The Eagle 1890 (Michaelmas)

CONTENT."'. The Subscription for the current year is fixed at 4� j it includes Frolltis1>iere PACE Nos 93, 94 and 95. Subscribers who pay One Guinea in advance will be supplied with the Magazine for five years, dating from the Term in which the payment is made. The Portraits of Bishop Fisher Resident subscribers are requested to pay their Subscript-ions to 325 1'£1' E. Johnson, Bookseller, Trinity Street: cheques and postal orders Bishop should be made payable to The Treasurer 0./ tlte Eagle Magazine. Fisher and the New Romau C�tho!ic Church 337 The Editors would be glad if Subscribers would inform them of auy of Notes from the Colleg� Record� (cv'7I;nued) their friends who are anxious to take in the Magazine. 341 Subscribers are requested to leave their addresses with Mr E. Johnson, The First Athletic Sports in Cambridge 358 and to give notice of auy change j and also of any corrections in the printed list of Subscribers issued in December. "A Pacquet of Good Advice" 302 The Secretaries of College Societies are requested to send in their Science at Sea notices for the Chronicle before the end of the seventh week of each Term. 371 Contributions for the next number should be sent in at an early date Obituary: to one of the Editors (Dr Donald MacAlister, Mr G. C. M. Smith, B. Long, J. A. Cameron, E. W. MacBride, F. W. Cal'llegy). The Rev Canon Charles Tower lILA. 3Sr N.B.-Contt-ibutors of anonymous articles or letters will please send The Rev Arthur Beard �r.A. their names to one of the Editors who need not communicate them further. 33r [Copies 0./ the antique medallt'on portraz't 0./ Lady Margaret may be The Rev John Davies. ;\LA. 382 obtained b)1 Subsc?'Z'bers at the reduced price 0./ 3d on application to J/!lr llferry at the College Buttery.] Theodore Coppock M.A. LL.B. 383 [La,-ge-paper copies 0./ the plate 0./ the College Arms, forming the /1'ontispiece to No 89, may be obtained by SubsC1'ibers at the reduced price Wathen Mark Wilks Call l\1.A. 0./ rod on application to Mr .lJfen')' at the Cullege Buttery.] 383 [11,11' Torry's notes on The Founders and Benefactors of St John's College, The First "reek in June, l890 38+ with notes and index, may be had 0./ Metcalje &> Co. Limited, Publt'sJw'S, Trinity St,'eet, Cambridge, and wilt be sellt post-./ree to a"yone enclosing a Our Chroruc1e _ Postal Order. /01' halj-a-c1'07fm, the publisMng price, to the Rev A. F. Torry, 386 l\1:arwood Rectory, Barnstaple, Devon.] The Library [M, E. Juhnson zrJ£ll be glad to "e,�r ./rom any Subscribet· who has a 41i dltpli"ate copy 0./ No 84 to dt:rpose of] List of Subscribers THE PORTRAITS OF BISHOP FISHER. his a sentence _ARK Pattison quotes, in Memotrs, of Neate's: "Posterity owes to those who have �. , effectually worked fo r its benefit the debt of a grateful curiosity has led to the grateful curiosity." A compilation of the following list, made in some haste, at a distance fr om adequate materials, and being a mere mosaic of other people's elaborations. This list has no pretence of being exhaustive. The grouping probably will be shown to contain defects. claims, merely, to be a first study in Iconography. It , 1. WORD PORTRAITS. Dr Richard Hall, who had belonged to Christ's College, Cambridge, was living within 30 years of Bp. Fisher's death. He wrote a Ltje of Fzsher before 1568, and must at any rate have known those who t1. had actually seen Bp. Fisher. He says of him: "In R.,ol"flmf:J• stature of his body, he was tall and comely, exceeding the common and middle sort of men j fo r he was to the quantity of six fo ot in height, and being therewith very slender and lean, was nevertheless upright and well fo rmed, straight back'd, big joynted, and strongly sinewed, his haire by nature black, though in his later time, through age and imprisonment, turned to hoarinesse, or rather to whitenesse, his eys large and round, neither full black nor full gray, but of a mixt colour between both, his fo rehead smooth and VOL. XVI. uu 327 The PortratlS of Btsltop Ftshe1'. 