COLOURED PLATES. (Brief Notes on some of these will be found with those on the ULYSSES DERIDING POLYPHEMUS, BY J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. NOTES TO ILLUSTRATIONS. VOLUME VI. ULYSSES DERIDING POLYPHEMUS, BY J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. PAGE Frontispiece Ulysses' galley putting off at sunrise: Polyphemus above, tearing his hair and convulsed with rage. The fire on the shore is that in which Ulysses heated the staff with which he and his comrades put out the giant's eyes in his sleep. LORD LIVERPOOL, BY JOHN HOPPNER, R.A. LORD CASTLEREAGH, BY SIR T. LAWRENCE, P.R.A. As he succeeded to the marquisate of Londonderry only the year before his death, he is usually known by the courtesy title which he bore during the greatest part of his career. THE CATO STREET CONSPIRATORS SURPRISED. February 3, 1820. Cruikshank visited the place in order to draw the interior, and drew the fight from a description. BUST OF THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING, BY E. H. BAILY, R.A.. Wellington, on the headland in the distance, smiling at the result. Sir E. Codrington, it was rumoured, had been encouraged to act by finding a private note from the Duke in his instructions, consisting of the words, "Go it, Ned." FUNERAL OF THE CONSTITUTION, 1829 3 7 9 11 An ultra-Protestant view of the possible results of Catholic Emancipation. 13 WILLIAM IV. (a water-colour drawing by an unknown artist) LORD COCHRANE, AFTERWARDS EARL OF DUNDONALD This painting is now in the possession of the family. A French refugee, Captain De Bérenger, whom Cochrane was about to employ as instructor in rifle practice on his own ship in 1814, personated a British aide-de-camp early in 1814, and spread the false report that Bonaparte was killed, and the allies were marching on Paris. The Funds, of course, rose at once, and fell again on the detection of the falsehood, and one of Cochrane's uncles, named Johnstone, who was apparently privy to De Bérenger's action, cleared a large sum. Cochrane, though undoubtedly innocent, was prosecuted with De Bérenger and Johnstone, imprisoned, and expelled from the Navy. He aggravated his alleged offence by escaping from prison, and, though his treatment evoked violent protests, it was not until 1832 that he was pardoned and restored to his rank. Meantime, he had aided Peru to free herself from Spain, and taken part in the Greek war of liberation. a-VOL. VI. 379 17 19 A sailing frigate, built in 1816, and sold out of the service in 1841. Captain Marryat, the novelist, commanded her in 1828-1830, and is believed to have supervised the construction of this model. She was 511 tons, 121 ft. long, and 31 ft. beam. She carried 20 32-pounder guns, six 18-pounders, two 9-pounders, and 20 carronades on the upper deck, and about 180 men. MEN-OF-WAR IN PORT, BY W. ANDERSON. The artist was born in 1757, and died in 1837. MRS. ELIZABETH FRY, AFTER C. R. LESLIE, R.A. A miniature from a picture by Leslie, DR. MARTIN JOSEPH ROUTH, AFTER H. W. PICKERSGILL, R.A. President of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1791 till his death in 1855 at the age of 99; a great ecclesiastical scholar, and editor of works of the Fathers of the Church. The best account of him for the general reader is in Dean Burgon's "Lives of Twelve Good Men." This painting is in the hall at Magdalen College, Oxford. DR. THOMAS ARNOLD, BY WILLIAM BEHNES The bust was executed in 1849. Arnold is best known as head master of Rugby from 1828 to his death in 1842, during which time he ini iated a revolution in Eng ish public school education and ethics, more esp cially in the relation between masters and boys; but he is also of great importa ice as one of the founders of the Broad Church party within the Establishment (se: text). LORD BYRON, BY THOMAS PHILLIPS, R.A. The portrait was sent by the poet to Colonel Wildman as a present, with the expressed hope that it might always hang in the large drawing room of Newstead Abbey, and it is still placed there. Newstead Abbey was sold in 1818 to Colonel Wildman, from whose trustees it passed to the family of its present owners, the Misses Webb. It was originally built in 1270, and was granted at the Dissolution to the founder of the Byron family. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, BY MISS AMELIA CURRAN . Painted at Rome in 1819, three years before his death, and at the age of 27; unfinished. JOHN KEATS, BY WILLIAM HILTON, R.A. Based on a miniature by Joseph Severn, probably of 1820 or 1821. CHARLES AND MARY LAMB, BY FRANCIS STEPHEN CAREY Painted in 1834. Mary Lamb, as is well known, in a sudden fit of insanity killed her invalid mother in 1796, and her brother devoted his life to the care of her thenceforward. He, however, died in 1834, she in 1847. THOMAS DE QUINCEY, BY SIR JOHN WATSON GORDON, R.A.. SIR WALTER SCO.T'S STUDY, ABBOTSFORD SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R. A. Mr. Leslie Stephen (Dictionary of National Biography) states that no portrait of her was ever taken, but this engraving, which is accepted by the authorities of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, may possibly be from some unauthorised sketch. J. M. W. TURNER, R.A., BY CHARLES TURNER A drawing in coloured chalks. THE BAY OF BAIAE: APOLLO AND THE SIBYL, BY J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. LANDSCAPE, WITH JAQUES AND THE WOUNDED STAG, BY SIR GEORGE 47 49 51 53 Shakespeare, "As You Like It,” Act iv., Scene 2. Painted in 1819. THE VALLEY FARM, BY JOHN CONSTABLE, R.A. 55 A farmhouse on the banks of the Stour, near East Bergholt, Suffolk. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1835. LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES, BY JOHN LINNELL 59 It marks the transition from his middle to his later period" (A. T. Story, Magazine of Art, 1893). In that year it formed part of the collection of Mr. W. Y. Baker, of Streatham Hill. THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA, BY FRANCIS DANBY, R.A. . 61 THE GATEWAY OF THE GREAT TEMPLE, BAALBEC, BY D. ROBERTS, R.A. 63 THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS OF THE "MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR," 65 The scene is not in the play, but is alluded to in Act i., Scene 2 as taking place in Page's house: " There's pippins and cheese to come." Page at the table offering a cup of sack to Slender; Falstaff joking with the merry wives, while Bardolph talks to Page's son. Sweet Anne Page sits beside her wooer; Justice Shallow and Parson Hugh at the foot of the table observe Slender admiringly. The characters are admirably conceived. (Catalogue of the South Kensington Collection.) The picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1838. MOUNT ST. MICHAEL, NORMANDY, BY R. P. BONINGTON 67 YOUTH ON THE PROW AND PLEASURE AT THE HELM, BY WILLIAM 69 Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1832; Vernon Bequest. SUNSET OFF HASTINGS, BY COPLEY FIELDING. 70 "A brilliant study of sky and clouds and light." Bequeathed with other paintings by Mrs. Carr. THE SIGNBOARD OF THE "ROYAL OAK," BY DAVID COX 71 Painted, according to tradition, to pay the artist's bill at the village inn at Bettws-y-Coed, North Wales. The inn is now a leading hotel of a popular tourist resort, and the sign hangs inside the hall. |