Charles Watson.—Can any of your readers give me any account of Charles Watson, of Hertford College, Oxford, author of poems, and Charles the First, a tragedy?
I believe a short memoir of this author was to have appeared in Blackwood's Magazine (the second volume, I think); it was never published, however.
A. Z.
Early (German) coloured Engravings.—I have six old coloured engravings, which I suppose to be part of a series, as they are numbered respectively 1, 2, 4, 11, 12, 14. They are mounted on panels; and on the back of each is a piece of vellum, on which some descriptive verses in old German have been written. The ink retains its blackness; but dirt, mildew, and ill usage have rendered nearly all the inscriptions illegible, and greatly damaged the pictures; yet, through the laborious colouring and the stains, good drawing and expression are visible. Perhaps a brief description may enable some of your readers to tell me whether they are known.
Nos. 1. and 11. are so nearly obliterated, that I will not attempt to describe them. No. 2. seems to be St. George attacking the dragon. The inscription is:
"Hier merke Sohn gar schnell und bald,
Von grausam schwartzen Thier im Wald."
No. 4. A stag and a unicorn:
"Man ist von Nöthin dass ihr wiszt,
Im Wald ein Hirsch und Eikhorn ist."