No. 89. "A Family IN LITTLE."
Is this to be interpreted by Hamlet's sarcasm upon the sycophants of his uncle's court, who paid "Forty, fifty, nay, one hundred ducats, for his portrait in little?" Small full-lengths were in vogue at the period, but our Yorkist has a delicate diminutive of his own. Again, in 1775, we have three works of Drake—
72. "View of a Gentleman's Seat in Yorkshire, with two Gentlemen going out a-hawking."
73. "Sacarissa with Amoret and Musidora." From Thomson's Seasons, 4to. edition, 1730.
74. "A Winter Piece."
And in 1776:
23. "A Madonna and Child." Mr Drake, F.S.A., York.
There is no trace of him at the Royal Academy. Thus we have him in portraiture, in landscape, in sacred history, and in the poetical imaginative. This is beyond what G. reckons upon; and now, having contributed thus much, I hope some of your readers may assist in carrying the inquiry further.
J. H. A.
Sparse (Vol. vi., p. 554.; Vol. vii., p. 51.), said to be an Americanism.—I have in my possession an edition, printed in 1611, of the Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. In the paraphrase of Psalm xliv. v. 10. is the following: