NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 258. 



#alltri| 0f li-r.t, 



ANCIENT AND MODERN : 



ENGRAVINGS 



THE PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF PICTURES OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN AND 

 • HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, AND THE ART HEIRLOOMS OF THE CROWN, AT 

 WINDSOR CASTLE, BUCKINGHAM PALACE, AND OSBORNE. 



EDITED BY S. C. HALL, F.S.A., Sec. 



This Work consists of a Series of Engravings from Pictures, citlier the private acquisitions of Her Jlost Gracious Majesty the Queen and His 

 Eoyal Highness the Prince Consort, or heirlooms of the Crown, obtained from time to time by respective Britisli Sovereigns. 



From the very extensive Collections at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and 08l)orne, Her Majesty and Hij Royal Highness Prince 

 Albert ha^' graciously permitted a selection to be made — comprising the choicest Works of Ancient and Modern Schools : such selected pictures 

 to be engrAed and published in the form in whicli they are here presented to the Public. 



The Series is, therefore, issued under the direct sanction and immediate Patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert; 

 and is to them Dedicated by special permission. 



This grace has been accorded in order tliat acquaintance witli the best productions of the best Masters may influence and improve public taste : 

 jind that the advantages which Art is designed and calculated to confer generally, may be largely spread— that, in short, all classes may, as far as 

 possible, participate m the enjoyment and instruction Her Majesty and Her Royal Consort derive from the Works tliey have collected, or that 

 were beaucathed to them, and which form tlie cherished treasures of their several Homes. 



Tlie Collections at Buckingham Palace and at Windsor Castle are to some extent known ; many of them being rare and valuable heirlooms of 

 the Crown. At Buckingham Palace are famous examples of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, unsurpassed in Europe j and at Windsor Castle are 

 the beautiful productions of the Italian Schools,— together with the renowned Vandykes, and the choicest of the Works of Rubens, in the salons 

 named after these great Masters. 



At Osborne are principally collected Works of modem Art, chiefly of the British School, with many examples of the Schools of Germany, 

 Belgium, and France, numbering upwards of one hundred and fifty pictures, the purchases of Her Majesty and the Prince. It is this Collection 

 ■whicli so emphatically marks the liberal ^latronage that Modern Art has received at their hands. The Palace, wliich is more peculiarly their 

 " Home," is literally filled with the productions of living Artists : not only of those who have achieved fame, and hold foremost professional rank, 

 but of those who — thus assisted, and under such patronage — receive that encouragement which is tlie surest stimulus to honourable distinction. 



It is not too much to say, that no other collection in the Kingdom contains so many fine examples of M idem Art— the productio.ns of livi.xo 

 Artists : a Collection entirely formed since Her Slajesty's happy Accession to the Throne, and her auspicious union with a Prince who so con- 

 tinually devotes his energies to promote all the valuable institutions of the country, and under whose judicious Patronage the progress of Art, 

 Fine and Industrial, has been so encouraging and so prosperous. 



In order that the gracious and muuiticent design of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert maybe worthily and effectually 

 carried out, the Editor has secured the co-operation of many of the leading Engravers of Europe— not alone of England, but of France, Germany 

 and Belgium. 



And Subscribers to this Work may rest assured of its being conducted throughout with zeal and integrity— so as faithfully to discharge the 

 high trust conferred by Her Most Gracious Majesty tlie Queen und His Royal Highness Prince Albert— to merit the confidence of the several 

 Artists— and to obtain tiie support of all Patrons of Art, and of the X'ublic. 

 OFFICE OF THE EDITOR, 

 4. LANCASTER PLACE. STRAND, LONDON. 



COZra>XTZOI7S OF WS1.XCA.TXO-K. 



In Monthly Parti ; each Part to contain Three Proofs on India Paper. 

 The First Part will be published on the First of November, and the Work will be continued Monthly. 



1. The whole of the Plates will be engraved in the line manner, by 

 eminent British and Foreign engravers ; every Impression will be a 

 Paoop ox Inoia Paper, jinnted by the best English Printers ; each 

 proof will be accompanied by descriptive and explanatory letter-press. 



2. The work will be issued only to suhi'cribers, and when the stipu- 

 lated number of impressions have been taken from the plate, the steel 

 will be "cut down, and the writing altered, so as to secure a certainty 

 that every copy shall be " a subscriber's copy," which, from its inevit- 

 ably becoming scarce, must increase in value. 



