May 21. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



513 



Farmley beyond the memory of the present ge- 

 neration ; but Mr. Flood's impression, commu- 

 nicated to me, is, that it was artificially produced 

 from seed by some former gardener. If natural, 

 ■which may be the case, this instance of its occur- 

 rence in L-eland is, I believe, unique. 



James Graves. 

 Kilkenny. 



Stars and Flowers (Vol. iv., p. 22. ; Vol. vii., 

 pp. 151. 341.). — Passages illustrative of this simi- 

 litude have been quoted from Cowley, Longfellow, 

 Hood, and Moir. The metaphor is also made use 

 of by Darwin, in his Loves of the Plants : 



" Roll on, ye stars ! exult in youthful prime, 

 jVIark with bright curves the printless steps of time ; 

 Flowers of the sky ! ye, too, to age must yield, 

 Frail as your silken sisters of the field." 



CuTHBEET Beds, B.A. 



The Painting hy Fuseli (Vol. vii., p. 453.). — 

 The picture by the late Henry Fuseli, R.A., in- 

 quired after by Mr. Sansom, is in the collection 

 at Sir John Soane's Museum ; it was purchased by 

 him in 1802. 



It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780, 

 and is thus entered in the Catalogue of that year : 



" No. 77. Ezzelin Bracciaferro musing over Meduna, 

 destroyed by him, for disloyalty, during his absence 

 in the Holy Land. Fuseli." 



There is an engraving of the picture in Essays 

 on Physiognomy, by J. C. Lavater, translated from 

 the French by Henry Hunter, D.D., 4to. : London, 

 1789. The second volume, p. 294. 



The inscription under that engraving, by Hol- 

 loway, is as follows : 



" Ezzelin, Count of Ravenna, surnamed Braccia- 

 ferro or Iron Arm, musing over the body of Meduna ; 

 slain by liim, for infidelity, during his absence in the 

 Holy Land." 



George Bailet. 



The subject of your correspondent J. Sansom's 

 inquiry is in the Soane Museum, Lincoln's Inn 

 Fields. Search among the Italian story-tellers 

 will not discover the origin of the picture of Count 

 Ezzelin's remorse : it sprung from that fertile 

 source of fearful images — Henry Fuseli's brain. 

 The work might well have been left without a 

 name, but for the requirements of the Eoyal 

 Academy Catalogue, and, it must be added, Fu- 

 seli's desire to mystify the Italian as "well as the 

 other scholars of his day. 



For confirmation of the correctness of these 

 statements, I refer your correspondent to the Life 

 of Fuseli by Knowles, and to that by Cunningham 

 in the Lives of the British Painters. R. F., Jun. 



" Navita Erythrceum " (Vol. vii., p. 382.). — Since 

 I requested a reference to these lines, I have pos- 

 sessed myself of a very elaborate Latin work on 



Bells, in two vols. 8vo , published at Rome, 1822, 

 by Alexander Lazzarinus, De Vario Tintinnahu- 

 lorum usu apud veteres Hebrceos et Ethnicos : 

 wherein, in a section on the effect of the sound of 

 bells on different animals, he quotes those very 

 lines from " Cornelius Kilianus Dufflaeus in suis 

 poematibus." 



I shall now be thankful to be told something 

 about the said Dufflseus, — who and what he was, — 

 when and where he lived ? H. T. Ellacombb. 



Rectory, Clyst St. George. 



MiittUKntaxxi. 



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