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between the board and the fmaller pillar, 
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variation ; while the fpring which pafles exhibit any perceptible change of elafti-' 
city ; but always to at with the fame im- 
prevents the variations of heat and cold pulfe in proportion to the force of the 
from producing any perceptibledifference. wind. 
This {pring is alfo fo contrived as never to 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
(The Loamof all new Prints and Communications of Articles of Intelligence are requefted.) 
The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green. The 
School-Mifire/s. Companion Prints. W. 
Owen pinxt. W Ward feulpt. 
F fome writers of melifluous fame it 
é has been faid, that their poely, 
¢¢ Enchants the ear, but never moves the 
heart,” 
It may in like manner be faid of the la- 
boured productions of our medern pain- 
ters, that their delineations, 
¢¢ Enchant the eye, but donot touch the 
mind.” 
Very different from thefe are the pictures 
painted by Mr. Owen, they are an addrefs 
to the mind, an appeal to the underftand- 
ing ; the tafte and feeling with which they 
are almoft invariably * fraught, give the 
artift a right to be claffed among the very 
firft painters. In thefe two fubjects he 
has been very fuccefsful, and Mr. Ward 
has well feconded his efforts, by-engrav- 
ing them in mezzotinto in his beft manner. 
Sir W. S. Smith. R. K. Porter piaxt. A. 
Cardon feulpt. in Chalks. 
On a tablet underneath the portrait is, 
a reprefeniation of the Siege of Acre, co- 
pied from R. K. Porter’s Panorama Pidure, 
by E, F. Burney, and engraved in line by 
Mitan. 
This is a refpectable print, and com- 
memorating an event fo highly honourable 
to Sir Sidney and his brave companions, 
becomes on that account interefting. 
Milton, when a Boy, infiructed by bis Mother. 
Hi. Fufeli, R. A. pinxt. A. Cardon feulpt. 
Every part of the life of Mitton is in- 
terefting to an Englifhman. A poet who 
has immortalized his name, and dignified 
his country, by fuch a work as Paradife 
Loft, we contemplate from the time that 
he received the firft rudiments of his edu- 
cation from his mother, to that period 
when, as Dr. Jonnfon well exprefles it, 
‘¢ Fancy can hardly bear to conjecture 
with what temper Milton furveyed the 
filent progrefs of his. work, and marked 
his reputation flealing its way ina kind 
of fubterraneous current, through fear 
and filence. I cannot but conceive him 
calm and confident, little difappointed, not 
at all dejeted, relying on his own merit 
with fteady confciouinefs and waiting 
without impatience the viciffitudes of 
Opinion, and the impartiality of a future 
generation.” ae 
The original from which this was co- 
pied was one of the fweeteft piCtures in 
the Milton Gallery, and is very well en- 
graved in the chalk manner, but rather 
too violent in the effect; it wants fome- 
whar of the half-tint, to produce a mellow — 
and harmonious effect. 
Louis Anioine Henry de Bourbany Duc D’ Enge 
bien. Huet pinxt. A. Cardon fculpt. 
The unfortunate death of this branch 
of an illuf@rious houfe will render this 
print interefting and popular 5 and it de- 
ferves to be popular, for it is a very deli- 
cate and pleafing production. 
flex. Davifon, Efg. L. F. Abbot pinxt. 
Barnard, feulpt. 
This is a very well engraved mezzo- 
tinto, but not calculated to produce any’ 
great portion of attention, = 
The Death of General Sir Ralph Abercromby, 
dedicated to his Royal Highnejs the Duke of 
York, by R. K. Porter, and F. P. Thempfon, 
Fune 4, 1804. Painted by R, K. Porter. 
Engraved by F. Vandermini. F. Mathews, 
impt. 
It this print were as much diftinguifh- 
ed by its merit as it is by the fubject and 
the fize, it would clafs very high in the 
arts, which in good truth it does not. It 
is engraved in chalks, but neither is the 
defign, nor engraving, executed in a ftyle 
in which we fhould have earneftly wifhed 
fuch a fubjeét to have been treated. 
Tbe Battle of Alexandria, March 21, 1801, 
reprefenting the Situation of that gallant and 
much-lamented General, Sir Ralph Aber- 
cromby at the Attack on the Army of Referve. 
To Field Marfball H, R.H. the Duke of York, 
this Plate is, with permiffion, dedicated by 
Wm. Willermine. Lieut. W. Willermine of the 
Staff Corps, del. Mitau and C. Turner, feulp. 
It-is to be regretted, that the death of 
a pee 
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