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New Materials For The Life Of L.F. Roubiliac.
This mention of my Eoubiliac loss reminds me of a a greater . Eoubiliac modelled and chiselled the bust of his friend and rival , Joseph Wilton , the sculptor . Wilton had a sculptor ' s hammer in his hand . The bust , we are told , was given by Wilton ' s lovely daughter ( Lady Chambers ) to the Eoyal Academy of Arts in London . Allan Cunninghamin 1829
for-, , mally applied for permission to have an engraving made from it for his "Lives of British Sculptors , " and was refused by tbe forty in full council . Why he was refused I have lately ascertained . " We have no bust of Wilton by Eoubiliac , " I am informed by the ' present excellent keeper , * " nor can ive find it included in our
list of donations to the Academy . " Wilton ' s bust of Eoubiliac is No . 107 of the printed Catalogue of the Exhibition of 1761 . It behoves the Academy to make enquiries about it . It is fortunate for Eoubiliac that he may be seen and studied in some of his best works in London and
its environs , Westminster Abbey containing seven of his finest . His Vauxhall Iland' el . that "fixed his fame , " is , after many wanderings , safely located at Exeter Hall , in the Strand , in the rooms of the Sacred Harmonic Society . His Garrick ' s Shakspeare is , by Garrick ' s bequestin the [ British Museum . In the
, church of Walfcon-on-Thames is his very fine monumenfc to Lord Shannon , sufficient to repay an express visit and a shilling to the sexton who showsic . At Battersea is his Bolinbroke , a medallion head , with the true St . John touch in it .
At the sister universities of Oxford and Cambridge he may be seen to advantage . Oxford has his bust of Sir Christopher Wren—a composition of Kneller ; and Cambridge has his statue of Sir Isaac Newton , the finest portrait statue in England , Ohantrey ' s farfamed one in small of James Watt not excepted . And here I may askdid Handel sit to Eoubiliac ? I
be-, lieve lie did ,- -Lysons , who wrote late in the last century , recording in his " Environs " that the original cast of Eoubiliac ' s bust of Handel was , in . 1725 , in the house of John Bacon , Esq ., of Priarn Barnefc , in Middlesex , and that over it was hung the portrait of his friend , Charles Jennings . Where is the Handel
bust ? Lord Howe has the Jennings ' property , but I do not remember the bust of Handel among the rich Jennings' treasures of art to be seen at Gopsal . Did Pope sit to Eoubiliac for his bust ? There is no proof that he did beyond a life-like bust of the great poet bearing Eoubiliac ' s name , ( with the date 1741—Pope then alive ) , and the unmistakable marks of his morlellino- tools nnd chisel . The minister- Sir
Eoberfc Peel secured the marble Pope at Watson Taylor ' s sale ; and Mr . Murray , of Albemarle-street , the original clay , afc Eogers the poet ' s sale . That the sensitive head of the poet was done from life I have little doubt ; but we have no written or oral proof that the poet sat to Eoubiliac . Hogarth sat to Eoubiliac , and one of the best
purchases made by Lord Stanhope ' s Portrait Committee is the terra-cotta bust of Eoubiliac of the great painter . The busts of the two satirists , with pen and pencil , should be placed together . Thus placed they would afford a rich study i ' os our scul p tors , old and young . Eoubiliac , like Chantrey , painted in oil . In a
New Materials For The Life Of L.F. Roubiliac.
