This picture produced a tract, intituled, "A Letter from a Parishioner of _St. Clement Danes_ to _Edmund [Gibson]_ Lord Bishop of _London_, occasion'd by his lordship's causing the picture over the altar to be taken down: with some observations on the use and abuse of Church-paintings in general, and of that picture in particular, 1725." 8vo. See Appendix II. The proofs of this plate are commonly on blue paper, though I have met with more than one on white. The original, after it was removed from the church, was for some years one of the ornaments of the music-room at _The Crown and Anchor_ in the _Strand_. As this house has frequently changed its tenants, &c. I am unable to trace the picture in question any further. There is a good copy of this print by _Livesay_. 4. A scene in _Handel's_ opera of _Ptolomeo_, performed in 1728, with _Farinelli, Cuzzoni,_ and _Senesino_, in the characters of _Ptolemy, Cleopatra,_ and _Julius Cæsar_. Those who are inclined to doubt the authenticity of this performance, will do well to consult the representation on a painted canvas in the small print on masquerades and operas, where the same figures occur in almost the same attitudes. I do not, however, vouch for the genuineness of this plate. In _Southwark Fair_, our artist has borrowed the subject of his show-cloth from _Laguerre_; and might, in the present instance, have adopted it from another hand. The appearance _Farinelli_ makes on this occasion may be justified by the following quotation from a Pamphlet, intituled, _Reflections upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy, &c._ printed for _W. Johnston_, &c. 1755. "I shall therefore, in my further remarks upon this article, go back to the _Old Italian Theatre_, when _Farinelli_ drew every body to the _Haymarket_. What a pipe! what modulation! what extasy to the ear! But, heavens! what clumsiness! what stupidity! what offence to the eye! Reader, if of the city, thou mayest probably have seen in the fields of _Islington_ or _Mile-end_, or if thou art in the environs of _St. James's_, thou must have observed in the park, with what ease and agility a Cow, heavy with Calf, has rose up at the command of the Milk-woman's foot. Thus from the mossy bank sprung up the _Divine Farinelli_. Then with long strides advancing a few paces, his left hand settled upon his hip, in a beautiful bend like that of the handle of an old-fashioned caudle-cup, his right remained immoveable across his manly breast, till numbness called its partner to supply its place; when it relieved itself in the position of the other handle to the caudle-cup." p. 63, &c. Under a copy of the print abovementioned, which must have been made soon after its publication, appear the following inscription, and wretched ungrammatical lines: The three most Celebrated Singers at the Opera. _Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter._ _Sigra_ the great, harmoniously inclin'd, Who charms the ear and captivates the mind.