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- ' from Gravesend," &c. ; but, as has been
often reasoned by local antiquaries anc ^topographers no matter where the barques awaited their complements of agents, fac tors, officers, and seamen, all voyagers alike assembled at Ratcliff Cross and the adjacenl Stairs in the numerous inns and taverns which grew up rapidly ; and all were rowec or sailed therefrom to the vessels astream in the Lower Reaches of the Thames, de- pendent on the varying winds and tides and flows. The first practice of getting aboard at Ratcliff gradually declined, for sailing out of the winding river was often a work oi days, and sometimes of weeks, which could be more pleasantly, or more hilariously, -occupied ashore. For the same reason, the Shipwrights' and the sawyers' centre of governance was in Butcher Row, within a bosun's call of Ratcliff Cross ; and their neighbour the Watermen's Company allotted the privileges and arbitrated the claims, customs, and courses of the river -workers below bridge ; and frequently recruited crews not merely for the King's service but for the nominally private adventurers oversea. And liere also the Masters and Captains of the Trinity Brotherhood watched, warded, and dwelt when England's great day upon the Inner and the Outer Seas was dawning.
Me.
BOUTELL' S PUNNING CATALOGUE
OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE.
READEBS of ' N. & Q.' may be interested by the following transcript from an autograph by the late Rev. Chas. Boutell, which, as the present owner of the MS. believes, has never yet been in print. Mr. Boutell, author of well-known books on heraldry and archae- ology, was, at the time he produced this jeu cTesprit, Rector of Norwood, Surrey. Some of the jests seem really witty ; some may be more intelligible to others than they are to me. I presume all the painters' names to be genuine. S.
A Catalogue of a small collection of rare and singularly characteristic Paintings, with a few works of the same class in Sculpture, all of them by most eminent artists, ancient and modern. 1. The Holy City in Sight .. Old Palma
- 2. The Siege of Troy . . . . Teniers
3. The Waggon on the Boad
Van Goen and Van Os.
4. The Flower Protected . . Salvator Rosa
5. The Rencontre . . . . . . Metzu
6. The Cat not let out of the Bag . . Poussin
- 7. The Monk Cloesterman
8. Glovers superseded
9. The Blush Rose . .
10. The Salute
11. The Mutual Promise
12. The Field of Battle
13. Cats Fighting
14. Tolling the Great Bell . .
15. The Fairest of the Flowers
16. Interior of a Carpenter's Shop (a
Cabinet picture)
17. The Successful Candidate
18. Caught at Last . .
19. The Slender Waist
20. Rolling Waves
21. At the Seaside . .
22. The Empty Manger
23. The Estate Purchased
24. Rabbits at Home
25. The Gathered Flowers .
26. The Day after the Alma
27. The Pride of the Forest
28. Fair in the Olden Time .
29. Highland Attendants
30. Sunset
31. The Decision, without
for a Verdict "
32. A Scene in Macbeth
88. The Stage-coach Catastrophe
34. Anchovy Nets
35. River Navigation Impeded
by A.
36. The Boaster Outdone
37. Innocent Flirtation
38. The Way to the Village
39. Sharp Set
40. Venice
41. The Notice to Quit
42. The Bird's Nest ..
43. David and Goliath
44. Sunday in Scotland
45. Pugilists
46. Dressing the Wound
47. The Bell-wether ..
48. Across the River
49. Vanity Fair
>0. The Impending Cry
51. Arctic Scenery
52. The Pathway Stopped . .
53. The Home made Happy. .
54. The Sly Glance . .
" She never told her love " A Hard Row at Sea 57. The Pudding made Perfect
8. The Trout Taken
9. The Proposal 60. The Response 31. Blue Noses..
Ball- Room Scenes
.by Mytcns
Rubens
Lippo Lippi
by Both
. Waterloo
Claude
Kneller
Lely
Turner Gainsborough . by A. Constable Girtin Sandby Beechey Haydon Morland Warren Faed
. . Redgrave Oakley Bartholomew Gillies
,-. . . Westall Waiting
Solomon
Duncan and Haag Brokedon Burgess
Harrison Weir by Topham by Cousins by Lane Hone
. . Waterton by A. Tennant Callow . . Hurlstone Kirke Boxall Linton Tinkler Ferrey .. P. Cox . . Whymper Landseer by A. Poole .. by Shee Smirke Pvne
Mrs. Herring
by Egg
by Hooke and Rodwell Asker Clarke Jack Frost
52. Ball- Room Scenes . Hoppner, Dance, Inskipp
and Stephanoff.
53. The Knight Armed . . . by Lance
54. Travel in the Dark . . . . Knight
5. Sketch on the Caspian . . . . Eastlake
6. The Mountain Spring . . . . Gush
7. The Butt . . . . Cooper and Singleton
8. Full Cry Hunt
59. The Happy Family . . . . Goodall
0. The Two Letters Opie
1. An Exclamation at Whist . . Uwins
2. Preparations for Dinner . . . . by Cooke
3. On the Forth ' Frith
4. High and Dry Patten
