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heading in green ink: - Queen Marianna of Spain - Marianna of Austria, the second queen of Philip IV had little taste and few accomplishments, and was as inferior to her predecessor Isabella in the qualities of her mind as in the graces of her person. But her disposition was amiable and joyous, and her girlish laughter was sometimes a source of vexation to her solemn lord. Her picture, frequently painted by the truthful pencil of Velasquez, shows that Marianna inherited in full exuberance, the famous under-lip which Mary of Burgundy brought into the house of Austria, and that she used the rouge pot with an unsparing brush. Thirty years afterwards, in her widowhood, she had complained that the portrait which had proceeded her to the palace of Madrid, did her great injustice. Velasquez, of course, painted several portraits of Queen Marianna. The lips and cheeks of that princess have the true Austrian fulness [sic]; she

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