Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/descriptionofvilOOwalp_0 ft Frontispiece, DESCRIPTION O F T H E V I L L A O F Mr. HORACE WALPOLE, YOUNGEST SON of SIR ROBERT WALPOLE EARL of ORFORD, A T Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlefex. With an INVENTORY of the FURNITURE, PICTURES, CURIOSITIES, kc. STR AW^ERRY-HILL^ PRINTED BY THOMAS KIRGATE, MDCCLXXXIV. P R E F A C E. J^T will look, I fear, a little like arrogance in a private Man to give d printed Defcription of his Villa and ColleBion, in which almoji every thing is di?ninutive. It is not, however, intended for public fale, and originally was meant only to afjiji thofe who Jliould vift the place. A farther view fucceeded', that of exhibiting fpecimens of Gothic architeBure, as collected from Jiandards in cathedrals and chapel-to?nbs, and Jloewing how they may be applied to chimney-pieces, cielings, windows, balluftrades, loggias, G? the author of the Cajile of OtrantQ, A DESCRIPTION A D ESCRIPTION OF THE VILLA Mr. HORACE WALPOLE, AT STRAWBERRY-HILL NEAR TWICKENHAM. WHERE the Gothic Caftle now ftands, was originally a fmall tene- ment,* built in 1698, and let as a lodging-houfe: Gibber once took It, and wrote one of his plays here, T!he Refufalf or the Ladys Philofophyy After him, Talbot bifhop of Durham had it for eight years: -I* then, Henry Budges marquis of Carnarvon, fon of James duke of Chandos, and iince duke himfelf. It was next hired by Mrs. Chenevix,J the noted toy-woman, who, on the death of her hufband, let it to lord John Philip Sackville, fecond fon of Lionel duke of Dorfet: he kept it about two years, and then Mr. Walpole took the remainder of Mrs Chenevix's leale in May 1747, and the next year bought it by a6t of parliament, it being the property of three minors of the name of Mortimer. Along with this houfe and fome B other * It was built by the earl of Bradford's coachman, and was called by the common people, Chopp'd- Straw-Hallf they fuppofing, that by feeding his lord's horfes with chopped ftraw, he had faved money enough to build his houfe ; but the piece of ground on which it ftands is called in all the old leafes, Strawberry- Hiil- Shot, from whence it takes ics name. •j- The bifhop kept a large table here, which is fcarce conceivable, as he had no kitchen but that little place which is now the china-room. X Fere Courayer lodged here with her for fome tim«. ft A DESCRIPTION OF other tenements was another fmall one,* then occupied by Richard Franck- lin, printer of the Craftfman, who had been taken up for printing that paper during the adniiniftration of fir Robert Walpole.*^ When Mr. Walpolc bought Strawbeiry-hill, there were but five acres belonging to the houfe : the reft have been purchafed fince. The caflle now exifting was not entirely built from the ground, but formed at different times, by alterations of and additions to the old fmall houfe. The library, and refedrory or great par- lour, were entirely new built in 1753 j the gallery, roiind tower, great cloyfter, and cabinet, in 1760 and 1761 ; the great north bed-chamber in 1770 i and the Beauclerc tower with' the hexagon clofet in 1776. The embattled wall to the road is taken from a print of Afton-houfe in. Warwickfhire, in Dugdale's hiftory of that county. Entering by the great north gate, the firft objedl that prefents itfelf is a fmall oratory inclofed with iron rails; in front, an altar, on which ftands a faint in bronze; open niches, and ftone bafons for holy water; defigned by John Chute, efq; of the Vine in Hampfhire. On the right hand is a fmall garden called the abbot's garden, parted off by an open fcreen, taken from the tomb of Roger Niger bifhop of London in old St. Paul's, Pafiing on the left, by a fmall cloyfter, J is the entrance to the houfe, the narrow front of • It has fInce been pulled down, and a cottage built on the fame fpot. The garden too has been newly laid out by Mr. Walpole fiacc it came into his hands by Francklin's death. •f It is remarkable, that the printer of the Craftfrnan was Mr. Walpole's tenant ; and that the writer of the Craftfman, W. Pulteney earl of Bath, wrote a ballad in praife of Strawberry-hill. X In this cloyfter are two blue and white Delft flower-pots; and a b^s-relief head in marble, in- fcribed Dia Helianora ; it is the portrait of the princefs Eleanora d'Eftc, with whom Taflb was in love, and who was the caufe of his misfortunes : it was fent to Mr. W alpole from Italy by fir William Hamilton^ minift:er at Naples. On a pedeftal, ftands the large blue and white china tub in which Mr. Walpole's cat was drowned ; on a label of the pedeftal is written the firft ftanza of Mr. Gray's beautiful ode on that occafion : 'Twas on this lofty vaje's fide^ Where China's gayefl art has dyd Xlie azure flovors that blow j Danureft of the tabby kind^ The penfive Selima reclin'dy Gaz^d on the lake below. In the winding cloyfters on the right hand are fome ancient bas-reliefs ; and a brafs plate with the effigies of Ralph Walpole biftiop of Norwich and Ely, engraven by Miintz (a Swifs painter who lived feme time with Mr, Walpde) an4 a Chinefe lanthorn with fcraped oyfter-ihells. EKTRAI^CE of STJRAn^BEllRir lillLT.. / CIHLIMNEY IN THE (tJREA'ir FARLOFR . STRAWBERRY-HILL. | of which was defigned by Richard Bentlcy, only fon of Dr. Bcntlcy, the learned mafter of Trinity-college, Cambridge. Over the door are three fliields of Walpole, Shorter, and Robfart. You firft enter a fmall gloomy hall paved with hexagon tyles, and lighted 'by two narrow windows of painted glafs, reprefenting St. John and St. Francis. This hall is united with the ftaircale, and both are hung with gothic paper, painted by one Tudor, from the fcreen of prince Arthur's tomb in the cathe- dral of Worcefler. The balluflrade was defigned by Mr. Bentley ; at every corner is an antelope [one of lord Orford's fupporters] holding a (liield. In the well of the flaircafe, by a cord of black and yellow, hangs a gothic lant- horn of tin japanned, defigned by Mr. Bentley, and filled with painted glafs; the door of it has an old pane with the arms of Vere earl of Oxford. Turning to the left, through a fmall pafTage, over the entrance of which is an ancient carving in wood of the arms of queen Elizabeth, 1567, and in it a window of painted glals, you enter The refectory, or GREAT PARLOUR. TT is thirty feet long, twenty wide, and twelve high j hung with paper in imitation of ftucco. The chimney-piece was defigned by Mr. Bentley : upon it ftands a fi.ne Etrufcan vafe, between two bottles of black and gold porcelaine. Over the chimney, a converfation, by Reynolds, fmall life : Richard, fe- cond lord Edgcumbe, is drawing at a table in the library at Strawberry-hill; George James Williams is looking over him ; George Auguftus Selwyn ftands on the other fide with a book in his hand. Lord Edgcumbe, Mr. Selwyn and Mr. Williams ufed to be with Mr. Walpole at Chriftmas and Eafter at Strawberry-hill. On one fide of this pidure, a head of fir Horace Mann, refident at Flo- rence ; painted there by Aflley, and highly coloured : He is dreft in red velvet. Oppofite to it, his brother Galfridus Mann, in brown j by the fame. Over againft the chimney, a bureau of black japan j on it a clock, fup- ported by a bronze figure of a woman reading : beneath, an Etrufcan vafe> between two white old china beakers. B2 The A DESCRIPTION OF The chairs are black, of a gothic pattern, defigned by Mr. Bentley and Mr. Walpole. The table of Sicilian jafper on a black frame defigned by Mr. Bentley: upon it, a large punch-bowl and pail of Seve china; two beakers of old grey porcelaine, veined j two ice-pails of Chelfea china. Under it, two Etrufcan vafes, and a jar of Roman fayence. Over the table hangs a hunting-horn, finely enamelled on one fide in colours, on the other in chiaro fcuro, with the hiftory of faint Hubert. By the table an old white china bottle, ornamented with or moulu, on a mahogany pedeftal, for water, bought at Mr. Bateman's fale, 1775. On each fide of the window, the top of which has fome fine painted glafs, and one ridiculous * Dutch piece reprefenting the triumph of Fame, who is accompanied by Cato, Cicero, and other great men in fquare caps and gowns of mafters of arts, are card-tables of rofe-wood, carved in China; and over each, a looking-glafs in a gothic frame of black and gold, defigned by Mr. Walpole. Inclofed in the tops of the frames, with their arms and coronets, are the portraits of George Walpole third earl of Orford, and of George Cholmondeley vifcount Malpas, eldeft fon of George earl of Chol- mondeley and of Mary fecond daughter of fir Robert Walpole. The for- mer is copied by Eck.u-dt, from a miniature by Liotard, in the cabinet above ftairs : the latter is original by Eckardt. On one fide of the window. An old woman letting a boy light his candle, by Schalken; very fine. Oppofite, Two boys, a dog and a goat, by Bafifan ; from Mr. Jennings's colledion. At the end of the room, over againfl the window, fir Robert Walpole, knight of the garter, afterwards earl of Orford. On one fide of him, Catherine, eldeft daughter of John Shorter, of Bybrook in Kent, firft wife of fir Robert Walpole ; in white : a copy from fir Godfrey Kneller, by Jarvis. On the other fide, Maria Skerrct, (in the drefs of a fliepherdefs) fecond wife of fir Robert j by Jarvis. On one fide of the chimney, Robert Walpole fecond earl of Orford, auditor of the exchequer, mafter of the fox-hounds, and knight of the bath, * There is another Dutch emblematic pane, on which is Charles 2d. riding uppermoft on the Wheel of Fortune, and Rebellion thrown down. Another pane is painted with a Cobler whiffling to a Bird in a Cages by Pcarfon, fcholar of Price. This window was altered /and enlarged in J774- STRAWBERRY-HILL. 5 bath, eldefl fon of fir Robert Walpole by his firft wife j in red velvet, with a globe by him : by Richardfon. Margaret, only child of Samuel Rolle of Heynton in Devonftiire, firft married to Robert fecond earl of Orford, and mother of George the third earl, and fecondly to Sevvallis Shirley a younger fon of earl Ferrers j in a white riding habit with a ftick : by Jarvis. On the other fide, fir Edward Walpole, fecond fon of fir Robert Wal- pole and Catherine Shorter, knight of the bath and clerk of the pells 5 ia the robes of the bath : by Slaughter. Horace Walpole, third fon of fir Robert and Catherine Shorter j in blue velvet : by Richardfon. Over againfi: the chimney, a large piece of the ladies Laura, Maria, and Horatia Waldegrave, daughters of James, fecond earl of Waldegrave and Maria Walpole, afterwards duchefs of Gloucefter j by fir Jofiiua Reynolds^ 1781. Lady Anne Ofborn, * daughter of the firfi; duke of Leeds j by fir God- frey Kneller. She was firft married to Thomas Coke of Holkam, by whom fhe was grandmother of Thomas Coke lord Lovel and earl of Leicefter; and fecondly to Horatio Walpole, fecond fon of fir Edward Walpole, and uncle of fir Robert Walpole. On the other fide, Dorothy, fifter of fir Robert, and fecond wife of Charles lord vifcount Townlliend, knight of the garter and fecretary of fi:ate ; in a Turkifh habit: by Jarvis. Over one of the doors, Mary lady Malpas, fecond daughter of fir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter; married to George lord Malpas, afterwards earl of Cholmondeley : by Eckardt, after Jarvis. Over the other door. Lady Maria Walpole, only child of fir Robert Walpole and Maria Sker- ret, and wife of Charles Churchill, only fon of general Churchill ; in a veil, with a mufic-book before her: by Eckardt. A fire-fcreen of admirable needle-work, reprefenting a vafe of flowers, by lady Caroline Campbell, daughter of John duke of Argyll, countefs of Ailefbury ; married fecondly to general Henry Seymour Conway, only bro- ther of Francis firft earl of Hertford of that line, knight of the garter, embafi!ador in France, and lord chamberlain : it is mounted in mahogany, carved and inlaid with ivory. . A Turkey carpet, and a fire-fcreen embroidered with knotting. In ■* This is a whole length pi^^ture, but is turned in. A DESCRIPTION OF In the waiting-room. A Head in artificial ftone of John Dryden the poet, great uncle of Cathe-' rine Shorter lady Walpole : a large altar candleftick of metal, inlaid with gothic infcriptions, very ancient : and a pair of ancient bellows. Infide of King's college chapel, by Canaletti. A curious emblematic pidture of a man Handing, fmall whole length, with a buft of Charles 2d. feemingly before his refloration, for a cupid i& weighing the broken arms of England (as a commonwealth) againft crowns and fceptres, (but the fceptre is a French one, and therefore probably painted abroad) fragments of architedure, and the man holds a plan like St. Paul's; thence it has been fuppofed a portrait of fir Chriftopher Wren, but does not refemble him, nor are the arms his. A print of lady Mary Coke. The CHINA-ROOM. pAINTED glafs in the windows, and crefts of Shorter and Geftinthorpe : the cieling painted with convolvulus's on poles, by Miintz, from a cieling in the little Borghefe villa at Frefcati : the fides, white Dutch tyles, with borders of blue and white. In the floor fome very ancient tyles with arms, from the cathedral at Gloucefter. The upper part of the chimney-piece is taken from a window of an ancient farm-houfe, formerly Bradfield-hall, belonging to lord Grim- fton in Eflex J the lower part from a chimney at Hurft Monceaux in Suflex : it is adorned with the arms of Talbot, Bridges, Sackville, and Walpole, the principal perfons who have inhabited Strawberry-hill. In a niche fupported by two columns of oriental alabaflcr, over the chimney, is a fine ewer of fayence, defigned by Julio Romano ; and two green glafs tumblers, with golden edges ; and two round faltfellers of old blue and gold Venetian glafs, with flowers. Over the niche, four chocolate cups of fayence, by Pietro Cortona ; and a bronze medallion of Pandulfo Malateflia. On the fides, George zd. and Frederic prince of Wales, in Batterfea enamel. In CHIMNEV IN THE CBTINA ROOM STRAWBERRY- HILL 7 In the chimney, a large jar of old blue and white china; and two tylcj from Byfliam-abbey. On the (helves and floor is a colledion of porcelaine, earthenware, glafs^ and enamel on copper, of various ages and countries, as follow : Two dozen plates of Venetian glafs ; each plate has a different view of Venice, drawn in red. A japanned tray with a vafe for cream, and eight chocolate-cups and fau* cers with landfcapes in brown, of the fame ware. Two bowls of Worcefter porcelaine, the pattern from old china. Two muftard-pots and plates, of Seve china ; given by lord Hertford, Five trays, in fhapes of fans, of old Japan china. An old blue and white plate with a rib in the middle. A coloured handle cup, faucer and fquare plate, a la Grecque, of Sev^ china. Two old blue and white plates, artichoak pattern. Thirteen ditto, with peacock feathers. Sixteen coloured old Japan plates. Four ditto, blue and white, with figures. Three ditto, with figures. Twelve ditto, of coloured Japan china. Four ditto, with birds. Four water-plates with figures, of new china. Twelve plates of Chelfea china, with fmall coloured birds. Three difhes fcollopped and ribbed, with coloured flowers. Two large coloured difhes of the fine old thick Japan china. A large deep difh of Roman earth, with ftories from Ovid's Mct^* jnorphofis,. An earthen^ware difli, with the hea,ds of Charles 2d. and queen Cathc- fine in blue and white ; a prefent from Mr. Ibbot. An old blue and white difii, with landfcapes. Ditto, larger, with figures. Two difhes of very old French earthen- ware, with the arms of France. Two fmall