Arthur John Elsley - A dead heat

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Charles James Lewis - The Cottage Door

1861
oil on board
33 1/4 x 25"

James Smetham - The Vision

oil on canvas
10 x 24 1/8"

James Smetham - Classical figures in a garden

oil on canvas
5.5 x 9 1/4"

Robert Trewick Bone - Tobias and the Angel

7 x 11"
1832
one of a pair

fl. 1813 - 1841

Origin of Saying "March Comes in Like a Lion"

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1600s Woodcut Windie Winter

When I saw the woodcut of "Windie Winter" posted by Fragments this morning, I thought of the saying "March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb." It is March 1st, after all, & I wondered where it originated. Some claim that the saying applies to the relative positions of constellations at the beginning and end of the month of March. Leo, the Lion,(Eastern horizon) and Aries, the Ram or Lamb (Western horizon).

But it looks as if English playwright John Fletcher may have pointed the way toward the saying in 1624 when he wrote, "I would chuse March, for I would come in like a Lion...But you'd go out like a Lamb when you went to hanging." John Fletcher (English playwright, 1579-1625) penned this in his play A Wife for a Month, a tragicomedy (Licensed 27 May 1624; 1647) in Scene II. Act I.

A little later in the 17th century, English naturalist & writer John Ray confirmed the connection when he noted, "March hack ham [hackande = annoying] comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb." This appears in 1670, in a book written by John Ray (English naturalist, 1627-1705), the Catalogue of English Proverbs. p 41.

In the British American colonies, the phrase "March came in like a lion" shows up in Ames Almanack in 1740, and in William Byrd's Another Secret Diary in the same year. John Adams notes in his Diary in 1788, "The month (March) comes in like and lion, and according to the farmer's proverb it must go out like a lamb."


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Hats, Hats, Hats - Headwear in the American Colonial Era 1770-1779

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1770 John Durand (Amreican Colonial Era painter, fl 1765-1782) Mrs John Lothrop

1770 Daniel Hendrickson (American Colonial Era artist, 1723-1788) Catharine Hendrickson

1770 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Relief Dowse Mrs Michael Gill

1770 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815)

1770 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Mrs James Russell Katherine Graves

1770 Winthrop Chandler (American Colonial Era artist, 1747-1790) Martha Lathrop Devotion

1770-73 Henry Benbridge (American Colonial Era painter, 1743-1812) Mrs Clark of Haddonfield, NJ

1770-75 Winthrop Chandler (American Colonial Era artist, 1747-1790) Mrs. Levi Willard (Catherine Chandler)

1770s Charles Willson Peale (American Colonial Era artist, 1741-1827) Mrs Robert Morris

1770s Charles Willson Peale (American Colonial Era artist, 1741-1827) Julie Stockton

1770s Matthew Pratt (American Colonial Era Painter, 1734-1805) Lucy Randolph Burwell

1771 Charles Willson Peale (American Colonial Era artist, 1741-1827) Margaret Strachan (Mrs Thoas Harwood)

1771 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Mrs. Humphrey Devereux (Mary Charnock)

1771 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Mrs. Paul Richard (Elizabeth Garland)

1771 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Mrs Ezekiel Goldthwait Elizabeth Lewis

1771 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Mrs. Thomas Gage (Margaret Kemble)

1771-76 Henry Benbridge (American Colonial Era painter, 1743-1812) Mrs Benjamin Simons

1772 Charles Willson Peale (American Colonial Era artist, 1741-1827) Mrs John Dickinson

1772 Cosmo Alexander (American Colonial Era artist, 1724-1772). Mary Jemima Balfour, Mrs James Balfour

1772 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Dorothy Quincy Mrs. John Hancock

1772 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Dorothy Wendell Mrs Richard Skinner

1772 Winthrop Chandler (American Colonial Era artist, 1747-1790) Eunice Huntington Devotion Lyman

1773 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Mrs John Winthrop

1773 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Mrs Thomas Miffin (Sarah Morris)

1773 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Mrs Moses Gill Rebecca Boylston

1773 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815)

1774 Ralph Earl (American Colonial Era artist, 1751-1801) Mrs Adam Babcock

1774 Ralph Earl (American Colonial Era artist, 1751-1801) Mrs Henry Daggett Elizabeth Prescott

1775 Gilbert Stuart (American Colonial Era artist, 1755-1828) Sarah Rivera Lopez Mrs Aaron Lopez

1775 Charles Willson Peale (American Colonial Era artist, 1741-1827) Mrs James Smith

1775 John Singleton Copley (American Colonial Era artist, 1738-1815) Mrs. Ralph Izard Alice Delancey

1776 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827) Mrs James Latimer

1779 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mary Ann Carpenter Mrs Thompson Foster

1779 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mrs. Oliver Wolcott (Laura Collins)
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