Part 5 (1/2)
The French sentinel is so situated, as to give soed shi+rt is trimmed with a pair of paper ruffles The old wo reseetables, indicate what are the leading articles in a Lenten feast
Mr Pine, the painter, sat for the friar, and from thence acquired the title of Father Pine This distinction did not flatter hiht be altered, but the artist peremptorily refused
[Illustration: GATE OF CALAIS
”O THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND”]
THE POLITICIAN
”A politician should (as I have read) Be furnish'd in the first place with a head”
One of our old writers gives it as his opinion, that ”there are onlie two subjects which are worthie the studie of a wise ion and politics For the first, it does not come under inquiry in this print,--but certain it is, that too sedulously studying the second, has frequently involved its votaries in many most tedious and unprofitable disputes, and been the source ofand honest men Under this class comes the Quidnunc here pourtrayed; it is said to be intended for a Mr Tibson, laceman, in the Strand, who paid more attention to the affairs of Europe, than to those of his own shop
He is represented in a style somewhat similar to that in which Schalcken painted Williaerly inspecting the Gazetteer of the day Deeply interested in the intelligence it contains, concerning the flae on the Continent, he is totally insensible of do to his hat,--
”Threatens destruction to his three-tail'd wig”
Froh-quartered shoes, and sword, I should suppose it was painted about the year 1730, when street robberies were so frequent in the metropolis, that it was customary for ion and liberty fron invasion, but to defend their own pockets froarth presented to his friend Forrest; it was etched by Sherwin, and published in 1775
[Illustration: THE POLITICIAN]
TASTE IN HIGH LIFE,
IN THE YEAR 1742
The picture froarth painted by the order of Miss Edwards, a woularities in her manners, requested the artist to recriuineas for his production
It is professedly intended to ridicule the reigning fashi+ons of high life, in the year 1742: to do this, the painter has brought into one group, an old beau and an old lady of the Chesterfield school, a fashi+onable young lady, a little black boy, and a full-dressed monkey
The old lady, with a er and thumb, a shly ena with vacant wonder at that and the companion saucer which he holds in his hand, joins in ad beauties!
”Each varied colour of the brightest hue, The green, the red, the yellow, and the blue, In every part their dazzled eyes behold, Here streak'd with silver--there enrich'd with gold”
This gentleman is said to be intended for Lord Portmore, in the habit he first appeared at Court, on his return froequeue, black stock, feathered chapeau, and shoes, give him the air of
”An old and finish'd fop, All cork at heel, and feather all at top”
The old lady's habit, forives her the appearance of a squat pyra one is fondling a little black boy, who on his part is playing with a petite paGoda This miniature Othello has been said to be intended for the late Ignatius Sancho, whose talents and virtues were an honour to his colour At the time the picture was painted, he would have been rather older than the figure, but as he was then honoured by the partiality and protection of a noble faht possibly ure had been a few years before