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pictures can fand againftit; and fhould this 
e-fu-mode tancy be univerfally adopted, 
it would inevitably vitiate the fiyle of 
colouring in this country. “Some pictures 
painted ‘by Mr. S. W. Reynolds, which 
were much admired at the Royal Aca- 
demy, are here fo much injured that 
their admirers fcarcely know them again: 
though this is ealily accounted for, as 
they are in fome degree imitations of 
Rembrandt's landicapes, and have very 
little local colour, the fiery back-ground 
of {carlet paper reduces them to heavy 
maffes of black and winte; yet, were 
they not overpowered by this fenfelefs 
finery, they are pictures of great and 
acknowledged merit, The injury fut 
tained by this overcharged colour: ing is 
by no means confined “to the pictures 
painted by Reynolds; it extends to 
many, very many more, which it Is pot 
nevetfary to enumerate. 
We wilh to notice many of the pro- 
ductions in this exhibition, but have 
room in this Retrofpeét for fo few that 
we fhall wholly, omit them until a future 
number. 
There are feveral models of defiens 
for monuments : their merits are various ; 
the beit are thofe of Bacon, Rofh, and 
Flaxman. 
A South View on the River Liffey, Dublin: 
taken from tire Coal Quay, or Fruit Market. 
On the right is that grand Edifice called the 
Four Courts, defi; fened and began by Covley, 
and completed by Gauden; the Dome of which 
bearing a great Refemblance to that of the 
Pantheon at Rome. In the front, the Ruins 
ef the Coal Quay Bridge, as they a 
after the Flood in December 1802 ; in the 
middle ground, Bloody Bridge, me beyond 
that Queens Bridge; a difant View of the 
Saluting Bettery, ath Pheenix Park, termi- 
nating “the whole. T. S. Roberts, del. 5 I. 
Bluck, feulpt. Pubtifhed, Feb. 1807, by 
R. Ackermann. : 
A view of modern buildings, whatever 
may be its intiinfic merit, muft be ma- 
aged with confiderable {kill to render it 
ink any emluent degree attentive to thofe 
who are generally confidered as the 
hich priefts of the Temple of Tafte. To 
the antiquary, it being built hy his con- 
teinporaries, will be an iniurmountable 
objection ; and being erected in the city 
of Dublin, and degraded by the vulgar 
appellations of the Four Courts, Rizer, 
Exffey, Coat Quay, Bloody Bridae, &e. 
é&c. &c. it will be- infpeéted with very 
fittle intereft by the travelled connoi- 
feur. 
Monthly Retrospect of the Fine Aris.” 
‘&c. 
(March ¥, 
Notwithftaading all this, every one 
who looks at this print muit acknowledge 
that, in many particulars, it has a air 
claim to rank ina very high clais, and is 
entitled to a large portion “of praife. The 
fituation from which the view was taken 
1s uncommonly well chofen for the ge= 
neral effect; and the copy we faw, which 
was in colours, was extremely piciu- 
refque, and would ape its place either 
in a port-folio, r among a weil- so, 
felection of frame- prints for the decor: 
tion of a drawing-room. 
The companion print, reneiloaitbe < a 
View of College Green, Weftraorcland= 
{treet, part of “Sacky ille-Atreet; and Car- 
lille-Lridee, by the fame artifts, is Ia 
very forward fiate, and will be publithed 
in a few weeks. 
 Befides thefe, Mr. Ackermann has jut 
publifhed feveral prints, which continue 
the feries of Leautifal little vignettes de= 
figned by Burney, and engray ed by Agar. 
And d, alfo, a continuation of the prints 
iluitrating The Alifertes of Human Life, 
upon a la arger fcale, defigned and en- 
graved by Rowlandfon, whofe whimf- 
cality of humour is toc well known to 
render it néceffary to record it in this 
page; though we will beg leave to hint, 
that he is very capable of doing what we 
wih he more frequently ia 1. €. give 
his figures more character, lefs caricature 
—as we have fometimes feen what would 
otherwife have been very fine dengns, 
lofe a portion of their effect by bemg 
overcharged with caricature gun-powder, 
With two of Mr, Ackermann’s before- 
mentioned prints we were much pleafed : 
they have a confiderable portion of 
broad humour. ‘he firft, under the 
clafs of The Mijeries of Travelling, re- 
prefents a fiage-coach, “ juft as you are 
going off with only one other perfon on 
your fide of the coach, who you flatter 
yourfelf is the laft —feeing the door fud- 
denly opened, and the landlady, coach- 
man, oer &c. &c, cramming, fhoving, 
buttreffing up an evergrown, puffing, 
grealy hursan hog, of the butcher or 
grazier breed; the whole machine ftrain- 
Ing and groaning under its ‘cargo, OE 
&c. The next is clafied as one of 
Tire Siferies of London: im going out to 
dinner (already too Jate), your carriage 
delayed by a {core of cuaches, which 
choak up “the 
And deafening fhock they come.” 
Tbe 
whole fireet, and allow: 
you at leait an hour more than you re- - 
‘quire to fharpen your wits for table-talk. - 
“¢ Breat againtt breaft, with ruinous afiaulty 
