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ALFRED GATTY.
_Portraits of Stevens and Cotton and Bunyan._--The plan of "NOTES AND
QUERIES" appears well adapted to record the change of hands into which
portraits of literary men may pass. I accordingly offer two to your notice.
The portrait of George Stevens, the celebrated annotator on Shakspeare, who
died in 1800, was bequeathed by him to a relative, Mrs. Gomm of Spital
Square; and at that lady's death, some years after, it passed, I have
reason to expect, into the possession of her relative, Mr. Fince, of
Bishopsgate Street. I have no farther information of it.
The portrait of Charles Cotton, by Sir Peter Lely, was, at the time (1814)
when Linnell took a copy, and (in 1836) when Humphreys took a copy, in the
possession of John Berisford, Esq., of Compton House, Ashborne, Derbyshire;
and the following extracts of letters will show who at present possesses
it:--
"Leek, 14th July, 1842.
"After Mr. Berisford's decease, I should think the portrait of Cotton
would fall into the hands of his nephew Francis Wright, Esq., of Linton
Hall, near Nottingham.
I am, &c. &c"
"Linton Hall, Aug. 19. 1842.
"Sir,--The Rev. J. Martin, of Trinity College, Cambridge, is the
possessor of the portrait of Cotton to which your letter alludes. I am,
Dear Sir,
"Yours, in haste,
"F. WRIGHT."
I avail myself of the present opportunity to ask the authority for the
portrait of Bunyan appended to his ever-fresh allegory. The engraved
portrait I have has not the name of the painter.
O.W.
_Sonnet: Attempting to prove that Black is White._--
"It has been said of many, they were quite
Prepared to prove (I do not mean in fun)
That white was really black, and black was white;
But I believe it has not yet been done.
Black (Saxon, Blac) in any way to liken
With _candour_ may seem almost out of reach;
Yet _whiten_ is in kindred German _bleichen_,
Undoubtedly identical with _bleach_:
This last verb's cognate adjective is _bleak_--
Reverting to the Saxon, _bleak_ is bl�k. [4]
A semivowel is, at the last squeak,
All that remains such difference wide to make--
The hostile terms of keen antithesis
Brought to an _E plus ultra_ all but kiss!"
MEZZOTINTO.
[Footnote 4: Pronounced (as _black_ was anciently written) _blake_.]
_Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks_, 1626.--MR. HEBER says, "Who has seen
another copy?" In Tanner's Collection in the Bodleian Library is one copy,
and in the British Museum is another, the latter from Mr. Bright's
Collection.
W.P.
[Another copy is in the valuable collection of the Rev. T. Corser. See
that gentleman's communication on Nicholas Breton, in our First Vol.,
p. 409.]
* * * * *
QUERIES.
THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM.
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