1£09.] 
served, had the moon in the one, and the 
starin the other, been more distinct, and 
the faces less nade ont. The drawings, from 
which these envravings are made, were ex- 
hibited at the last year’s exhibition, in 
Brook-street, and met withmuch and de- 
served applause. 
Lady Heatheste, drawn by R Cosway, R. A: 
Engraved oy Agar: published by Ackermann. 
An elegant companion to Mrs, Duff, 
and equally well drawn and engraved: 
the bosom, however, 1s too meretricious, 
and more exposed than any modest Eng- 
Jish woman would like hers to be in pub- 
lic ; her ladyship’s beauty requires nosuch 
false baits to attraction, ‘The figure 1s 
light, airy, and fancifully imagined, and 
the engraver has kept pace with the tried 
abilities of Mr, Cosway, in this line of 
art. 
Mrs. Clarke. Draven and engraved by Adam 
Buck, of Frith-street. 
A portrait of this celebrated character, 
to whom the nation is under such great 
and lasting obligations, for the Jast inter- 
esting exposure of corrupt practices, which 
have ut once degraded und ruined the eoun- 
try, cannot fail to fad numerous purcha- 
sers at the present moment. It is finely 
drawn by Mr. Buck trom the hfe, and is 
aspecimen of British beauty, which could 
notyperhaps be exceeded in any part of 
ethe world, tis proper to guard the pub- 
he against a pretended portrait of Mrs. 
Clarke, pudiished by Holland. 
Catalogue raisonne of thePictures belonging to the 
Myst Gonor zble theMarguis of Stafiord, in the 
Gallery of Cleveland-Louse, comprising aList of 
the Pictures, with illustrative Anecuotes, &e. 
Se. by F. Britton, F.8.A. 
fin Historical Account of Corsham house, in Wilt- 
shire, the Scat of Parl Cobb Methuen, 039. 
qwith a Catalogue of bis celebrated Collection of 
Pictures, Gee by the same author, and puv-~— 
fished by Longman and Co. 
The comprehensive tities of the above 
two useful little works, render an analysis 
unnecessary. They are executed with 
fidelity and taste, the anecdotes are cha- 
racteristic, and the biographical memoirs 
corcise aod well written. The former 
work is embellished with a correct plan, 
and a beautifully engraved frontispiece, 
by Bond, from a correct perspective view 
of the Marquis’s new gallery, by J. C, 
Smith; and the lattey with a plan and view 
of Corsham house, engraved by J.C. 
Smith, from a drawing by the author, 
.Lhey form entertaining pocket compani- 
gus to the two noble collections of pictures 
Monthiy Retrospect of the Fine Arts. 
179, 
they describe; and arechatty, pleasant Ci- 
ceronis; good-humouredly poimting out 
the beauties of each, equally divested of 
the dogmatizing eritic, and the dull catae 
Jogue writer of inere names.and titles, 
Mr. Wild, the celebrated arelieologi- 
cal draftsman, and author of the descrip. 
tion of Canterbury cathedral, i8 pursuing 
his researches into Evehsh antiquities, 
with indefatigable idustry, and will 
shortly publish a similar work on the 
beautiful and elaborate cathedral of 
York, 
On Monday, the 23d uit. the lectures 
at the Royal Academy commenced with 
the inauguration leeture of Anthony Care 
lisle, esq. the new professer-of anatomy ; 
who, with azeal and promptitade that-can- 
not be toomuch commended, commented 
a course of Jectures on anatomy within 
two months after his election to the pros 
fessor’s chair, Mr, Carlisle began with 
an eplogiums and biographical account of 
his much lamented predecessor, the late 
John Sheldon, esq. and vave a slight 
but spirited sketch of his professional Hfe 
from ‘the commencement of his studies 
under the celebrated Llunter, to the time 
of his death; and deheately alluded to 
the nielancholy mental eclipse, that oc- 
easionally deprived the academy of his 
regular assistance, and finally England 
of one of its greatest ornaments. An 
umortunate malady (said Professor Car- 
lisle) from whose encroaching inroads 
none of us are free. Mr. Carlisle is a 
man of a cultivated mind, and who ap- 
pears to have made the philosophy of 
the fine arts his peculiar study, and is 
therefore, welt gualitied for the acade- 
mical honour, wich which he has so just. 
ly been invested. Ths evlogium ow the 
Greeks and their Style of Sculpture was 
as justly delneated as it was true. He 
apologized to the Professor of Paanting if 
he should appear to make tnreads on his 
province, and by a poetical simile, add- 
ed, that if he was prevented from occa- 
sionally skirting his lines of demarkation, 
he should searecly know how to accom. 
modate the science af anatomy to the 
studies of the artist. After expatiating 
to the students an the antignity, wwhity, 
and other qualities of the serence of ana- 
tomy, he preceeded to. a ventral expla 
nation st the component parts of nan, as 
divided mito head, trunk, and extpemi- 
ties, with their yreater subdivisions, and 
by a method as novel as. it is Iikely ta 
be useful, Se described georhetrical dias 
grams on ‘the body ef the madel,. (the 
celebrated Gregson, who is reckoned to 
approach 
