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Notes And Queries.
NOTES AND QUERIES .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . The celebrated antiquary and Freemason , Elias Ashmole , the founder of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford , which led the way to the foundation of the British Museum , in one of his papers says , speaking of the Rev . Richard Harrison , of Lichfield , " My brother Harrison died in 1676 . " He is not known to have been related to him by ties of consanguinity . Query , was he a Freemason ? Well authenticated testimony of this will be acceptable . —R . J . S ., Oxford .
Fine Arts.
PINE AETS .
We have recently had the pleasure of visiting the studio of Bro . Howell ( of ! No . 342 and No . 763 , and P . M . and Honorary Member of the Lodge of Harmony , No . 317 , Richmond , Surrey ) , and inspecting the life-size portraits of our R . W . Prov . Grand Master , the Earl of Mexborough , and his Deputy , Bro . Charles Lee . The artist has been eminently successful in producing strikingly life-like likenesses , and as works of art they are of great value , and prove that Bro . Howell possesses
a claim to a high rank among British artists . Many Brethren having wished to have engravings taken from each portrait , a committee has been formed to make arrangements for that purpose . The engravings will be in mezzo-tinto , and no more copies will be struck off than are actually subscribed for ; it being the intention of the committee , after furnishing the subscribers with the number of copies placed opposite to their names , to have the plates destroyed .
Portrait of the late M . W . G-. M ., His Royal Highness the Duke op Sussex . —A most splendid picture by Lonsdale is in the possession of a family , the head of which was a Freemason , and celebrated for his conversance with the artists and famous productions of the last generation . The survivors wish to dispose of this magnificent painting to some Lodge , and we have great pleasure in making their wishes known to the Craft , some of whom will , we trust , confer the double benefit of serving a Brother ' s children , and preserving so fine a memorial of our late Grand Master by purchasing it for the Fraternity .
In proof of the growing popularity of this beautiful instrument , and of the great success which has attended the efforts of the manufacturers , we find that in the year 1829 , when the establishment of Messrs . Alexandre and Son , of Paris , was founded , their annual expenses amounted only to 50 , 000 francs , whilst in the year 1855 that sum had increased to 1 , 500 , 000 francs . In the former period a very small staff of workmen was sufficient to carry on the operations of the ateliers , whereas , at the present time , no less than 400 men are constantly employed therein ; and the number of instruments in course of construction is never below
THE NEW HARMONIUM
500 . These facts , however , need not excite surprise , when it is observed that Harmoniums are supplied from that establishment to all parts of the world , and that a very large proportion are imported by Cramer , Beale , & Co ., Regentstreet , who are so well convinced of their general adaptability to the purposes of the art , that they have embarked a considerable amount of capital in them ,
and have opened a depot , which is already a source of groat attraction to the musical public . That the instrument is a valuable boon to the composer and the artiste will at once be admitted from the fact that it is capable of yielding the sonorous tones of an organ , and the more delicate sounds of a pianoforte —in short , the most lively airs , as well an the moat sublime passages , can be played upon it with the greatest skill and effect .
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Notes And Queries.
NOTES AND QUERIES .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . The celebrated antiquary and Freemason , Elias Ashmole , the founder of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford , which led the way to the foundation of the British Museum , in one of his papers says , speaking of the Rev . Richard Harrison , of Lichfield , " My brother Harrison died in 1676 . " He is not known to have been related to him by ties of consanguinity . Query , was he a Freemason ? Well authenticated testimony of this will be acceptable . —R . J . S ., Oxford .
Fine Arts.
PINE AETS .
We have recently had the pleasure of visiting the studio of Bro . Howell ( of ! No . 342 and No . 763 , and P . M . and Honorary Member of the Lodge of Harmony , No . 317 , Richmond , Surrey ) , and inspecting the life-size portraits of our R . W . Prov . Grand Master , the Earl of Mexborough , and his Deputy , Bro . Charles Lee . The artist has been eminently successful in producing strikingly life-like likenesses , and as works of art they are of great value , and prove that Bro . Howell possesses
a claim to a high rank among British artists . Many Brethren having wished to have engravings taken from each portrait , a committee has been formed to make arrangements for that purpose . The engravings will be in mezzo-tinto , and no more copies will be struck off than are actually subscribed for ; it being the intention of the committee , after furnishing the subscribers with the number of copies placed opposite to their names , to have the plates destroyed .
Portrait of the late M . W . G-. M ., His Royal Highness the Duke op Sussex . —A most splendid picture by Lonsdale is in the possession of a family , the head of which was a Freemason , and celebrated for his conversance with the artists and famous productions of the last generation . The survivors wish to dispose of this magnificent painting to some Lodge , and we have great pleasure in making their wishes known to the Craft , some of whom will , we trust , confer the double benefit of serving a Brother ' s children , and preserving so fine a memorial of our late Grand Master by purchasing it for the Fraternity .
In proof of the growing popularity of this beautiful instrument , and of the great success which has attended the efforts of the manufacturers , we find that in the year 1829 , when the establishment of Messrs . Alexandre and Son , of Paris , was founded , their annual expenses amounted only to 50 , 000 francs , whilst in the year 1855 that sum had increased to 1 , 500 , 000 francs . In the former period a very small staff of workmen was sufficient to carry on the operations of the ateliers , whereas , at the present time , no less than 400 men are constantly employed therein ; and the number of instruments in course of construction is never below
THE NEW HARMONIUM
500 . These facts , however , need not excite surprise , when it is observed that Harmoniums are supplied from that establishment to all parts of the world , and that a very large proportion are imported by Cramer , Beale , & Co ., Regentstreet , who are so well convinced of their general adaptability to the purposes of the art , that they have embarked a considerable amount of capital in them ,
and have opened a depot , which is already a source of groat attraction to the musical public . That the instrument is a valuable boon to the composer and the artiste will at once be admitted from the fact that it is capable of yielding the sonorous tones of an organ , and the more delicate sounds of a pianoforte —in short , the most lively airs , as well an the moat sublime passages , can be played upon it with the greatest skill and effect .