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Letter V.
NETHERLANDISH MSS.
127
trees have the dull green peculiar to French miniatures. With
p. 97 b, we trace another French hand more free from Nether-
landish influence, and which, with its greenish flesh tones and
woolly treatment, often recurs. P. 165 a, a female saint with
a book, by this hand; the head is in the earlier idealistic style ;
also a figure falling from a tower, with a very delicate head.
P. 124 a, Acis and Galatea, is a remarkable piece. Acis, in
the costume of a gentleman of the day, is trying to escape,
while Galatea, attired as a young lady, is standing half way up
in water, to show that she is a sea-nymph; Polyphemus, a
very ugly giant, with a good-natured physiognomy, is very phleg-
matically grasping the rocks, which he is about to throw at the
pair. The Marriage of Peleus, on the next page, is very amusing.
The feast is going on at three tables, one above the other,
while Jupiter holds the golden apple, with the imperial crown
on his head. The animated motives, charming individual heads,
and excellent im/pasto, show another Netherlandish hand, with
pale flesh tones. P. 131 a, Fortune, is very remarkable : the
goddess, with bandaged eyes, is turning the wheel in the air,
with six persons upon it. A knight with his lady, on the same
page, is particularly attractive in motive. P. 160 b, Daphne, in
the act of transformation, is very naive. She is a laurel above,
and a naked figure of a green colour below, while Apollo, repre-
sented as a gentleman of the day, is coolly breaking off a bough
for a wreath. P. 182 b, a sleeping girl, is of singular beauty
and delicacy. Also the representation of a kind of trial before five
crowned personages, by the same hand as the Marriage of Peleus.
A shepherdess weaving a garland is also very pretty, with the
idealistic countenance belonging to the second French hand.
Also, p. 262, a girl giving mottoes from a book to four men, is
pretty. The battle-pieces, on the other hand, are all very lame.
Generally speaking, the grounds are panelled, though one, con-
sisting of architecture of a light tone, and the sky is by the same
hand as the Marriage of Peleus.
The recently purchased celebrated Missal, from the collection
of the late Sir John Tobin, of Liverpool, was executed for the
great Duke of Bedford, after the death of his brother, Henry V.
of England, for many years Regent of France. The date of its
origin is accurately fixed by two circumstances. The arms of the
NETHERLANDISH MSS.
127
trees have the dull green peculiar to French miniatures. With
p. 97 b, we trace another French hand more free from Nether-
landish influence, and which, with its greenish flesh tones and
woolly treatment, often recurs. P. 165 a, a female saint with
a book, by this hand; the head is in the earlier idealistic style ;
also a figure falling from a tower, with a very delicate head.
P. 124 a, Acis and Galatea, is a remarkable piece. Acis, in
the costume of a gentleman of the day, is trying to escape,
while Galatea, attired as a young lady, is standing half way up
in water, to show that she is a sea-nymph; Polyphemus, a
very ugly giant, with a good-natured physiognomy, is very phleg-
matically grasping the rocks, which he is about to throw at the
pair. The Marriage of Peleus, on the next page, is very amusing.
The feast is going on at three tables, one above the other,
while Jupiter holds the golden apple, with the imperial crown
on his head. The animated motives, charming individual heads,
and excellent im/pasto, show another Netherlandish hand, with
pale flesh tones. P. 131 a, Fortune, is very remarkable : the
goddess, with bandaged eyes, is turning the wheel in the air,
with six persons upon it. A knight with his lady, on the same
page, is particularly attractive in motive. P. 160 b, Daphne, in
the act of transformation, is very naive. She is a laurel above,
and a naked figure of a green colour below, while Apollo, repre-
sented as a gentleman of the day, is coolly breaking off a bough
for a wreath. P. 182 b, a sleeping girl, is of singular beauty
and delicacy. Also the representation of a kind of trial before five
crowned personages, by the same hand as the Marriage of Peleus.
A shepherdess weaving a garland is also very pretty, with the
idealistic countenance belonging to the second French hand.
Also, p. 262, a girl giving mottoes from a book to four men, is
pretty. The battle-pieces, on the other hand, are all very lame.
Generally speaking, the grounds are panelled, though one, con-
sisting of architecture of a light tone, and the sky is by the same
hand as the Marriage of Peleus.
The recently purchased celebrated Missal, from the collection
of the late Sir John Tobin, of Liverpool, was executed for the
great Duke of Bedford, after the death of his brother, Henry V.
of England, for many years Regent of France. The date of its
origin is accurately fixed by two circumstances. The arms of the