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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
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“be Loan of all new) Prints and Communications of Articles of Intelligence are requefied. 
William Godwin. Engraved, by G. Dawe, 
from a pitture painted by ‘f. Northcote, R. A, 
HIS is a forcibly engraved mezzo- 
tinto; bet, with refpeét to refem- 
blance, though it is fomewhat like the 
original, it gives the idea of a much larger 
yan. 
The Right Hon. Charles Abbot, Speaker of the 
Houfe of Commons, (Fc. Fe. Ge. F. Norib- 
cote pinx. Engraved and publifbed by Charles 
Picart. 
‘This may fairly be denominated a fine 
fhowy portrait, though the official habit 
of a long wig, laced band, and ample robe, 
with the great mace lying on the table, 
overwhelm the hands and face, which are 
all that this habit permitted the painter 
to difplay. 
Mr. J. Burden has announced for publi- 
eation, a fet of Views in the County of 
of Gloucefier; to be comprifed in fix 
numbers, containing fix views each, and 
publifhed for Muller, Albemarle-ftreet. 
‘This work is intended to difplay fome of 
the moft firiking fcenery of a county which 
ranks high in a picturefque {cale; and, 
from its importance, extent, and wealth, 
has attraéted the notice of the hiftorian. 
It is alfo intended. to illuftrate the topo- 
graphy, by giving a judicious feleftion of 
views of towns, caftles, gentlemens’ feats, 
&c. The firft number is already pub- 
lifhed, price 1]. 5s. ; a few. copies are 
taken with proof impreifions, and foid at 
Oi ae. 
In order to render the defcriptive part 
of this work as connected and amufing as 
the nature of fuch detached pieces would 
allow, it was deemed proper to begin by 
feleting fuch views as wou'd admit of 
giving concifely a general defcription of 
the pi€turefque appearance of the county. 
In purfuance of this plan, the werk com- 
mences with, the 
View ef Gloucefier from Robin’s Wood Hill, in- 
feribed, by permiffion, to the Hon Henry 
Reward, M. P. Foon Burden del. W. Pasle, 
feulgt. 
In this land{cape the eye falls abruptly 
from the foreground upon a wide tract of 
meadow land, with the city extending 
acrofs the picture. At the extremity of 
the flat we catch a reach of the Severn 
enl.vening the view 3 to thefe the abrupt 
round May Hill. 
declivity of Woodbridge hills forms a 
pleafing contraft, the Malverm hills ma- 
jetticaliy rifing behind ; the faint blue 
hiils of Shropfhire, in remote diftance, 
clofe the expanfive fcene. 
View of the Vale of Severn, from Standifh Park, 
infcribed to Lord Sherborne. 
In this plate we have an extenfive view, 
looking in a dire€tion nearly {outh-weft 
from Standifh Park. The. foreground 
and firft diftance gently floping into the 
flat, are within the ccnfines of the park. 
The {pire of Slimbridge church riles from 
the vale on the left ; and on the right, 
Fiampton tower, and Purton paflage. The 
celebrated Wynd Cliff, on the Wye, is 
feen, in the diftance, beyond the Forelt of 
Dean, and the whole together forms a very 
pictarefque and plcafing view; though, 
we think, it would have added to the har- 
meny of the whole, if the little catch of 
the river, and fome part of the fore- 
ground, had been of rather a darker tint, 
foas to have brought them into unifon 
with the other parts. 
May Hill, on the road to Rofs, inferibed to the 
Dean of Gloucefter. t 
This view is taken from the oppofite 
grand boandary of the vale, in a narrow 
pils, on the road leading to Rofs, winding 
The broken grounds, 
the lowly thatched cottage, and the wind- 
ing road, are picturefque objects. This — 
view is within three miles of the borders 
of the county, and within the precinéts of 
the Foreft of Dean. 
View near Hewelsfield ; infcribed to the Right, 
Hon Charles Bathurft, M. P. 
‘There are few counties that exhibit a 
greater diverfity of fcenery than the coun. 
ty of Gloucefter, and this is very well fe- 
lected by the delineator, to whom the en- 
graver has here rendered ample juftice. - 
View of Berkeley Caftle ; infcribed to Lord 
: Berkeley. 
Of the few fpecimens of Norman mili- 
tary architeéture which remain in this 
country, Berkeley Cattle is penerally con- 
fidered as one of the moft perfect. It was 
begun in the 17th of Hen. I. by Roger de 
Berkeley, was finifhed by Roger the third, 
in the reign of Stephen,and received its pre- 
fent form from Robert Fitzharding, who re- 
paired 
