FONTHILL ABBEY
From The London Magazine, November 1822
348. Omne ignotum. Tacitus, Agricola, XXX.
Ships of pearl and seas of amber. An unacknowledged recollection of ‘seas of milk, and ships of amber.’ Otway, Venice Preserved, v. 2.
[349]. Breughel. Jan Brueghel (1568–1625), of Brussels, a landscape painter greatly admired by Rubens, in some of whose pictures Brueghel painted the landscapes.
Rottenhammer. Johann Rottenhammer (1564–1623), of Munich, historical painter. Brueghel painted some of his landscape back-grounds also.
Which like a trumpet.
‘That like a trumpet made young pulses dance.’
Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini, Canto III.
Cumberland. Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), the dramatist, who was sent to Spain on a diplomatic mission in 1780. See his Memoirs, 1807, vol. II. p. 78.
While groves of Eden. Pope, Windsor Forest, 7.
Mr. Ritchie. Joseph Ritchie (1788?-1819), who went out on a government expedition to Africa about 1818.
Bruce. James Bruce (1730–1794), who explored Abyssinia in 1769–1771.
Beckford. See ante, note to p. [56].
[351]. Whose price is above rubies. ‘The price of wisdom is above rubies.’ Job xxviii. 18.
[351]. The showman in Goldsmith’s comedy. She Stoops to Conquer, I.
[352]. In our mind’s eye. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2.
Mr. Christie. James Christie, the elder (1730–1803), the London auctioneer. His son, James the younger (1773–1831), was both antiquary and auctioneer.
[354]. Della Cruscan. See vol. V. Lectures on the English Poets, note to p. 148.
Nugæ Canoræ. Horace, Ars Poet. 322.
Stella. A family of French painters of various years from 1525 to 1697.
Franks. Frans Francken, the younger, otherwise Don Francisco, of Antwerp (1581–1642), one of a numerous family of painters.
Lucas Cranach. Luther’s friend, the painter whose name is always associated with the Reformation (1472–1553).
Netecher. Caspar Netcher (1639–1684), of Heidelberg, painter of domestic scenes and small portraits. His two sons Constantine and Theodor were also painters.
[355]. Cosway. Richard Cosway (d. 1821), the miniaturist. This passage about Cosway is substantially repeated in vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, pp. 95–6.
Mr. Cipriani. Giambattista Cipriani, of Florentine birth (1727–1785).
We scarce shall [shall not] look upon his like again. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2.
G. Douw. See ante, note to p. [35].
Bassan. See ante, note to p. [35].