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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



293 



Sixth Grand Concerto. 



M' allantano sdegnose pupille, Made. Mara. 



He gave them hailstones for rain (Israel in Egypt). 



Part II. 



Fifth Grand Concerto. 



Dite che fa (Ptolem3'), Miss Abrams. 



Vi fida (^tius), Signor Bartolini. 



Fallen is the foe (Judas Maccabeus). 



Overture of Ariadne. 



Alma del gran Pompeio (Julius Ciesar), Sig. Pacchie- 

 rotti). 



Nase al bosco (.(Etius), Sig. Tasca. 



lo t' abbraccio (Duet from Kodelinda), Made. Mara 

 and Sig. Bartolini. 



Eleventh Grand Concerto. 



Ah mio cor (Alcina), Made. Mara. 



Anthem — My heart is inditing. 



May 30 (the Abbey) — the Messiah. The band 

 was led by Mr. Cramer. Mr. Harrison, in "Com- 

 fort ye," acquitted himself very ably. Mr.Rhein- 

 hold sung with his usual judgment and power. 

 The Rev. Mr. Clark, Messrs. Champness and 

 Norris were very respectable. Miss Cantello ap- 

 peared rather frightened, but notwithstanding 

 gave great satisfaction in " Come unto me all ye 

 that are heavy laden." Signor Tasca sung with 

 great power "Behold I tell you." It is above 

 panegyric to do justice to the excellence of Ma- 

 dame Mara, particularly in the air, "I know that 

 ray Redeemer liveth." Mr. Bates played the or- 

 gan with his usual brilliancy. The Oratorio was 

 repeated, by Royal command, on the Wednesday 

 and Saturday following : the receipts were as 

 under : — 



First day (the Abbey) - 

 Second day (Pantheon) - 

 Third day (Abbey) 

 Fourth day (Do.) - 

 Fifth day (Do.) - 

 Two rehearsals 



2,825 gs. 

 1,619 

 3,049 

 1,547 

 2,002 

 800 



11,842 



The ladies may not be displeased to learn that, 

 on the 26th, the King was dressed in light blue, 

 the Queen in a gorge de pigeon colour, and her 

 head-dress decorated with a profusion of dia- 

 monds. The Princess Royal was in laylock, and 

 confessedly the most lovely woman in the Abbey : 

 her Royal Highness's position, however, was rather 

 singular — midway between the altar and a clois- 

 ter. On the 27th, the King appeared in sky- 

 blue ; the Queen in straw colour, with laylock 

 bows ; the Princess Royal and Princess Augusta 

 in pale laylock with white bows, and the Princess 

 Elizabeth in a cherry colour with white bows. 



R.W. 



RUBENS S PICTURES. 



By way of an addendum to Mr. Sainsbury's 

 very elaborate and carefully written work upon 

 Rubens, I would note a few particulars (too late 



to be communicated to him for publication) rela- 

 tive to the paintings of that great master. There 

 is extant in MS. an inventory of the Duke of 

 Buckingham's pictures, the majority of which 

 were collected by Sir H. Wotton during his em- 

 bassy at Venice, and which were sold at Antwerp 

 in the time of the duke's exile. There were many 

 more belonging to the same collection which were 

 embezzled in the time of the war, when the young 

 duke's estate was forfeited and seized by the Par- 

 liament. These pictures were preserved by his 

 old servant, Mr. Traglman, at York House in the 

 Strand, and sent over to the duke to Antwerp, 

 where they were sold at whatever prices could be 

 obtained. The Archduke Leopold bought the 

 chief picture called the Ecce Homo, by Titian. 

 So highly estimated was this famous painting that 

 it is stated the Earl of Arundel offered for it to 

 the first Duke of Buckingham 7000^. In it were 

 depicted portraits of the Pope, the Emperor 

 Charles V., and Solyman the Magnificent. This 

 inventory is written in French. On comparing it 

 with the description of the pictures given in Mr. 

 Sainsbury's book, at pp. 65, 66., the slight dis- 

 crepancies in the measurement may be thought 

 worthy of remark. 



The following is an exact transcript of the sec- 

 tion relative to the pictures of Rubens : — 



1. No. I3. Vne grande pifece par Rubens estant vn 

 payssage remplie des figures, maisons, cheuaux et charet- 

 tes, le tout par Rubens, elle est haulte 5 pieds et large 7 

 et 7 poulces. 



2. j'Ij. Vne autre ditto, le portraict de la Reyne Regente 

 de France assise soubs vn d'aix, haulte 3 pieds 9 poulces, 

 large 2 pieds. 



3. ^^. Vne autre ditto, representant I'hyuer, et il y a 9 

 figures, haulte 4 pieds, large 7. 



4. Iff. Vne grande pifece, ditto de plusieurs syluans et 

 syluanes et petits Bacchus, haulte 5 pied \, large 7J. 



'5. +268. Vn autre grande pifece, ditto de Chynon et 

 Iphegenia, il y a troisfemmes nudes et vn homme aupres le 

 tout dans vn grand paysage, hault 7 pieds ^, large lOf . 



6. + 284. Vne autre grand piece, ditto d'vne poisson- 

 nerie, N. S., et plusieures autres grandes figures, haute 

 pieds 9^, large 13|. 



7. + 47. Vne autre, la chasse du sanglier, ou 11 y plu- 

 sieurs chasseurs a pied et a cheual, &c., haulte pieds 5A, 

 large 6. 



8 + 70. La teste de Meduse, haulte pieds 2^, large 4. 



9 + 340. Vne autre, ditto, d'une femme nude et un Her- 

 mit, hault pied 1, large 2J. 



10 + 83. Vne autre, ditto, de la Duchesse de Brabant et 

 son amant, hault pieds 3, large 2|. 



11. + 185. Vne pifece de trois Graces auec des frutage, 

 haute 3 pieds, large 2^. 



12. + 63. Vn petit paysage, vne soire'e [evening] 

 quarr^, 2 pieds ^. 



13. + 80. La teste d'un viellard, haulte 1 pied 8 poulces, 

 large 1 pied 4 poulces. 



In another MS., viz. a schedule * annexed to an 



* The schedule is an inventory of arras, hangings, 

 tapestry, plate, jewels, pictures, statues, household goods 

 and chattels intended to be bargained for and sold by the 

 said indenture. Some of the paintings are not ascribed, 



