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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°<i S. No 35., ApG, 30. '56. 



terton's portrait prefixed to Mr. Dix's life of bim, 

 wiio states that the original painting is in the pos- 

 session of the late Mr. Braikenridge, of Bristol. 

 Plappening to know the history of this presumed 

 portrait, and that it was not painted for Chatter- 

 ton, but some youth in Bristol, name unknown, 

 and that it was picked up at an old clothes shop 



in the Pithay in that city, by (I wish not to 



mention the name), I feel myself compelled to dis- 

 abuse the public mind that Dix's engraving is a 

 portrait of Chatterton, and lament to say that 

 such a collector of Bristol antiquities as Mr. 

 Braikenridge was, was grossly imposed upon. 



J. M. Q. 

 Worcester. 



JBaih Characters at the heginning of this Cen- 

 tury. — A few days since I accidentally met with 

 an 8vo. volume entitled Bath Characters; or. 

 Sketches from Life, by Peter Paul Pallet, the 

 third edition, London, 1808, pp. about 200. 



The nobility, clergy, distinguished singers, 

 dilettanti, gamblers, and in short all such persons 

 as then frequented that, the most fashionable 

 watering-place, as well as those resident in the 

 place, are exhibited by the author, who is evi- 

 dently a scholar ; and who, while he satirises the 

 follies and different absurdities of the beau monde, 

 does so judiciously, and witliout rancour or acri- 

 mony. As the work must have created a sensation 

 at the time, I should thank any reader of " N. & 

 Q." who can inform me who was the author of it ? 

 and also, if there should be a Key to the characters 

 published, where I may find it ? A. 



Jhbetsan and John Smith, Artists. — In the 

 Gamut, or Accidence of Painting in Oil, by Julius 

 Cajsar Ibbetson, published in 1803, the author, 

 alluding to an account of his life, proceeds : 



" But I will not impose it on the world at present, it 

 belonging more immediately to a work for which I have 

 collected a prodigious quantity of materials, and which I 

 have received great encouragement to bring forward. It 

 is Anecdotes of Picture Dealers, Picture Dealing, and 

 Pictures, and will be entitled Humhuggologia. Of which," 

 observes the artist in the conclusion, "at any rate, if I 

 can get but the Humhuggologia, it will, among other sen- 

 sations, excite laughter in no common degree, which is 

 reckoned very wholesome." 



Now, can any one refer to aijy accouiit of the 

 artist, and particularly to the work in question ? 

 which, if in existence, would probably furnish 

 much rare and valuable information to the picti^re 

 public. Many an anecdote and history of pictures 

 might be expected from an artist of such varied 

 experience and abilities as Ibbetson, whom Mr. 

 West termed the English Berghem. 



He also promises the publication of his water- 

 colour process, which, I fear, never made its ap- 

 pearance, although said to be in great forward- 

 D6M« 



Ibbetson is said to have resided for many years 

 at Masham in Yorkshire, to be oqt of the way of 

 the picture- dealers, at which place he died. Are 

 his pictures frequently met with in Yorkshire ? 



Is anything known of the artist and his draw- 

 ings of whom Ibbetson"says, " In tinted drawings 

 no one, I believe, ever came so near the tint of 

 nature as Mr. John Smith ? " Art Curius. 



Leeds. 



Wyld's Globe and Langlar^s Georama. — The 

 publication of your General Index may have the 

 effect of resuscitating some dormant subjects. In 

 1" S. V. 467. 488., a question was discussed, 

 Whether Wyld's Great Globe is a plagiarism from 

 Molenax ? The evidence is insufficient to esta- 

 blish the affirmative, as it does not appear that 

 Molenax's globe differed from others except in 

 size : but what are we to say to the following, 

 which I cut out of a defunct periodical entitled. 

 The Museum, and Register of Belles Lettres, Sfc, 

 No. 5., Jan. 31. 1824.? 



" A Frenchman, of the name of Langlard, is at this 

 moment busily engaged, in conjunction with the best 

 geographers in Paris, in completing his invention of a 

 Georama, which he is erecting at an immense expense on 

 the Boulevards Italien, in a garden at the back of the 

 Caf^ de la Paix. The Georama is to consist of a globe of 

 40 feet diameter ; in the inside of which will be repre- 

 sented a complete map of the world, describing, on an 

 exact scale, the extent of every country, sea, river, and 

 mountain in the Atlas, as well as the site of all the high 

 roads, capitals, principal towns, and remarkable villages 

 in the known world ; giving at one view the sinuosities 

 of the routes of armies, public vehicles from one town to 

 another, throughout Europe, &c. The Poles will serve 

 as a point d'appui for circular stairs in the centre, from 

 which the spectators will have the facility of making 

 their observations." 



Is anything more known of Langlard and his 

 Georama ? J, F. M. 



Mortuaries. — Can any of your clerical or legal 

 readers furnish me with the law or general custom 

 respecting mortuaries in those parishes in which 

 they are paid ? Especially on the point whether, 

 on the death of a parishioner who is liable to pay 

 the mortuary fee, it is to be paid to the incum- 

 bent of the parish in which he dies, or to the in- 

 cumbent of that in which he is buried ? If he 

 dies in a parish in which mortuaries are not paid, 

 but is buried in one in which they are paid, should 

 his executors pay the mortuary or not ? 



WijiLiAM Eraser, B.C.L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



Sahagun Sword-Blades. — Can any of your 

 reailers inform me when Sahagun was celebrated 

 as a manufactory of swords? I recently became 

 possessed of an apparently very old blade of ad- 

 mii'able temper, very narrow and long, something 

 like a claymore. On the blade is engraved " Sa- 

 HAGVM," with several flourishes round it, and two 



