1807, ] 
larly fuccefsful in marking the barks, &c. 
of fome old trees, in which he has evi- 
dently and very happily imitated Wy- 
Hants, not with the fervility of one 
painter copying another, but both have 
fooked at nature with the fame eye, and 
through the fame medium, 
“4 View of College Green, Dublin; taken frem 
near the Provoft's Houfe, Grafton-ftreet. On 
the right is Trinity College; middle ground, 
the National Bank (formerly the Parliament 
Houfe), on the eaft fide of which are the 
Portico of and Entrance into the Houfe of 
Lords, Drawn by Roberts, engraved by 
Black, and publifbed by R. Ackermann. 
To the well-known feries of ancient 
edifices by Piranezi, fo defervedly ad- 
mired by all lovers of the arts, there is 
one infurmountable. objeétion: in the 
delineator’s zeal to give magnitude and 
importance to his buildings, he funk his 
figures to pigmies, and thus rendered it 
impoffible to eftrmate the real extent of 
his fuperb edifices, or form any judgment 
of the relative inferiority of his lets im- 
portant buildings in his other priats. In 
this refpect, the views of Dublin taken 
by Mr. Roberts have a decided fuperi- 
ority. Of the former part of this feries 
we {poke with high refpeét, but the print 
now before us, which is in colours, is 
fuperior to any that preceded it, and 
unites rigid fidelity with the moft pic- 
turefque effect. It is admirably engrav- 
ed, and has a broad and ftriking effect ; 
the figures are numerous and bufy, ap- 
propriate to the place, and characteriftic 
of the people. 
Befides the above, Mr. Ackermann has 
publifhed No. 5 of the Rudiments of 
Trees ; and feveral very whimtical cari- 
cature prints; fome of them relative to 
Bonaparte: of one of them, entitled a 
Characteriiic Defign for his Arms, we 
intend, when room admits, to give a 
brief defcription. 
Since the publication of onr laft Re- 
trofpect, we have again feen Mr. Stoth- 
art’s beautiful cabinet-pi¢ture of the 
«Proceffion of Chaucer's Pilgrims to Can- 
terbury, and it improves on a fecond in- 
fpection. 
The fcene of the piciure is laid in that 
part of the road to Canterbury which 
commands a view of the Dulwich hills; 
the time, a beautiful and ferene April 
morning. The intereft of the procefiion 
is conliderably heightened by the cheer- 
Tulnefs of the accompanying, land{cape. 
The pilgrims, with a proper regard to 
their refpective characters, and in the 
jnanner in which Chaucer deferibes them, 
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headed by the miller playing upon his 
pipe, under the guidance of Larry Baillie 
the hoit; who, as matter of the ceremo- 
nies, is reprefented on horfeback ftande 
ing in his ftirrups, in the act of com- 
manding attention to his propofal of 
drawing lots to determine which of the 
company fhall tell the firft tale. Near 
to him is a line of five characters: the 
knight: his fon, the young -{quire; the 
Franklin, or country gentleman ; the fer- 
jeant at law; the merchant, and the 
doétor of phyfic. The {quire is mounted 
on awhite horfe near the knight, and 
betwixt thefe two figures 1s feen the 
Reve. Clofe behind the fyuire, his yeo- 
man advances, habited in green. ‘Phe 
front of the next groupe is alfo compofed 
of five characters: the lady abbets, her 
nun, the nun’s prieft, the goad parfon, 
and his brother the ploughman. The 
ficures immediately behind the lady ab- 
bets are the thipman, the Oxford fcholar, 
the manciple, and (though latt mention- 
ed, not leatt in regard) Sir Geofrey Chau- 
cer, copied from the picture in the Britifh 
Muteum, painted by Thomas Occleve, 
who, being one of the poet’s fcholars, 
has, it may be fairly prefumed, left a 
correct refemblance of his matter. Every. 
attention has been paid to the ancient 
coftume of this. country; and it is thought 
by very competent judges, that in the 
whole, antiquarian exactnels has been, 
an eminent degree; combined with pic- 
ture{que effect. 
The admirers of fine fpirited engray- 
ing are fo well acquainted with the ta- 
lents of Mr. Bromley, that itis not ne- 
ceffary to add what may be fairly expe¢t- 
ed from his busin. The print is to be of the 
fame fize as the picture, concerning 
which we laft month made a miftake: it 
is three feet one inch long, and ten and 
a half inches high. The price of the 
print will be three guineas; proof im- 
- preflions, fix guineas : one half to be paid 
on fubferibing, and the prints delivered 
in the order which they are fub{cribed 
for, 5 
Mr, Kytonr, of Hammerfinith, in con- 
fequence of the very flattering reception 
given to his engraving of the late Lord 
Nelfon, from the marble butt of the Hon. 
Mrs. Damer, means to engrave by tub- 
{cription a Print of the late Right Hon, 
Win. Pitt, dedicated by gracious permif- 
fion to the King; alfo, a Print of the 
late Right Hon. C. J. Fox, dedieated by 
permiffion to Lord Ilolland; from the 
bufts executed by Nollekeus, R. A. 
The prints will be engraved the fize of 
Mm3. life, 
