SOMERSET HOUSE GAZETTE, AND Literary Museum ; OR, WEEKLY MISCELLANY OF FINE ARTS, ANTIQUITIES, AND LITERARY CHIT CHAT. VOL. I. Containing Original Essays and Correspondence on all Branches of the Fine Arts, Copious Notices of the Public EDITED BY EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE, AUTHOR OF WINE AND WALNUTS. LONDON: Printed by Shackell and Arrowsmith, Johnson's Court. PUBLISHED BY W. WETTON, 21, FLEET STREET, AND MAY BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS AND NEWSMEN. 1824. ACADEMY, Royal, Somerset House, 258 Distribution of the prizes at, 147 Actors who have played Female parts, 75 Adelphi, Account of, 102 Alasco, a Tragedy. By Mr. Shee, 403 Cromwell, Oliver, and Sir Roger L'Estrange, 104 Customs and Habits of Early Times, 152, 175, 190, 207 Davy, Mr. the Composer, 350 Anacreon, Translation of the Odes of, by W. Richardson, Decastro, J. Memoirs of, 295 Anatomical Society, Artists, 396 ANECDOTES.-Michael Angelo, 117, 155-Hogarth, 84, 122, Angelo, Michael, 117, 155 and Rossini, 337 Angerstein, John Julius, Esq. 246 Architecture of Regent-street, Letters on, 379, 395 Artists of Olden Times, 135 Reminiscences of, 364, 409 · Scrap Book, 357, 383, 396 Athens, Haunted House at, 94 Aureus; or, the Life and Opinions of a Sovereign, 377 Bachelor's Wife, by J. Galt, Esq.361 Baillie, Captain, Memoirs of, 300 Bardwell on Painting, 207 Bartolozzi, Pasquin's Account of, 183 Bellamy, Mrs. G. A. and Mrs. Hamilton, 254 Biography and Obituary, the Annual for 1823, 230, 244 Canova, Antonio, 316-The Works of, by Moses, 195, 244 Cato to Lord Byron, 216 Caxton, the First English Printer, 92 Ceiling Painters, 15 Chalker of Walls, Letter from, 347 Charles II. Song written by, 135 and Riley, 148 Chesterfield, Lord, Anecdote of, 188 Children in the Tower, Murder of, 62 Cibber, Mrs. the celebrated Actress, 415 Cipriani, Account of, 108 Claude, New Liber Veritatis by, 345 || Deformed Transformed, by Lord Byron, 306 Eccles, the Fiddler, 239 372 Edward IV. Musical Establishment of, 170 FINE ARTS.-Pope's Love for Painting, 9, 26-On Painting Foote, his Tea, 136-His Trip to Edinburgh, 237 Friendship's Offering; or, the Annual Remembrancer, 253 Ireland, Researches in the South of, by J. C. Croker, 249, Irving, Rev. E. Letter on the Qualifications and Ortho- doxy of his Doctrines, 362 James's, St. Palace, 160 Jenkins, Henry, 302 Juan, Don, Lord Byron's, Cantos XV. XVI. 407 Kemble, John, Esq. 245 Play, New, First Night of a, 412 Players Vagabond, 44 Poems. By J. G. Percival, M.D. 323, 342 Pope the Poet, his love for painting, 9' Porter, Mrs. the Actress, 335 Porter, Robert Ker, Anecdote of, 364 Portraits, the Gallery of, 28 Portraits, Opinions on, 106, 122, 148, 188 Portrait Painters, Apology for, 196 Powell's Etchings from the old Masters, 261 Poulowsk, Gallery of Pictures at the Palace, 259 Purcell, 223 Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann, 244 Raleigh's, Sir Walter, Instructions to his Sonne and Read, Mr. the Sculptor, 396 Reviews, Cambridge Quarterly, and Whittaker's U Reynolds, Sir J. Anecdote of, 351 Richmond, Duke of, his Gallery of Pictures, 39 Landscape Painting, and Effect in Water Colours, by Cox, Rome, Proceedings in, 346 a Treatise on, 103, 141 Leaves from a Journal, by A. Bigelow, 406 Leicester, Sir J. F. and His Majesty, 369 Additions to his Gallery, 401 British, 241 Ronan's, St. Well, by the author of Waverley, &c. 203 Memoirs of, 246 Rambles, Mountain, and other Poems, 376 Salmagundi, by the author the Sketch Book, 212, 236 Sayings and Doings, 322, 339 Scene Painting, Brief History of, 90, 100 Schlemihl, Peter, a Tale from the German of Lam School of Painting-British Institution, 53 Shee, M. A. Esq. R. A. Anecdote of, 364 Somerset House, Letters respecting the Architecture Spiller, Jem, 137, 319 Stage Scrap Book, 44, 57, 75, 90, 100, 136, 149, 166, 185, Stone Ornaments, Coade's Gallery of Artificial, 281 Musical Scrap Book, 67, 84, 104, 119, 133, 170, 199, 223, Stradella Alessandro, Curious Account of, 201 Music, Old Royal Academy of, 385 English, 69 Nicholson's, Mr. Process for Panting in Water Colours, 31, Francis, on the Practice of Drawing and Paint- October Fire Side, 1, 17, 33, 49 the Month of One Hundred Years Ago, 33 Painting, Practical Hints on Composition in. By John Painting made easy. By Thomas Bardwell, 181 Painters of Scotland over the Painters of England, superior Painting in Water Colours, on, 12, 30, 40 Pictures, Royal Gallery of, at the British Museum, 241 Pick-a-back, Life and Opinions of Old, 3, 21 Pilot, the, 283, 293 Stubbs, Mr. the Horse Painter, 109 Sylva Britannica. By J. G. Strutt, 165 Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Phillips, 