicy flatter themfelves, 
that, fome hundred years hence, the auto- 
@raphs of all the fir men of tafte-who lived 
in England at the end of the eighteenth and 
beginning of the -nineteenth century, with 
their Sovereign at their bead, will be deem- 
ed no {mall curiofity, efpeciailly when this 
circumfance is celebrated by a medal ftruck 
for that efpecial purpofe. 
Jostan Boypert. 
March 25, 1805. 
With the circumftances that induced 
the proprietors to difpofe of them by _lot- 
tery, we prefume almoft all cur readers to 
be acquainted. By this lortery the prize 
whch comprifed them became the pro- 
perty of Mr. Taflie, of Leicefter-fyuare, 
and on the 17th, 18th, and 2cth of May, 
1805, they were fold by Mr. Chrifie, in 
feparate lots, by which this preat collec- 
tion are {cattered Jike the Sybil’s leaves. 
Monthly Retrofpe@ of the Fins- Arts. 
It has been fomewhar delayed by his — 
58 | 
The prices at which they were generally 
fold difplay a ftriking contrat to ~the 
ptices which were paid for psinting them, 
the produce of the fale not amounting to 
much more than fix thoufand pcounds, 
thongh two by Sir Joflua Reynolds 
fetched more than their original purchafe- 
money. Qune of them, viz. the admirabje 
picture of Pack, or Robin Goodfellow, for 
which the artit was paid one hundred gui- 
neas, was purchafed by Samuel Rogers, 
Efq. for 215]. 55.3 the other, The Death 
of Cardinal Beaufort, for which Mefts. 
Boydell paid five hyndred guineas, was 
purchaied by Lord Egremont for ggol. 5s. 
That: many valuable piStures did not 
produce’a larger {um than they were fold 
for, muft be attributed’ to their being fo 
large, and for large pictures the apart- 
ments of this country are not generally 
calculated. ha) | 
The Britifh Inftitution for promoting 
the Fine Arts, which.we alluded to in our 
lait Retrofpeét, is now formed. Jt is 
vader the patronage of nis Majety 3 and 
on the rith of June, the fubferibers of 
fifty guineas and’ ypwards had a meeting 
at the Thatched Houfe ‘Tavern, when 
Lord Dartmouth, who was in the chair, 
was delired to wait on the Prince of Wales, 
and requeft that his Royal Highnefs will 
do the Infitution the honour of accepting 
the fituation of Vice-Prefident. That the 
Earl of Dartmouth, Lord Lowther, the 
Right Honourable Charles Long, Sir G. 
Beaumont, Sir Abraham Hume and Sir 
Francis Baring, Barts. and W. Smith, 
Efg. Thomas Hope, E’q. and TFhomag 
Bernard, Efg. be a felect Committee to 
mianage the affairs of the Inflitution, until 
a Committee of Dire€tors fhal] be elegted. 
Thata moiety of the fubfcription of fifty 
guineas or upwards be paid within two 
months fromthe ath cf June infiant, and 
the other moiety fix months aft: rwards.—- 
Subferiptions are received at Mefrs. 
Coutts, Downes, Thorntons, Giflings,, 
Hammerfleys, Hoares, Praeds, and Ran- 
foms and Co. 
This promifes to te a very fplendid iv. 
aftitution 5 but we have not room to decail 
‘he objetis it embraces until next month.” 
nO Es: 
Montuiy Mas, No. 139. 
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