London Exhibition of 1761 , No . 94 was a " Portrait in oil" by Eoubiliac , " his first attempt . " The widow of Allan Cunningham has the portrait of Chantrey by himself , painted before he became famous , and when sitters were few in number . It is very masterly , and awakens a regret that ill as we could spare his bustshe did not continue " occasionally" to show his
, skill in the sister art . The Eoubiliac " in oil" must have had many merits . Can it be traced ? And here I must ask , on what authority are the four busts bequeathed by Pope to Lord Lytfcelfcon , attributed to Eoubiliac ? The present Lord " Lyfcteltonat my recommendationlent them to the
Man-, , chester Art Treasures Exhibition . They were presented to Pope by Frederick , Prince of Wales ; but are weak and insi pid—with no one touch of Eoubiliac about them . Thy are more like Eysbrach . Eoubiliac had an apprentice , Nathaniel Eead by name . 11 is Pancake monument in Westminster Abbey
to Admiral Tyrrel has his master ' s theatrical folly in marble to excess . There is some good carving about it . Eead learned the use of the chisel , if he learned nothing else in the studio of Eoubiliac . Eoubiliac was a competitor with his friend "Wilton for the Westminster Abbey monument to General Wolfe . His design may be seen in the Gentleman ' s
Magazine for January , 1739 . It is poor . 1 believe I have seen every well-known work by Eoubiliac but one—a kind of Nightingale-monument at Wrexham , in North Wales , to one of the Middletons of Chirk Castle . Derrick , a contemporary of Eoubiliac ' sdescribes it as representing "The Last
, Day—a pillar broken and tumbling—an angel blowing a trumpet , from a confused sky , and a lady starting from a tomb which seems to have burst . " Wrexham is a fine church . Tbe Middleton monument—if we may test it unseen by the Nightingale monument ;—must be fine .
Eoubiliac has been dead one hundred i-ears—this very year . In the century that has gone he has not been surpassed as a scul ptor . His Newton , . his Argyll Eloquence , his Mrs . Ni ghtingale's arm and hand , aud his Trinity busts , are still the admiration and talk of all who know what scul pture ought to be , and was in his hands . PETER CrssurGnAM .
Intellectual Division Of Labour.
INTELLECTUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR .
" Division of labour , " is one of those great principles which have been brought into striking prominence in fche present day , and is compactly described by the words employed , which , like " Government by majorities , " the "law of supply and demand , " the " sentiment of nationalities , " and many similar phrases , convey ideas which have acquired fresh force in the modern constitution of society .
The terms for them may be novel , but dormant or active , recognised or unobserved , they are forces which have alternately slumbered and acted ever since human society has existed . Division of labour is one of the essentials of manufacturing success . The value of a subdivision of work , and fche apportionment of different tasks to those most suited to perform themhas never been so
univer-, sally believed in as now ; but still , ever since the days" When Adam delved and Eve span . " a more or less complete division of labour has existed in the conduct of human affairs . It is , moreover , unfortu-
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New Materials For The Life Of L.F. Roubiliac.
This mention of my Eoubiliac loss reminds me of a a greater . Eoubiliac modelled and chiselled the bust of his friend and rival , Joseph Wilton , the sculptor . Wilton had a sculptor ' s hammer in his hand . The bust , we are told , was given by Wilton ' s lovely daughter ( Lady Chambers ) to the Eoyal Academy of Arts in London . Allan Cunninghamin 1829
for-, , mally applied for permission to have an engraving made from it for his "Lives of British Sculptors , " and was refused by tbe forty in full council . Why he was refused I have lately ascertained . " We have no bust of Wilton by Eoubiliac , " I am informed by the ' present excellent keeper , * " nor can ive find it included in our
list of donations to the Academy . " Wilton ' s bust of Eoubiliac is No . 107 of the printed Catalogue of the Exhibition of 1761 . It behoves the Academy to make enquiries about it . It is fortunate for Eoubiliac that he may be seen and studied in some of his best works in London and
its environs , Westminster Abbey containing seven of his finest . His Vauxhall Iland' el . that "fixed his fame , " is , after many wanderings , safely located at Exeter Hall , in the Strand , in the rooms of the Sacred Harmonic Society . His Garrick ' s Shakspeare is , by Garrick ' s bequestin the [ British Museum . In the
, church of Walfcon-on-Thames is his very fine monumenfc to Lord Shannon , sufficient to repay an express visit and a shilling to the sexton who showsic . At Battersea is his Bolinbroke , a medallion head , with the true St . John touch in it .