difhes of fayence, with grotefques and the arms of a bifhop Contarini. An odagon coloured plate of Saxon china, old pattern. Aa 8 A DESCRIPTION OP An odtagon fquare plate, with a cock and hen. A difh and twelve plates enamelled on copper. Two round plates of Japan. Thirteen old white chocolate cups and tea-cups, with cmbolTed flowers. A tea-pot, milk-pot, five coffee-cups, five tea-cups, and ten faucers, of white quilted china of St. Cloud. A tea-pot and milk-pot, fix cups and faucers, of modern china, with grey landfcapcs. Five white cups and faucers with gold borders. Two coloured caudle cups. An earthen-ware tea-pot, with the head of lord Chatham. A fmall tea-canifter of Seve china, blue and gold, with figures on white. A pot pourri of Saxon china, with coloured flowers emboffed. An old white china cup, with cupids painted in Europe. A cup with a bullfinch, of modern china. Thirteen fmall balkets of Saxon china for fugar-plumbs, diff*erent pat- terns. An urn and ftand of kennel coal, a prefent from fir William Me- redith. Six coloured water-cups and plates of Chelfea China. A blue and white caudle-cup. Two ditto, coloured. An old blue and white honeycomb tea-pot. Two Roman lacrymatories of glafs, two of earth, and two water-glafi^es. M. An ewer enamelled with bacchanals on copper. Two coffee-cups and faucers of white and gold Bohemian glafs. A cup of Mr. Place's china. Vide Walpoles Catalogue of EngliJJ:> En- gravers. A blue and white fiucer with a landfcape, of fine Nankin china. A jar, with red and white landlcapes and blue and gold borders, of Chelfea china. Two coloured Saxon trays with fquirrels. A fcolloped faucer of Saxon china, the fecond fort, very rare : in it lies a medal of Louis quinze in Seve china. A hand candleltick of coloured Seve china. A blue ST R AW B E R RY- H I L L. 9 A blue and gold fugar-difli of old Venetian glafs, cover and plate, with a filver gilt fpoon. An old blue and white faucer in the fhape of a flar. Two trays, ditto. An ivory drinking-horn, with the arms of the earls of Exeter ; ancient. An old earthen mug of Arabian ware. Two vafes with handles, of red Portuguefe earth. Two plates like (having -bafons, of the fame. An earthen bottle J painted on it, Sack, 1647: it was thus fold by apo- thecaries. From the colleftion of Mrs Kennon, the virtuofa midwife. A blue and white eggfhell cup. Michael Angelo's Bacchus, made in the china of the comte de Lauragais; from the colle6tion of the comte de Caylus. Two Roman glalTes, like water-glafles 3 two lacrymatories, ditto ; and two of earth. M. Buft of Voltaire, in bifcuit of Nancy. ^ ' Two blue and gold cups tor eggs, of Seve china. Seven old coloured oclagon cups and faucers. A tea-pot and bafon, fix handle cups and faucers, with battles in black, of Vienna china; a prefent to Catharme lady Walpole from count Dehn, envoy from the duke of Wolfenbuttle. A Iquare brown china cup to njeafure tea. An old white china tea-pot with birds and flowers finely painted in Europe. A bagpiping boy and a dancing girl, of Seve bifcuit. Six fine old cups, white within ; without, japanned black and mother of pearl : very rare. An ewer enamelled on copper, with naked horfemen fighting. A blue and gold cofi^ee-cup and faucer, with birds on white cartouches, of Seve china. A cup and faucer, all blue and gold, of ditto. An old glais tankard, with a battle of Turks and chriftians in black, finely drawn. Ditto of old Venetian glafs ftriped with white, mounted in filver gilt : on the lid, arms of P irr enamelled. Six handle cups and faucers with green landfcapes on white, of Chelfea china. An urn and cover of red Portuguefe earth, C Tw© 10 A DESCRIPTION OF Two large coloured faucers with figures. Two fmall ditto bafons with flowers. Two large coloured bafons. Two white faltfellers with crawfifh in relief, of Chelfea china. A fine fquare plate, a la Grecque, of Seve china. Two old blue and white trays. Two Saxon coloured faucers, cinquefoil. Two green and gold falts, with flowers on white, of Seve china. ~ Two white Chelfea falts on feet. Two fmall blue and white bafons. A boy fupporting a fhell, finely modelled in red earth ; the firft fort of Saxon china before it was glazed or painted, and which was only given as prefents by the eledlor : extremely rare. Three pieces of rocks, made of rice ; given by Mr. Raftor, Mrs. Clive's brother. Two chinefe bafons enamelled with coloured flowers on copper. A red cup and faucer, glazed ; the fecond fort of Saxon china : rare. Two blue and gold handle cups and faucers, with birds on white car- touches of Seve china. One ditto, green. One ditto, blue and gold in zigzags, and garlands on white; very beautiful. Two white barrels with vines and grapes, of Chelfea china. ^ Two fmall bafons with coloured flowers, of the befl modern china. A very fine fl:anding cup and cover, enamelled on copper with the ftory of Sampfon, from the defigns of Parmegiano. A fmall dejune of blue and gold Seve china j very pretty. A handle cup, faucer, and fquare plate, of blue and gold Seve china, with fea-pieces admirably copied from Vcrnet's pictures. Ditto of blue, green, and gold, with flowers on white. Two porringers of Portuguefe earth. An o(5tagon faltfeller enamelled on copper, droll figures on the fides with old French verfes ; at top, a head, "^e Juts Paris ; at bottom, another. La. belle Helene. A copper tr;Vy, fcollopped and enamelled with faint John and flowers ; a prefent from Mr. G. Montagu. A very large glafs urn, damaged, found near London j a prefent from Dr* Ch. Lyttelton bifliop of Carhfle, Six STRAWBERRY-HILL. ir Six coloured handle cups and faucers, a tea-pot and fugar-difh, in fliapes of leaves, of Chantilli china. Four fmall blue and white eggfhell cups. The prefent queen of France, a large medallion of Seve bifcult ; a prefent from the duchefs dowager d'Aiguillon in 177 1. Two handle cups and faucers, different patterns a la Grecque, of Seve china. Two butter-pots and plates of blue and white Delft ware ; prefents from Jady Ailelbury. A red cup and faucer, clouded. A fmall fquare brown tea-pot. A jug of old clouded glafs, and a bottle of the fame. Two Saxon tankards, one with Chinefe figures, the other with European. Thefe tankards are extremely remarkable. Sir Robert Walpole drank ales the duchefs of Kendal, miftrefs of king George the Firfl:, gave him the former. A dozen or more years afterwards, the countefs of Yarmouth, miftrefs of king George the Second, without having feen the other, gave him the fecond ; and they match exadtly in form and fize. Two delTert-difhes of coloured Japan china. A fcollopped fugar-difli of old china, white without, flripcd with colour* within : rare. A bafon and plate of fcollopped Saxon china. A plate with fmall flowers, ditto. A monteith of coloured Seve china : beautiful. Two old white china candlefticks, mounted in filver. A large fcollopped and coloured bowl of Japan china. A pale green and white flat bafon very old. Two green jars. A mug of earthen ware, with Arabic charadlers. A fugar-difh, cover and plate, of Japan china. A green ewer with a purple handle. An Etrufcan cup with two handles, and an owl on it. Two very fmall brown tea-pots. Medallion of Henry quatre, in Seve bifcuit. Four blue and white chocolate cups, and four faucers. A triangular faltfeller of fayence with fine figures on terms. An old Venetian glafs cup and faucer, with gold flowers. C 2 A cup 12 A DESCRIPTION OF A cup of Matlock fpar, on a foot. An urn, ditto. Four deffert-plates of fayence, with figures and boys round the borders ; by Pietro Cortona : very fine. A fifth ditto, with goats j a prefent from lady Diana Beauclerc. Two light purple handle cups and faucers with landfcapes, of Seve china, A larger cup and faucer, a la Grecque, ditto. A fcollopped Japan tray. A fine glafs urn with golden boys ; Roman : defcribed in doctor Middle- ton's antiquities. A tall blue and white tea-pot with flat fides. A round brown tea-pot, quite flat. A fine old blue and white box and cover, a prefent from lady Aileflbury, A vafc with two handles of Portuguefe earth. A cup, ditto, with fantaflic forms within it : given by lady Mary Churchill. A green and white mug and faucer, with figures on white, of Seve china. Ditto with rufl:ic implements ; very genteel. A white old triangular piece of china and cover, for eggs. An old white beaker. Two large blue and white tea-pots. Twelve old blue and white deflert-plates with figures. A fmall difli of Chelfea china in a deflert pattern. A blue and white beaker with a Chinefe procefilon. Two blue and white foup-diflies with figures. Ten difhes of old Japan ware. An ancient tall drinking-glafs, with arms and devices a prefent from fir John Hav/kins. Two large blue and white beakers. Two ditto, of different patterns : a companion to one of them is in the great bedchamber. A blue and white difli of Chelfea china. A Turkifli earthen bottle, with leaves cafl in relief on it. Two blue and white jars. Two green, blue, and white beakers. Two blue and white beakers, ' ^ large fayence di£h. A fine STRAWBERRY-HILL. ij A fine Turkifh jar and cover, with caft leaves ; curious. A large blue and w^hite difh. A blue and white bafket of Chantilli china, A white Seve faucepan that bears the fire : 1771. Two blue and white beakers. Two finall coloured ditto. Two fquare blue and white bottles. An odd green and white tea-pot. A tyle from the kitchen of William the Conqueror at Caen in Normandy. Two bafons of moft ancient Gombroon china ; a prefent from lord Verc^ out of the colleftion of lady Elizabeth Germaine. A beautiful green bafon. Ten coloured pattypans of different fizes. An old white difli, A dilli and four deifert-plates, brown, blue, and white, A large blue and white difli, and a fmall ditto. Four green leaves of Staffordfliire-ware for a deflert, A tea-kettle of brown china. A v/hite jar. Two white handle cups and faucers, finely painted with natural flowers, of Seve porcelaine. A Mercury, ditto. A group of the graces fupporting a balket, of Seve bifcuit. A large old white china tea-pot, that was the duke of Monmouth's 5 a prefent from Simon fecond earl of Harcourt. A fauce-boat of Roman fayence, with Cupid riding on a dolphin. Twelve plates of Wedgwood's ware, with cameos of blue and white, and blue fefloons ; from a defign of lady Diana Beauclerc. A bafon and ewer of Roman fayence, painted with landfcapes j a prefent from the earl of Exeter. A large round vafe and cover, and a difh to it, of Roman fayence. Two difhes of the fame. A cup and faucer, white with green feftoons, of Briflol porcelaine. A round picture of white flowers in alto relievo, of the fame manufadiure. A fquare compotier with blue and gold flowers, of Salopian porcelaine, A blue, gold, and colour'd fugar-difh and plate, of Worcefler porcelaine. Two white glafs cups, with gold feftoons and rams heads, of Englifh manufadure, TWQ ;t4 A DESCRIPTION OF Two deflert-plates of old china in form of herons. A groupe of two figures and five fingle cupids, of Heffe and Brunfwick porcelaine; prefents from lord Beauchamp. Sir William Hamilton, envoy at Naples, and Catherine lady Walpole ; medallions of Wedgwood's ware. Louis quinze, and Dr. Franklin, medallions in bifcuit. Two tall chocolate cups and faucers, beautifully painted with holyoaks, of Scvechinaj prefents from lady Ailefbury. A white and gold mug and faucer, with Chinefe pheafants, of ditto. A cup and faucer of ditto, all over flrawberries ; a prefent from madame du DefFand. A cup and faucer of ditto, lilac and gold, with the ftory of Pan and Syrinx in crimfon. A cup and faucer of Wedgwood's ware, finely painted with Englifh views. A white and gold handle cup and faucer with Chinefe figures, of the porcelaine of Clignancour, a new manufad:ure eftablifhed by the Comte de Provence, called Porcelaine de Monfieur. A cup to hold an egg, imitating lapis lazuli j porcelaine de Seve. A very fmall cup and faucer, white and gold, with imitations of rubies ; ditto. A large caudle cup, ftriped with gold, and flowers; porcelaine of Berlin. Four ditto, with fprigs of flowers on white ground ; ditto. A tea-pot and plate, bafon, fugar-difli, milk-pot, two chocolate-cups, two pomatum-pots, and a cann j of the Staflbrdfliire bamboo ware, 1782. A Turkifh earthen-ware plate, brown and gold, a prefent from Mrs. Grifiith the Authorefs. A white glafs fugar-difh, painted with natural flowers. A red Portuguefe bowl with a grate at the bottom, for cooling water. Three black and red earthen vafes, with handles, highly poliihed. Two more copper enamelled plates given by Lady Ailefbury. A tumbler of crackled china within; japanned without; very rare: a prefent from Mrs. French. A bafon of Turkifh earthen-ware, gilt within ; a prefent from Mr. Fitz-» William. A glafs flmcer, gilt and filvered ; given by lord OfTory. Portrait of George Simon Earl of Harcourt, in Wedgewood's ware; the only one executed in that manner. A Tufcan vafe of Wedgewood's ware. China STRAWBERRY- HILL. China in the Waiting-Room. Two ice-pails with vines of Saxon china. A white butter-pot and plate of Chantilli, and two blue and white fait- fellers, ditto. Two monteiths of Tollc, a new French metal japanned. Four oblong deflert-difties, four leaves, and twelve plates, with coloured fruits and flowers, of Chelfea china. Twelve blue and white cofFee-cups and faucers of Chantilli. Twelve black and white tea-cups and faucers of Bow china. Two red and white handle cups and faucers with boys, of Seve» A fine coloured ice-pail and cover, ditto. A blue and white Delft butter-pot and plate. Two white and gold falts of Seve. , Twenty-four white plates with knurled borders and gold edges, four deep leaves, two fquare plates, and a cream- bowl, of Seve. A large white plate, and a white glafs beaker. A blue and white bafket, two round cheefe-pots and plate, and a fceaii for liquors, of Chantilli. Twelve fine plates coloured, with rich blue edges, of Seve, Two ditto, larger. Six ditto, blue and white. Two green StafFordfhire flower-pots with mafks, and two plates. The L I T T T L E PARLOUR. /^VER the door is a fhield of Mr. Walpole's arms and quarterlngs on painted glafs, by Price. The room is lighted by a bow window, in which, among other pieces of painted glafs, are the arms of AyliiFe, im* paling Clifford of Frampton ; given by Mr. George Selwyn. The chimney is taken from the tomb of Thomas Ruthall bifhop of Durham, in Weftminller-abbey. The room is. hung with gothic paper of ftone colour in mofaic, on which are wooden prints by Jackfon of Venice; and furniflied with a table and eight chairs of ebony, bought at the lady Conyers's at Great Stoughton in Huntingdohfhire, as were others in other chambers. On the table is an ice pail of Wedgewood's ware. In i6 A DESCRIPTION OF In the yellow BEDCHAMBER, or BEAUTY-ROOM. 