68 Monthly Retrospect of the Fine Arts. 
MR. THOMAS Noon's (BURTON-UPON- 
TRENT), for Improvements in FVire- 
NAPs, FG Sis ‘Gar m 
This invention ‘consists in a different 
constrection of the pan, hammer, and 
plate. The parts chambered out of the 
hainmer, and pan, next the barrel, or 
breech at the touch-hole, are made to re- 
ceive a swell, or bulge,-left on the barrel 
or breech, opposite to the chamber: and 
the barrel, or breech, is hollowed out 
[Aug. ! 3 
i round the swell or bulge. At the bottom 
of the chamber is a hole, through the’ 
' plate, under the pan. When the lock’ 
and barrel are put together, the water 
that may insinuate itself between them, 
-will run down the projection to the hollow: 
in the barrel, or breech, and from thence _ 
escape through’ the whole, ‘without 
touching the powder in the pan, provided 
the chamber and this projection he made: 
to fit clase. fea, Ro Se 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT or tus FINE ARTS. 
The Use of all New Prints, andC ommunications of Articles of Intelligence, are requested 
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under cover to the Care of the Publisher. 
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Tbh: Costume of the Ancients; by Thomas Hope ‘Portrait of William Wilberforce, Efg. M. P- 
with Iwo Hundred Outline Engravings. 
V/. ds. «or 2 Vols. 4to. Al. 145. 6a,” 
M R. Thomas Hope, the most zealous 
AV andindetatigable patron of the fine 
arts of Englaud, has in_ this piblication 
proved himself to be no lessan able artist 
thana discriminating critic. The outline 
engravings, which ave drawn with the force 
and spirit of a professor by the author, 
and no less correctiy engraved by Moses, 
consist of a faithiul representation of 
various figures, dresses, implements of 
war, furniture, musical instruments, &c. 
copied from undoubted sources of infor- 
mation. Mr. Hope, by this publication, 
has.conferred an important act of service 
on the Fine Arts.of England, by furnish- 
ing her artists, particularly historical 
painters, with a’cheap and valuable col- — 
lection of indubitable information on not 
-merely the costume, but the manners and ° 
customs of the aticients.. 
4 new Picture of the Isle of Wight 5 illustrated 
with Thirty six Plates of the most beautiful 
and interesting Views throughout the Island, 
in Imitation of the original Sketches. . Drawn 
and engraved by Wilham Cooke. 
prefixed an intrcductory Account of ibe Island, 
and a Voyage round its Coast. 36 Plates, 8v0. 
Price 11. 1s. Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street. 
The spirit and vigour with which these 
views are sketched and etched, are highly 
creditable to the abilities-of Mr. Cooke, 
who is both the draftsman and the, ehn- 
‘graver. They consist of a series of out- 
line views, anda neat well-written ac 
count of the island, descriptive of-the 
views, and sufficiently diffuse tora pocket 
guide through this beautiful appendage 
tu the istaud-of Great Britain. { =--'- 
To whith is tion. - 
_ Engraved by James Heath, A.R.A. from a 
. Pitture by ¢he late William Russcl, R.A. 
A spirited well-engraved print, in the 
line-manner, of a philanthropist who does- 
honour to the English nation; and from 
its resemblance to the original, being 
what is commonly called a strong like- 
ness, will no doulit be bighly acceptable 
to the friends of this valuable man, and 
the abolition of the slave-trade, with 
which amiable act of national humanity — 
his name should always be coupled. 
he Italian School of Design; exemplified in 2 
| “Series of Fac-similes, carefully engraved. by 
eminent Ay tists, from: origigal Drawings, of 
the greatest Painters and Sculptors of s[taly. 
Selected from the Collection of Welliam Youngs 
Ottley, F.S. A. With Notes, biographical, 
critical, and explanatory. No. I. to be con= 
“tinued every twa Months, on. tags 
To those whom curiosity, or a wish 
for improvement in the style of sketching, 
lead to. be enquirers after the modes 
practised by the best masters of anti- 
guity, this will prove a valuable acquisi- 
i They are {as the prospectus pro-~ 
mises) pertect fac-similes, both as to 
the colour of the paper, as well as the 
manner of operation, Drawing, or des 
sign, as it is aptly termed by the French, 
forms a part of the elements of art that 
is highly necessary should be, ieulcated 
in the education of a painter; and the 
specimens here exhibited must prove an 
incentive to study in the mind-of the 
‘emulous student. Mr. Ottley Has shewn — 
a-good specimen of his own abilities in 
handling the pencil, by, executing one 
Gfethese fac-similes of drawings himself. 
Tiger ie it CRIN. The 
