1804. ] 
a general fo much efteemed, fhould have 
produced no effort of the pencil or burize, 
that might have been honourable to the 
foldier and to the country. The fabjeé 
before us being the produStion of a gen- 
tleman who is not a profeffional artift, is 
entitled to much indulgence ; but it can 
never hold a rank among fine and capital 
prints. The engraving is a mixture of 
etching and mezzotinto, which feldom pro- 
duces an agreeable effect. 
Mr. Ackermann has juft publithed a 
Ninth Book, containing {ix imitations of 
drawings of fafhionable carriages for 
1804, on a half-inch fcale toa foot. In 
his advertifement he apologizes for not 
publifhing this Number fix months ago ; 
and fays, that this was occafioned by his 
waiting until after the King’s birth-day, 
in expectation of fome dafhing carriages 
being Jaunched in the gay world as ufual ; 
but great was the difappointment ; as the 
leading fathions differ but little from thofe 
of laft year, except that the bodies are not 
hung quite fo low, and continue to rife 
gradually in the fame proportion. Ba- 
rouches, or German carriages, as repre- 
fented in plate 5, are become very fafhion~ 
able; and for a fummer carriage, nothing 
ean excel them for lightnefs, elegance, 
and convenience. This Book contains: 
No.1. A perch coach, with Salifbury 
baot, and compafs-hind-ftandard, body 
hung on circular {prings. 
No. 2. A plain neat perch coach, hang 
on fham fprings, 
No. 3. A handfome light perch chariot, 
hung en circular {prings, with braces 
and jacks, 
No. 4. A perch poft-chaife, with a fa- 
fhionable barouche driving-feat, fixed 
on /prings. 
No. 5. A fathionable baronche. 
No.6. A handfome whole-pannel one- 
horfe chaife, hung curricle fafhion, 
Thele drawings are all coloured ; and 
by them it appears that the moft prevail- 
ing colours of the day are yellow, light 
and dark blue, light drabs, light and dark 
green, and fine dark brown, with mantles 
and aris on doors, the creft ina garter or 
ribband, on quarter paonels. 
Mr. Ackerman’s tafte is fo well known, 
that thefe imitations of drawings have 
lone been in the higheft requeft with 
Coachmakers ; and to gentlemen, when 
ordering new carriages, they will be found 
extremely ufeful. 
No. 7. of patterns of needle-work for 
Jadies, is alfo publifhed, and contains co- 
loured patterns of dinner-mats for tables, 
in a very handfome ftyle, The former 
Retrofpec? of the Fine Arts. 
G3 
pumbers contain patterns for d’Oyley’s, 
chair-feats, carpets, Sc. in great variety, 
for filk and worfted embroidery ; and, 
when worked, they have a fplendid and 
elegant appearance. He has allo pubs 
lithed the fx following prints. 
Staniflaus Count Zamoyfi. Auguftin a Paris 
pinxt. Agar feulpt. 
Our readers may recélle& our noticing 
in a former Retrofpe@, a mo beautiful 
and fafcinating portrait of this gentle- 
man’s lady, from a drawing by I/aby a 
Paris. To that print, this is a compa- 
nion; and it is a very proper companion, 
for itis engraved in a ftvle that unites 
with the force and fpirit of a fketch, the 
delicacy and high-finifhing of a miniature. 
The Count’s hair is in the prefent fafhion 
of England: his habit, military, and very 
fuperb. 
Cupid difarmed by Venus. Corregio pinxt. Fy 
Bartolozzi and Knight feulpt. 
This print is engraved from the cele- 
brated picture in the imperial Gallery at 
Venice, of which fome of our travellers 
have been fo lavith in their encomiums. 
Corregio was certainly one of the moft 
pleafing painters that has appeared fince 
the revival of the arts, and is placed in the 
higheft rank by the beft judges. He was 
the firft that brought the true art of fore- 
thortening figures to the utmoft perfec- 
tion; and by that art he decorated the 
domes of churches and the ceilings of pa- 
laces, in a ftyle that aftonifhed and des 
lighted every beholder. It has been re- 
marked that he did not always groupe his 
figures with that fkill which might have 
been expected from fo exalted a genius ; 
yet his elegance of defign, the turn which 
he gives the action, and the tafte with 
which he paints the hands and feet, are ad- 
mirable, and are well difplayed in this print. 
Two fmall medallions, one of Mercury, 
the ather of Venus, ave engraved in a very 
good ftyle. Both the figures are in their 
cars; and there is an air and (pirit in 
their action which cannot eafily be de- 
{cribed. The feries is to be continued 
by similar delineations of all the planets: 
four more will be ready for publication in 
a few weeks; and, if the whole are equal 
to this fample, will form a feries of very 
beautiful decorative prinis. 
Birth of Shakefpeare. R. Wefiall, R. A. del. 
Se Phillips feulpt. Birth of Otway. R. Wefte 
all. R. A. del F. Agar, feulpt 
‘6 Sleep on, {weet babe, the fond, fond mother 
cries, 
As o’er her child the bends, and weeps, and 
fighs. 
. Dear 