'TpHE chimney-piece was defigned by Mr. Bentley The room is hung ^ -with grey fpotted paper, the bed and chairs of yellow filk and ftufF damafk. On the ebony table, two large old blue and white china candle- ilicks, and a writing-box of fandal-wood inlaid with ivory. On the com- mode with a flab of white marble, bought at Mr. Bateman's fale, a bronze cafl of the hermaphrodite. A fire-fcreen worked by lady Oflbry, 1781. Over the chimney, Charles 2d. James duke of York and Mary princefs of Orange, when children, copied from Vandyck by Charles Beale. A fine portrait of lir Peter Lely, after himfelf, by ditto. Elizabeth Wriothefly countefs of Southampton, and afterwards firft wife of Ralph the firft duke of Montagu, by ditto, after ditto. Thefe three are in water-colours. Nineteen fmall heads in oil of the court of Charles 2d. (except Sacharifia) copied by Jarvis for himfelf, and bought with his houfe at Hampton by Mr. Lovibonde, at whofe fale thefe and the three foregoing were purchafed. Charles the fecond. Queen Catherine. King William when prince of Orange. Queen Mary, when princefs. Catharine Sidley, countefs of Dorchefter, miftrefs of James 2d. Frances. Stuart (of Grammont's Memoires) duchefs of Richmond. Louife de Querouaille, duchefs of Portfmouth. Lady Dorothy Sidney, countefs of Sunderland, Waller's SacharifTa. Barbara Villiers, duchefs of Cleveland. Arabella Churchill, wife of Mr. Godfrey, miftrefs of James 2d, Mrs. Philadelphia Saunders. Mrs. Trevor, maid of honour : having feen the duke of Monmouth iri bed with another lady, and divulged it, the duke engaged Mr. Thynne to debauch her. Mr. Thynne being killed before he bedded lady Ogle, this epigram was made on him. Here lies Tom Thynne of Longleat-hall, WJ5o never would have mifcarriedy Had he married the woman he lay withal. Or lain with the woman he married* Lad)? cimmEY ra the teilxow "Beid ciiambejr. .STRAWBERRY-HILL. 17 Lady Anne Cavendifh, daughter of William earl of Devonfhire, and wife of John earl of Exeter. Lady Gertrude Pierpoint, daughter of William earl of Kingfton, and wife of George Saville marquis of Halifax. . Lady Mary Rich, daughter of Robert earl of Warwick, wife of Henry vifcount St, John, and mother of the famous lord Bolingbroke. Henry earl of Ogle, only fon of Henry CavendiQi duke of Newcaftle. Lady Elizabeth Percy, only daughter and heirefs of Joceline laft earl of Northumberland, married firfl to Henry lord Ogle, fecondly to Thomas Thynne, Efq. and laftly to Charles Seymour duke of Somerfet, Two other ladies, unknown. Over the door, Mary Queen of Scots, by Vertue. , Lady Anne Hamilton, daughter of W. duke of Hamilton, and wife of Robert Carnegie earl of Southelk. Lady Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James duke of Ormond, and wife of Philip Stanhope earl of Chefterfield. Thefe two heads are copied in chalks by Mr. Farringdon, from the originals by fir Peter Lely, at Mr. Foun- taine's at Narford. See aji account of the two ladies in the Memoir es de Grammont. On the Stair-Case. View of Richmond-hill, the original drawing by Mr. Henry Bunburys a prefent from himfelf. The BREAKFAST-ROOM, One Pair of Stairs: Tn>URNISHED with blue paper, and blue and white linen. Black and yellow painted glafs fet in plain blue glafs in the bow window. On the writing-table, an inlaid writing-box made by Langlois. The chimney-piece and windows are not truly gothic, but were defigned by Mr. W. Robinfon of the Board of Works, before there was any defign of farther improvements to the houfe. Over the chimney, a glafs in an ebony frame, a prefent from the reverend Mr. Hemmings of Twickenham : two blue and white flower-pots of Seve china J and two candlefticks with Chinefe figures, by Martin, and china flowers. On one fide of the glafs, D Mary i8 A DESCRIPTION OF ' Mary Lepelle lady Hervey ; a print. A moonlight ; by Bernard Lens. A frame with nine miniatures, viz. A young bride, by Ifaac Oliver. A lady; behind her a red curtain. Both of thefamily of Digby,butnotknown. Venetia Stanley lady Digby, aged nineteen, very beautiful ; by Peter Oliver. Sir Kenelm Digby and lady Digby, after Vandyck ; by ditto : fet in the form of a book with covers of gold enamelled. The fame lady Digby, as fhe was found dead in her bed ; by ditto, after ditto J fet in gold enamelled black ; on which behind is a fphere : it feems to mean, that the world was in mourning for her. Sir Kenelm was paf- fionately fond of this lady, who, lord Clarendon fays, was of extraordinary beauty and as extraordinary fame. At Windfor is a whole length of her, by Vandyck, treading on ferpents, to imply that the ftories told of her were the produce of malice. At Goathurft, where they lived, are two bufts of her in bronze ; on the pedeftal of one are infcribed thefe tender words, XJxorem vivam amare voluptas, defunBam religio. Sir Kenelm Digby, when young ; by Peter Oliver : very fine. Lady Digby, again, moft beautiful ; by ditto. Lady Lucy Percy, daughter and coheirefs of Thomas earl of Northumber- land who was beheaded, wife of fir Edward Stanley, younger fon of the earl of Derby, mother of Venetia lady Digby ; by Ifaac Oliver. She is ftill more beautiful than her daughter, though dreft very unbecomingly in a great black hat and large ruff ; only fet off by a lilac ground. This is perhaps the finefb and moft perfect miniature in the world. All the feven laft are won- derfully preferved, though found in a garret in an old houfe in Wales, be* longing to a Mr. Watkin Williams, probably defcended from Sir Kenelm, one of whofe fons left only two daughters that were married into Welch families. This fet of pidures, with a few more lefs fine, coft Mr. Walpole 300 guineas. On the other fide of the glafs, another frame, with fifteen miniatures, viz. Robert earl of ElTex, favourite of queen Elizabeth ; fet in a cafe enamelled with flowers. Henry Carey lord Hunfdon, knight of the garter 1585; by Hilliard : fet ill black enamel. Thefe two from the colledtion of lady Elizabeth Germaine. A lady of the family of Digby j belonging to the fet above-named 3 in % white enamelled cafe, The STRAWBERRY-HILL. ig The due de Vendome, with a red knotj by Petitot. Madame la princelTe Palatine ; by ditto. Madame la ducheiTe de Montpenfier, grandmother of Mademoifelle ; by ditto. Thcfe three from the collection of the comte de Caylus. La ducheffe de Montzabon, called La Belle des Belles j by ditto. Holbein, in a round, original by himfelf. An exceedingly fine watch, given to general Fairfax by the parliament after the battle of Naleby ; by P. Bordier, brother-in-law of Petitot. On one lide is Fairfax on horfeback, after Vandyck's king Charles ; on the other, the houfe of commons j behind, the battle. It was bought at the fale of Thorefby's mufeum, who has defcribed it in his Ducatus Leodienfis. Two boys, fons of fir Kenelm Digby. Note, thefe and fome after-men- tioned pidures of the Digbys were the other divifion of that colledtion, and were purchafed by Mr. W. of the lady who ihared them with the other heir. John duke of Lauderdale, copied by lady Lucan from the original by Cooper, in the poffeffion of lady Greenwich. William Henry duke of Gloucefter, by lady Lucan after Meyer. Charlotte de la Tremouille countefs of Derby; in a frame of filver filigrane.' A lady's head, fuppofed to be the countefs of Pembroke, wife of earl Wil- liam, by Hofkins ; finely preferved : a prefent from the duchefs dowager of Portland. Fontenelle, a drawing j bequeathed to Mr. Walpole by lady Hervey. A landfcape, a drawing in water-colours, by Vanderneer. Infide of Walpole church in Lincolnfliire ; by Vertue. View of Mad. du Deffand's room and cats, a print 5 with verfes by the prefident Henault. A print of count Antoine Hamilton. A moft curious pidlure of Rofe the royal gardiner, prefenting the firft pine- apple raifed in England to Charles 2d. who is landing in a garden : the houfe feems to be Dawny-court near Windfor, the villa of the duchefs of Cleveland. The whole piece is well-painted, probably by Danckers. It was a prefent to Mr. W. from the rev. Mr. Pennicott of Ditton, to whom it was bequeathed by Mr. London, grandfon of him who was partner with Wife. Two prints of Rubens's own houfe. Two beautiful bas-reliefs of boys in wax, by lady Diana Beauclerc ; fet in frames with her arms, and cameos by Wedgwood and Taffie. D 2 Vandervaarfi 20 A DESCRIPTION OF Vandervaart the painter, by himfelf, in water-colours, finely donej in an old ebony frame fet with lapis-lazuli and agates : a prefent from Richard Bull, Efq. Cowley, by fir Peter Lely ; the fine original of Zincke's Cowley in enamel in the cabinet ; bought at the fale of Mr. Lovibonde in 1776.* Two views of Paris, by Raguenet^ given by Henry Fox lord Holland. Four wafhed views of the chateau de Grignan in Provence : a prefent from George Hardinge, efq; Mifs Temple, maid of honour to Anne Hyde duchefs of York, and fecond wife of fir Charles Lyttelton ; by Spenfer, after the unfinifhed pidiure by Cooper, in the pofleflion of lord Lyttelton. Head of the comte de Grammont 3 copied from the original at the convent of the grands Augufi:ins at Paris. A fecretaire of inlaid woods. Cupid, in Seve china. Two blue and white fquare tubs, of ditto. Anne Liddel countefs of Ollbry ; in crayons, by Hamilton. An urn of granite, brought from one of the Greek iflands, and given to fir Robert Walpole by fir Charles Wager, • Ditto of oriental alabaficr, given to fir Robert Walpole by general Charles Churchill. Margaret * Dcfcrlption of a young fhephcrd, from Britain's Ida, that almoft exa>5l:Iy delineates this portrait. Amongft the reft, that all the reft excell'd, A daintie boy there wonn'd, whofe harmlefs yeares Now in their freflieft budding gentlie fwell'd ; His nymph-like face ne'er felt the nimble ftieeres; Youth's dowiiie blofibme thro his cheeke appeares j His lovelie limbs, but love he quite difcarded. Were made for play, but he no play regarded. And fitt love to reward, and be by love rewarded. High was his forehead, arch'd with filver mould, Where never anger churlifti wrinkle dighted ; His auburn locks hung like dark threads of gold. That wanton airs (with their fair length incited) To play among their wanton curls delighted. His fmiling eyes with fimplc truth were ftor'd — Ah ! how fhoud truth in thofe thief eyes be ftor'd ! Which thoufand Loves had ftol'n, and never once reftor'd. VidelVharions Objervatiom on the Fairy ^lecri) vol, i, /. 123. STRAWBERRY -HILL. 21 • Margaret Smith, wife of fir Charles Bingham lord Lucan j by Hamilton. This lady arrived in five months, by copying in water-colours the enamels and miniatures in this colledtion, at great perfedion, and in that fhort time copied forty pieces, imitating moft exadly the manners of the feveral mafters. Mr. W. wrote the following lines on that fubjed ; Without a rival long on paintings throne^ JJrbinds modeji artift fat alone. At laji a Britijh fair's unerring eyes In five Jhort inoons contejls the glorious prize. Raphael by genius, nurs'd by labour, gaind it — - Bingham but faw perfeSiiony and attain d it. Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, wife of lord Craven ; by Romney. Richard 3d. and his queen ; a drawing from painted glafs, by Vertue. A fea-piece ; by Backhuyfen : very good. Madame la marquife du Deffand and the ducheffe de Choifeul giving her a doll, which the former who was blind, holds out her hands to receive; al- luding to her calling the duchelTe Grand Maman, Every part of the room is exadly reprefented, and madame du Deffand mofi: exaftly like, which the ducheffe is not ; by M. Carmontel, a gentleman belonging to the duke of Orleans, who has done in the fame manner mod of the court of France r a waflied drawing. A print by Bartolozzi of Giorgiana Spencer duchefs of Devonfhire, from the drawing of lady Diana Beauclerc ; in a frame with Wedgwood's cameos, and two flies engraved and painted by Hill. A view of the church of Stokepogeys in Buckinghamfhire j the moon fhining on Mr. Gray's tomb in the church-yard ; by Baron : a prefent from fir Edward Walpole. Virgin and child, a highly finifhed illumination : it belonged to Gaflon duke of Orleans. Francis ift. receiving the homage of the clergy, law and army; an illumina- tion ; cardinal du Prat as chancellor is at the head of the law. Two of the officers on the fore ground are engraved in Montfaucon's Antiquities of France. An allegoric wafhed drawing of Chrifcina of Pifa, writing her Cite des Dames, from an illumination in the library of the king of France. View of the hotel de Carnavalet, where madame de Sevignc lived, in la rue Coulture St. Catherine, at Paris ; built by Du Cerceau j painted by Raguenet. A woman reading ; fmall whole figure j great nature, by Le Due. A flower A DESCRIPTION OF A flower. In paper mofaic, executed by Mrs. Delany, the inventrefs, who between the feventieth and eightieth years of her age executed 500 plants in this manner. She was daughter of Mr. Granville by the daughter of fir John Stanley, and was firft married to Mr. Pendarvis, and then to Dr. Delaney. Its companion, by Mrs. Delany's fcholar, mifs Jennings of Shiplake. Lady D. Beauclerc's two daughters, engraved from her drawing by Barto- lozzi ; in a blue and gold frame painted in mofaic with lions and flower-de- luces, in allufion to the arms of Beauclerc. Sir Kenelm Digby, his wife and two fons, by Peter Oliver, after Van- dyckj a large miniature in the higheft prefervation ; in an ebony cafe fet with Wedgwood's cameos. On the infides of the doors, two other ladies of the fame fet. Two other ebony cafes, ditto. In one", a lady of the Digby family, half- length, after Vandyck, with a beautiful landfcape, by Peter Oliver. In the other cafe, lady Digby enamelled, in a frame of the fame, with her arms, and Latin mottoes, fupported by two goddefl~es ; by G. Toulin, Lady Catharine Howard, daughter of H. Fred, earl of Arundel, and firfl wife of John Digby fon of fir Kenelm. On the reverfe, in the fame enamelled frame, another lady of the family, exquifitely painted by Peter Oliver ; probaby the fecond wife of John Digby. Lady Frances Howard countefs of EflTex and then of Somerfet; copied by lady Bingham, now lady Lucan, from the original at Woburn. Catherine duchefs of Buckingham, daughter of James 2d. in enamel by Zincke : a prefent from her neice madame de Bouzols. A holy family in wax, from Carlo Maratti, by Mrs. Mary Slaughter, After of Stephen Slaughter, painter : a prefent from mifs Anne Clement. The virgin and child, and two angels holding tapers : an ancient carving in ivory : a prefent from Mr. Watfon the chirurgeon. A lady's head, by Hilliard, unfinifhed : bought at Mr. Lovibonde's, A girl's head, in oil ; very lively : by A. Cuyp. George Hamilton, brother of count Antony Hamilton ; fmall copy in oil by E. Edwards, from the original in the pofl^eflion of lord Kingfland. Print of Mr. W. Mafon, the poet. A man's head in a black bonnet, set. 30, 1539, by Holbein, unfinifhed; bought at Mr. Lovibonde's, Two STRAWBERRY-HILL. Two old blue and white china jars j a candleftick of Seve china j tea- things of old china j a fmall tripod of or moulu to burn incenfe ;~and a red velvet purfe embroidered with gold and old French arms, to hold counters. The green CLOSET. TN the windows are fome very curious pieces of painted glafs. One round pane (one of the beft in the houfe) reprefents the ftory of the law-giver, who having enadled a law for punifhing adultery with blindnefs, and his own fon being convided of it, he gave up one of his own eyes to fave one of his fons. The drawing is fine, and the figures of the legiflator and of the young foldier who contemplates him, are evidently taken from fome pid:ure or de- fign which gave the hint to Vandyck for his Beiiiarius, now at Chifwick, There are other curious panes : one with a rofe impaling a pomgranite, the device of Henry 8th. and Catherine of Arragon ; others with a crown in a thorn-bufii between the letters H and E, the device of Henry 7th. which she afTumed after the battle of Bofworth, where Richard's crown was found in that manner. Over the door, A view of Mr. Pope's houfe at Twickenham, painted fmce the alterations made by fir William Stanhope ; by Scott in his very beft manner. On the fame fide of the room are the following picftures, moft of them fmall i ft: . " • A portrait of Sarah Malcolm, who was hanged for murdering her miftrefs and two other women in the Temple. She is fitting at a table in Newgate with popifli beads before her. This