DOI Heft:
January 23, 1875
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16940#0041
anuary 23, 1875.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
33
TALLEYRAND REDIVIVUS.
Epicurus (dining at his Club, is surprised at the presence of his domestic Green-grocerial Waiter). “Eh! what! Why, is it you,
WARTS ! Well, I’m glad to see you ’re getting on ! ”
Warts (unmoved). “Thank you, Sir, yessir, wich I’ve ’eard say ‘the Man as can Wait, is the successful Man,’ Sir.
Stilton or Cheshire, SrR?” [Becomes a Licensed Victualler, and dies richl
STUDY TOR THE ACADEMY.
Visitors to that delightful annual, the Winter Exhibition of the
Royal Academy, will save themselves much helplessness, confusion,
and prevarication—particularly those to whom their companions
may turn for information about such of the pictures as need expla-
nation—by learning beforehand a few facts, historical, biographical,
mythological, topographical, poetical, literary, and dramatic, bear-
ing on the various paintings which have not the advantage of
telling their own story in titles as beautifully brief and simple as
“ A Thistle,” “A Landscape,” “ Portrait of a Lady in a liuff',”
“An Interior,” and “ Tioo Sheep! Indeed no one should dream
of visiting the Exhibition now open at Burlington House, and
plunging into the expense of a Catalogue (bound, with pencil),
unless competent to answer such a proportion of the following ques-
tions as would satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners.
Give a summary, with dates, of the historical incidents on which
are founded the pictures entitled the Duke of Gloucester and the
Watergate of Calais; the Marriage (in high life) of Strongbow and
the Princess Eva ; the Slaughter of the Suitors of Penelope ; the
Wreck of the Minotaur; the Sleeping Beauty; and the Last Sleep of
Duncan.
Why is such familiarity taken with the name of that admirable
landscape painter, Mr. John Crohe, as to cause him invariably to
be called “ Old Crohe” ?
Relate (with dates) all you can remember about John Knox,
Polly Peachem, Archbishop Laud, Mr. Tickell, the Duchess oe
Savoy, William Tell, St. Sebastian, Lord Castlereagh, the
Earl oe Strafeord, Cupid and Psyche, the Abbe Gregoire,
Queen Mariana, the Marquis of Montrose, Sarah Malcolm,
Captain Ruck, Mrs. Gibson the dwarf, Doge Leon Loredano,
Philip the Eourth, Edward the Sixth, the Earl of Essex,
the Melian Nymphs, the Misses Gainsborough, St. Louis of
.France, and Wright of Derby.
Show your intimate acquaintance with Spanish history by stating
whose son and grandson the Infante Don Balthazar Carlos was,
and by tracing his relationship to the Don Carlos of our own times.
To go from grave to Gay, who was the composer of the music of
the Beggar's Opera ?
Who wrote Orlando Furioso, and what scene in that successful
burlesque is portrayed in Dosso Dossi’s picture ?
Where are the Yare, Whitchurch, Wanstead, the Falls of Tivoli,
the Mouth of the Thames, Boscastle, Macon, Carreg-Cennen,
Dedham, Rhyl, and Poringland ?
How is canine sagacity illustrated in the story of the dog who
saved the Duke of Richmond (not the present Conservative Leader
of the House of Lords) from being murdered—in Gallery No. 2.
(N.B.—Here a little invention will be venial.)
Give quotations (not to exceed fourteen lines) to illustrate the
Play-scene in Hamlet, the Banquet-scene in Macbeth, the ex-
amination of the recruits before Falstajf, Shallow, and Silence,
the Disenchantment of Bottom, the Eve of St. Agnes, the Veiled
Prophet of Khorassan, Kitely and Dame Kitely (Dr. Johnson’s
Every Man in his Humour), and the Interview of Werner and the
Empress Josephine.
Explain and give the derivation of “ Pollard Oak,” “ Anchorite,”
“ La Tricoteuse,” and “ La Marchande de Legumes.”
Give the correct pronunciation of Era Bartolommeo, Hobbema,
Ruysdael, Mierevelt, Jan Claasze Rietschoof, Brauwer, Mieris,
Mantegna, Vandevelde, Velasquez, Zegers, and Zurbaran ; and
explain Lo Spagnoletto, Andrea del Sarto, and the origin of the
names of Ghirlandaio, and Tintoretto.
What was Caxton’s connection with the Press ?
Are you not of opinion that descriptive tablets on all the frames
would be highly desirable F
in good company.
On his return to London from being present at the great sight
in Paris, the Lord Mayor, with peculiar appropriateness, gave an
account of his visit at a dinner of the Spectacle Makers.
