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it may add tothe number of fhillings col- 
‘Teé&ted at the door. From this Gallery 
thele effufians of vanity are very properly. 
excluded, by which means there is fome 
chance of. every picture being taken from 
fome ftory in which an artift that has any 
abilities may difplay them. Many of the 
fubje&ts are interefting, and treated ina 
manner which proves that men born ina 
northern latitude may poffels genius, not- 
withitanding all that Abbé Wincklemann 
and fome other foreign vifionaries have 
faid to the contrary. 
The merit of a great majority of the 
painters is well known to the public, and 
many of the pictures have been noticed in 
preceding Retrofpects, when they were 
exhibited at the Royal Academy. Suf- 
fice it for the prefent to fay, that Mr, 
Welt’s finifhed fketch of Death on a pale 
Horfe (from the Revelations), Aztigonus 
and Stratonice, and feveral others, im- ’ 
prove oneach infpection. Opie’s Cottage 
Girl is a perfect mirror of nature, and 
his Spartan Boy is marked with mind. 
Weftall’s Bacchus, Minfirel, &c. difplay 
infinite tafte. Turner’s Garden of He/- 
perides, and Narciffus and Echo, and Cal- 
cott’s Heath with Peafants, are painted 
in fo folid and original a ftyle, and bear 
fo near a refemblance to reality, that we 
hardly know how to confider them as 
paintings. Smirke’s twenty-four pictures 
from the Arabian Nights’ Entertainment 
are full of genuine comic humour, and 
Jead us to regret, that a pencil fa fraught 
with fancy thould ever be employed upon 
fubjeéts lefs confonant to the tafte and ta- 
lents of the artift who guides it. Sto- 
thart’s Hefor and Andromache has great 
merit. Owen's Cottage Door, and Beg- 
gars, are admirable. Mr. Bone’s enamel, 
from Sir Jofhua Reynolds, is exquifitely 
beautiful. In Mifs Spilfbury’s Babes in 
the Weod (though laf named not leaft in 
- merit) we have two moft interefting little 
figures in an exceedingly beautiful and 
well coloured landfcape. 
The univerfal fenfation excited by the 
death of our lamented Admiral extended: 
jtfelf to the artilts, and does not feem 
likely to fubfide very foon. Many of our 
moft eminent painters are now engaged in 
pictures commemorating his death, and 
prints of a lefs laboured defcription, re- 
prefenting his funeral, &c. have already 
appeared. 
We, in our February Retrofpe&, no- 
ticed with the praife it well deterved, J. 
T. Smith’s moft fpirited etching, where 
we have a view taken from the Bankfide, 
reprefenting the order of the vefiels aj- 
tending, the incidental objects, &c. &ce 
when the remains of the Admiral were 
Monthly Retrofpeet of the Fine+Arts. 
{ Aprif ?, 
brought from Greenwich to Whitehall —» 
Laft month was publithed 
Britain's laft Tribute of Gratitude ts her departed 
Hero; exhibiting the Order objerved in the 
public funeral Proceffion of Vice Admiral Ho- 
ratio Vifcount Nelfon from the Admiralty to St. 
Paul's Cathedral. Publifhed by F. Wallis, 
jun. Fleet-fireet, Price 2s. 6d 
This agreeable epitome of the proceffion 
is well calculated to give an idea of this 
great public fpeftacle to thofe who did not 
fee it; and thofe who did may find it re- 
call to their recolleGticn a ceremony that 
did honour to tie nation, as well as to 
that heroic individual to whofe memory it 
was dedicated, . 
Fhe Funeral Ceremony of Lord Nelfon in St.- 
Paul’s Cathedral at the Moment that Sir Ifaae 
Heard proclaimed the Style; publifhed for R. 
Ackermann. Mr. Quin delineavit. The Fi- 
gures by Heidcloff, and aqua tinted by Bluck. 
This is a large upright print, and com- 
prehends avery picturefque view of the 
choir, with a view of the awful ceremony 
which pafled in it at the time defcribed. 
The archite€tural part is taken in a good 
point of view, and delineated with tafte 
and propriety ; the figures are very cor- 
rect, and the manner in which the whole 
isengraven in aquatint does honour to the 
artift. 
Battle of Trafalgar ; twa Prints, Van-divifion, 
and Rear-divifion, Publifbed by R. Dodd, 
Charing-crofs. 
‘*« T’o my countrymen thefe prints, de- 
feriptive of the ever memorable attack on 
the combined fleets of France and Spain, 
by the Britith fleet under the command of 
the illuftricus Lord Nelfon, as a monu- 
ment and tribute of refpeét to his memo- 
ry, are, with the greateft deference, fub- 
mitted by their obedient humble fervant, 
R. Dopp.” 
In prints of this defcription correctnefs 
is a leading article, and in the fhipping, 
&c. we are told they are corre@t. Confi- 
dered as works of art, they do not ran 
very high. 
Mr. Ackermann has announced that 
his tenth book of carriages, containing . 
nine vehicles of the prefent fafhion, will » 
be ready in a few days. He has publith: 
ed the fecond number af Rudiments of 
Trees, which, as the laft, confifts of fix 
prints, delineated with great tafte, and 
reprefenting trees that happen to be pecu- 
liarly elegant. It is prefaced by a priat 
of the leaves of the refpeétive trees con- 
tained in this number. 
xle has alfo publifhed two {mall por- 
traits of Mr. Fox, and the late Mr. Pi:t, 
engraved by Meyer, from drawings by — 
Ewins, three or four caricatures, of A 
Winter at Paris, &c. &c» As 
Mefits. — 4 