was drawn by Hogarth the day before her execution, and fhe had put on red to look the better. Four landfcapes in water-colours, by Baudin. A landfcape in needle- work, by lady Ailefbury, after Van Uden# Eight views of ruins at Rome and other places, by Lucatelli. A landfcape in Indian-ink, with Italian, Chinefe and Gothic buildings j by Mr. Bentley, in his beft ftyle. The head of old Dahl the painter, in water-colours, by himfelf ; oval. Cibber the ftatuary, with a pair of compafies in his hand, in water- colours ; by Chriftian Richter. George Granville, lord Landfdowne, in red; ditto; by Vertue, after Kneller. Two fmall picftures in oil, the ftories of Sufanna and the elders, and of David and Bathftieba : Italian. A beggar- 24 A DESCRIPTION OF A beggar-boy with a bird's-neft, water-colours on ivory ; by Mr. Horace Walpole, from Murillo. Queen Henrietta Maria ; by Dixoti. Mary princefs of Orange, mother of king William ; by Hofkins. Sir Robert Walpole and Catherine lady Walpole ; heads carved in ivory. An old head, in a laced niglit-cap and ruff; by Cornelius Janfen, or Porbus. Lady Arabella Stuart, when a child ; by Ifaac Oliver. Zachary Kneller, brother of fir Godfrey j by Vertue, after Kneller. . St. Catherine reading ; after Correggio, by Catherine lady Walpole. At the- end fronting the window : A pot of Carnations, drawn at CheHea from the life by Van Huyfum, who lived there two years with fir Robert Walpole : he was brother to the famous flower-painter : in oil. - Robert Walpole, father of fir Robert Walpole ; a head in crayons, ^ Mary Burwell, his wife j ditto. I: -An herb-market and a fiih-marketj after Teniers, in oil, by Angelis. Sir Jeffery Burwell, grandfather of fir Robert Walpole } he is an old man fitting; a death's head by him : in crayons. - Mary, his wife, daughter and coheirefs of Thomas Derehaugh of Colton- hall in Suffolk ; in crayons. ' A ftable-yard, with a cart and a woman paring turneps ; by J. H. Miintz: in oil. : Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchefles of Tufcany ; copied from a chamber at Poggio Im- periale near Florence, where the originals are drefi^ed in the very cloaths they wore, parted on the hangings, with the faces painted on fattin. Six more drawings of ruins, by Lucatelli. Anna Chamber countefs Temple ; by Hamilton. Henry Carey earl of Monmouth, knight of the bath, tranflator of many works;* by Theodore Ruflel. Pope Benedid: 13th. in wax; behind it is his elogium, written by Mr« Walpole and printed in his Fugitive Pieces. Lady Newburgh, lord Lanfdown's Myra, in widow's weeds ; copied by young Lens from the original of fir Godfrey Kneller, in the collection of the earl of Cardigan ; in water-colours. The * See his article in the Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, STRAWBERRY-HILL. 25 The countefs of Buckingham, mother of duke George Villiers, in mourn- ing; by ditto : from the fame colledlion. Anna Maria Brudenel countefs of Shrewfbury, famous for her amours with the fecond George Villiers duke of Buckingham ; by ditto, from ditto. James Stuart duke of Richmond and earl of Litchfield, hufband of the • beautiful Mrs. Stuart whom Charles 2d. was in love with; in armour; by Cooper. Sufan Airmine lady Bellalis, miftrefs of James 2d. by Cooper, unfinhhed. Lady Anne Watfon, daughter of Thomas earl of Strafford ; by ditto. Spencer Compton earl of Northampton, killed in the civil war. A lady's head, temp. James ifl. Two ladies of the court of queen Elizabeth; by Hilliard. Thefe five belonged to Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington. An infant's head, fleeping, by Vifcher ; very natural : in black lead. A boy's head, in red and black chalks; by Peter Oliver : very lively.' Mrs. Catherine Clive, the excellent comedian, in the character of the Fine Lady in Lethe ; in water-coluurs by Worlidge. A lady's head ; in a black hood ; by Cooper. Boncourt, a French comedian ; given by the comte du Chatelet. A gentleman's head in oil; oval, in a metal cafe. Thomas earl of Arundel; fmall head in oil. Charles 2d. in robes of the garter; in water-colours, after Lely; done by Richard fecond lord Edgcumbe at the age of fixteen. Two pieces of fruit and flowers, in water-colours ; by old Lens. Mrs. Scott, the painter's wife; by Deacon. A gentleman of great genius for drawing, who having misfortunes, took to painting portraits in minia- ture, and hired the houfe late Zincke's in Covent-Garden, where Mr. Meyer the enameller now lives ; but Mr. Deacon died in a year by the jail- diflemper which was brought to the Old Bailey, where he happened to at- tend. Mr. Pope, by young Lens, in water-colours ; round. Pomona ; by Clinkfted. Mr. Thomas Gray; etched from his fliade; by Mr. W. Mafon. A landfcape on copper ; by Roland Savery. Lord Herbert of Cherbury ; a print coloured by Wale, from the original of Ifaac Oliver, in the collection of lord Powis. William lord Mansfield ; in oil, by Wootton, E J^eema-n, 26 A DESCRIPTION OF Zeeman, junior, painter, in blue, by his father. Profile of an angel, after Guido ; done in hair by Mary Lane, 1778. Impreffion of Oliver Cromwell's privy feal. The two fons of the old Pretender; painted at Rome in 1740. The vifcount Stafford, beheaded in the reign of Charles 2d. in water* colours ; a prefent from Mr. E. Jerningham the poet, nearly related to the Stafford s. On the window-fide fronting the door, beginning on the left-hand : A view of the Thames from Mrs. Clive's houfe at Twickenham; in blue and white, by Miintz. A fprig of orange-flowers, and another of apple-bloffoms ; by Catherine lady Walpole, in water-colours. A bunch of white rofes ; by ditto. Infide of a church, by Steenwick. Four more views of ruins; by Lucatelli. A Chinefe building, defigned and drawn by Mr. Bentley for the corner of the wood at Strawberry-hill, where the chapel now flands ; in Indian-ink. The 'Farnefe Hercules, in wax; by GofTet. Cleopatra, in water-colours ; Italian. Mrs. Beale, and her fon Charles ; heads in water-colours by her. Profile head of a Magdalen, a coloured print by Le Blon. A red and white rofe, executed in feathers, by Werman Cany. Bifhop Burnet in robes of prelate of the garter ; by Mrs. Rofe. Prince Charles of Lorrain, in a frame of tortoifhell. Then pafs to the right hand. Over the window, B. Hoadley bifhop of Winchefter, in wax ; by GofTet : and, Charles Townfhend chancellor of the exchequer : ditto. Boors reading : Flemifh. It was in fir Robert Walpole's colledlion. A landfcape ; by Teniers. Two more views of ruins ; by Lucatelli. The arms of fir Pvobert Walpole and Catherine Shorter, cut in paper on looking-glafs, by Bermingham. A converfation, after Watteau, in water-colours ; by Mr. Horace Wal- pole. Defign for the arms of the two clubs at White's j drawn by the fecond lord STRAWBERRY. HILL. 27 lord Edgcumbe, and invented by him, Mr. G. A. Selwyn, Mr. Geo. J. Williams, and Mr. Hor. Walpole, at Strawberry-hill. The arms are as ■ follow ; Vert (for the card-table) on a chevron fable (for the hazard-table) two rouleaus of guineas in faltire between two dice proper, the chevron be- tween 3 parolis at Pharaoh, proper ; on a canton fable, a white ballotting- ball. Creft, an arm and hand holding a dice-box, iffuant from an earl's coronet. Supporters, an old and a young knave of clubs (for the two clubs.) Motto, cog-it amor nummi. The arms furrounded by a bottle-ticket in- fcribed, claret y in the manner of an order. A king-fifher and ducks, of the Batterfea enamel : it was a manufadlure, ilamped with a copper-plate, fupported by alderman Janfen, but failed. Charles 2d. young, in armour, with the garter 3 oval miniature. Mary duchefs of Beaufort : oval miniature. Mr. Congreve, in armour : oil. A lady, with Italian mottoes ; in a round. A friar and lady at her toilette ; by Clinkfled. A woman hiding her lover from her blind hufband ; by ditto. A v/oman fainting in a man's arms ; after fome great mafter : D. Raw- don fe. 1703. Mr. Deacon's fon by him : unfinifhed. Drawing by Miintz, in water-colours, from an illumination to a book of earl Rivers in the library at Lambeth, and from which the frontifpiece was taken to Mr. Walpole's Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors. At the end of the clofet towards the Thames : Over the window, impreffion of the great feal of queen Henrietta Maria: and Frederic prince of Wales, in wax : by Gollet. Two prints of old Stocks-market, and Elfex-court in the Temple, co« loured by Baudin. Head of James firft earl of Stanhope, in crayons. ^ Ditto of Mrs. Sclater, in a black gauze hood. Four more views, by Lucatelli. There are 24 in all. Sir John Shorter, grandfather of Catherine lady Walpole; in crayons. He was lord-mayor in 1688, when receiving the pope's nuntio in the city, James 2d. gave him an additional quarter to his arms : two years before he had been one of the moft diftinguifhed aldermen on the Whig fide. He died in his mayoraltjf. E 2 Jfabella 28 A DESCRIPTION OF Ifabella BIrkhead, his widow, in weeds. They are buried In the church of St. Saviour, Southwark : vide Maitland's Hiftory of London. Mary Bruce duchefs of Richmond ; by Hamilton. Anne Conway, . daughter of general Conway and lady Ailefbury, and wife of John Damer, eldeft fon of Jofeph lord Milton ; by Hamilton. Octagon of Thomas earl of Southampton, in his robes ; but quaere whe- ther it is not the laft duke of Ormond but one ? Henry Howard earl of Northampton ; copied in water-colours by Harding; from the original at the earl's college at Greenwich. A fmall half length of a young man, oftagon on copper, by Fr, Hals; from Mr. Jennings's collection. Two landfcapes in foot-water j by Mr. Bentley. A writing-box, richly carved in ivory. Two blue and white jars. A red velvet coflfer ornamented with filver, and containing fix dram bot- tles of the old Venetian glafs flowered with gold and enamelled tops ; from. Mrs. Kennon's collection. A temple of old japan. Two cups and faucers of Seve china, A fmall table of ditto. Three ebony chairs. Small bronze bud of C^iracalla.* The blue BED-CHAMBER. TTUNG with plain blue paper; a linen bed j eight chintz chairs; a toi- * lette worked by Mrs. Clive ; a looking-glafs in a tortoifhell frame, ornamented with filver; two blue and white fquare candlefticks of old Delft ware : an ancient lock to the door, richly wrought of brafs and fleel ; and a cabinet japanned by lady Walpole : on it, an ewer and bafon of blue and white Seve china ; under it a blue and gold china bottle. The chimney-piece was defigned by Mr. Bentley. Over it, In a frame of black and gold carved by Gibbons, fir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter ; fmall whole lengths; byEckardt, after Zincke; the hounds and * In the cupboards in this clofet are many I^SS. particularly alj thofe of Vertue. which Mr. Walpole bought of his widow. CELIMKEYIN THE BLUE BE]D) CHAMBEIi <> STRAWBERRY-HILL. 29 and view of Houghton by Wootton. Sir Robert is fitting j by him, on a table, is the purfe of chancellor of the exchequer, leaning againft bufts of George ift. and 2d. to denote his being firft minifter to thofe kings : by lady Walpole are flowers, fhells, a pallet and pencils, to mark her love of tho arts. On the chimney, A boy and girl in Seve bifcuit. Three fmall flower-pots, ditto. Two cups and faucers, ditto. Four blue and white cream-cups. In the bow window, fome very beautiful painted glafs. General Henry Seymour Conway, and Caroline countefs dowager of Aile- fbury, his wife ; their daughter Anne fitting on the ground playing with a dog. The attitudes and drefles taken from Watteau. This, and all the other pi(ftures in this room, were painted by Eckardt. Charles Churchill, and lady Maria Walpole, his wife, with their eldefl: fon Charles; taken from the pifture at Blenheim, of Rubens, his wife and child. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, knight of the bath. Mr. Thomas Gray ;* taken from the portrait of a mufician by Vandyck» at the duke of Grafton's. Mr. Richard Bentley; from Vandyck. He holds in one hand his own defign of the figure of Melancholy, drawn by him for the edition of Mr, Gray's Odes. Mr. Horace Walpole; from Vandyck; leaning on the JEdes Walpolinse: behind him, a view of Strawberry-hill. The frames are of black and gold, carved after thofe to Lombard's prints from Vandyck, but with emblems peculiar to each perfon. The red BEDCHAMBER. TJUNG with crimfon paper ; by the bed, a crucifix of ivory ; an ewer and bafon of Chantilli porcelaine ; a red and white flower-pot, cup, faucer and fugar-difli, of Seve porcelaine ; crimfon Norwich damafk chairs, and an arm-chair of patch-work. Pidiures on the chimney fide : Gypfies telling a country-maiden her fortune at the entrance of a beech- wood ; : * With this motto, alluding to his Ode on Eton, which, though one of his beft productions, wai his firft publifced, Nec lUuit populis parvum NiUj •uidere. 30 A DESCRIPTION OF wood i a mofl: beautiful drawing in water-colours, defigned and executed by lady Diana Beauclerc in 178 1 j the chef-d'oeuvre of her works. A drawing in Indian-ink of a foreft, by Mary Danby, firft married to Mr. Lockhart, and afterwards to general Harcourt, only brother of George Simon fecond earl of Harcourt. An old beggar ; by Teniers. Head of goats, a fine Iketch by Berghem ; from the colleflion of Woot- ton the painter. View of Elizabeth-caftle in Jerfey, by Miintz ; in oil. A coloured drawing, by the reverend Mr. Gilpin. Maria Walpole countefs of Waldegrave and duchefs of Gloucefler, with her eldeft daughter lady Elizabeth Laura ; a mezzotinto. A moonlight on copper, by Bonus, jun. Side oppofite the window. A landfcape, by MuUins. Falconet the painter's wife, by him j highly finiflied : Mary Kirk, wife of fir Richard Vernon, known by the name of War- tneftre in the Memoires de Grammont. Two views of Richmond-hill, and Twickenham, from Strawberry-hill,. "hy Miintz } in oil. Le comte de Grignan ; a print. Madame de Caylus, niece of madame de Maintenon ; a print. Two old men; an Italian fketch. The original drawing of Titus Gates, in black lead, by Robert White; a prefent from Richard Bull, efq. A head of the duke d'Epernon, favourite of Henry 3d. painted on oriental alabafter; a prefent from colonel St. Paul, charge d'affaires at Paris. A print of the princefs Sophia, eldeft daughter of their royal highnefTes William Henry and Maria, duke and duchefs of Gloucefter. The father of Pope as he lay dead ; drawn by his father-in-law Samuel Cooper : bought by Richardfon, junior, at the fale of Mrs. Martha Blountj^ to whom Pope had bequeathed this and the three following. Mrs. Editha Cooper, mother of Pope ; by John Richardfon, fenior, Mr. Pope himfelf ; ditto. Henry St. John vifcount Bolingbroke ; ditto. Sketch by Keat, for a niche in Mr. Fairfax's houjfe in Saville-row» On S T A 1 RC A S K .\T . S T R AWB K RRT Hi L X, , *STRAWBERRY-HILL. 31 On the fides of the window : Madame de Prie, miftrefs of the due of Bourbon, prime minifler In the minority of Louis xv. in crayons ; flie died of vexation at the difgrace of the duke : a prefent from madame du DefFand, who was intimate with her. The four feafons, heads of boys in rounds ; Italian : a prefent from ihst due de Nivernois. Macbeth in the witches cave j a print. Four drawings of humour, wa£hed, by Elias Martin. An ancient illuminated drawing. A landfcape, view in Jerfcy, by Mr. Bentley ; in oil.