Von. 68.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
33
TALLEYRAND REDIVIVUS.
Epicurus (dining at his Club, is surprised at the presence of his domestic Green-grocerial Waiter). “Eh! what! Why, is it you,
WARTS ! Well, I’m glad to see you ’re getting on ! ”
Warts (unmoved). “Thank you, Sir, yessir, wich I’ve ’eard say ‘the Man as can Wait, is the successful Man,’ Sir.
Stilton or Cheshire, SrR?” [Becomes a Licensed Victualler, and dies richl
STUDY TOR THE ACADEMY.
Visitors to that delightful annual, the Winter Exhibition of the
Royal Academy, will save themselves much helplessness, confusion,
and prevarication—particularly those to whom their companions
may turn for information about such of the pictures as need expla-
nation—by learning beforehand a few facts, historical, biographical,
mythological, topographical, poetical, literary, and dramatic, bear-
ing on the various paintings which have not the advantage of
telling their own story in titles as beautifully brief and simple as
“ A Thistle,” “A Landscape,” “ Portrait of a Lady in a liuff',”
“An Interior,” and “ Tioo Sheep! Indeed no one should dream
of visiting the Exhibition now open at Burlington House, and
plunging into the expense of a Catalogue (bound, with pencil),
unless competent to answer such a proportion of the following ques-
tions as would satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners.
Give a summary, with dates, of the historical incidents on which
are founded the pictures entitled the Duke of Gloucester and the
Watergate of Calais; the Marriage (in high life) of Strongbow and
the Princess Eva ; the Slaughter of the Suitors of Penelope ; the
Wreck of the Minotaur; the Sleeping Beauty; and the Last Sleep of
Duncan.
Why is such familiarity taken with the name of that admirable
landscape painter, Mr. John Crohe, as to cause him invariably to
be called “ Old Crohe” ?
Relate (with dates) all you can remember about John Knox,
Polly Peachem, Archbishop Laud, Mr. Tickell, the Duchess oe
Savoy, William Tell, St. Sebastian, Lord Castlereagh, the
Earl oe Strafeord, Cupid and Psyche, the Abbe Gregoire,
Queen Mariana, the Marquis of Montrose, Sarah Malcolm,
Captain Ruck, Mrs. Gibson the dwarf, Doge Leon Loredano,
Philip the Eourth, Edward the Sixth, the Earl of Essex,
the Melian Nymphs, the Misses Gainsborough, St. Louis of
.France, and Wright of Derby.
Show your intimate acquaintance with Spanish history by stating
whose son and grandson the Infante Don Balthazar Carlos was,
and by tracing his relationship to the Don Carlos of our own times.
To go from grave to Gay, who was the composer of the music of
the Beggar's Opera ?
Who wrote Orlando Furioso, and what scene in that successful
burlesque is portrayed in Dosso Dossi’s picture ?
Where are the Yare, Whitchurch, Wanstead, the Falls of Tivoli,
the Mouth of the Thames, Boscastle, Macon, Carreg-Cennen,
Dedham, Rhyl, and Poringland ?
How is canine sagacity illustrated in the story of the dog who
saved the Duke of Richmond (not the present Conservative Leader
of the House of Lords) from being murdered—in Gallery No. 2.
(N.B.—Here a little invention will be venial.)
Give quotations (not to exceed fourteen lines) to illustrate the
Play-scene in Hamlet, the Banquet-scene in Macbeth, the ex-
amination of the recruits before Falstajf, Shallow, and Silence,
the Disenchantment of Bottom, the Eve of St. Agnes, the Veiled
Prophet of Khorassan, Kitely and Dame Kitely (Dr. Johnson’s
Every Man in his Humour), and the Interview of Werner and the
Empress Josephine.
Explain and give the derivation of “ Pollard Oak,” “ Anchorite,”
“ La Tricoteuse,” and “ La Marchande de Legumes.”
Give the correct pronunciation of Era Bartolommeo, Hobbema,
Ruysdael, Mierevelt, Jan Claasze Rietschoof, Brauwer, Mieris,
Mantegna, Vandevelde, Velasquez, Zegers, and Zurbaran ; and
explain Lo Spagnoletto, Andrea del Sarto, and the origin of the
names of Ghirlandaio, and Tintoretto.
What was Caxton’s connection with the Press ?
Are you not of opinion that descriptive tablets on all the frames
would be highly desirable F
in good company.
On his return to London from being present at the great sight
in Paris, the Lord Mayor, with peculiar appropriateness, gave an
account of his visit at a dinner of the Spectacle Makers.
Von. 68.