The Table book; . d and her loveSubliming to another state and life, Offring him consolation as a dove,—Her sighs and tears, her heartache and her mindDevout, untired, calm, precious, and resi^d. %P. Catalogue of Painted British Por-traits, comprising most of the Sove-reigns of England, from Henry 1. toGeorge IV., and many distinguishedpersonages; principally the produc-tions of Holbein, Zucchero, C. Jansen,Vandyck, Hudson, Reynolds, North-cote, &c- Now selling at the pricesaffixed, by Horatio Rodd, 17, Air-street, Piccadilly. 1827. This is an age of book and print cata-logues; and lo! we have
The Table book; . d and her loveSubliming to another state and life, Offring him consolation as a dove,—Her sighs and tears, her heartache and her mindDevout, untired, calm, precious, and resi^d. %P. Catalogue of Painted British Por-traits, comprising most of the Sove-reigns of England, from Henry 1. toGeorge IV., and many distinguishedpersonages; principally the produc-tions of Holbein, Zucchero, C. Jansen,Vandyck, Hudson, Reynolds, North-cote, &c- Now selling at the pricesaffixed, by Horatio Rodd, 17, Air-street, Piccadilly. 1827. This is an age of book and print cata-logues; and lo! we have a picture dealerscatalogue of portraits, painted in oil, fromthe price of two guineas to sixty. ThereIS only one of so high value as the lattersum, and this is perhaps the most interest-ing in Mr. Rodds collection, and he hasallowed the present engraving from it. Thepicture is in size thirty inches by twenty-five. The subjoined particulars are fromthe catalogue. • Hist, of Birmingham. .118 THE TABLE SIMON LORD the original Picture by Hogarth, lately discovered. To the present time, none of Hogarthsbiographers appear to have been aware ofthe local habitation of the original paint-ing from which the artist published hisetching, the popularity of which, at theperiod to which il alludes, was so great,that a printseller offered for it its weight ingold : that offer the artist rejected; and heis said to have received from its sale, formany weeks, at the rate of twelve poundseach day. The impressions could not betaken off so fast as they were wanted,though the rolling-press was at work allnight by the week together. Hogarth said himself, that lord Lovafsportrait was taken at the White Hart-inu,at St. Albans, in the attitude of relating onhis fingers the numbers of the rebel forces : Such a general had so many men, Ike. ;and remarked that the muscles of Lovatsneck appeared of unusual strength, moreso than he had ever seen. Samuel Ireland,in his Graphic Illustrati
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