* A young lady reading the Caftle of Otranto to her companion ; a gracefull and expreffive drawing, done for a prefent to Mr. W. by Lavinia Binghamj eldeft daughter of lady Lucan, the celebrated copyift, and fmce married to lord Althorp. On the staircase. TN a niche. The armour of Francis ift. king of France, of flee! gilt, and covered with bas-reliefs in a fine tafte : his lance is of ebony inlaid with filver ; his fword fiieel ; beautifully inlaid with gold, probably the work of Benvenuto Cellini : there is alfo the armour for the horfe's head. This very valuable fuit of armour was purchafed from the Crozat collection in 1772, on the death of the Baron de Thiers, when the czarina bought the fine collection of pidiures and bronzes. Over againfi: it, Henry 5th and his family; bought in 1773, at the fale of James Weft, prefident of the Royal Society. See a defcription and print of this picture in the firft volume of the Anecdotes of Painting in England. This picture came out of Stafford-houfe, or Tart-hall, Weftminfiier ; and I imagine that this, and the two others of Henry 6th. and 7th. were done by order of Henry 7th. in honour of the houfe of Lancafter. I have heard that that of Henry 6th. came out of the palace of Shene. Henry 8th. aged 29, and Charles 5th. aged 20, in one picture from Mr. Weft's collection. Behind Charles 5th. are two figures, probably defigned for his grandfather and father, the emperor Maximilian, and Philip. Two ftiields of leather, for tournaments, painted by Polidorej one has the head of Medufa, the other of Perfeus : on the infides are battles in gold. They * In this piece Mr. Bentley has reprefented himfelf and his fecond wife on the fea Ihore, 32 A DESCRIPTION OF They came out of the colledtion of commendatore Vittoria at Naples, ancf were fent to Mr. W. by fir. W. Hamilton, with a third of iron, reprefent- ing the ftory of Curtius, but certainly not antique, as there is a cannon and an embattled tower at a drftance. Over the middle arcade is a curious ancient head of Henry 3d. carved in alto-relievo on oak, from the church of Barnwell near Oundle iri Northamptonfhire, which he endowed. This head is very like to the effigies on his tomb, and to that in painted glafs in the chapel here at Straw- berry-hill » The armoury S an open veftibule of three gothic arches, lighted by a window entirely of painted glafs, and ornamented over the doors and niches with quartering^ of the family of Walpole, painted by Grant. Two fuits of armour, on one of Virhich is the mark of a bullet ^ two hel-- metsj a gauntlet; a round leathern quiver; and two pair of ftirrups; from- Coombe, near Kingfton in Surry, which feat formerly belonged to the great Kichard Neville earl of Warwick. Thefe arms therefore probably were part of thofe which ferved his troops when he marched to Weflminfter to awe th6 parliament in the reign of Henry the Sixth. A beautiful Periian fhield, made of a. rhinoceros's hide tanned, enamelled^ and almoft tranfparent. An Indian fcimitar, the handles and ornaments of filver, in a green velvet cafe; and a dagger of the fame; given by a nabob to George Morton Pitt,, governor of Fort St. George, and by his widow to Mr. Walpole. An Indian fword, the blade waving and damafked, the fcabbard of wood twifted with cane, the hilt an owl carved in wood. Two Indian quivers, full of arrows. An Indian lance, the head of wood double barbed and delicately wrought, Jthat it might break into fplinters in a wound. Several other lances, fpear^, and Indian bows* An Indian bow, painted. An Indian fcimrtar in a Japan icabbard,. Four broad fwords. A collar fet with fpikes, for a wild beafh Five pieces of a coat of mail. An S T R A W B E R R Y- H I L L. 33 An Indian pouch made of beads and hair j a girdle, ditto ; a collar, ditto j and two leather flioes, ornamented ditto. An eaftern powder-horn of fteel and bronze, richly graved and hung to a chain with a tablet of bronze, charaders in the middle on a red ground. An Indian mace, inlaid with brafs, A hatchet, ditto. Thefe three from the coUedtion of Monf. Julienne at Paris. Two halberds, from the old houfe at Houghton. An American calumet ; a warrior's wreath and a neck ornament : pre- fents from governor Pownall. An ancient mulket, richly carved ; a prefent from Mofes Franks, efq; Another ancient mulket and piflol inlaid with ivory ; from the colle(5tion of Mr. Scott. A tall offuarium with bas-reliefs, a facrifice and tripods. Another, curious for being a double one ; the infcriptions, VIBIA. p. L, p. VIBIVS. ASIATICE. P. D. L. VIXIT. MODESTVS, ANN. XXII. ^ The L I B R a R Y. 'TpHE books are ranged within Gothic arches of pierced work, taken froiis a fide-door cafe to the choir in Dugdalc's St. Paul's. The doors them* felves were defigned by Mr. Chute. The chimney-piece is imitated from the tomb of John of Eltham earl of Cornwall, in Weftminfter-abbey ; the ftone-work from that of Thomas duke of Clarence, at Canterbury. An ancient curfeu, or couvre-feu ; from Mr. Goftling's colled:ion. The cieling was painted by Clermont, from Mr. Walpole's defign drawn out by Mr. Bentley. In the middle is the fliield of Walpole furrounded with the quar- ters borne by the family. At each end in a round is a knight on horfeback, in the manner of ancient feals ; that next to the window bears the arms of Fitz Ofbert, the other of Robfart. At the four corners are fliields, helmets, and mantles ; on one fhield is a large H, on another a W, femee of crofs crofslets, in imitation of an ancient bearing of the Howards in Blomfield's Norfolk. On another fhield is the Saracen's head, the creft of the family, but here the Catherine-wheel is above the cap, not on it ; having been fo- borne by the Robfarts, as appears from the tomb of Lodowic Robfart lord F Bourchier, 34 A DESCRIPTION OF Bourchier, in Weftminfter-abbey. On the fourth fhield is an antelope, one of lord Orford's fupporters, with the arms about his neck, refting under a tree, as in old devices. On either fide is the motto of the family, Fari qua fentiat 'y and at the ends, m.dcc.liv, the year in which this room was linifhed, expreffed in Gothic letters : the whole on a mofaic ground. The large window and the two rofe windows have a great deal of fine painted glafs, particularly. Faith, Hope, and Charity, whole figures in colours ; a large fhield with the arms of England, and heads of Charles ift. and Charles 2d. On one fide of the window, a landfcape by Polemberg. Oppofite to it, Chriftina queen of Sweden, in her ufual drefs, partly male, partly female: a curious drawing with a pen by Steph. de la Bella. Over the chimney, an ancient and valuable piece, reprefenting the mar- riage of Henry 6th. of which fee a defcription in the firfl volume of the Anecdotes of Painting. Above it are that king's arms, the red rofe crowned, and queen Margaret's arms in a lozenge. On each fide, two bronze me- dallions of the Malateftas, fovereigns of Rimini. A girl and cat, in water-colours, copied by Mr. Walpole from Rofalba. A boy with a flute, by ditto, from a picture of Cavalier Luti, at Houghton. Sir Robert Walpole, when a boy, in crayons. Sir Edward Walpole, knight of the bath, grandfather of fir Robert ; in oil. Henry duke of Richmond, natural fon of Henry 8th. in his fhirt and night-cap, which is embroidered with black : a miniature. Mary, fole daughter and heirefs of Thomas lord Fairfax, wife of George Villiers fecond duke of Buckingham : ditto, by Cooper. The queen of Bohemia, daughter of James ift. ditto, by Ifaac Oliver, Sir Francis Drake : ditto, by Hilliard. Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham, the great admiral, aet. 37; by Ifaac Oliver. Lady Penelope Compton, daughter of Spencer earl of Northampton, and wife of fir Edward Nicholas, fecretary of flate ; by Cooper. Count Gondomar, a fine head in oil ; fmall. A Roman fimpulum in bronze. Two bronze antique lamps and chains. One ditto, modern, with a triton. A cow, ditto. Au ancient brafs padlock in the fhape of a hand. A greyhound STRAWBERRY-HILL. 35 A greyhound in bronze, to keep down papers. A filver ftandifh that was fir Robert Walpole's, with his arms. Pidliires over the book-cafes. Lady Fairborne, daughter of fir Rookefby, and wife of fir Stafford Fairborne ; in red : niece of Catherine, daughter of Edward Darcy, efq; and wife of fir Erafmus Phi- lips, of Pidton-caftle in Pembrokefiiire, grandmother of Catlierine lady Walpole, whom fhe educated. Sir John Shorter, lord mayor of London in 1688 ; in black. Ifabella Birkhead, his wife. Francis Seymour Conway earl of Hertford, and knight of the garter; by Aftley, after Liotard. Lady Ifabella Fitzroy, youngeft daughter of Charles fecond duke of Grafton, and wife of Francis earl of Hertford ; by Eckardt, after Vanloo. Henry Seymour Conway, only brother of lord Hertford : in armour, by Eckardt. Charlotte, fecond daughter of John Shorter of Bybroook in Kent, and third wife of Francis lord Conway 3 in yellow. Thomas Shorter, fecond fon of fir John Shorter ; in brown. John Shorter, efq; of Bybrook in Kent, eldeft fon of fir John Shorter; in red. John Shorter, in armour, eldeft fon of the foregoing, and brother of Catherine Shorter, eldeft daughter of John Shorter of Bybrook, and firfl wife of fir Robert Walpole afterwards earl of Orford : a copy after old Dahl. A clock of filver gilt, richly chafed, engraved, and ornamented with fleurs de lys, little heads, 6cc. on the top fits a lion holding the arms of England, which are alfo on the fides. This was a prefent from Henry 8th. to Anne Boleyn ; and fince, from lady Elizabeth Germaine to Mr. Walpole. On the weights are the initial letters of Henry and Anne, within true lovers knots ; at top, Dieu et mon Droit ; at bottom, The moli happy. — ■ One of the weights, agreeably to the indelicacy of that monarch's gallantry, is in a fhape very conformable to the laft motto. The pedeftal is adorned with fmall heads of bronze gilt of the age of Henry 8th. but which did not belong to the clock. A femicircular ofifuarium, an uncommon form : in the pediment, a tripod fupported by grifons : at each corner, a horned head of a man and a bird, a feftoon hangs from the horns of the men, on which are two more birds : the infcription, F 2 p. LENILIO ^6 A DESCRIPTION OF p. LENILIO MARTIALI POSVIT FORTVNATVS PATRONO SVO B. M. A fquare ofTuarium j heads of rams, a feftoon and birds j the infcription, D. I. c. L. M. FECIT MCEEI CAEIIAPRI MIGENIAPD. Thefe two urns were in the colledtion of dodor Meade. An ofluarium adorned on the front and fides with ivy and birds drinking out of a vafe ; the infcription, D. TI. CL. M. SVCCESSO. FILIO. PIENTISSIMO. QVI. ANN. VIX. XIIX. PARENTES FEC. Three more, fquare ; and one round, with a bird on the cover. Rare books of prints and drawings in the Hbrary. Thuanus, the large edition in 14 volumes, enriched with beautiful prints of the beft impreflions, containing portraits of the principal perfonages. This fet was colledted by fir Clement Cotterel Dormer. iEdes Walpolianae, the original drawings, with every print that has been engraved from the pictures, and with other prints and drawings of houfes and buildings that belonged to fir Robert Walpole and the family of Walpole. A colledtion of initial letters from the beginning of printing, with fome drawings of heads of the firft printers 3 colle ■his arms, a horfe ; the motto, Equifas rcgni. 17. Silver coin of Euftace, fon of king Stephen; very rare : from lord Oxford's colledtion. 18. A filver half crown of pope Clement iith. Reverfe, the pantheon* 19. Copper medal of pope Gregory 13th. on the correftion of the calen-" dar : the reverfe, which is in beautiful tafte, was defigned by Parmegiano. 20. Silver medal of the fame pope, on the mafFacre of St. Barthelemi':; on the reverfe, the deftroying angel murdering the proteflants the legend,. Hugonotorum Strages. This fcandalous medal was called in and the die broken, which has made it very uncommon. 21. A filver coin ftruck by the republic of Florence when they declared Jefus Chrift their king, tO' keep ofi:' the pope v from Baron Stofch's collec- tion : extremely rare. 22. Copper medal of Lorenzo of Medici, who ftabbed duke Alexander:: the reverfe copied from Brutus's medal, with the cap of liberty between tw® daggers; the legend, viii LL "Jan. Very rare. 23. Copper medal of Clement 7th. Reverfe, Jofeph and hi« brethren^:: defigned by Raphael. 24. Coin of Theodore king of Corfica : rare. 25. Brafs fatirical medal on queen Anne : reverfey the queen and lady Mafham embracing ; motto. All for Love.- Mr. WALPOLE's bedchamber, two Pair of Stairs. 'T^HE chimney-piece was defigned by Mr. Chute, and has great grace.. In the window, compofed of feven lights, are feveral curious pieces of painted glafs ; as, the arms of Anne Boleyn with the quarterings which the: king allowed her to bear of the families from which (he was defcended,, withi STRAWBERRY-HILL. 41 though with no right of quartering ; a large lion coloured ; four large angels in black and white ; cypher and portcullis of king Edward ; arms of Clinton and Ratcliffe ; fine heads in blick and white of Charlemagne, prince Wil- liam, anJ prince Maurice of Orange, &c. Over the chimney. View of the Vine in Hampfhire, the feat of John Chute efq; by Miintz. A fmall print of Mr. Andrews's Gothic houfe near Donnington-caflle and Spine-hill, Berkfliire ; defigned by John Chute efq; Fifteen fmall drawings of Englifli and French comedians; by Fefch, View of the gate at St. Edmund at Bury. A fable, in cut paper on looking-glafs ; by Bermingham. Over the door. Head of John Chute efq; by Miintz, after Pompeio Battoni. La fignora Elifabetta Capponi Grifoni, a Florentine beauty; by Ferd. Richter, 1741. Patapan, a Roman dog, belonging to Mr. Walpole ; by Wootton. Do6lor Conyers Middleton ; by Eckardt. Dod:or Thomas Afhton, fellow of Eton-college; by ditto. He died in 1775. A man and woman in water-colours, after Watteau ; by Mr. Walpole. A rural ball, after Watteau ; by ditto. Catherine Walpole, eldeft daughter of fir Robert Walpole ; fmall head in oil. Horace Walpole, when a child, in a white frock ; in crayons. A fprig of orange, in water-colours ; by lady Walpole. A bunch of flowers, ditto ; by lady Anne Conway, eldeft daughter of lord Hertford, and wife of the earl of Drogheda. Drawing of Rembrandt's mother, from the pid:ure at Windfor, called the countefs of Defmond ; by Miintz. Prints, of the houfe of commons and warrant for beheading Charles ift. infcribed with a pen. Major charta; of Ethelreda lady Townfiiend; of lord Chatham; lord Holland ; lord and lady Strafford ; Mr. H. Walpole ; and le comte de Guerchy. In the Plaid Bedchamber, in the South Tower, is the portrait of Henry Walpole the jefuit, who was executed for attempting to poifon queen Elizabeth. He is crowned with glory and holds a palm-branch, the emblem G of 42 A DESCRIPTION OF of martyrdom j the arms of the family in one corner. This pidure came from Mr. Walpole's of Lincolnfhire, the laft of the Roman catholic branch of the family, who died about the year 1748. The star CHAMBER T S a fmall anti-room, painted green, with golden ftars in mofaic. It has a large window entirely of painted glafs ; two triangular chairs taken from a piece of glafs in Mr. W alpole's bed-chamber ; two fmall Welch armed chairs, painted blue and white, with cufliions of point-lace, and on one the arms of Mr. Richard Bateman, at whofe fale they were purchafed ; a japan tea-table with white porcelaine ; and a card-table of the fame. A mahogany cabinet, containing a collection of Englifli and foreign coins and medals. On it, a buft of Henry 7th. in ftone, a model in great tafte for his tomb, by Torreggiano. * Under it a vafe of falfe porphyry ; from the collection of the comte dc Caylus. Another like cabinet, with gold, filver, and brafs Greek and Roman coins, and a complete fet of Roman weights from Dr. Middleton's collec- tion. On it, a buft of Gibbs the architect in marble, by Ryfbrack. Be- neath, a vafe, companion to the former. A porringer, cover and plate, white, with different golds, of Seve china; a prefent from Mrs. Darner. Hence you go into a trunk-cieled paffage, lighted by a window of painted glafs, in which are many quarterings of Latton, a family formerly feated at Efher in Surry : in the window, a candleflick enamelled on copper. This paffage leads to The HOLBEIN CHAMBER. 