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Replies to Minor Queries.
_Portrait of Alva_ (Vol. ix., p. 76.).--There is a fine portrait of the
Duke of Alva in the Royal Museum at Amsterdam, by D. Barendz (No. 14. in
the _Catalogue_ of 1848); and MR. WARDEN will find a spirited etching of
him, decorated with the Order of the Golden Fleece, in the _Historia
Belgica_ of Meteranus (folio, 1597), at p. 63. The latter portrait is very
Quixotic in aspect at the first glance, but the expression becomes more
Satanic as the eye rests on it.