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draughtsman, later as an engraver also. He made some of the drawings for Pennant's 'Journey from Chester to London,' 1782, and ornamented the margins of his 'Tour in Wales,' vol. ii. His works have little art merit. They are washed in rather heavily with Indian ink, and very slightly tinted. He accompanied his master on all his journeys, and on receiving his "manumission" retired to Wales, where he published, in 1781, some etchings, his first attempts, as supplemental plates to the 'Tour in Wales.' He was living in 1809. Archibald Sparke.
In Whitford Church (Flintshire) tomb (? now destroyed) with inscription written by David Pennant:
"In memory of Moses Griffiths, an ingenious self-taught artist, who accompanied Thomas Pennant, the historian, in his tours, whose work he illustrated by his faithful pencil. Died November 11th, 1819, aged 72." (See Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist, August, 1915, pp. 163-5.)
A SHAKESPEARE PORTRAIT (12 S. i. 326).
Sir Sidney Lee in his ' Life of William
Shakespeare ' (1915), p. 534, note, says :
" At the end of the eighteenth century ' one Zincke, an artist of little note, but grandson of the celebrated enameller of that name, manufactured fictitious Shakespeares bv the score' (Chambers' s Journal, Sept. 20,1856). One of the most successful of Zincke's frauds was an alleged portrait of the dramatist painted on a pair of bellows, which the great French actor Talma acquired. Charles Lamb visited Talma in Paris in 1822 in order to see the fabrication, and was completely deluded. (See Lamb's ' Works,' ed. Lucas, vol. v'ii. pp. 573, seq., where the Talma portrait, now the property of Mr. B. B. MacGeorge of Glasgow, is reproduced.")
A. R. BAYLEY.
In Mr. E. V. Lucas's edition of the Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol. vii. Letters (1821-34), pp. 574. 575, there is a full account, in a letter of C Lamb's dated Sept. 22, 1822, and in Mr. Lucas's notes, of the " bellows " portrait of Shakespeare by Zincke, an artist of little note, but a grandson of the celebrated enameller of that name, and who manufac- tured fictitious Shakespeares by the score. There is a reproduction of the portrait, which, with Lamb's letter, is now in the possession of Mr. B. B. MacGeorge.
R. A. POTTS.
This forgery, painted on a pair of bellows, is described in my small work ' Shakespeare Frauds : the Story of Some Famous Literary and Pictorial Forgeries,' issued a few years go. WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.
TREASURY NOTES (12 S. i. 249). The
overprinting in Arabic, &c., appears on those
notes which have been sent out to foreign-
theatres of war to pay our soldiers, so that
the natives would understand the purport of
these " scraps of paper," and accept them
without question, in payment for goods
supplied, &c. ALBERT WADE.
I have not seen any myself, but have been, told that some of these notes have their equivalent value in piasters marked on, in printing or MS., in Arabic characters.
L. L. K.
HOBY : POULETT, c. 1600 (12 S. i. 310). It would appear from a reference to the ' Notes and Queries ' column of The Evesham Journal (Nos. 384 and 385) that Sir Edward Hoby was a son of Sir Thomas Hoby by his marriage with Elizabeth Cooke, afterwards the wife of Lord Russell. The notes in The Evesham Journal are based on information- supplied by the Vicar of Bisham, and,, according to these, the second wife of Sir Edward Hoby was Elizabeth (not Catherine) Danvers. C. U. C.
ACTION ON WATER OF FROGS AND TOADS- (12 S. i. 268). I have never heard of frogs purifying water, but when I was shooting in India in the hot weather my old Binjara shikari, when we were short of water, took us to the river-bed, and after examining several pools chose one in which he said the water was safe, as there were fish in it. We drank the water without any ill effects. I always thought the fish purified it by eating- the animalcula in it.
R. BULLOCK, Col.
Nuthurst, Chiddingfold, Surrey.
PICTURE WANTED : TRIAL OF THE TICH- BORNE CLAIMANT (12 S. i. 327). In answer to W. B. H. I beg to say I have a copy of the autotype, and key, representing the Court of Queen's Bench during the trial of the Tichborne claimant, published at the office of the Great Tichborne Picture Proprietors, 35 Walbrook, 1873-4. They might have the picture. E. C. WIENHOLT.
10 Selborne Road, Hove, Sussex.
MAXSE SURNAME (12 S. i. 287). I would suggest that this surname, spelt also variously " Maxie " and " Maxey," derives from the township of Maxey in Northamptonshire.
S. D. C.
COPLEY AND MRS. FORT (12 S. i. 348). A Morgan collection was sold by auction at New York, in or about 1886. S. DE R.
