Notes and Queries, Number 198, August 13, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 198, August 13, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 198, August 13, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
"Heros
Ad magnum se accingit opus ferrumque bifurcum
Cote acuit, pinguique perungit acumina lardo;
Deinde suis, vasto consurgens corpore, rostrum
Perforat et furcam capulo tenus urget, at illa
Prominuit rostro summisque in naribus hæsit."
Χοιροχοιρογ. 182.
I shall be much obliged to any one who will give me the full title to the
book from which this is quoted, and any account of it.
G. H. W.
_Portrait of Charles I.--Countess Du Barry._--In Bachaumont's _Mémoires
Secrets, &c._, I read the following passage under date of March 25, 1771:
"L'impératrice des Russies a fait enlever tout le cabinet de
tableaux de M. le Comte de Thiers, amateur distingué, qui avait
une très-belle collection en ce genre. M. de Marigny a eu la
douleur de voir passer ces richesses chez l'étranger, faute de
fonds pour les acquérir pour le compte du roi.
"On distinguait parmi ces tableaux un portrait en pied de
Charles I., roi d'Angleterre, original de Vandyk. C'est le
seul qui soit resté en France. Madame la Comtesse Dubarri,
qui déploie de plus en plus son goût pour les arts, a ordonné
de l'acheter: elle l'a payé 24,000 livres. Et sur le reproche
qu'on lui faisait de choisir un pareil morceau entre tant
d'autres qui auraient dû lui mieux convenir, elle a répondu que
c'était un portrait de famille qu'elle retirait. En effet, les
Dubarri se prétendent parents de la Maison des Stuards."
Can you give me any account of this portrait of King Charles by Vandyk,
for which the Countess Du Barry paid the sum of 1000_l._ sterling?
What grounds are there for the allegation, that the Countess was related
to the royal House of Stuart?
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia.
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Minor Queries with Answers.
_"Preparation for Martyrdom."_--Can any of your correspondents discover
for me the author of the following work?--
"A Preparation for Martyrdom; a Discourse about the Cause,
the Temper, the Assistances, and Rewards of a Martyr of Jesus
Christ: in Dialogue betwixt a Minister and a Gentleman his
Parishioner. Lond. 1681, 4to."
In order to afford somewhat of a clue to this discovery, I send a few
extracts from another anonymous work: _A Letter to the late Author of
the_ "_Preparation for Martyrdom_," alluding to various circumstances
relating to the author:
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