At the sister universities of Oxford and Cambridge he may be seen to advantage . Oxford has his bust of Sir Christopher Wren—a composition of Kneller ; and Cambridge has his statue of Sir Isaac Newton , the finest portrait statue in England , Ohantrey ' s farfamed one in small of James Watt not excepted . And here I may askdid Handel sit to Eoubiliac ? I
be-, lieve lie did ,- -Lysons , who wrote late in the last century , recording in his " Environs " that the original cast of Eoubiliac ' s bust of Handel was , in . 1725 , in the house of John Bacon , Esq ., of Priarn Barnefc , in Middlesex , and that over it was hung the portrait of his friend , Charles Jennings . Where is the Handel
bust ? Lord Howe has the Jennings ' property , but I do not remember the bust of Handel among the rich Jennings' treasures of art to be seen at Gopsal . Did Pope sit to Eoubiliac for his bust ? There is no proof that he did beyond a life-like bust of the great poet bearing Eoubiliac ' s name , ( with the date 1741—Pope then alive ) , and the unmistakable marks of his morlellino- tools nnd chisel . The minister- Sir
Eoberfc Peel secured the marble Pope at Watson Taylor ' s sale ; and Mr . Murray , of Albemarle-street , the original clay , afc Eogers the poet ' s sale . That the sensitive head of the poet was done from life I have little doubt ; but we have no written or oral proof that the poet sat to Eoubiliac . Hogarth sat to Eoubiliac , and one of the best
purchases made by Lord Stanhope ' s Portrait Committee is the terra-cotta bust of Eoubiliac of the great painter . The busts of the two satirists , with pen and pencil , should be placed together . Thus placed they would afford a rich study i ' os our scul p tors , old and young . Eoubiliac , like Chantrey , painted in oil . In a
New Materials For The Life Of L.F. Roubiliac.
London Exhibition of 1761 , No . 94 was a " Portrait in oil" by Eoubiliac , " his first attempt . " The widow of Allan Cunningham has the portrait of Chantrey by himself , painted before he became famous , and when sitters were few in number . It is very masterly , and awakens a regret that ill as we could spare his bustshe did not continue " occasionally" to show his
, skill in the sister art . The Eoubiliac " in oil" must have had many merits . Can it be traced ? And here I must ask , on what authority are the four busts bequeathed by Pope to Lord Lytfcelfcon , attributed to Eoubiliac ? The present Lord " Lyfcteltonat my recommendationlent them to the
Man-, , chester Art Treasures Exhibition . They were presented to Pope by Frederick , Prince of Wales ; but are weak and insi pid—with no one touch of Eoubiliac about them . Thy are more like Eysbrach . Eoubiliac had an apprentice , Nathaniel Eead by name . 11 is Pancake monument in Westminster Abbey
to Admiral Tyrrel has his master ' s theatrical folly in marble to excess . There is some good carving about it . Eead learned the use of the chisel , if he learned nothing else in the studio of Eoubiliac . Eoubiliac was a competitor with his friend "Wilton for the Westminster Abbey monument to General Wolfe . His design may be seen in the Gentleman ' s
Magazine for January , 1739 . It is poor . 1 believe I have seen every well-known work by Eoubiliac but one—a kind of Nightingale-monument at Wrexham , in North Wales , to one of the Middletons of Chirk Castle . Derrick , a contemporary of Eoubiliac ' sdescribes it as representing "The Last
, Day—a pillar broken and tumbling—an angel blowing a trumpet , from a confused sky , and a lady starting from a tomb which seems to have burst . " Wrexham is a fine church . Tbe Middleton monument—if we may test it unseen by the Nightingale monument ;—must be fine .
Eoubiliac has been dead one hundred i-ears—this very year . In the century that has gone he has not been surpassed as a scul ptor . His Newton , . his Argyll Eloquence , his Mrs . Ni ghtingale's arm and hand , aud his Trinity busts , are still the admiration and talk of all who know what scul pture ought to be , and was in his hands . PETER CrssurGnAM .
Intellectual Division Of Labour.
INTELLECTUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR .
" Division of labour , " is one of those great principles which have been brought into striking prominence in fche present day , and is compactly described by the words employed , which , like " Government by majorities , " the "law of supply and demand , " the " sentiment of nationalities , " and many similar phrases , convey ideas which have acquired fresh force in the modern constitution of society .
The terms for them may be novel , but dormant or active , recognised or unobserved , they are forces which have alternately slumbered and acted ever since human society has existed . Division of labour is one of the essentials of manufacturing success . The value of a subdivision of work , and fche apportionment of different tasks to those most suited to perform themhas never been so
univer-, sally believed in as now ; but still , ever since the days" When Adam delved and Eve span . " a more or less complete division of labour has existed in the conduct of human affairs . It is , moreover , unfortu-