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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



115 



George Gordon, Earl of Iluntly, Chancellor of Scot- 

 land, invested 1548, died 15G2. 



John Stuart, Duke of A! ban j', died loG6. There is a 

 portrait of him in the robes of the order. 



James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, Dulie of Chatelhe- 

 rault. In his portrait in the collection of the Earl of 

 Abercorn, published by Edward Harding, 1799, and in 

 Lodge's Portraits, he wears the collar of St. Michael. He 

 died 1575. 



John Gough Nichols. 



25. Parliament Street. 



painters' ANACHB0N1SM3. 



(S""" S. iii. 65.) 



It is very amusing to find in tlie early chroni- 

 cles the Israelites besiegln;f Canaanitish cities with 

 cannon and mortars, and still more so to see 

 Abraham about to offer his son Isaac as a sacri- 

 fice by shooting him with a horse-pistol, which an 

 angel prevents by wetting the prime in a most 

 indelicate manner. In a beautiful early French 

 manuscript in my library, richly illuminated, our 

 Lord's descent into hell is illustrated by a devil 

 sitting in the flames on a wooden stool, blowing 

 them up with a pair of wooden bellows, while an- 

 other devil is wheeling two poor souls into the 

 burning mass in a wooden barrow. In a beautiful 

 engraving from De Vos by CoUaert, representing 

 the Day of Judgment with its awful solemnities, 

 on the right of the judge the angels are blowing 

 their trumpets, while on the left an ugly devil is 

 blowing a trumpet from his nether end. 



The Dutch painting described by ]\Ir. T. H. 

 Pattison, representing " Christ and the Crown of 

 Thorns," most justly described by him as un- 

 equalled for its extreme profanity, is by Hems- 

 kirk, and was cut in wood by Van Sichem. I 

 have it, with numerous other Dutch illustrations, 

 in a beautiful copy of Tomson's English transla- 

 tion of Beza's Testament, 1586. In the remark- 

 ably fine series of prints to the Gospels, published 

 under the auspices of Pope Clement VIII. at 

 Antwerp, by Natali, the Prodigal is dressed a. la 

 mode in Spanish costume. The next print repre- 

 sents him driven from the "Cock and Horn " by a 

 Flemish prostitute, who is banging him with her 

 wooden shoes, while the dwarf throws down his 

 bauble that he may take a double sight at him 

 from the tip of his nose to his tenth finger. Surely 

 it is not surprising that in one of the French livres 

 populaires the prodigal departing with wealth from 

 iiis father's house should have been dressed in mi- 

 litary costume. Could the artist have pictured a 

 more certain road to the destiny which awaited 

 the career of his hero ? 



A very interesting volume might be written 

 upon this amusing subject. George Offor. 



Hackney. 



Add the following examples : — 



Albert Durer represents Adam and Eve being 

 driven from Paradise by an angel in a flounced 

 petticoat. Paul A^eronese introcluced Benedictine 

 monks into a picture of the INIarriage at Cana. 

 Another painter of the same period depicted the 

 Crucifixion, with a confessor holding a cross to one 

 of the thieves. Cigoli represents Simeon, at the Cir- 

 cumcision, wearing a pair of spectacles. Breugh, 

 the Dutch painter, drew one of the Magi in a sur- 

 plice and spurs, presenting Christ with a model 

 of a Dutch seventy-four. Another Dutch painter 

 depicted Abraham as about to shoot Isaac with a 

 horse-pistol, while an angel is damping the touch- 

 hole by a very human action. Tintoret repre- 

 sented the Jews in the wilderness armed with 

 guns. N. Poussin's "Rebecca at the Well" has 

 Grecian architecture in the background. The 

 spectators in Verrio's picture of " Christ healing 

 the Sick" wear periwigs. Belin's "Virgin and 

 Child" are delighted with a fiddle. Murillo's 

 "Virgin a la Ceinture" is also attended by angels 

 with a violin and guitar. Rubens associates 

 the Queen-mother with cardinals and Mercury. 

 Others have represented St. Jerome with a fancy 

 clock by his side ; the Virgin Mary assisting her- 

 self to coffee from a chased coffee-pot ; the Mar- 

 riage of Christ to St. Catharine of Sienna, while 

 King David plays to them on the harp ; and St. 

 Anthony of Padua preaching to red lobsters in 

 the sea. In a college chapel at Paris was a pic- 

 ture of Napoleon and his aid-de-camps visiting a 

 plague hospital ; but, when the Bourbons came 

 back, this was altered to Christ and His Apostles, 

 — Napoleon's boots are nevertheless discernible 

 under the robe of the chief figure. Mr. President 

 West painted Paris in a Roman, instead of a 

 Phrygian dress. Wilkie has introduced oysters in 

 the " Chelsea Pensioners reading the Gazette of 

 the Battle of Waterloo," in June. Michael An- 

 gelo, in his picture of the "Last Judgment," in- 

 troduced, among the figures in hell, a striking 

 likeness of Cardinal Campeggio, who had given him 

 some offence. The cardinal begged that the Pope 

 would order the figure to be painted out. " It is 

 not in my power to do so," replied the witty Pon- 

 tiff; "we may deliver a soul out of purgatory, 

 but we have no power to take a cai'dinal out of 

 hell." CuTHBERT Bede, B.A. 



MUSICAL BACHELORS AND MUSICAL DOCTORS. 



(2"'> S. ill. 48. 73.) 



Supplicants for musical degrees In our Univer- 

 sities are not admitted ad resjyondendum qncestioni^ 

 nor are they "examined or appi'oved;" for in 

 music there is no graduating school, and no board 

 of examiners. No examination is necessary as 



