FRAGONARD 



3287 



FRAME 



Scribe, and it was first produced 

 at the Opera Comique, Paris, on 

 Jan. 28, 1830. 



Fragonard, JEAN HONOBE 

 (1732-1806). French painter and 

 engraver. Born at Grasse, in Pro- 

 vence, April 

 5, 1732, he 

 studied under 

 Boucher and 

 Chardin, and, 

 having won 

 the Grand 

 Prix in 1752 

 at Rome, in 

 1763 he re- 

 J. H. Fragonard, turned to 

 French painter Paris, was re- 



After Gerard C 6 i V 6 d into 



the Academy in 1765, and shortly 

 afterwards abandoned classical 

 painting for the freer style appre- 

 ciated by the Court. During the 

 Revolution he retired to Grasse, 

 where he completed the five 

 paintings of The Lover's Progress, 

 now in the Pierpoint Morgan 

 collection and exhibited at the 

 Guildhall in 1902. He returned to 

 a changed Paris, and died there 

 poor and neglected, Aug. 2, 1806. 

 Apart from the Grasse pictures, 

 his most famous works are in the 

 Louvre and the Wallace Collec- 

 tion: Coresus and Callirrhoe, The 

 Music Lesson, and The Storm, 

 in the Louvre, and The Swing, 

 in the Wallace Collection. His 

 crayons and water-colours are 

 charmingly facile. 



Fragspn, HAKBY. Stage name 

 of the British comedian, Leon Pott, 

 (1870-1914). Born at Brixton, 

 after a few 

 years in busi- 

 ness at Rich- 

 mond he went 

 on the stage 

 and gave imi- 

 tati on s of 

 Paulus, then a 

 well-known 

 star of the Paris 

 music halls. 

 Meeting with 

 little success in London, he moved 

 to Paris, and after living in poverty 

 made a success with his Ronde 

 des Petits Cochons. By this time 

 he had learned French perfectly. 

 He soon gained popularity in 

 France, and in 1904 appeared in 

 pantomime at Drury Lane, where he 

 made a success with his Love, love, 

 whispers of love. Equally versatile 

 in English and French, he was at 

 the height of his popularity in both 

 countries when he was murdered 

 by his father, Jan. 1, 1914. 



Fraizer, A LEX AND EB (c. 1610- 

 81 ). English physician. Of Scot- 

 tish ancestry, he received his 

 medical education at Montpelier. 

 Having settled in London, he be- 



Harry Fragson, 

 British comedian 



came known at court, and when 

 Charles II went abroad, after the 

 execution of his father in 1649, 

 Fraizer went with him in a pro- 

 fessional capacity. He mixed also 

 in the politics and intrigues that 

 surrounded the exiled king. He 

 returned to England at the Restora- 

 tion, and remained in attendance 

 on the royal family until his death, 

 May 3, 1681. An incident in his 

 career was his arrest for debt at the 

 instance of Sir E. B. Godfrey, this 

 being resented by the king to the 

 extent of putting Godfrey in prison 

 and punishing the bailiffs who 

 carried out the order. 



F.R.A.M. Abbrev. for Fellow 

 of the Royal Academy of Music. 



Fram (Norweg., forward). Three- 

 masted schooner of 402 tons 

 built in 1892 for Nansen's Arctic 



Fram. The polar exploration ship after she had been 

 converted from steam to oil for Amundsen's expedi- 

 tion in 1910 



expedition. She was 117 ft. in 

 length, with triple external plank- 

 ing ranging from 24 ins. to 28 ins. 

 in thickness, and auxiliary engines 

 driving a screw propeller. Nansen 

 sailed in her in Aug., 1893, and 

 entering the ice at the new Siberia 

 Islands, drifted northward. In 

 June, 1895, he left the ship and 

 marched north as far as 86 13.6'. 

 In May, 1897, he fell in with the 

 Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 

 with whom he returned in the 

 Windward to Norway, whither the 

 Fram also returned safely. In 

 1899 the ship was used by Sverdrup 

 in his exploration of Jones Sound, 

 in the N. of Baffin Bay. 



In Aug., 1910, Captain Roald 

 Amundsen (q.v.) left Norway in the 

 Fram, intending, like Nansen, to 

 drift across the North Polar basin, 

 but, changing his programme, 

 made his way from Madeira to the 

 Antarctic regions. The ship was 

 next heard of in the Bay of Whales, 

 where Captain Scott discovered 

 her while cruising along the Ice 



Tasmania, March 7, 1912, and later 

 returned to Norway. See Nansen. 

 Framboesia OB YAWS (Fr. 

 framboise, raspberry). Infectious 

 and contagious disease caused by 

 infection with a minute spiral - 

 shaped organism, Treponema per- 

 tenue, discovered by Castellani in 

 1905. The disease is almost con- 

 fined to tropical and sub-tropical 

 regions, being most prevalent on 

 the W. coast of Africa, in Tripoli, 

 the Malay Peninsula, Assam, Java, 

 Ceylon, the West Indies, Samoa, 

 and Fiji. 



Three stages are recognized. 

 The primary stage usually begins 

 with symptoms of general ill- 

 health, headache, rheumatic pains, 

 and a rise of temperature. In from 

 two to four weeks after inoculation 

 a papule appears on the skin at 

 the point where the 

 i organism has en- 

 tered the body, 

 /w which may be an 



/ %. old ulceration, a 



/ scratch, or even an 



insect - bite. The 

 papule may de- 

 velop into a large 

 nodule, or become 

 ____ : ulcerated and sub- 

 sequently heal. 

 The second stage 

 usually begins be- 

 tween one and 

 three months after 

 the primary lesion 

 has appeared, and 

 is characterised by 

 the eruption of papules more or 

 less all over the body, some of 

 which develop into large granu- 

 lomatous nodules, which may later 

 become hard and wart-like. 



In most cases these disappear 

 within a year, and the patient re- 

 covers. In some instances, how- 

 ever, the third stage develops. 

 Nodules may appear in any of the 

 tissues, and deep ulcers may be 

 formed. Contractions of groups of 

 muscles are frequent, and painful 

 nodes may develop on the bones. 

 The disease is rarely fatal, but it 

 is a cause of much sickness. Treat- 

 ment by injection of salvarsan 

 has been found very effective, 

 and is now widely adopted. The 

 disease is quite distinct from 

 syphilis, with which it was at one 

 time confused. 



Frame. Border or case in 

 which a picture is set for exhibi- 

 tion on a wall. It may be made of 

 various materials, and should have 

 some regard for the character of 

 the picture. An oil painting, being 



Barrier. Amundsen wintered near in a strong medium, will tolerate 

 King Edward VII Land, and hav- a heavy gilt frame which would 



" kill " a slighter medium, such as 

 a water-colour. Engravings are 



ing accomplished his march to the 

 South Pole, rejoined the Fram, 

 aboard which he arrived at Hobart, 



framed in oak, walnut, maple, 