326 The Por/rmes 0/fNshop F/she, , ENGRAVINGS ETC. large, his nose of a good and even proportion, some_ Ill. PORTRAITS, what wide mouth'd and big jaw'd, as one ordained Royal Library at HANS HOLBEIN. Red chalk. to utter much speech, wherein was, notwithstanding, 1. Windsor. years old. a certain� comelinesse, his skin somewhat tawny, bishop was fifty-eight Drawn in 1527, when the mixed with many blew veins, his face, hands and all rait are written the words: At the foot of the port his body, so bare of flesh, as is almost incredible, il capo l'ano 1535·" "Il Epyscopo de res ester fo tagliato drawing: etc." (Life, selected by T. Bayly, Lond. 1655, p. 2 15). says of this and the companion Dr Woltmann anxiously its honest, modest, but n. PORTRAITS LOST OR UNIDENTIFIED. "The worn countenance with completely the man, whose HANS HOLBElN. expression, shows I. Up to comparatively lately was conscientious with profound and purity of life, combined in a house at Rome near the Pantheon. A copy, wonderfu l kindness of learning, as well as incredible unostentatious by Erasmus " No. IS in this list, is Supposed to be taken from this, high and low, is extolled H. D. E demeanour towards and is now in tile possession of Grissell, sq., Eng. Trans. p. 313). (Holbez'n and his Hme, the most at Oxford, who has s4Pplied this information. This hard ascetic fa ce .. is among "The portrait .. a would may have been the portrait thrown out of a window the series .•" The "inscription expressive drawings of of an d was once in the possession by Anne Boleyn. Father Stevenson SI, tIle historian, imply that the rawing is the authority for this anecdote. Italian." full face, turned to fi head in a doctor's cap, nearly 2. A portrait of Bp. Fisher WaS" always kept with "A ne The hard lines thin; body in mere outline. Borromeo, says Alban the right; very a little great respect," by St Charles great force of nature at very serviceable, giving Butler. ..are pp. 223, +04)· (Wornum, Life ofHo lbet'n, "S. Carlo Borromeo ayea per questo martire [Fisher] tanta distance" drawings by Holbein t declared these chalk venerazione quanto ne nudriva peI dottore S. Ambrogio, ed f orace Walpole pictures, as they preferable to his finished immagine per averlo sempre d nanzi "in one respect and anzi fe ce dipingere la sua i manner ..There is a strength drawn in a free and bold agli squardi." Moroni, Dlzlonar10 dz' Erudlzlon� Sloneo-Ecclep'as are rtraits." He declared to the most perfect po Ilea, vo!. xxv. p. 75. vivacity equal master piece." this one of Bp. Fisher ,I a d 3· Portrait in Sussex? and Messrs Braun an Co. Photographed by Caldesi, "Mr Bourchier ... told me that he had seen a picture of Engraving. Dp. Fisher in Sussex: when he came into the Library [at la. (Copy). Stipple of Drawl'ngs by Holbein Longleat], I asked him, whether he knew that picture, John Chamberlaine's Imt'taltons by Bartolozzi. shewing him Bp. Fisher's; he said he did not, and afterwards (Lond., 1792-1800). Engraved smaller us that in Susse;x: was not like it." R, J eIlkin to T. Baker by Facius in the told Stipple engraving lb. 1812. (Ma�ter's Life ofBaker, p. 23)' work, published in edition of the same 4· It has not been possible at present to find any lC. Copies). (Autotype ondon x information about the following: Bridgett' s Life of FIshey (L 3t· Frontispiece to Rev T. E. .. I saw in Nov. 1766 an indifferent Picture of Bishop Fisher, 1888). The head only 4,1.. with one of Sir Tho. More, Abp. Plunket &c., on a Staircase Bartolozzi. Published and sold Also fr om the engraving by near the Prior's apartment of the English Benedictines at Paris." iation, 29 Queen's Square� by the Art for Schools Assoc Cole's MSS vol. 7, p. f26b• (See Lewis, Life of Ftsher, Vo!. r. Bloomsbury. pp. xxvi-xxvii.) ----------�� __---------- r- __�� '-e� _____ Ft:�her. 3 29 The Portrazls of Bz'slzop 328 The Port?-ads of Bz'shop Fz'sher. College, 28! x 24f. Queens' 4a. (Copy). Canvas, 2. HANS HOLBEIN. Red Chalk. British Museum. Lodge). mbridge (President's iption is Made in 1527, as No. I. 'Ca reproduction. The inscr is an exact and good " "A finished drawing of the sketch in the British Museum, This letters: JOH. FISHER top of the picture in white C. M. Cracherode. It was across the SSIT ANN 1508." bequeathed by Rev once . ANN 1 SOS. CE PRES . COLt. REGIN EPISC. RO FF. Exhibition Richardson's" (Wornum, Life ofHolbez'n, p. 404.) Antiquarian Society'S Shown at the Cambridge 3. HANS HOLBEIN. (?) Drawing. Mrs Noseda, M in 1884. the Fitzwilliam useum 109 Strand, W.C. at of the Canvas. In the possession From the Earl of Westmoreland's Collection. Sold for the 4b. (Copy). at Longleat, Wiltshire. late Dr John Percy, on April 24, 1890, for £90, by Christie, Marquis of Bath, in 1709, and of Lord Weymouth Manson, and Woods.

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