n s. i. MAR. 26, i9io.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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This principal figure may represent the Virg
Mary, or some minor saint. Above her heac
is a chaplet held by two flying angels. Abov
the chaplet is a word in Hebrew characte
which, I think, is "Jehovah.' 1 The rig]
arm is extended, and on the open palm is
Hebrew word, probably " Jesus. n Behinc
the hand is a display of yellow light or fir
On the bosom is the dove the Holy Ghos
The left hand holds a large open book. O
her right side is a winged male figure o
bended knee, holding an open book. H
left hand is raised, as though he might b
speaking. In front he is good ; behind h
is evil. The shoulders of the wings ar
feathered ; the back parts are batlike
Suspended apparently from this figure'
waist, at the back, hangs a great worm wit
a skull for its head.
On the left side of the principal figur is a voluptuous female, kneeling, wit bared bosom, offering with her right hanc a golden wine -cup, and in her left holdin a casket with a heap of gold pieces on it some of which bear a cross potent, anothe an escutcheon, &c. Behind and above th male figure is a skeleton Death with bow and arrow, aiming at the principal figure Behind and above the woman with the casket is the devil with horns, tail, &c.
Under the Latin couplet are an escutcheon (showing a red cross) ; three keys on a loop a bowl of fruit, and a golden flagon. The four " certamina " are perhaps typified by the four figures, viz., the winged male, the female with the casket, Death, and the devil and assuming that the principal figure is the Virgin, the four " auxilia ?J may be the Trinity and the Virgin.
In the sale catalogue it was described as " Early Italian School." On the back of the panel is a wax seal containing a coronet, coat of arms, and motto. The arms and motto are those of the 3rd (? the 2nd) Earl of Mount Cashell.
Presumably the picture was at one time t Moore Park, which has passed out of the possession of the Mount Cashell family. The present Earl in a courteous reply to a letter of mine says :
I think the picture you mention may have
belonged to my uncle Mount Cashell, the 3rd Earl.
1 should have been pleased if I could have given
you any information, but I cannot."
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
WILLIAM SLADE, BORN 1698-9. In the isters of St. Paul's Church, Covent den, there is the following entry
"Christenings, 1698-9. Jan. 16. William
Slade, son of William Slade by Mary Slade,
his wife.'*-
If any of your readers could give me information respecting the above-mentioned Wm. Slade, I should be obliged. Please reply direct. G. SLADE.
Walcot, Alexandra Park, Harrogate.
" Music or THE FUTURE." When, and by whom, was this phrase earliest applied to ; the Liszt-Wagner school of music ? It is indi- cated by Robert Schumann in a letter of 6 February, 1854, described in The Athenceum of 26 February of this year, the great composer exclaiming :
" I am not particularly in harmony with [this] Liszt-Wagnerian enthusiasm. Those whom you consider musicians of the future, I consider musicians of the present ; while those whom you regard as musicians of the past (Bach, Handel, Beethoven) appear to me the best musicians of the future."
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
GEORGE CUMBERLAND, son of Richard Cumberland (1732-1811) the dramatist, is said to have been killed at the siege of Charleston. I wish to know when he entered the Navy, and the date of his death.
G. F. R. B.
THE HON. JOHN FINCH, Captain 1st Foot Guards, was killed in America, 3 July, 1777. Whose son was he, and when was he born ?
G. F. R. B.
WILKINSON LISTER KAYE was admitted to Westminster School in 1787. Particulars of his parentage and career, and the date of his death, are wanted. That he entered the Royal Artillery in 1815, as stated in he ' Westminster School Register,' is bviously wrong. G. F. R. B.
BOOKS AND ENGRAVINGS : THEIR PRE-
ERVATION. I should be greatly obliged if
ny of your readers could inform me if
here is anything one could put on books
ind engravings which, from age or damp,
lave become brittle and rotten, in order to
estore them. I have saved some of the
llustrations to Dickens's novels, which
- >roke at the touch, by putting strong paste
n the back ; but I am told this is apt to make them change colour. D. MANLEY.
' THE DEATH-KILLING DOCTOR.' I have small engraving entitled ' The Death - Killing Doctor ; or, Galen Reviv'd.* It is vidently a portrait of a quack. Can any eader of ' N. & Q.' tell me who this man as ? DOCTOR.
