1810.) 
effort of his burin, | Of the picture, little 
‘need be said, as it possesses the: usual 
and well-known characteristics of the 
painter; the old man seems a portrait, 
and is well drawn; the children are 
shorter and thicker than are generally 
observed even in the most ill-furmed, and 
much approach what is called, the 
clumsy ; it is however an interesting and 
beautiful domestic subject. 
The Interview between St. Wilfrid, the.ex- 
pelled Archbishop of York, the Founder of 
Christianity among the South Saxons, A.D. 
681, and the King of the South Saxons. 
The Interview between King Henry VIII. and 
Robert Shurborne, Bishop of Chichester. 
The size of the painting from which 
this last engraving is made, 1s thirteen 
feet four inches wide, by eight feet eight 
inches and a quarter high: is the work of 
Theodore Bernardi, of Amsterdam, by 
command: of R. Shurborne. King 
Henry Vil. is introduced here with his 
son, by an anachronism, frequent in ‘the 
designs of that age. Bernardi, likewise, 
‘painted the portraits of Bishops in the 
cathedral: the ceiling, with armorial 
bearings, in Chichester-house, and a 
large room in Amberly-castie. The price 
of the pair, 16s. in colours, il. 4s. 
These two prints, engraved by a pro- 
vincial artist, who has long devoted him- 
self to antiquarian subjects, are rather 
faithful and correct copies of the pic- 
tures, than elegant engravings; being 
principally etched, and slightly finished 
with the graver. 
Royat Acapemy.—On Monday, the 
11th ult. a general meeting was held of 
the Academy, in the Council-room, at 
which Mr. Fuseli presided, in the ab- 
sence of Mr. West, who was indisposed. 
Mr. Fuseli proceeded to the distribution 
of the prize-medals, in the following 
order. Gold Medals. In painting, (one 
candidate) none. In sculpture, (one 
candidate) none. In architecture, one 
to Mr. J. Adams, (for which there were 
seven candidates.) Silver medals.«To 
Messrs. C. F. Porden, T. Alanson, and 
HH. Wyatt, for the best drawings of the 
sereen of the Admiralty; to Messrs. E. 
£1. Bailey, and J. Kendrick, for models 
of Academy figures; to A. Perigal, 
W. Collins, and J. J. Le Compte, for 
drawings of Academy figures. Of the 
distribution in the classes of drawing and 
‘modelling, little need be said, as they 
appear to have been decided with justice 
and fairness; but general satisfaction is. 
Monthly Retrospect of the Fine dris. 
- prize. 
Gil 
by no means given in the decision for 
the architectural designs, which may 
perhaps haye originated from the very 
small number of architects in the Aca- 
demy, which should certainly, (if it is to 
» be an academy of architecture, as 1s pro- 
fessed) be inicreased. In the last Mae 
.gazine it was hinted, that the aizes or- 
dered by the Academy were not pre- 
.served, but .a much greater fault was 
committed; that of suffering landscape 
embellishments to the architectural de- 
signs, which a few years ago was very 
properly not allowed. If it is still per- 
mitted, and encouraged by premiums 
from the painters, because they ate most 
like pictures, the architectural student, 
instead of attentively studying the ma- 
thematics, (the basis of all architective 
skill) .construction, distribution, and in 
short architecture, will only aim to be 
a good draftsman, particularly a land- 
scape draftsman. But the- fault does 
not end here: one student may have a 
longer purse than another, and he, (as 
has been done this very year,) has no- 
thing to do but employ the best landscape 
puter he can meet with, to decorate 
his flimsy designs, (a Turner, or a De 
-Loutherbourg, if he can afford it,) and 
seize all the painters m the Academy, 
which are in a proportion of nearly 
thirty to two against the architects, by 
the eye; and thus, unfairly, rob the me- 
ritorious student of his well-deserved 
It is. much to be hoped, for the 
advantage of art, that this fnendly hint 
may be attended to. It would be invi- 
dious, to speak of the solitary picture that 
was offered, but to notice what Mr. 
Fuseli mentioned, that the picture was 
of a good tone of colouring, and had 
some merit; but that the academy wished 
to see their students excel in design, 
which is the most important part of their 
study. 
Mr. Carlisle’s second anatomical lec- 
ture was delivered to a crowded audience 
on Monday, Nov. 27. In this he vave & 
general view of the human. mechanism, 
‘to prepare the minds of the students in 
arts for the subsequent demonstrative 
lectures. He observed that ** The human 
body is constructed upon the same ge- 
neral plan with the other.parts of the 
animal creation. ‘The form of man, his 
organs, and the texture of his constituent 
materials, are adaptec to his wants, and 
to the destinies of his nature. That the 
skeleton consisted of aseries of bones 
connected together by various kinds of 
joints 
