SOMERSET HOUSE GAZETTE,

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Literary Museum ;

OR,

WEEKLY MISCELLANY OF FINE ARTS, ANTIQUITIES,

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LITERARY CHIT CHAT.

VOL. I.

Containing Original Essays and Correspondence on all Branches of the Fine Arts, Copious Notices of the Public
Exhibitions, Biography of distinguished Painters, Poets, Musicians, Actors, &c. &c. Reviews of New
Publications, Drama, Opera, &c. Literary and Scientific Intelligence, &c. &c.

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1824.

8-15-68

ACADEMY, Royal, Somerset House, 258

Distribution of the prizes at, 147

Actors who have played Female parts, 75

of the Old School, 318

Adelphi, Account of, 102

Alasco, a Tragedy. By Mr. Shee, 403
Albigenses, the, a Romance, 278

Cromwell, Oliver, and Sir Roger L'Estrange, 104
Cowper, W. Private Correspondence of, 297

Customs and Habits of Early Times, 152, 175, 190, 207
Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, 324

Davy, Mr. the Composer, 350
Deare, Mr. the Sculptor, 397

Anacreon, Translation of the Odes of, by W. Richardson, Decastro, J. Memoirs of, 295

Esq. 386

Anatomical Society, Artists, 396
ANECDOTES.-Michael Angelo, 117, 155-Hogarth, 84, 122,
351-Simon, Lord Lovat, 123-Henry Fielding, 123—
Charles II. and Riley, 148-Queen Elizabeth and Daniel
Mytens, ib.-Queen Mary, ib-Lord Thurlowe and Mr.
Phillips, ib.-Oliver Cromwell and Sir Roger L'Estrange,
ib.-Garrick, 149, 191, 285, 297-Albert Durer, 155-Leo-
nardo da Vinci, ib.-Earl of Peterborough, 158-Dr.
Johnson, 188, 302-Alderman Boydell, 223-Corelli, 223,
286-John Kemble, 245-Astley, 296-Sir Joshua Rey:
nolds, 351-Gainsborough, ib.-Mr. Shee, 364-Robert
Ker Porter, 365-Wilson, the Landscape Painter, 396,
414-Dennis the Critic, 399

Angelo, Michael, 117, 155

and Rossini, 337
Angerstein, John Julius, Esq. 246
Annual Register for 1822, 268

Architecture of Regent-street, Letters on, 379, 395
Armour, Meyrick on Ancient, 211, 228
Artists of Olden Times, 135

Reminiscences of, 364, 409
Scrap Book, 357, 383, 396

Athens, Haunted House at, 94

Aureus; or, the Life and Opinions of a Sovereign, 377
Australasia, with other Poems, 375

Bachelor's Wife, by J. Galt, Esq. 361.

Baillie, Captain, Memoirs of, 300

Bardwell on Painting, 207

Bartolozzi, Pasquin's Account of, 183
Beggar's Opera, 59, 415

Bellamy, Mrs. G. Á. and Mrs. Hamilton, 254

Biography and Obituary, the Annual for 1823, 230, 244
Biography-Frank Hayman, 77-Wilson, 92-Cipriani, 108
-Stubbs, 109-J. P. de Loutherbourg, 172-Bartolozzi,
183-John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, the Friend of
Pope. Written by Himself, 186-Captain Baillie, 300-
Henry Jenkins, 302-Antonio Canova, 316-Mr. Richard
Earlom, 317-Davy the Composer, 350
Bowdich, Mrs. Address respecting, 399, 414
Britton, the Musical Small-coal Man, 338
Buckingham, Account of John Duke of, 186, 202
Buildings, Illustrations of Public, by J. Britton, 141, 155,
169

Canova, Antonio, 316-The Works of, by Moses, 195, 244
Caricatures, Rules for Executing, 383
Cato to Lord Byron, 216

Caxton, the First English Printer, 92
Ceiling Painters, 15

Chalker of Walls, Letter from, 347

Charles II. Song written by, 135
and Riley, 148

Chesterfield, Lord, Anecdote of, 188

Children in the Tower, Murder of, 62
Cibber Family, 57

Cibber, Mrs. the celebrated Actress, 415

Cipriani, Account of, 108
Classiques Françaises, 214

Claude, New Liber Veritatis by, 345
Clive, Mrs. the Actress, 257
Columbus, Memorials of, 275
Comic Painting, Essay on, 70
Connoisseurship Modern, 179
Corelli, Anecdotes of, 223, 286

Deformed Transformed, by Lord Byron, 306
Drawings, Directions for Mounting, 62
Dulwich, Beauties of the Picture Gallery at, 231
Durastanti, Signora, the Singer, 383
Dura, Albert, 154

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Eccles, the Fiddler, 239
Edward IV. Musical Establishment of, 170
Elizabeth, Queen, and Daniel Mytens, 149
England, Godwin's History of the Commonwealth of, 354,
English, Character of the, by P. de Comines, 191
Fiddler, Humorous Account of, 105
Fielding, Henry, 123

FINE ARTS.-Pope's Love for Painting, 9, 26-On Painting
in Water Colours, 12, 30, 40, 87-Ceiling Painters, 15
Founding of the Royal Academy, 36-School of Painting
at the British Institution, 53-Directions for Mounting
Drawings, 62-Rise and Progress of Water Colour Paint-
ing, 65, 81, 97, 114, 129, 145, 161, 177, 193-Painters
who have been Musicians, 84-Nicholson on Colouring,
88-History of Scene Painting, 90, 100-Superior Advan-
tages of the Painters of Scotland over the Painters of
England, 99-Account of the Adelphi, 102-Cox on
Landscape Painting and Effect, 101, 141-Letters on the
Architecture of Somerset House, 114, 146-Artists of
Olden Times, 135-Britton's Illustrations of Public
Buildings, 141, 155, 169-Distribution of the Prizes to
the Students of the Royal Academy, 147-Burnet's Hints
on Composition in Painting, 163-Modern Connoisseur-
ship, 179-Bardwell on Painting, 181, 207-Moses's Out-
lines from Canova's Works, 195, 244-Portrait of his
Majesty, 235 Royal Gallery of Pictures, British Mu-
seum, 241-Critiques on the Exhibition at the British
Gallery, 243, 273, 289, 292, 329, 383, 394-Examples of
Ornamental Sculpture, 244-Pictures in the Gallery of
the late J. J. Angerstein, Esq. 246-Royal Academy,
257-Powel's Etchings from the Old Masters, 261-List
of Pictures sold at the British Institution, 292-Letters
on Mr. Eastlake's Pictures, 301, 313-Price on the Pic-
turesque, 315, 348-Pictures by the Old Masters, 321-
Life and Times of Salvator Rosa, 327, 343-Portraits of
Michael Angelo and Rossini, 337-Claude's New Liber
Veritatis, 345-Progress of the Arts at Rome, 346-Pain-
ters Engravers, and Engravers Painters, 352-Cruick-
shanks' Points of Humour, No. 2, 365-His Majesty and
Sir J. F. Leicester, 368-Letters on the Architecture of
the New Street, 379, 395-Oratorios versus Spiritual
Concerts, 381-Coade's Gallery of Artificial Stone Orna-
ments, 381-Artist's Anatomical Society, 396-Sir John
Leicester, Additions to his Gallery, 401-Account of
Gillray the Caricaturist, 409

Foote, his Tea, 136-His Trip to Edinburgh, 237
Forget Me Not, a Christmas Present, 157

Friendship's Offering; or, the Annual Remembrancer, 253
Frodsham, the York Garrick, 150, 166