'TpHE cieling is taken from the queen's dreffing-room at Windfor. The chimney-piece, defigned by Mr. Bentley, is chiefly taken from the tomb of archbifliop Warham at Canterbury. Over it, a glafs in a black and gold frame j and a piece of Roman fayence in the fhape of a boat, Bacchus and Ceres in relief in the middle. A fire-fcreen embroidered by Mifs Hotham, to whom Mr. W. addrefTed the fable of The Magpie and her Young. Two * Vide Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i, p. 102. STRAWBERRY-HILL. 43 Two blue china beakers. "The pierced arches of the fcreen from the gates of the choir of Rouen; the reft of the fcreen v/as defigned by Mr. Bentley. i In the bow windows fome fine painted glafs, and the arms of England, and thofe of George prince of Denmark ; the ground is a beautiful mofaic of crimfon, blue, and pearls, defigned and painted by Price of Hatton-garden. A table and fix chairs of ebony. On the table a tray with four ancient combs ; one of ivory is extremely ancient, carved with figures, on one fide reprefenting perfons bathing and going to bed, on the other, two men and a woman with mufical inftruments ; another comb faid to have belonged to the queen of Scots, is of tortoifliell ftudded with filver hearts and rofes; the two others of tortoifliell likewife, of which the one with very long teeth belonged to the father of the firft lord Edgcumbe, and was ufed when the large flov/ing wigs were in fafiiion : two bottles of Roman fayence, and a bafon and ewer of purple and white Seve china. A very ancient chair of oak, which came out of Glaftonbury-abbey ; on it are carved thefe fentences, "Joannes Arthurus Monacus Glajlonie, falvet eum Deus : Da pacem Domine : Sit Laus Deo. Lord Bathurft: had feveral chairs copied from this. Another chair covered with purple cloth, made from one in a pane of painted glafs in the breakfraft-room. The bed is of purple cloth lined with white fattin, a plume of white and purple feathers on the center of the tefter ; the room is hung with purple paper. By the bed. The red hat of cardinal Wolfey, found in the great wardrobe by bifhop Burnet when clerk of the clofet. From his fon the judge it came to the countefs dowager of Albemarle, who gave it to Mr. Walpole. Chrift crowned with thorns, by Mabeufe; bought at monfieur Hareng's fale, 1764. Over the chimney, an ancient painting of the emperor Maximilian and his fon Philip the Fair : from the colledlion of Mr. Bryan Fairfax. Lady Arabella Stuart, in white, whole length in water-colours j copied by Vertue from the original at Welbeck. A man's head with a book ; by Quintin Matfis : it was in fir Robert Walpole's colledtion. Anne Stanhope duchefs of Somerfet, fecond wife of the protedor, whofe portrait fiie holds in one hand ; a prefent to Mr. Walpole from Mr. Bateman. G 2 Catherine 44 A DESCRIPTION OF Catherine of Arragon,* firil wife of Henry 8th. by Holbein : it was In the colledion of fir Robert Walpole, and has been engraved among the Illuftrious Heads. * Sir Thomas More. This and all the following heads marked with an afterifm, were taken off on oil-paper by Vertue from the original drawings of Holbein in queen Caroline's clofet at Kenfington, now removed to Buck- ingham-houfe. Lord Vaux. This is done in the fame manner by MUntz, from the fame colledlion. A man's head, in old enamel. Margaret queen of Navarre, who wrote the Tales : ditto. Between the bow windows : Queen Elizabeth, when a girl. * Lady Henningham. * William Parr, marquis of Northampton, brother of queen Catherine Parr. * A lady unknown. * Ditto. * Sir Nicholas Poines. * Catherine Willoughby, fourth wife of Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk. Queen Mary, when a child : from Mr. Fairfax's colledtion. * Henry Howard earl of Surrey, the poet. * Nicholas Cratzer, aflronomer to Henry 8th. * Edward Clinton earl of Lincoln, lord high admiral of England. * Dr. Colet, dean of St. Paul's. * Sir Thomas Elyot, the author. * Henry Howard earl of Surrey ; younger than the preceding. Edmund Montacute, a judge ; by Holbein: from fir R. Walpole's colledion. * A gentleman, unknown. * William Fitzwilliam earl of Southampton. * Edward Stanley earl of Derby. * Borbonius, a French poet. * Fifher bifliop of Rochefter. Richardfon the painter had another of thefe, which was engraved among the Illuftrious Heads. * Thomas Boleyn earl of Ormond, father of queen Anne Boleyn. On the fide oppofite to the chimney: A fine and very valuable pld:ure by Lucas de Heere, reprefenting Frances duchefs * Vertue thought it to be Catherine duchefs of Bar, fifler of Henry 4th. of France, and fo it probably is. STRAWBERR Y-H I L L. 45 duchefs of Suffolk, mother of the lady Jane Grey, and Adrian Stoke her fecond hufband. This picfture was in the colledion of the earl of Oxford, and was engraved by Vertue. Fide Walpoles Anecdotes of Fainting. Philip and Mary, copied in water-colours by Vertue, from the original by Antonio More, at the duke of Bedford's at Wooburn-abbey. A fingle combat before the emperor Maximilian, in terra cotta, by Albert Durer. Anthony king of Navarre, father of Henry 4th. by Janet. The marechal de Montluc, who wrote the Commentaries : by ditto* A very fmall head of a man, in a round \ by Holbein, * Lord Wentworth. * Lord chancellor Rich. * Lady Rich, his wife. * Sir Thomas Wyat, the poet. * George Brook lord Cobham. * Edward 6th. when a child ; very like Henry 8th. * Jane Seymour. Frobenius, the printer, in a round. 1 Bought at fir W. Hamll- Melandlhon, ditto; by Holbein j very fine. J ton's fale, 1761. A man's head with a black beard j ditto. Margaret queen of Scots, daughter of Henry 7th. copied by Vertue from the pifture at Hampton-court Jane Gray ; by ditto, from the original that was the duke of Somerfet's. Head of Henry 8th. with a watch at his neck, carved in box by Holbein. * John Ruflel, firil earl of Bedford. * Anne Savage lady Berkeley. She held up the train of Anne Boleyn at her coronation : Vide Stowe's Chron. p, 543. * Sir W. Sherrington, mafler of the mint, whence he furnifhed admiral Seymour with money. * Sir John Gage. * Sir Richard Southwell, one of the accufers of the earl of Surrey, * Queen Mary, when princefs. * Thomas duke of Norfolk ; beheaded in the reign of Elizabeth : young. Holbein ; in a round. 7 ^ . , , , Anne Boleyn ; ditto. \ ^^P^'^ Charlotte, daughter of Francis ifl. died at five years of age 3 by Janet: fine. From fir Luke Schaub's coUedion. Lord 46 A DESCRIPTION OF Lord Darnley-, by Vertue, from the original at Hampton-court. A young man's head ; by Holbein. Leonora, queen of Portugal, filler of Charles 5th. and afterwards fecond ^ife of Francis I ft ; by Vertue. Henry 8th. fine whole figure in terra cotta, by Holbein • from lady Eliz- abeth Gerinaine's colledion. PIdlures in the alcove. The triumph of Riches ; by Frederic Zucchero, from the original of Holbein that was in the Steel-yard. Henry 8th. in the character of Crcefus, and one of his queens, I believe Anne Boleyn, follow the carr. Fide a de^ Jcription of this and the next in tks Anecdotes of Paintingy vol. i . The triumph of Poverty ; ditto. Tliefe drawings, invaluable by the ori- ginals being lofl:, were purchafed fi'om Buckingham-houfe, when fir Charles Sheffield fold it to the king. Arthur prince of Wales; a waflied drawing, by E. Edwards, from the only original of that prince when grown up, which belonged to Mr. Sheldon of Wefton in Warwickfliire, and was purchafed by Mr. Child of Ofterley- park, Middlefex, 1781. A man's head with a red beard, in the manner of Holbein. Richard 3d. by Vertue. James 5th. and Mary of Lorraine his queen ; in water-colours j by Wale; from an ancient original in the poffefilon of the duke of Devonfhire at Hard- wicke. Claude de Clermont fieur de Dampier ; by Janet. Henry 5th. by Vertue. Lord keeper Bacon j by Vertue. John Howard, firfl duke of Norfolk, and his firfi: wife Catherine, daugh- ter of V/illiam lord Molins j two heads in rounds in one frame ; copied by E. Edwards in 1783 from the ancient originals in oil on board of the fame fize, in the pofiefiion of the dowager lady Jerningham, to whom they came by defcent, having been in the Arundelian collection. There is no other portrait of the duke, who was flain at Bofworth. Mrs. Margaret Roper, daughter of fir Thomas More ; copied out of the great pi6turc of the family, by Vertue. Thomas lord Cromwell, in a round, after Holbein. . Head of fir Thomas Wyat the younger, beheaded in the reign of queen Mary, in a round on board ; copied by Milbourn, from the original in the pofiTefiion STRAWBERRY-HILL. 47 pofTeffion of lord Romney, who was related to the Wyats, and to whom the laft bequeathed their portraits. A man in black, by Holbein, in a rich gold frame ; from the colledlion of H. Conftantine Jennings, cfqj of Shiplake. Over the door, Mary queen of Scots, a head ; on her ruff, the arms ol" France and England. Between the door and the fcreen : Henry 8th. three quarters ; a prefent from the reverend Mr. Pennicott. Henry due de Longueville ; in crayons. Sir John Godfalve, knight of the carpet ; after Holbein. A drawing of architedure ; by ditto. Sir Thomas Wyat ; by Vertue. A man's head ; an original drawing, by Holbein. A man in a mafquerade habit ; ditto. Louis I ith. an original : his prayer-book opens in the fhape of a heart. A drawing of a clock, by Holbein ; defigned for fir Antony Denny as a new year's gift to Henry 8th. Bought at the fale of Monf. Mariette. A drawing of a Romifh epifcopal faint; whole length, by Holbein. A carpet worked by Mrs. Catherine Clive, the celebrated comedian. The gallery. T?IFTY-SIX feet long, feventeen high, and thirteen wide without the five receffes. The cieling is taken from one of the fide ifles of Henry 7th's. chapel. In the windows, by Peckitt, are all the quarterings of the family* The great door is copied from the north door of faint Alban's, and the two fmaller are parts of the fame defign. The fide with recefles, which are finifiied with a gold net-work over looking-glafs, is taken from the tomb of archbiiliop Bourchier at Canterbury. The chimney-piece was defigned by Mr. John Chute, and Mr. Thomas Pitt of Boconnoch. The room is hung with crimfon Norwich damafic : the chairs, fettees, and long ftools are of the fame, mounted on black and gold frames. The carpet made at Moorfields. Eaft end : Laura and Charlotte Walpole, eldefi: and youngefi: daughters of fir Edward Walpole, and wives of Frederic Keppel bifhop of Exeter, and of Lionel Talmach earl of Dyfart; Mrs. Keppel in white, lady Dyfart in pink: by Ramfay. Marriage 48 A DESCRIPTION OF Marriage of Henry 7th. and Elizabeth of York; by Mabeufe. yide Anecdotes of Fainting. Sir Francis Walfingham, with a view of his houfe at Scadbury in Kent j by Frederic Zucchero : from fir Robert Walpole's colledion. This pidure has been engraved by Houbraken amongft the Illuftrious Heads. Sir George Villiers, leaning his hand on the head of a greyhound. He was father of George duke of Buckingham, and lord Clarendon relates a flory of his ghoft. This is a very fine pidture : by Cornelius Janfen. George duke of Buckingham, his fon : a very fine head, by Rubens : the garter is put on the wrong way. Admiral Montagu earl of Sandwich j by fir Peter Lely : very good head. Lord Sandwich gave this to Mr. Blackwood, from whom Mr. W. bought it. Holy family, with boy angels, in a landfcape j by Van Artois, fcholar of Rubens : from fir Robert Walpole's colledtion. Infide of an ancient Flemilh houfe ; by old Frank. - A cheft * of old japan inlaid with mother of pearl. Two coins of old japan with marble flabs. On one, A bronze of the Hercules Farnefe. A light blue pot pourri of Seve, mounted in or molu : Two odlagon bafons, Saxon, old china pattern. On the other, a buft of Tiberius ; bought at Mr. Jennings's fale : another pot pourri; and two Saxon bafons. Chimney-fide, left hand : On the hearth, two tubs of old blue and white porcelaine; a prefent from Mrs. Gofi:hng. Virgin and child, after the pidture of Dominichino, at Houghton ; by John Davis, efq; of Watlington. Mr. Leneve, mafi:er of the company of merchant taylors : a mofi: bright and pure picture, by Cornelius Janfen. Marguerite de Valois, duchefi"e de Savoie, fifi:er of Henry 2d. of France; he was killed at the tournament for her wedding : by fir Antonio More. This pidure belonged to king Charles ift. In one niche, Maria, fecond daughter of fir Edward Walpole, widow of James earl of Waldegrave, * In this cheft, are three flafh'd doublets, a cloak ditto, and a pair of black embroidered breeches, which belonged to Robert Walpole, great grandfather of fir Robert Walpole firft earl of Orford, and had been preferved in the old houfe at Houghton : given by George lord Orford. STRAW B E R RY - H I L L. 49 Waldegravc, and wife of "William Henry duke of Gloucefler, brother of king George 3d. by fir Jofhua Reynolds. John Law, inventor of the Miflifippi-fcheme, and prime minifter to the regent Philip duke of Orleans : one of the bell of Rofalba's works. ^ Francis Seymour Conway earl of Hertford ; by ditto. Death of Admiral Sandwich; by Scott. Views, of Kirkftall-abbey, and of a church near Boulogne in France ; by ditto. . .. The eagle found in the gardens of Boccapadugli within the precind: of Caracalla's baths at Rome, in the year 1742. One of the fineft pieces of Greek fculpture in the world, and reckoned fuperior to the eagle in the villa Mattel. There are extremely few fine flatues of animals ; the chief are thefe two eagles, the Tufcan boar, the Barberini goat, and the dog belonging to Mr. Jennings of Shiplake.* The boldnefs, and yet great finifhing of this flatue, are incomparable 3 the eyes inimitable. Mr. Gray has drawn t&e jlagging 'wing.'