Notes and Queries, Vol. 12: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc;; July December, 1861 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 12: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc;; July December, 1861

The manner in which this object reached my hands, is somewhat curious. A few years ago, whilst a Sardinian ship was lying at Callao, some émeute took place and a convent in the locality being plundered, my brass plaque, and sundry small paintings, and a marble alto rilievo, were purchased from a looter by the captain of. The vessel. With the objects so procured, he de borated his cabin, where they remained till two years back, when his ship was wrecked in) enter-3 ing Table Bay. The brass then passed from him into my possession.

I shall be very glad to receive some information relative to the subject of this Note. Sigma-tau.

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 12: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc;; July December, 1861

Milton. - August 10, 1721. I saw Mrs. Clarke, the only surviving daughter [Deborah] of Milton the poet, who is now seventy years old. I carried with me several portraits of his picture. I likewise carried with me a painting in oil by R. Walker, but she knew it not, and believed it not to be his picture. Some years ago Mr. Addison desired to see her, and declared as soon as she came into the room, that he really believed she was Milton's daughter, for as much as he could retain of his likeness by several pictures he had seen of him, she was much like them. I really found, by comparing the features, that she much resembled the print graved by Faithorne, and a crayon drawing and others done from that print She told me her mother-in-law, if living near Chester, had two paintings of her father - one when he was a lad and went to school; and another when he was about twenty years of age, which were all the pictures she remembers to have seen of him in the family, having been by her step-mother turned abroad into the world, and went into Ireland, where she was when her father died, and was there married. This was Milton's youngest daughter by his first wife, the one that used to read to him in seven languages; but he could never see her, he being blind before she was born. There was a grave stone for Milton in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, where he was buried; but in repairing the church lately, they have taken it away and it is lost, though there are people that know perfectly the spot of ground where it stood, which was shown to me. Upon that grave-stone was only cut J. M.

Thomas and Abraham Simon. - Thomas Simmonds [Simon], engraver in the Mint, London, was brought into that service by Sir Edward Harley, who was Warden of the Mint in the time of King Charles I. Simmonds, a most ingenious artist, as a multitude of his works do testify by the coins in Oliver Cromwell's time, and medals, one of a fleet of ships, a battle representing the defeating of the Dutch fleet, with standards, arms, drums, cannons, and other ensigns of victory taken around it This die was never used. Another I saw of Oliver's own head raised out, the full-face perfectly like him. Of this die there are few to be seen. This Simmonds was the first introducer or inventor of milled money on coins or medals in England, though he cut the stamps for hammered money till 1663, or thereabouts, when he died in the Tower of London, where he dwelt. His effigy cut in steel is in the possession of Mr. House, engraver, living opposite to Pontack's, Abchurch Lane, London, whose master was servant to this Simmonds, who observes that "Simmonds was a good-like man, but his nose was awry a little."

Abraham Simmonds, the brother of Thomas, was a learned ingenious man, an excellent modeller in wax, particularly of the likenesses or portraits of persons with whom he had travelled abroad, and was in great esteem with the Queen of Sweden. King Charles II. sat to him for his picture, which he performed so much to the Kings satisfaction, that he presented him with a hundred guineas for it. The Duke of York desired to sit to him, whose picture he did, and very well. The Duke desired of Simmonds to know what he should give him. He told his Grace that the King gave him a hundred guineas. "But for me," says the Duke, "I think forty guineas will be sufficient." Simmonds takes the model into his hands to look on it again, and with his thumbs squeezes it into a lump, and defaced it entirely. At this the Duke was highly offended, and said he was an impudent fool. But this Simmonds valued not any body's humour of reflections. He was a perfect cynic, and so remarkable, that his dress, behaviour, life, and conversation, was all of a piece: wearing a long beard, went on pattins in the streets, and was often hooted after by the

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330632117
• ISBN 13: 9781330632116
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
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