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Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. By: Various |
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A MEDIUM OF INTER COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of." CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 74.]
SATURDAY, MARCH 29. 1851.
[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
CONTENTS. NOTES: Page
On Portraits of Distinguished Men, by Lord Braybrooke 233
Story of a Relic 234
Illustration of Chaucer, No. II: Complaint of Mars
and Venus 235
Charles the First and Bartolomeo della Nave's Collection
of Pictures, by Sir F. Madden 236
Minor Notes: Nonsuch Palace Ferrar and Benlowes
Traditions from remote Periods through few Links
Longevity Emendation of a Passage in Virgil Poems
discovered among the Papers of Sir K. Digby
Matter of Fact Epitaph 236 QUERIES:
Ancient Danish Itinerary: Prol in Angliam, by R. J.
King 238
Chiming, Tolling, and Peal ringing of Bells, by Rev.
A. Gatty 238
Mazer Wood: Gutta Percha, by W. Pinkerton 239
Minor Queries: Paul Pitcher Night Disinterment
for Heresy "Just Notions," &c. Pursuits of Literature
Satirical Medal Matthew's Mediterranean
Passage Inscription on an Oak Board Expressions
in Milton Saints' Days Chepstow Castle The
Wilkes MSS. and "North Briton" "O wearisome
Condition of Humanity!" Epitaph in Hall's "Discovery" 239 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED: Canon and Prebendary
What Amount of Property constitutes an Esquire?
Cromwell Family Daughters of the Sixth Earl of
Lennox Wife of Joseph Nicholson Six Abeiles
Southey Epigram against Burke Knight's Hospitallers 242 REPLIES:
Mesmerism, by Dr. Maitland 243
Lord Howard of Effingham 244
Iovanni Volpe, by William Hughes 244
Replies to Minor Queries: Sir Andrew Chadwick
Manuscript of Bede Closing of Rooms on account
of Death Enigmatical Epitaph on Rev. J. Mawer
Haybands in Seals Notes on Newspapers Duncan
Campbell Christmas day MS. Sermons by Jeremy
Taylor Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel Rev.
W. Adams Duchess of Buckingham "Go the
whole Hog" Lord Bexley's Descent from Cromwell
Morse and Ireton Families The Countess of Desmond
Aristophanes on the Modern Stage Denarius
Philosophorum On a Passage in the Tempest
Meaning of Waste book Arthur's Seat and Salisbury
Craigs Meaning of "Harrisers" &c. 247 MISCELLANEOUS:
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 253
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 254
Notices to Correspondents 254
Advertisements 255
Notes. ON PORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISHED ENGLISHMEN. In submitting to you the following brief observations, it is neither my
wish nor intention to undervalue or disparage the labours of Horace
Walpole, and Granger, and Pennant, and Lodge, and the numerous writers who
have followed in their train, and to whom we are so much indebted for their
notices of a great variety of original portraits of distinguished
Englishmen, which still adorn the mansions of our aristocracy, and are
found in the smaller collections throughout the realm. But I may be
permitted to express my surprise and regret that in this age of inquiry no
general catalogue of these national treasures should ever have been
published. It is true that the portraits, as well as the other objects of
attraction in our royal palaces, have been described in print with
tolerable accuracy, and some good accounts are to be met with of the
pictures at Woburn, and Blenheim, and Althorpe, and many of the residences
of the nobility which can boast their local historian... Continue reading book >>
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