\ It flands on a handfome antique fepulchral altar, adorned with eagles too. Frances Bridges, daughter of the lord Chandos, and fecond wife of Thomas Cecil earl of Exeter, on whofe left hand flie refufed to lie on his tomb in Weftminfter-abbey. This pidiure, which is an excellent one of Vandyck, belonged to Richardfon the painter, who has written a differtation of eight pages on it in one of his books. \ It was purchafed of Hudfon the painter, fon-in-law of Richardfon. . A young man ; by fir Godfrey Kneller : qua3re, if not his own portrait ? From the colledion of Sclater Bacon of Cambridgefliire. Over a door, Catherine Sidley countefs of Dorchefter, miftrefs of James .2d., and mother of the duchefs of Buckingham; by Dahl. Madame de Sevigne ; a head : a prefent from lady Hervey. A girl fcowering pots ; a curious pidture, being painted by Watteau in the ftyle of Rembrandt. It was in the colledtion of Mr. Cooke member for Middlefex. A landfcape by Muntz, painted in encauflic, which he improved from count Caylus's rules, H Thomas * Since bought by Mr. Duncombe. f Ode on the Power of Poetry. X This lady was moft falfely accufed of many crimes, of which {he was entirely innocent, and acquitted j of which fee an account in Granger's Biographical Hiftory of Engtifti Portraits, vol. i, p. 548« 50 A DESCRIPTION OF Thomas earl of Arundel, and his grandfon cardinal Howard ; in water* colours, by Vertue, after Vandyck. Right hand of the chimney : Leneve, alderman of Norwich ; fon of the foregoing Leneve. The beft picture fir Peter Lely ever painted, and as fine as Vandyck's countefs of Exeter, before-mentioned. His wife, in blue j ditto. John lord Sheffield, hulband of lady Douglas Sheffield, on whofe account it was furmifed that he was poifoned by R. earl of Leicefter; by Ant. More: from Buckingham-houfe. Henry Jermyn earl of faint Albans, favourite, and as fir John Rerefby fays, fecond hufband of queen Henrietta Maria : probably by Old Stone. James 2d. earl of W aldegrave ; by Reynolds. Bacha Bonneval ; by Liotard : bought at the fale of Everard Falkner, knt. embafiTador to the Porte. Henry Fox lord Holland i by ditto. Sea-piece; views, of Briftol-crofs, and of a Gothic farm near Marble* hill, belonging to the countefs of Suffi^lk, and defigned by Richard Bentley : all by Sam. Scott. Vefpafian, in bafaltes ; a noble buft, bought out of the colleftion of car* dinal Ottoboni. It ftands on a Roman fepulchral altar, on which, in bas- relief, is a man facrificing, with this infcription, TI. CLAVDIVS AVG. L. DOCILIS AEDITVS AEDIS FORTVNAE TVIHANAE. Over a door, Anne Hyde duchefs of York; by Mrs. Beale, after fir Peter Lely. Lady Sophia Farmor, eldefi: daughter of Thomas earl of Pomfret, and fecond wife of John earl Granville, prime minifter to George 2d. by Ro- falba. She is drawn as Juno. Two men cheating another at cards ; by John Miel : very good, A landfcape in encauftic ; by Miintz. VVeft end : A large piece of Catherine de* Medici and her children, Charles 9th, Henry 3d. the duke d'Alen9on, and Margaret queen of Navarre; whole lengths, by Janet : bought from Mr. Byde's in Hertfordffiire. Griffiere STRAWBERRY-HILL. 51 Griffiere, the painter ; by Zouft : the fattin on the arm remarkably well painted. A young man's head, aet. i8 ; admirable nature: by Giorgione. This was in the colledlion of Charles ift. Fide Topbams Catalogue. A pot of flowers, highly finiflied yet very free j by Old Baptift : from fir Robert Walpole's colle£lion. Sevonyans the painter, by himfelf ; a very fine head. Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk, and Mary queen of France. This pic- ture was lord Granville's. Kent defigned the frame. The pidture had be- fore been at the earl of Weflmorland's at Apthorpe. Tobit burying the dead, u^nd when Tobit found any dead, he buried them without the walls of Jerufalem : by Benedetto Caftiglione. A coin of old Japan j on it, bufts of Julia Domna, Julia Titi, and Cicero; the latter a prefent from lady Hervey ; a flat vafe of white, blue and gold Seve china, with cover and handles. Another coin, ditto j ftatue of Harpocrates and Telefphorus; Antinous, Greek work ; and Zenocrates, a prefent from general Conway ; a flat vafe, like the former. Window fide : Thomas lord Howard of Bindon, father of Frances duchefs of Richmond and Lenox j whole length, in robes of the garter. Lodowic Stuart duke of Richmond and Lenox j ditto : thefb two laft came out of Luton-houfe in Bedfordfhire, where the latter lived. Frances duchefs of Richmond and Lenox. See a curious account of this great lady in Wilfons Reign of king fames the Firji, This pidture came from Eafton-Nefton, the feat of Thomas earl of Pomfret. By Mark Garrard. Henry Carey lord Falkland, deputy of Ireland, and father of the famous Lucius lord Falkland ; in * white, by Vanfomer. Mrs. Catharine Philips, the poetefs j a head : it belonged to Charles earl of Halifax. Philip Villiers de Lifle Adam, the lafl grand mafter of Rhodes, which he defended two years againft Soliman the Magnificent and a prodigious army : a head. A view of mount Orgueil in Jerfey ; by Richard Bentley efq. H 2 Heads • The idea of the pl£lure walking out of its frame in the Caftle of Otranto, was fuggcfted by this portrait. 52 A DESCRIPTION OF Heads in the upper line, begin from the left : Vandyck. Richard Rigby, paymafter of the forces and mafter of the Rolls in Ireland, by Eckardt. Prior, the poet. Cooke, the painter; by himfelf. General Edward Cornwallis, governor of Gibraltar and groom of the bedchamber to George 2d, by Eckardt. Pearce, fenior, ftatuary. Wal- ler, the poet. Horatio lord Walpole, younger brother of fir Robert Wal- pole ; by Vanloo. Mr. Chiffinch, privy purfe to Charles 2d. by Riley. Dobfon, the painter. George Keppel, third earl of Albemarle; by Eck- ardt. Sir Nicholas Dorigny, the engraver. Van Wyck, the younger, paint- er. George Montagu, efq; by Eckardt, after Vanloo. Dahl, the painter. ' Anne Clifford,* countefs of Dorfet, Pembroke and Montgomery. There k medal of her taken exaftly from this picture. Thomas Howard duke of Norfolk, beheaded for the caufe of the queen of Scots. In this pi6ture he is young, and it was probably painted in the reign of Edward 6th. before he was reftored in blood, for there are his arms with-1 ©ut a coronet, and yet on his handkerchief are an N and a -f, to mark his title and his religion : by Antonio More. A fea-piece, by Scott. Bronzes in the windows ; an Ibis : a Ceres with filver eyes, and a cow in her lap : the Laocoon : Antinous [j; on a tripod : an oflrich, very fpirited. Two tables of foHd granite, from the Farnefe gardens at Rome; the' frames black and gold, from a tomb in Weftminller-abbey. On the firft table, bufts of Marcus Aurelius : Domitilla, wife of Vefpa- fian, exceedingly rare : a Camilkis or facrificing prieft. Beneath, a bronze from John of Boulogne's rape of the Sabines : two antique urns of marble;- that with a cover heavily defigned by Kent belonged to Brian Fairfax. On the other table, bufts of Julia Maefa : Fauftina, fenior : and Antonia, Claudii Mater : very rare. Beneath, the liftening Have in bronze : and two" antique urns of marble: on one this infcription, pailiovi ritio filio svo QVI BISIT ANNIS XX FECIT SIBI. ' Two comrnodes of old Japan with marble flabs ; on one, a triangular ciftern of. Roman fayence, finely painted with figures, probably from defigns of Julio Romano,; two large vafes, citto, finely painted, and infcribed, rATTE* IN BOTEGA DE ORATio FONTAr?A," and mounted in or molu. ' " See an account of her in the fcconcl ;/ol. Royal and Noble Authors, t From Dr. Midcllcton'i coiledio^u • • • - ■ ' . . • " CELIMT^TEX m THE IROUHTD) RO .O M STRAWBERRY-HILL. 53- On the other commode, another ciftern * Hke the former ; and two bottles of blue and white and gold Seve china, moft beautifully defigned and orna- mented. A mother of pearl box, with fifhes and counters of the fame ; a prefent from Mrs. Clive. « In a Closet, with glafs doors, between the gallery and round chamber, is a large collecflion of ancient porcelaine of China, which belonged to Cathe- rine lady Walpole. Under the window, a fmall altar, part of the fhrine in the chapel, and on it a filver ladle with an ivory handle carved and gilt, ufed by Indian ladies for incenfe ; a prefent from Charles duke of Richmond. The round DRAWING-ROOM. TJUNG with crimfon Norwich damafk : the chairs of AubulTon tapeftry, flowers on a white ground, the frames green and gold ; and a carpet of, the manufad:ure of Moorfields ; the defign taken from the Seve china-table, in the green clofet. ' The defign of the chimney-piece is taken from the tomb of Edward the. ConfefTor, improved by Mr. Adam, and beautifully executed in white marble, inlaid with fcagliuola, by Richter. The dogs are filver : on the chimney- are three large jars and two beakers, of filver alfo, bought at the audlion of- lady Eliz. Germaine; on the. middle one is the rape of the Sabines embolfed. Two filver fconces, with hiftories, on the fides. ; A fcreen worked in chenille, to fuit with the chimney, by the countefs of Ailefbury. The cieling is taken from a round window in old faint Paul's ; the freeze was defigned by Mr. Adam. Tn the great bow window is a large fhield of the arms of Robert Dudley earl of Leicefter, given by Mr. H. Reade ; under it a thornbufh with H R,i the device of Henry 7th. ; the arms of queen Elizabeth, on the left hand, from EiTex-houfe in the Strand j rofes ; other arms of nobility; and fix ifinet pieces, by a fcholar of Price, from Raphael's bible. The furbafe of the window is taken from the tomb of queen Eleanor in Weftminfter-abbey. Over * Prefents from the ead of Exeter j and had belonged to Jervas the painter, who 'had a fine col-' ledion of that fayencc. , 54 A DESCRIPTION OF Over the chimney, lady Dorothy Percy countefs of Leiceftei*, in red, and her fifter lady Lucy, the famous countefs of Carlifle a very capital pidure of Vandyck, fold out of Penlhurft by lady Yonge, when fhe inherited half of that ancient feat by the will of lady Brownlow. Mr. Hoare of Stourhead offered the lafl earl of Leicefter of the Sidney family an hundred pounds for this pidture. Over the door, Mrs. Lemon, miftrefs of Vandyck, with a fword, as Judith ; by Vandyck bought out of Buckingham-houfe : very boldly and freely painted. Bianca Capello j by Vafari j bought out of the Vitelli palace at Florence "by fir Horace Mann, and fent to Mr. Walpole : the hands never finifhed. Her ftory is thus written in a cartouche on the frame. Bia?ica Capellot a Venetian lady, who having difobliged her family by marrying a Florentine hanker, was reduced to maintain him by wajlnng linen j Francis the great duke. Jaw, fell in love withy and made her his mijirefs, and her hujband his fninijier : hut the latter, after numberlefs tyrannies, for which Jhe obtained his pardon, and after repeated ill if age of her, for which Jhe pardoned him, having mur- dered a man, and being again protedied by her, the great duke told her, that though he would remit her hujband' s pimijlment, he would pardon whoever JJjould kill him, the relations of the deceafed murdered the ajjafjin, and Francis married his widow Bianca, who was poifoned with him at a banquet by cardinal Ferdinand, afterwards called the Great, brother and fuccejfor of duke Francis.* Jacob travelling from Laban very fine ; by Salvator Rofa : a prefent from the fame. The education of Jupiter; by Nicolo Pouflin. This pidture coft fir Ro- bert Walpole an hundred and fourteen pounds. A mod beautiful landfcape by Paul Brill. A piece of rocks, with the temple of Tivoli ; by Gobbo Caracci. A trunk of tortoifhell and bronze ; by Boul, on a frame of the fame. A fmall jar of Seve china under it. A Japan cabinet. On it, two double branched filver candlefticks with figures of women, bought at lady Vere's fale, in 1783 : and a bronze figure of * Montaigne, In his Travels, vol. I, p. 251, gives a defcription of Bianca, which correfponds much v/ith this portrait. ** Cette ducheflc eft belle i Topinion Italienne, un vifage agreable et im- perieux, le corfage gros, ct de tetins a leur fouhait." The fmall portrait of her in the cabinet of enamels here, p. 59, is younger and much handfomer. THE CABINET STRAWBERRY-KILL. 55 of Mofes, after Michael Angelo. Under it, a large vafe of Florentine fayence, with the arms of the great duke. Two old Japan coffers on gilt frames. Under them, two large bottles of Florentine fayence, with the arms of duke Ferdinand of Medici and his wife Chriftina of Lorrain. In the window, a green and gold table and two high ftands, with the cyphers of fir Robert Walpole and Catharine Shorter his firft wife. On the table, two vafcs, boat-fliaped, of deep blue Seve china, mounted in or moulu with fnake handles. Beneath, a large round vafe and cover, and a dilh to it, of Roman fayence. The tribune. TT is a fquare with a femicircular recefs in the middle of each fide, painted flone-colour with gilt ornaments, and with windows and niches, the latter taken from thofe on the fides of the north door of the great church at Saint Alban's ; the roof, which is taken from the chapter-houfe at York, is ter* minated by a ftar of yellow glafs that throws a golden gloom all over the room, and with the painted windows gives it the folemn air of a rich chapel. The windows contain a head of Chrift and two apoftles, one in the middle of each, fet round with four hiftories, all old, but finely re-coloured by Price, and furrounded with moft beautiful mofaics of the pureft tafte. In five of t)ie niches, on pedeftals, are, I. A cafi: in plaifter bronzed of Catherine lady Walpole, the model of her ftatue in Weftminfler-abbey, executed at Rome by Valory, and taken from the Livia or Pudicitia in the villa Mattel. 2. The * Venus of Medici, 3. Antinous. 4. The Apollo Belvedere. 5. The Farnefe Flora in bronze. In the windows, fix fmaller bronzes from ancient ftatues ; a Chinefe incenfe- box of bronze j and two pots-pourris of red japan fet in or molu and fur- mounted with Indian -figures by Martin. The carpet is taken from the mofaic of the windows, and in the middle has the refledlion from the fi;ar in the cieling. The grated door was defigned by Mr. Thomas Pitt. On the right hand ftands an altar of black and gold, with a marble flab of the fame colours, taken from the tomb of two children of Edward 3d. in Weftminfter abbey. On the altar, a Florentine box inlaid with hard ftones, a prefent from fir Horace Mann : two moft beautiful vafes in parte, imitating • The Venus and Antinous were lord Waldegrave's. 56 A DESCRIPTION OF imitating root of amethyH: and ornamented with vines and heads of goats, hf Germaine of Paris : a filver difli of baflcet-worli, and two candlefticks of German agate, prefents from general H. S. Conway. On the fides, twc filver fconces with the arms of Francis Pelham * vifcountefs Caftlecomer t and two vafes of ivory from the antique, carved by Verlkovis. Over the altar^ A cabinet of rofe-wood, defigned by Mr. Walpole on the pediment, flatues in ivory of Fiamingo, Tnigo Jones and Palladio, by Verfkovis, afte-r the models of Rylbrach. In the pediment, Mr. Walpole's arms, a cupid and lion, by the fame : on the doors, bas-^reliefs in ivory, Herodias with the head of the Baptift, by Gibbons ; a lady, half-length, by the fame ; Perfeus «nd Andromeda; the Hercules Farnefe; the Flora j Diomede with the Pal- ladium ; the Medufa of Stro2zi ; the Perfeus of ditto ; Caracalla and Alex- ander, by P0ZZ03 and eight other heads. On the drawer, the Barberini lion, by Pozzo; and heads of Eagles, by Verfkovis. Within the cabinet of enamels and miniatures ; The virgin and child, in miniature, round ; by Old Lens, from the ori- ginal by Annibal Caracci, at Kenfington. Head of Chriftj by Carlo Dolce ; in. a rich franie of filver gilt and filver cherubim, Venus, Cupid, and other figures in enamel by Bolt, from tlie original by Luca Giordano, at DevonlLire-houfe. Ethelreda Harrifon, wife of Charles vifcount Townfiiend ; a capital piece of enamel, by Zincke, after Vanloo ; fet in a frame of enamel flowers in relief ; on the back, her arms fupported by Cupids, enamelled by Groth, A fine old enamelled watch-cafe, after Raphael and Dominichino. Emperor Jofeph ill. fmall. Colonel Horatio Walpole, uncle of fir Robert Walpole j fmalL The duchefi*es of Cleveland and Portfmouth ; very fmall. Sir Edward Walpole, father of Maria duchefs of Gloucefi:er, in enamel; by Zincke. Galfridus Walpole, youngefi: brother of fir Robert Walpole;, in water- colours. Byzas, imaginary founder of Byzantium ;; large intaglia on onyx. M. f- A valuable * Sifter of Thomas Juke of Newcaftle ; fhe died, and' is buried at Twickenham. t All the curiofities marked M. belonged to Dr. Conyers Middleton, whofe whole collection Mr. Walpole bought. See an account of them in the doctor's Germana q^uaedam Anti^uitatis Monu- menta. S^'R A W B E R R Y-H I L'L. A- valuable jewel of lord Burleigh's head on onyx, by Valerio Vicentino, cut on the reverfe of an antique of Caracalla; appendent is the head of queen Elizabeth; tiit likeWife on fardonyx, by the fame Vicentino; the whole fet with 53 brilliants, given to Mr.' Walpole by hi's father, who bought it of fir Andrew Fountaine, who had it fet on purpofe, with allufion to queen Caro- line and fir Robert Walpole. ' .biod z\br.l A 'Sir Robert Walpole earl of Orford ; very like; painted in enamel by 2incke, two years before lir Robert's death : fet in a frame of enamelled oak-leaves. . : , , Catherine Shorter, firft wife of fir Robert Walpole ; ditto, after fir Gbd- frey Kneller : fet with enamel flowers. The two heads are in Zincke's beft - man-ner, ,and were engraved for the Mdes W alpolianse. ' Mary Walpole, fecond daughter of fir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter, and wife of George Cholmondeley vifcount Malpas-, afterwards earl- ^o£ Ciiolmondeley ; in water-colours ; by Groth, after Jervas. Lady. Maria Walpole, only child of fir Robert Walpole and Maria Skerret- ^his fecond wife, married to Charles Churchill efq; in enamel; by Zincke. Horace Walpole, [who made the collection] youngeft fon of fir R. Wal- pole and Catherine Shorter ; ditto. r Horatio Walpole lord Walpole, brother of fir Robert ; in enamel ; by Groth, after. Vanloo. Two lockets in fiiape of hearts, with hair of fir Robert Walpole and^ Catherine Shorter, fet with diamonds. An Egyptian duck ; antique cameo, on agate. M. A fleeping hermaphrodite with two fatyrs ; ditto : very fine. M. Sir Anthony Shirley, embafiTador Jrom the fophy of Perfia to king James the Firll: J drefs, half Englifh half Perfian : by Ifaac Oliver. ^-^ :u'i. The queen of Bohemia; by Ifaac Oliver: bought out of the colleffiori bf lady Ifabella Scott, daughter of th6 duchefs of Monmouth. Serjeant Maynard ; by Hofkins : given to fir R. Walpole by fir Everard Falkener. • ' , ' .llh' )in SirKenelm Digby; by Peter Oliver; it was in dodlor Meade's colledion. • James iift. by Ifaac Oliver. - t ujjLjnl, i-.j^il:.