The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . t, many expressions willbe fpund, distinctly allusive to stage scenery. It appears moreover, that even during the time ofthe usurpation of Cromwell, a species of dramaticexhibition, performed for a short season, by con-nivance of the ruling powers, at Rutland-house, inAldersgate Street, was announced as A Spectacleby Declamation— The Siege of Rhodes con-ducted by DAvenant, and made into a representa-tion, by the Art of Perspec
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . t, many expressions willbe fpund, distinctly allusive to stage scenery. It appears moreover, that even during the time ofthe usurpation of Cromwell, a species of dramaticexhibition, performed for a short season, by con-nivance of the ruling powers, at Rutland-house, inAldersgate Street, was announced as A Spectacleby Declamation— The Siege of Rhodes con-ducted by DAvenant, and made into a representa-tion, by the Art of Perspective in Scenes, andthe story sung in Recitative music. Nicholas Laniere, the musician and composer, wasalso a scene-painter in the age of James I. BenJonson composed a Masque for the entertainment ofthe French ambassador, then resident in England,which was prepared for representation by this accom-plished artist, as expressed in print. The wholeafter the Italian manner, stylo recitativo, by MasterNicholas Laniere, who ordered and made bothescenes and music. This was performed at thehouse of Lord Haye, and within one year of thedeath of the immortal Having thus established the proof of scene-paintinghaving been practised as early as the time of James I.,we shall now refer to the annexed wood-cut, intend-ing to proceed with the subject in our next paper. This is a fac-simile of a wood-cut, forming part ofa series of graphic illustrations to an old school-book,intituled Orbis sensualium pictus : or a pictureand nomenclature of all the chief things that are inthe world; and of mens employment therein. Ori-ginally written in Latine and high Dutch. Theprint represents a scene in one of the olden Morali-ties; the description is in Latin, and thus Englished. LUDUS SCENICUS. In Theatra, (quod vestiturTapetibus, et Sipariis tegitur)agunter Comcediaj vel Tragoe-dire, quilmsrepresentantur aresmemorabiles ; ut hie, Historiade Filio prodigo, et Patre ip-sius, a quo recipitur,
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