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rium, (vide-Marmontell’s Tales) and El- 
mira, from I. Agar; and alfo, two very 
characteriftic heads, Comala, (vide Offian’s 
Poems) and Defdemona, from Emma 
Smith. The fecond, drawn and engraved 
by Villiers Huet, has, as the three num- 
bers which precede it, fix prints, contain. 
ing well drawn models of hogfes, aiffes, 
pigs, and goats. ; 
Tbe publifner finding thefe Rudiments 
of Animals fo univerfally approved, has, 
for the farther ufe of fuch as are ftudying 
landicape, extended the plan, by a bock 
of Rudiments of Trees; the firft number 
of which is juft finifhed, and, as we are 
happy to fee, it is engraved (if we may 
be allowed the expreffion) in ftone, and 
printed at the Polyautographic Society’s 
Office, No. 9, Buckingham-place, Fitz- 
yoy-{quare, and No. 101, Strand. Of this 
admirable mode of multiplying copies of 
drawings critically correé&t, we have large- 
ly fpoken in a former Retrofpeét, and hope 
and believe there is every profpect of its 
coming into univerfal notice. In land- 
fcape it has a moft happy effect. Had 
Mr. Lafporte’s Rudiments of Trees remain- 
ed in a ftate nearly equal to that in which 
ahey were originally publifhed, the ne 
ceflity of this drawing-book would have 
been fuperfeded, but his engravings have 
been worn down, and repaired in fucha 
wa 
of the juvenile performers at the Ger- 
man Theatre, every body has heard, and 
many of our readers have feen them. Of 
Matter Frederic Schirmer, one of the prin- 
cipal performers, Mifs Emma Smith has 
drawn a very elegant litile portrait. It 
has been very neatly and forcibly engraven 
by Cardon, and is publifhed for Mr. 
Ackerman. : 
Gilray, who has been denominated the 
Hogarth of his day, continues to feize upon 
the pafling occurrences, and contrives to 
place themin avery ludicrous point cf view. 
He has recently engraved what he entitles 
Tiddy Doll, the great French Gingerbread- 
baker dravving out a frefh Batch of Kings. 
The notified Tiddy Doll was delineated 
in the fet of London cries, introduced into 
one of Hogarth’s prints, and by perfons 
Monthly Retrofped of the Fine Arts. 
[March 35 
fill living is fometimes mentioned as have 
ing delighted them in their boyith days by 
his tremendous feather, and bawling boatt 
that his moft deleftable cakes ‘* melted in 
the mouth like butter, and ran down the 
throat like a wheel-barrow,”’ feemed te 
have attained as much celebrity as his 
fituation and abilities enti:led him to. 
Little was it to be expected that he fhould, 
in the year 1806, become the prototype 
of the fill more notified Napoleon Bona- 
parte! Such however is the cafe, and that 
blazing meteor of his hour, is here moft 
happi'y introduced drawing a frefh batch 
of his double-gilt mock-monarchs out of 
his family oven. 
Mr. Gilray has difplayed his ufual hu- 
mour in another very fpirited caricature, 
entitled Le Diable Botteux, or the Devil ox 
Two Sticks, carrying Fohu Bull te the Land 
of Promije. 
Portrait of Fobn Hatfell, Efg. ‘ames Nor th- 
cote, R.A. pinxt. -Cbarles Picart, feulpt. 
A chalk print, from a picture, No. 135, 
exhibited laft year at the Royal Academy. 
It is a very fine portrait, and engraved in 
a fuperior ftyle. Publifhed by Charles 
Picart, Clipfone-ftreet, Fitzroy-fquare. 
We are happy to fee that Mr. W. 
Owen, of Leicefter-fquare, has been elest- 
ed a R. A. in the room of John Banks, Efg. 
- The Truchfeffian Gallery, of which we 
have largely fpoken in former Retro- 
fpects, is to be fold by auction on the 
27th, 28th, and 2gth of March ; and on the 
22d,23d, and 24th of April. 
Having in former numbers had fo fre- 
quent occafion of noticing the portraits of 
Lord Nelfon, we cannot forbear noticing 
an exhibition that is now on the road to 
fome of the provinces: we mean, an e€x- 
act Fac-fimile of the coffin, car, flags dif- 
played at the time the remains lay in ftate 
at Greenwich, &c. &c. &c. ‘This will 
probably be popular, efpecially at the fea- 
ports, and is profefled to be intended to 
ke-p alive ‘he memory of this great and 
gallant Briton, whofe example will, we 
truft, operate on furvivors, and whofe me- 
mory will be held in perpetual reverence. 
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