Gyants in the Physic Garden in Oxon, who have been
breeding Feet as long as Garagantua was Teeth."

On one side of a sheet of paper.

H. T. BOBART.

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BISHOP BERKELEY'S PORTRAIT.

The following letter may perhaps have some interest in itself; but I send
it for insertion in the pages of "N. & Q." in the hope of obtaining some
information about the pictures which it mentions. It is addressed on the
back, "The Reverend the Provost and Fellows, Dublin College;" and in the
corner, "Pr. Favour of The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Molesworth;" and does
not appear to have ever passed through the post.

Reverend Sir, and Gentlemen,

My late dear Husband, the Rev. Dr. Berkeley, Prebendary of Canterbury,
son of the late Lord Bishop of Cloyne, having most generously appointed
me sole executrix of his will, and having bequeathed to me all his fine
collection of pictures, &c., I trouble you with this to beg to know
whether a very remarkably fine, universally admired portrait of Bishop
Berkeley, in his lawn sleeves, &c., painted by that famous artist
Vanderbank, which, together with its frame (now much broken by frequent
removals), cost five hundred pounds: the back-ground, the frontispiece
to his Lordship's _Minute Philosopher_, and the broken cisterns from
the Prophet Jeremiah: "They have hewn them out broken cisterns." The
late Archbishop of Canterbury was perpetually entreating Dr. Berkeley
to present it to the Gallery of Lambeth Palace, where there is already
a very good portrait of Bishop B.--But _justice_ to my dear excellent
son, then living, as Dr. B. told his Grace, precluded a _possibility_
of his complying with his request.

If this picture will be an acceptable present to the Rev. the Provost,
and the Gentlemen Fellows of the University of Dublin, it is now
offered for their acceptance, as a most grateful acknowledgment for the
_very high_ honour[1], they were pleased {429} so graciously to confer
on his Lordship's only descendant, the late learned accomplished George
Monk Berkeley, Esq. (Gentleman Commoner of Magdalene Hall, in the
University of Oxon., and student of the Inner Temple, London), from his
very sincerely grateful mother.

Some time after the death of his son, Dr. Berkeley told me that at my
death he wished the wonderfully fine portrait of his father to be