149 Vendee La, Madame Sapinaud's Memoirs of the Wars Violin, Account of the, in Charles II.'s time, 255 Walker, Thomas, the Comedian, 335 Water Colours, Origin of the Society of Painters in, Water Colour Painting, Rise and Progress of, in Engl Anecdoteof, 396, 414 Wine and Walnuts, 203, 226, 265, 280 Zachary, My Great Uncle, his Scrap Book, 7, 19, 41, 5 WEEKLY MISCELLANY OF FINE ARTS, ANTIQUITIES, AND LITERARY CHIT CHAT. By Ephraim Hardcastle. THE OCTOBER FIRE-SIDE. No. 1. I KNOW of no recreation more interesting, or more tranquillizing to the mind and body, than that of going to my books again, when the social month of October returns, said my great uncle Zachary; for as my old friend Jonathan Richardson used to observe, of all the months in the year, commend me to October, for then you have summer days and winter evenings. Moreover, he used to add, in June, July, August, and September, your friends, particularly the artists, are rambling about, from the time the town begins to thin of your fashionables; some, your limners, to the watering places, as at the Bath, and other great and populous towns, to paint the faces of their patrons; and the landscape painters, to the Lakes to Wales, and other romantic spots on the isle of late, much to their improvement; whilst the others of our friends, who have nothing else to do, are running to the sea-side for the recruit of their health-to face the coming winter enemy in the play-houses, the punch-houses, and what not. This is a sort of sketch from my great uncle's common-place book, and it is much the same now; for, on the return of this tenth month, as the sober quakers term it, our friends begin to flock homeward; and I know not but us metropolitans might well designate it, The FRIENDLY MONTH. Well! gentle reader, if my great uncle Zachary, with his excellent friends Jonathan Richardson and others so long departed, and so dearly prized, so rationally enjoyed this Tenth Month, now that it is returned once more, and with such a manifestation of God's mercy to this island, so long the birthplace of the wise and good,-why not enjoy it in our day? Yes, the mercy of God to us is great: the times seem to have returned to that happy state, that the rising generation have heard their grandfathers laud so much-the days of PEACE and PLENTY, when bread is cheap, meat is cheap, and coals are cheap; when the industrious can find employ, and the virtuous poor can sit at their humble board and see their children thrive! I cannot endure the month of March, says one; the month of November is horrible, says another. Now my great uncle Zachary used to say, I do not know that I have any great preference for any particular month, for every one has some attribute that brings with it a blessing. Monsieur Roquet,* the honest Swiss, was always in good humour with the world, and consequently, being moreover a virtuous and ingenious man, and in health, in good humour with himself. Such a man is apt to be the cause of it in others. Poor Friar Pinet used to be hipped at the approach of November, and constantly complaining at the damps and fogs. To be sure, the gloomy atmosphere of Now my great uncle, though of the old school, the eleventh month is the antipathy of a face and a bachelor to boot, was as free as any man, painter," as Sir Godfrey Kneller was wont to obeven the married man, civilized and improved by serve. So, Pine was complaining of the climate to the copartnership of a good wife; yea, he was as Roquet, at the club at Old Slaughters', which was entirely free from those crooked prejudices which only a step from his painting-room, when the Swiss stood in the way of the comfortable fire-side. For, shrugging his shoulders observed, with his original said he, to his jocose friend Bonnel Thornton, as naïveté, "mine Gote, mine friend Mistare Pines, they took their mutton together with Garrick, at my for vot shall you complain alway at the climate of uncle's chambers in the Temple, on St. Crispin, England. Vat! if you have short summare! is it 25th October, being the first after the accession of not made amend-have you not the long wintare?" our late venerable King. How can folks talk of a-Friar Pine laughed ready to crack his fat sides; comfortable fire-side, where there is a polished grate and no coals! Indeed, I can remember more than once dining with the worthy man, and eating Michaelmas goose, with a cheerful fire in the room; but it should be observed, he always celebrated that feast, old style, which again brings us to the tenth of the said comfortable month of October. Nc. L. and I verily believe the oddity of the circumstance, LONDON, OCTOBER 11, 1823. SIXPENCE. |