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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>"i S. VIII. Alg. 13. 'o9. 



w'erfen^ mould-thrower. Can maul be translated 

 mould? In Devonshire they call him a waut. 

 What is the meaning of that ? G. H. K. 



Eminent Artists who have been Scene-painters 

 (2"^ S. iii. 46. 477. ; iv. 398. ; vii. 327.) — Under 

 the above heading and references, I have already 

 adduced the names of Inigo Jones, Canaletto and 

 his father Bernardo, P. J. de Loutherbourg, G. 

 Chambers, David Roberts, Clarkson Stanfield, T. 

 Sidney Cooper, and David Cox. Of the last-named 

 great artist interesting memoirs will'be found in the 

 Birmingham Journal for June 11, and in the Il- 

 lustrated London Neivs for July 9. It appears 

 from these two sources of information that, in his 

 youth, " David Cox became scene-painter at the 

 Birmingham Theatre, then under the management 

 of Macready, father of the eminent tragedian, who 

 was at that time a boy at Rugby school, and for 

 whom young Cox painted several scenes to adorn 

 a small toy-theatre which was constructed for the 

 boy's amusement." David Cox was at first colour- 

 grinder to the scene-painters. " His rise from 

 this very subordinate post was rapid ; no long 

 period elapsing ere he was required to design and 

 produce the entire scenery for a new play about 

 to be produced." He did so : the whole credit 

 was given to a London artist ; and the native ge- 

 nius had his remonstrances met by a notice to quit 

 in one week. A compromise was effected ; and, 

 *' with Macready, he travelled from Birmingham 

 to Leicester, and other places probably : occa- 

 sionally, when necessity required his assistance, 

 trying his hand upon the stage in some subordi- 

 nate character." David Cox then came to Lon- 

 don, in 1803, in the twentieth year of his age, 

 "and for a time obtained employment in the 

 scenic department at Astley's Theatre, but only 

 as a temporary resource till other arrangements 

 more suitable to his homely habits could be 

 made." 



I find that this subject of " Scene-Painters" was 

 ably treated, twenty-five years ago, in Brayley's 

 Graphic and Historical Illustrator (pp. 381-3.), 

 although the names I have above mentioned (with 

 two exceptions) are not recorded. To complete 

 my list, it will be sufficient to give this reference 

 to Brayley, and merely mention the names of the 

 artists : — 



Daniel My tens, Nicholas Lanlere, Winceslaus 

 Hollar, Signor Fideli, Mons. I'Abbe, Robert Ag- 

 gas, Streater, Signor Servandoni, Mons. de Voto, 

 Jack Laquerre, George Lambert, Signor Ami- 

 coni, Oram, Frank Hayman, Thos. Dall, Hogarth 

 (for Dr. Hoadly's private theatre), Richards, M. 

 A. Rooker, Walmsly, French, Catton, Junr., 

 Signor Novoslelski, Hodges, Chas. DIbdIn and 

 son, Wm. Capon. Cuthbbbt Bede. 



Hearing through the Mouth (2"'^ S. vii. 170. &c.) 

 Master Mace, the author of Music's Monument, 



availed himself of this mode of hearing after he 

 had become deaf. He tells us that, having in- 

 vented a lute which was " absolutely the lustiest 

 or loudest lute that I ever yet heard," he was 

 able to hear it " in a very good measure, yet not 

 so loud as to distinguish everything I play with- 

 out the help of my teeth, which, when I lay close 

 to the edge of it, I hear all I play distinctly." {The 

 Doctor, Sfc, chap, cxcvl.) Vebna. 



Scraping an Acquaintance (2""* S. vill. 71.) — 

 Db. Doean gives a classical origin to this phrase, 

 but omits to mention his authority. The passage 

 occurs in an article from his pen in the Gentle- 

 man's Magazine (N. S. xxxix. 230.), on "The 

 Masters of the Roman World during the Happiest 

 Years of the Human Race : " — 



" There is an anecdote connected with Hadrian and the 

 custom of bathing, from which is derived the proverbial 

 saying of 'scraping an acquaintance.' The Emperor, en- 

 tering a bath, saw an old soldier scraping himself witli a 

 tile. He recognised the man as a former comrade — his 

 memory on such points never failed him — and, pitying 

 his condition that he had nothing better than a tile for a 

 flesh-brush, he ordered the veteran to be presented with 

 a considerable sum of money, and a costly set of bathing 

 garments. Thereupon all the old soldiers of the Imperial 

 army became as anxious to claim fellowship with the 

 Emperor as the Kirkpatricks of Great Britain and Ireland 

 are proudly eager to establish kinship with the Empress 

 of the French. As Hadrian entered the bath the day 

 after that on which he had rewarded his former comrade, 

 he observed dozens of old soldiers scraping themselves 

 with tiles. He understood the intent, but wittily evaded 

 it. 'Scrape one another, gentlemen,' said he, 'you will 

 not scrape acquaintance with me.' " 



Vebna. 



Preservation of Monumental Brasses (2""* S. viii. 

 107.) — It may be satisfactory to A. A. to learn 

 that I have in the press a work on Monumental 

 Brasses, comprising such a list as that suggested 

 by him. An advertisement of the volume may be 

 seen in "N. & Q." for March 5th, 1859. Any 

 notices of brasses not generally known to exist, 

 or that have been recently stolen or mutilated, 

 will be very acceptable, if forwarded to me at 

 once. H. Haines. 



Gloucester. 



Fawnes Family (2°'^ S. vii. 147. 243.) — Your 

 correspondent J. Ss. may be quite right in his 

 assertion that there is no family of this name now 

 residing in Berwickshire ; but it would appear from 

 Hodgson's NorthumherlaTid, that there was a fa- 

 mily of Faunes in that shire at a very early period. 



From that work I find there is a farm called 

 Fawns in the parish of Kirkwhelpington, in 

 Northumberland, which was in the possession of 

 Sir Gilbert de Umfravllle In the fifteenth century, 

 and has since belonged to the various families of 

 Tempest, Swinburne, and Fenwick. There is 

 mention of a John de Faunes in the reign of Hen. 

 III., and of a William de Faunes in temp. Edw. I. 



