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qnest he visited London, where he was patronised 

 - r Thomas More, to whom Erasmus had intro- 

 duced him. Sir Thomas employed him in painting the 

 whole f his family, and .-everal of his relations and 

 friends, and he allowed him an apartment in his own 

 house, where he continued for three years. When King 

 Henry VIII. saw these performances, he was so much 

 struck with the talent which they displayed, that he 

 took Holbein into his service, and honoured him with 

 IMS patronage and kindness during the rest of his life. 



It is a singular circumstance, that Holbein always 

 painted with his left hand. He succeeded equally 

 in oil, water colours, and distemper. After he arrived 

 in r.ngUnd, he learned the art of miniature painting 

 from I.uca* Cornelii, and carried it to a very high de- 

 gree of perfection* 



In the FloreMine coOection, are the portraits of Mar- 

 tin Luther, Sir Thomas More, Richard Southwell, and 

 of Holbein, all painted by our author. The " Sacrifice 

 of Abraham," which has been much admired, is in the 

 cabimt, of the King of France, along with several por- 

 traits executed by Holbein. 



In the library of the university of Basle are several 

 of Holbrin's works in the highest preservation. A few 

 are preserved, which he painted balute he was 15 years 

 old ; one of which be drew upon a sign for a writing- 

 master The portraits of himself, his wife, and child- 

 ren, in the same group, are much esteemed. The other 

 pictures of Holbein m this collection are, the Passion of 



our Saviour, in eight saaflaniiU ; the In 



the Sapper; the Body of oar Saviour alter the Cnm- 

 fixion; a Lncretia ; a Venus; a Cupid; and portrait* 



Matthew, fc, sft, 



sane horary are piessfisd a ropy of Erasmus's Etc 

 it U P*r, which he had presented to Holbein w 

 srassaealisl the margin of it with very interest!! 

 sttftafcM.cfan.wkhthVi 

 was published at 1 

 got thl original si 



who 



Ivery intereetnw 

 lew. An edition of this work 

 Basle, in 1676. by Charles P.tm. who 

 by Strttler of Berne, 



and engraved by Merian. A new 'edition of this work, 

 in I-i;n, French, and flerman, with fac-sraiile* of the 

 original designs engraven on wood, was published by 



M. Haas in 1780. The paintings of Holbein on the HoUe'< 

 organ of the cathedral are still to be seen. Ttmpm- 



The Dance of Death on the walls of the cemetery of J^*"^, 

 the Dominicans at Basle, was not painted, as IMS often 

 been said, by Holbein, but by .Mm Klauber, at the de- 

 sire of the council, when the plague ravaged that city. 

 These walls were pulled down in 1 805. The paintings 

 had been restored in 1558, 1616, 1658, and 1703. 

 Since the year 1 798, they have been almost entirely ef- 

 faced. From these paintings it is probable that Hol- 

 bein took the idea of composing the famous drawings 

 of the Dance of Death ; in which he has shewn so 

 much judgment and imagination, that even Rubens 

 condescended to study ana copy them. It consisted of 

 44 designs, done with the pen, and slightly shaded 

 with Indian ink. These designs were engraved by 

 Haller, and more recently by M. de Mechel, a cele- 

 brated artist of Basle. The originals were sold, along 

 with the famoui collection of Crozat at Paris, to M. 

 Flektiman of Strasburg. In the reign of the l-'m- 

 peror Joseph II. the Prince GalliUin, the Russian am- 

 baasador at Vienna, purchased them, and carried them 

 to St Petersburg. Holbein died in the year I:.".'., in 

 the 56th year of hit age. See Coze's Travclt in Vir/f- 

 ifrland, vol. i. p. l62. 



HOI.DKN STiMrEMAMFNTofthe Musical Scale. In 

 Mr Jong H< Iden, in a work on music, in long 

 quarto, recommended a system of tuning, in which i-ach 

 of the fifths, except that on O, should be flattened 

 Jth of a major comma ; producing a perfect or untcm- 

 pered major seventh ; and a major third and major 

 firth, alikr tempered by the | th i>t a major column, but 

 in contrary directions, as Mr Farey has shewn in the 

 PUIotoflucul Magazine, vol. x> I and Mr Lis- 



ten in hi* En*y on Ptrftct Intonation, p. 22. 



The latter gentleman, in p. 23 describes this system 

 as being " nearly what i in common tut " and in p. 142, 

 gives it the preference ovrr the scale which Mr HAWKES 

 at last adopted, (via. V C, see his Temperament) ; on 

 which scctKint. we shall here preM-nl the musical stu- 

 dent with a table of the beats of each of the 72 con- 

 cords in Mr lllden's system, calculated on purpose for 

 our work, vis. : 



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In column S. the note* are set down in the 



regular interval in Farey's notation : cot 3. is , 



in the octave above tenor-cliff C ; and the beats 

 hi the six following roleaiis, all of 

 or beating Ac*-p,M expresaed at the 



of the several columns, except bE in col. 6, and G in 

 col. 7, which are the reverse of all the other fourth^ 

 and fifth', in this system : in which only two of the 

 notes differ from those since adopted by Mr William 

 Hawkes. Sec HAWEU* Te\ 