3. Of the first class (Artists') only 100 impressions shall be printed ; 

 of the second class (unlettered) only 100 ; and of the tliird class, only a 

 number suiflcient to meet the demand of actual suhscuiuers. 



i. Every engraving previously to printing shall be "approved," 

 either by the Painter, or (in cases of deceased masters,) by Thomas 



XJwins, Esq., R. A., Surveyor of Pictures in ordinary to Her Majesty ; 

 it will also receive the approval of His Royal Highness Prince Albert ; 

 and without sueli approvals no jilate shall be issued. 



5. The prices of the three classes of proofs to subscribers, shall be as 

 follows : 



£ s. d. 

 Half Graxd Eaole ; Royal Artists' Proofs (India) of 



which 100 only will be printed (in Portfolios) - - 3 3 

 Half Coi.umeier ; Unlettered Proofs (India), of which 



lOOouly will be printed (in Portfolios) - - - - I 11 6 

 Lettered Proofs (India) issued in bound parts - - 12 



6. The First Part will be published on the First of November, and 

 the work will be continued monthly. 



Publishers : 



•MESSRS. PAUL & DOMINIC COLNAGHI & CO., PALL MALL EAST, and THOMAS 

 AGNEW & SONS, MANCHESTER. 



»»* The Work : 



DE ORDXBED OF ANY PbiNT, OH EoOK, SeLLER IN GbEAT BrITAIN. 



THE FOLLOWING PICTURES ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE ENGRAVERS i 



The Virgin Mother, by W. DycE, R. A. 



The Royal Yacht off Mount St. Michael, by 



C. Stanfield, R.A. 

 Garrick and his Wife, by Hooarth. 

 The First- Born, by Van Lerius. 

 The Duchess of Devonshire and Child, by 



Revnoi.ds, p. R.A. 

 Undine, by D. Maclise, R.A. 

 The Fountain — Madrid, by D. Roberts, 



R.A. 

 Anointing the Feet of Christ, by Rcrens. 

 The Visit to the Nun, by Sin C. Eastlake, 



P.R.A. 

 The Battle of Meanee, by E. Armitage. 

 Tlie Madonna, by Caiu.o Doi.ce 

 The Young Sea-Fishers, by W. Collins, R.A. 

 The Ffte ChampOtrc, by Pateh. 

 King George IV. at Holyrood, by Sir D. 



WiLKIE, R.A. 



Silence, by Corke.jgio. 



The Princess Amelia, by Sir T. Lawrence, 



P.R.A. 

 Cupid and P.^yche, by T. Uwins, R.A. 

 The Windmill, by Ruysdaei,. 

 The Infant Christ, by C. Maratti. 

 L'AllesTO, by W. E. Frost, A. R.A. 

 Gen(?vi6ve of Brabant, by The Baron Wap- 



The Rustic F5te, by Teniers. 



St. Catherine, by Gitido. 



The Grand Canal, Venice, by Canaletti. 



The Seraglio, Constantinople, by Dandy, 



A.R. A. 

 The Angel at the Sepulchre, by Rembrandt. 

 King William IV. opening New London 



Bridge, by C. Stanfield, R.A. 

 Queen Henrietta Maria, by Vandyck. 

 Abundance, by Van Evcken. 

 Abbotsford : the Empty Chair, by Sin W. 



Allan, R.A. 



The Home-Expected, by W. Mulready, 



R.A. 

 The Golden Gate, Constantinople, by Jacob 



Jacoiis. 

 Miriam, by Hkrsel. 

 Scene in Norway, by Lew. 

 Preparing for tlie Chase, by Cuyp. 

 The Homestead, by P. Potter. 

 The Wise Men Journeying, by Warren. 

 lochia, by G. E. Herino. 

 Cows in a Meadow, by T. S. Cooper, A.R.A. 

 Tyrolcse Woman at a Shrine, by Foltz. 

 Hyde Park in 1851, by J. D. Harding. 

 Sea-Crafc, by Van der Velhe. 

 The Trumpeter, by Wouvermans. 

 Boy Blowing Bubbles, by SIieris. 

 Ariel, by H. J. Townsknd, 

 The Declaration, by J. Jk.vki.vs. 

 Tlie Promenade, by Jo 



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 St. Bride, in the City of London : and published by Georob Bell, of No. 18fi. Fleet Street, in the Parisli of St. Dunatan in the West, in the 

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