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thefe circumftances, and the portrait being 
painted by an artilt of Mr. Cofway’s 
merit, and very neatly engraved in chalks, 
we hope and - believe the publifher has 
found the cireulation very extenfve ; and 
when the quefion of this gentleman’s 
right to a feat in the Houle of Commons 
comes to be agitated, the demand for the 
print will neceflarily be increafed. 
Portrait of Ifaac Swainfon. Engraved by 
Scriven, from a PiGure by F. R. Smith, m 
the Pofjeffion of Mr. Bellamy. 
This portrait has a refemblance to the 
original, and is very well engraved. 
Lioyd Lord Kenyox, Barcn of Gredington, Lord 
Chief Fufiice of England, G. Romney pinxit. 
W. Hell feulpe. 
This portrait of the late Lord Chief 
Juftice of the Court of King’s Bench is 
dedicated to the prefent Lord Kenyon; 
it is engraved in the chalk manner, and 
has confiderable meri, both in defign and 
execution. 
Battle of the Nile 5 reprefenting the quarter-deck 
of the Vanguard, on the night of the ever me- 
wrorable iff of Auguft 1798. Engraved dy 
D. Orvss and W. Cooper. Publifocd by Orme, 
Bond. treet. 
This print is intended as a ccmpanion 
to Lord Howe’s and Lord Duncan's Vic- 
tories, which we noticed in a former re- 
trofpeét, and pofledes fimlar and equal 
merit. 
Portrait of Mr. Excledon, in a capital charaGer, 
Engraved by Fobn Vandermni, from a mi- 
niature exhibited laft feafon at the Royal Aca- 
demf; by I. T. Barber. Size and price of the 
otber theatrical portraits publifbed by Thoingsor, 
of Mrs. Siddons and Mrs. fordan, Mr. Kemble, 
Bannifier, Ge GF. Se 
To thoie who coilect theatrical por- 
traits, this will be a valuable addition, 
Preparing to Start ata Herfe Race; and the 
Race; companion prints, defiened by Rew- 
landfon, engraved oy Black, and pebiijred for 
Askermann, et ike Repojitory of «iris in the 
Strand. 
Thefe two delinesticns form pert of a 
~ feries of what may properly enough be 
termed TURF PRiINYS. ‘The firtt print 
of the feries, which was entitled Preper- 
ing for a Horfe Race, was publified tome 
months ago, and neticed in a former re- 
trofpe&. In thefe two the fubject is con- 
tinued, and continued with fuch {pirit as 
muf greatly intereit the amateurs of this 
modern Olympic game. The prints are 
neat,animated with gteat fpirit, and well co. 
Joured, and the fky of both of them extreme. 
Jy tender, and judicioufly engraved. The 
groupe upon the foreground in the print 
of Preparing for a Race, are highly cha- 
Retrofpedt of the Fine Arts. 
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racteriftic, and many of the ficures. mark. 
e¢ with broad humour, as high as it can be: 
carried without caricature. The horfes 
run in, what the jockies would call a 
good fiyle, and the back ground is marked 
with a great deal of tatte. 
Eight fmall medallions of the Planets, comprif= 
ing the Sun, Moon, Earth, Mars, Fufiter,, 
Saturn, Price 1s. 3d. each plain, 25. 6d. ca- 
loured. Ackermann. i 
Thefe eight bevutiful decorative prints 
are part of a feries which comprifes all 
the planets. ‘They are defigned in a very 
picturefque tafte, and engraved in a very 
foft and delicate, though fufficientiy for- 
cible fiyle. 
The fame publifher has advertifed pro- 
pofals for publifhing by fubfcription @ 
wwhele length portrait of Sir Nathaniel 
Dance, commander of the Earl Camden. | 
Painted, and to be engraved, by Ff. R. 
Smith, and the Prints to be dlivered toa 
the Subferibers in the courfe of the prefent 
monih. Price, to Subjcribers, plain 1). 18. 
ta colours 21, 28. 
The portrait is painted in a fpirited 
and charaéteriftic ftyle, and we have no 
doubt but the engraving will be worthy of 
the arti. - 
Since the death of that moft eccentric 
character, and excellent painter, George 
Morland, Mr. James Ward, who married 
his fitter, has taken a caft ef his face, 
from the mafk of which he means to com- 
pofe and publifh a buft of his head; and 
though the lower part of Morland’s face 
was bloated by intemperance, the upper 
part retained 13 criginal marking, and 
f:om the fhape of the bones, and marking 
ot the forehead, &c. in a degree reminds 
us of fome of the portraits of Crom- 
well. 
The magitrates of the county of Mid- 
dleicx have eome to the determination of 
building a handfome biidge over the river 
at Brentford, and have advertifed rewards 
for the three beit plans and elevations, to 
be fent into Hicks’s Hall, on or before 
the 6th day of this month. The firft 
prize. to have 20l.; the fecond, 1g].; the 
tbsrd, 101.3; the plans to remain the pre- 
perty of the magiitrates. 
To be publithed by {ubfcription, in ones 
volume ottavo, price 128.3 or, in quarto, 
wJ.4s. an Excu:fion through the Principal 
Parts of De: byfhire and Yorkfhive, by the 
Jate Edwaid Dayes, artift; with lluftrative 
Sketches of the Road between Lopden and 
Dove Dale, by E. W. Brayley, embellifh- 
ed with engravings. , | 
The profeffional talents of the late Mr. 
Dayes were well known to the asa 
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