Goldsmiths' Year-marks (Vol. vi., p. 604.; Vol. vii., p. 90.).—I observe that, a few weeks ago, in the "N. & Q.," one of your correspondents made inquiries respecting the publication of my paper on plate-marks, which was read at the Bristol meeting of the Archæological Institute.
In reply, I beg to inform him that he will find, in the last two Numbers of the Journal of the Institute, the first and second parts of the paper, and that the concluding portion of it, and I hope also the table of annual letters, will appear in the forthcoming Number. Should it not be possible to get the table in a fit state for printing in that Number, it will appear in the next; and the whole subject of the assay marks of British plate will then be complete.
Octavius Morgan.
The Friars.
Turner's View of Lambeth Palace (Vol. vii., pp. 15. 89.).—In reply to your correspondent L. E. X., respecting Mr. Turner's picture of Lambeth Palace (which is in water-colours), I beg leave to say that it is in the possession of a lady residing in Bristol, to whose father it was given by the artist after its exhibition at Somerset House, and it has never been in any other hands. The same lady has also a small portrait of Mr. Turner, done by himself when visiting her family about the year 1791 or 1792: further particulars respecting these pictures (if desired) may be known by a line addressed to Miss N——, 8. St. James' Square, Bristol.
Anon.
J. H. A., after referring to the exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1791, by Mr. Turner, of "King John's Palace, Eltham" (No. 494.), and "Sweakley, near Uxbridge" (No. 560.), adds:
"In the horizon of art (strange to say, and yet to be explained!) this luminary glows no more till 1808, when he had 'on the line' (?) several views of Fonthill, as well as 'The Tenth Plague of Egypt.'"
A reference to the catalogues of the Royal Academy exhibitions will prove that Mr. Turner's name appears as an exhibitor there every year between 1790 and 1850, excepting the years 1821, 1824, and 1848. Several views of Fonthill Abbey, and "The Fifth (not the Tenth) Plague of Egypt," were exhibited in 1800, and "The Tenth Plague of Egypt" in 1802.
G. B.