The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 540, March 31, 1832Various
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 540, March 31, 1832
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The full attendance at the private view on Friday, accorded with these
gratifying statements. Suffolk-street and Pall Mall East were crowded with
the carriages of visiters, and in the rooms was an abundant sprinkling of
nobility, patrons of art, men of letters, and some note of purchases at
the keeper's table. There are upwards of 800 Pictures, and about 100
specimens of Sculpture and Engraving. The crowded state of the rooms
during the hour that we were there, allowed us only to note a few works.
1. _Cardinal Weld_; a well painted portrait, by James Ramsey, of the
benevolent owner of Lulworth Castle. The features are dignified and finely
intellectual. We could, too, associate their expression with the
philanthropic act of the Cardinal's affording an asylum to fallen royalty.
13. _Ruins_. D. Roberts. A delightful composition, from these exquisite
lines by Mrs. Hemans:
"There have been bright and glorious pageants here,
Where now grey stones and moss-grown columns lie--
There have been words, which earth grew pale to hear,
Breath'd from the cavern's misty chambers nigh:
There have been voices through the sunny sky,
And the pine woods, their choral hymn-notes sending,
And reeds and lyres, their Dorian melody,
With incense clouds around the temple blending,
And throngs, with laurel boughs, before the altar bending."
27. _A Philosopher_. H. Wyatt. Admirably coloured: the flesh tints and
deep expression of the features will not escape notice.
52. _The Town of Menagio, on the Lake of Como_. T.C. Hofland. A scene of
beautiful repose in the artist's best style.
57. _Portrait of Mrs. Davenport_ in the character of the Nurse in "Romeo
and Juliet." James Holmes. Almost speakingly characteristic. You may
imagine the actress drawling out, "awear--y," and her attitude admirably
accords with "Fie, how my bones ache."
114. _The Baptism_. G. Harvey, S.A. Foremost among the attractions of the
Exhibition, though of a serious turn. The quotation will best describe the
subject:
"Here, upon a semicircular ledge of rocks, over a narrow chasm, down
which the tiny stream played in a murmuring waterfall, and divided into
two equal parts, sat the congregation, devoutly listening to their
minister, who stood before them on what might well be called a small
natural pulpit of living stone.... Divine service was closed, and a
row of maidens, all clothed in purest white, arranged themselves at
the foot of the pulpit, with the infants about to be baptized.
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