1603. 
There are fixteen members of this So- 
ciety, and eight fellow-exhibitors ; aad 
among three hundred and one articles now 
fubmitted to the public, there are very 
many with whic) we were high'y grati~ 
fied, and which we are perfuaded will af- 
baed pleafure to the admirers of the arts. 
Water colours being exhibited feparate 
from oi] pain hb certainly gives a bet: 
ter opportunity for judging of their rela- 
tive merit than when a fulitary drawing 
is thruft into a corner among a large num- 
ber of large oil pictures, as was fome- 
times the cafe at the Royal Academy. 
The fubje&s are varions—rural, poetical, 
and allegorical, and comprife domeftic 
and foreign views from nature, many 
well-conceived works of i Imagination, and 
fome built upon the fcenes defcribed -by 
our beft poets, in fevera] of which the 
artif's difplay a confiderable portion of 
tafie and feeling. By Mr. W.S. Gil- 
pin, Shakefpeare’s Cliff at Dover, and 
feveral other interefting views, 
Reinagle, fome ftriking Italian views. 
By G. Barret, fome very pleafing rural 
feenery, and fevere] marine fubjects by 
N. Pocock. Several views, both in En- 
gland and abroad, by W.F. Wells; and 
many, very masy, fcenes, both fiomna- 
ture and fancy, hy b th J. and C. Var- 
ne Mr. Thurften has treated fome of 
his theatrical ae in a mafterly ae 
ner, and by S$. Shelley there are ‘feveral 
good portraits. By Bechais "hers 
are four views in Italy; a'l of which 
beam with pure and claffical tafle. With’ 
No. 213,—The Palace cf the Vatican (the 
refidence of the Popes), and part of St. 
Peter's church at Rome, we were particu- 
Jarly pleafed. But we have not room to 
detail more particulars in this Retro!pea. 
Suffice it to fay, that the Society have cut 
beft wifhes for the ultimete fucrefs of 
their plan, and that this, and the Britith 
Ingitution in Pallnvall, may tend to dif- 
pliy the powers, ard promote the Fate of 
ne produgtions of Britith artitts ; though, 
with refpect to the latter circumitance, we 
were mortified to find the fo'lowing ftrik- 
ing contrait in the amount of money 
ceived by the fale of anciest and modern 
pictures. The Britifh ata ol have, 
fince the.r firft opening, fold priares by 
Englifh artifis to the amouat of 1sool. 
uring a few weeks of this period, there 
have been auétions for the fale of Lord 
Lanfdowne’s, and three or four other ca- 
pital coile&tions of piétures. almoft en- 
tirely foreign, and under the hammer 
they produced between farty and ka thou- 
sand pounas f 
By R.R. 
re-" 
Monthly Retrofped of the, Fine- Aris. | 335 
The Royal Academy Exhibition open- 
eda few days fince, and we find, as ufuai, 
abounds with portraits; of the prodyc- 
tions moft remarkable we purpofe to give 
a fhort fummary in the next Retrofpect. 
Four coloured Views of the City of St Peters- 
burgh ; after Drawings made on the Spot by 
ie “A. Atkinfon, from the Obfernatory. of the 
Academy o of Sciences 3 executed in the Manner 
of the original Drawings, which in every 
Refpei they will imitate ; and put ifped J for 
Meffrs. Boydell. 
No. 1. The upper Quay, with the Imperial Win= 
ter Palace, Hermitage, and Theatre. 
No. 2. fhe Admiralty, Statue of Peter the Firft, 
Lower Quay, or Buglifh Line, Academy of 
Sciences, ee the Senate. 
No. 3. Imperial Colleges, Acadeny of Arts, dif 
ant View of F Cronfladt, ana the Gulf of Fin- 
land. 
No. 4. inner ial Exchange and Warchoufe; Caf- 
thes of St. Peter and SoPaul 
The fize of each priat 
inches, and. the g 
neas, Ina former Retrofpe&t we noticed 
thefe four very beautilul ae 
which were then under tne hands of the 
artilt, and fpeedily to be finifhed ; they 
are row completed, and we are gratified 
to find that they more than realize the 
high expecla ions we formed of them in 
an earlier tate of the plates. The draw- 
ings irom which they are copied were ori 
einally i tended to have bzea combined 
and formed into a a parorama; bur that 
plan being abandoned, they are fubmitted 
to the public in their prefent ttate, and 
are, as they profefs to be, mot admira- 
ble imitations of the drawings. In views. 
of public buildings or cities, it is not 
eafy to unite accuracy with a pidturelqua 
effect. That thefe four prints are in an 
eminent degree pleafing, jicturefque, ard 
fingularly tplendid, every one who fees 
them will acmit; and from the tsformia- 
tion of thofe why have fen the 
we find that they bear that ftriking refem- 
blasce to the fuperb fcenes that are deli- 
neated which might be expected from the 
well-known abilities of the artilt. 
A reprefentation of 
is 17 by 32 
price of each two gui- 
VA CTE g 
The prefent Stute of the Abergaventy, fa tee 
Fathoms of Water, and funk fiwe Feet fix 
Inckes in the Sand, and a Delineation of the 
Means ufed in recowcring the Property on 
Board) “Publ ifbed 29th Fanuary, for Mejri. 
Boydell. 
This view of the vec], as it was under 
water, and the men on board the Bo oyre 
flsop raifing a box of capper, &c. &c, 
anda delineation of the divieg machine, 
with proper references to the whole in the 
MersiRy 