^ a.-.-iiULi A Charles I ft. by Petitot : fine. A prefent fi^om -T. Walker efq; to Maria lady Walpole. : .ihiiL . ' h : . - ■ . Charles 2d. ditto j in a cafe enamelled blue j done abroad : bought of an I MO-jr^l .1] '] vfl old 58 A DESCRIPTION OF old gentlewoman, to whom he gave it when he Hood godfather to her In Holland. James 2d. when duke of York ; fine, by Petitot : bought at the fale of Mrs. Dunch, daughter of his miftrefs, Mrs. Godfrey, Robert Cecil earl of Salilbury ; by Ifaac Oliver. A lady's head, in enamel j by Petitot. Nicholas Burwell, brother of fir Jeffery Burwcll, grandfather of fir Ro- bert Walpole ; by Hofkins : fet in a cafe with fmall diamonds, and enam<« died with the judgment of Paris in relief, very neat. Mrs. Godfrey, miftrefs of king James, in enamel j by Petitot : was Mrs* Dunch's, her daughter. Robert Devereux earl of Eflex j by Ifaac Oliver : it belonged to Frances lady Worfeley, who was defcended from him. It was engraved for the lUuftripus Heads. Frances his wife, daughter of fir Francis Walfingham, widow of fir Phi- lip Sidney, and laflly wife of the earl of Clanrickard and faint Albans. Robert Walpole, fecond earl of Orford j painted in water-colours by Ro* falba with all the force of oil. An elderly lady's head, by Cooper ; fine. Robert Carr earl of Somerfet, in his latter time, favourite of king James j by Holkins : bought at the fale of the curious colledion of T. Barrett, oB I^ees in Kent, 1758. Richard Cromwell, pfoteftor, in armour; by Cooper : from the fame colledion. Marivaux, author of Marianne ; by Liotard ; in water-^colours, George Walpole, third carl of Orford ; ditto. John Chute efq; of the Vine in Hampflijre j finely painted in water-co* loijrs, by Pompeio Battoni, at Rome. A watch enamelled with hiftories, after Pietro Cortona, Another enamelled watch. Admiral Churchill, brother of John duke of Marlborough; very finely enamelled by Boit : it belonged to his neice, Mrs. Dunch. A curious antique miniature in gold, of a Roman lady and her fon; the boy has a bulla at his neck. M. Lady Arabella Stuart ; by Hilliard : it was lord Wilmington's, Queen Elizabeth j ditto ; ditto. George 2d. by Mr. Deacon. Cowley, S T R A W B E R R Y - H I L L. 59 CoWIeJr, (he p66t, affef fir Feter Lely ; by Zinclce : his maftcr-piece, and perhaps the fined piece of enamel in the world. It was engraved for Mr. Hurd's edition of Cowley. A lady, faid to be Henrietta duchefs of Orleans, but probably Martinozzi, princefs of Confi : one of the fineft works of Petitot. A looking-glafs behind it : bought of Zincke. A beautiful enamel by Petitot, of Catherine Henriette d'Ahgennes com- tefle d'Olonne, as a Diana, a character very different from that given of her in Buffy's Hiftoire amoureufe des Gaules. It is fet in a frame of flowers * enamelled in relief by Giles Legare de Chaumont en Bafligni, who was fa- mous for that fort of works : from the collection of monfieur Mariefte. Bianca Capello, great duchefs of Tufcany ; a fmall head in oil, by Bron- ^ino. See her hijioryy p. 54. • Louis 14th : Mary of Auftia, his queen : Anne of Auftria, his mother, very delicate : madame de Montefpan, his miftrefs, beautiful. Thefe four are fmall heads in enamel, by Petitot. Mrs. Middleton, a beauty in the reign of Charles 2d. ditto 5 by ditto. DuchefTe of Mazarin, in water-colours. Conftant Hayes, wife of Galfridus Walpole, and afterwards of Mr. Ker- wood ; very fmall, A filver gilt heart ; within, the arms of fir Robert and Catherine lady Walpole, his firft prefent to her on their marriage. Anne Boleyn copied by Wale from a portrait of her by Holkins, which he did from an ancient picture of her for king Charles ift. and which is mentioned in his catalogue with other royal miniatures in the fame frame j all which are now in the pofleffion of the duke of Richmond. Catharine Parr, by Holbein ; a moft fcarce head, and exadly like the pidlure of her at the earl of Denbigh's at Nuneham Padox, Warwickfhire, A girl with flowers, in water-colours j by Rofalba. Oliver Cromwell j by Boit, after Cooper : given to Mr. Walpole by his brother lord Orford. John Dodd, of Swallowfield, Bucks j by Rouquet. Catherine Clopton, wife of Henry Talbot, and coufin of Catherine lady Wdpole J by Zincke. Jane Seymour j by Holbein, in water-colours : was lady Worfeley's. Peter Oliver, profile in bkck lead, from a leaf of his own pocket-book, I 2 and 6o A D E S C R I P T I O O F and his wife, full-faced, on the other fide; both fine : ^i^ Jbejonged to Vertue the engraver. • Lucius Carey, the famous lord Falkland; by Hofkins ; fine: it was Dr. ".Meade's. ■ : ' ,Do6tor Bragge, a dealer in pidures ; by Mr. J, Deacon, ,^ > -^^^ A Calcedonian ftone, antique, ufed as an ornament to. a horfe of Si tri- umphal chariot. M. Another ftone ; defcribed in Germana quaedam. M. On the infides of the doors : Thomas Howard duke of Norfolk, beheaded temp. Elizabeth ; by Anr tonio More : belonged to Richardfon the painter, and engraved ampng the 111 uftrious Heads. A lady, painted by Holbein ; engraved by Hollar when in the Arundelian coUedlion, and probably Mary Tudor queen of France, fifter of Henry 8th. but amongft the Illuftrious Heads called Catherine Howard. This alfo was Richardfon's. • - Lucy Barlow, alias Waters, mother of the duke of Monmouth; by Cooper. Catherine of Arragon, firfl: wife of Henry 8th. an admirable original ; by Holbein. Thefe two were bought at the auftion of lady Ifabella Scott. A young man in black ; copied by lady Lucan from a portrait by Titian, in the colledlion of the duke of Devon fhire. A lady's head, by Rofalba; fet in tortoidiell. James Brydges, firit duke of Chandos ; in enamel, by .Zipcke : a prefent from G. S. earl of Harcourt. A golden heart fet with jewels, and ornamented with emblematic figures enamelled, and Scottifh mottoes ; made by order of the lady Margaret Douglas, mother of Henry lord Darnley, in memory of her hufband Mat- thew Stuart earl of Lenox and regent of Scotland, murdered by the papifls. Ifaac Oliver, byhimfelf; perfedly fine. ^ Waller, the poet ; by Cooper : and a lord Digby ; ditto. Thefe three from the colleftion of Mr. Barrett of Lees. Liotard the painter, in his Turkidi drefs, in enamel, by himfelf ; given to Mr. Walpole by his fifier lady Mary Churchill. Saimacis and Hermaphroditus, a moft beautiful miniature by Clinkfied ; given to Mr. Walpole by Mr. Chute : fet a gold frame enamelled blue. A naked Venus, whole length, and very fine ; the attitude copied by Zincke from a pidure of Annibal Carracci in the coUedion at Houghton : fet STRAWBERRY-HILL fet in a frame like the former. [End of the cabinet of enamels and miniatures^ Other pidlures and curiofities in the fame room : Little children prefented to Chrift J Italian, on copper. The virgin, child, and faint John j Baroccio, after Correggio. The virgin and child, by Carlo Cignani ; from lord Cholmondeley's colledlion. Head of a cardinal ; and an old man's head : rounds, on fayence. A fine difli, enamelled on copper, with the hiftory of Mofes. P. R. ijj/e A fayence difh, painted in grotefque. Rembrandt; by Old Lens. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, as a fliepherdefs ; after Jervas; by ditto. Two vafes carved in ivory, by Verikovis, after the antique. Queen Anne of Denmark; and a lady of the fame time; by Ifaac Oliver: in one frame. Louis 1 2th. of France; and fir John Gage; by Holbein: in another frame. Thefe from the coUeftion of lady Elizabeth Germaine. Margaret of Auftria, daughter of Charles 5th. in a white religious habits enamelled on copper, in a round : behind it, Mofes receiving the law; en- amelled on gold. Henry d'Albret, king of Navarre, grandfather of Henry 4th. in enamel. Thefe two were prefents to Mr. Walpole from mifs Rachael Loyd, and belonged to the princefs Sophia, mother of king George ift. Lord Loudon, chancellor of Scotland ; by Samuel Cooper. In the glafs-cafe near the window : A chalice of filver gilt, richly ornamented with figures, jewels and chryflal. Model of the ll:irine of Thomas Becket, enamelled. An amber jewel-box. Great feal of Theodore king of Corfica. That very curious piece by which he took the benefit of the adl of infol- vency : he is only ftiled, Theodore Stephen baron de Newhoff. His capitulations made with the people of Corfica, on his eledion, figned by his own hand. An antique figure of the deity of gardens ; fine. Two phalli, a fibula, two facrificing inftruments, and a fmall eagle; all of bronze. M. Gold medal of Maximilian, with a chain enamelled, A crofs of cedar inlaid with mother of pearl, A fmall *2 A DESCRIPTION OF A fmall gold watch, given by George zd. when prince of Wales to Cathe- rine lady Walpole. An ancient fquare German watch, curioufiy chafed in filver gilt. A coffer enamelled on all fides with battles, and fet in lilver gilt. Two caudle-cups, with flowers on gold grounds, of Chelfea porcelaine. A red fnufF-box, with enamelled top and bottom j given to Mr. W, by Francis carl of Hertford. A fquare fnuff-box of lapis-lazuli, fet in gold. A round fnufF-box of ditto, fet in gold enamelled. A fmall bufl of Vefpaiian in cornelian. An agate cup and faucer. A fmall cornelian faucer. Two antique Roman ear-rings, one with a pearl, the other of gold. M, A box in compartments of old Japan. A fmall buft in bronze of a Caligula, with filvcr eyes. This exquifite jiece is one of the finell: things in the colleftion, and fhews the great art of the ancients. It is evidently a portrait, carefully done, and feems to repre- fent that emperor at the beginning of his madnefs. It was found with fome other fmall bufls at the very firft difcovery of Herculaneum, which happened by digging a well for the prince d'Elbceuf, who refided many years after- wards at Florence, where it was fold on his return to France, and being purchafed by fir Horace Mann, was by him fent to Mr. Walpole. A broken patera engraved. M. A facrificing inflrument in the fliape of a fhell. M. A Roman bulla of gold, very rare : bought at Rome of Ficaroni, who wrote his book of La Bella d'oro from this. A lady's head, miniature, fet in gold : given to Mr. Walpole by Ifabella de Jonghe, countefs of Denbigh. A chryftal fceptre, fet in gold enamelled, with pearls ; from lady E. Ger-» maine's colledtion, and given to Mr. Walpole by her niece lady Temple. A cup and faucer of Seve china, blue ground with white heads and feftoons, A dreiling-box and tray of the finefl old filver Japan. Two caudle-cups of Chelfea china, claret colour and gold. A magnificent miffal, with miniatures by Raphael and his fcholars, fet in gold enamelled, and adorned with rubies and turquoifes; the fides are of cornelian, engraved with religious fubjeds j the clafp, a large garnet. This precious prayer-book belonged to Claude queen of France, wife of Francis ifl, and S T R A W B E R R Y . H I L L. 63 and feems to have belonged to the father of Thuanas; vide vol. i. p. 142, qf the French edition. It was purchafed by Mr. Walpole from the colledtioa of dodlor Meade, 1755. A filver Turkifh ornament, taken by a Ruffian officer in the laft war ; brought over by Charles lord Cathcart, and given by him to Margaret lady Brown, and by her to Mr. Walpole. A round fnulf-box, enamelled with the ftories of Jofeph and Potiphar's wife, Sufannah and the elders, Lot and his daughters, and a landfcapc. A gold fnuff-box, enamelled ; at top, a miniature of James and within, of queen Elizabeth j an onyx at bottom. A fmall fnuff-box fet in gold, with a fragment of a fine antique cameo in grotefque foliage on fardonyx ; from the Arundelian collection. A needle-cafe, with monkies, of old Japan. Two boxes in compartments, ditto. Two fmall ewers of bronze. M. A tea-kettle of Chinefe filver, richly chafed. An agate oval calket. Henry 8th's dagger, of Turkirn work ; the blade is of fteel damafked with gold, the cafe and handle of chalcedonyx, fet with diamonds and many rubies. From the colledion of lady Elizabeth Germainc. The duchcfs of Portland has fuch another fet with jacinths. Antique figure of a mufe caft in filver; fitting: given to Mr. Walpole hy lord Frederic Campbell, from the colle6tion of his father John duke of Argyll. Four fmall Japan boxes. A boy's head modelled in wax on copper, by Abraham Simon. A ditto with a bulla, in Roman glafs. A large amethyfl:, fet coarfely in gold. It belonged to the fecond bifhop of LandafF, and was given by dodtor John Ewer bifliop of LandafF, in whofe * time it was found, to doctor Frederic Keppel bifhop of Exeter, and by him to his wife's uncle Mr. Walpole. One of the only feven mourning rings given at the burial of Charles ift. It has the king's head in miniature j behind, a death's head between the letters C. R. The motto. Prepared he to follow me* A prefent to Mr, Walpole from lady Murray Elliot. An urn, cameo on onyx, mourning ring for Henrietta Hobart countefs of Suffolk, An * Anno 17644 64 A. DESCRIPTION GF An ufn fet with diamonds, mourning ring for Arthur Onflow, fpeaker of the houfe of commons. - A chimera, antique intaglla, a green ftone in the ancient brafs fetting. A fmall antique ring with the head of Cybele, all of one piece of gold. A gold ring for a child with a phallus ; ditto. A boy with his head in a fcenic mafk, on a red ftone ; antique, fet in gold. An Egyptian pebble reprefenting exadlly the portrait of a woman in profile^ a rock behind her, fky before; fet in gold. Two pateras of bronze, engraved. M. Ivory covers of a Roman pocket-book. M. A fibula, a fmall votive foot, an agate ornament for a bridle, and fome Other fmall bronzes. M. In the other glafs cafe: A leaf of a water-plant, gracefully tied up. into the fhape of a cup,, with SL faucer, of Chinefe bronze. Two vafes of Chelfea porcelaine, claret colour, gold and white, with car- touches of hiftoric figures. Two long Japan boxes. Two Roman fpears, a votive foot and toe. A point cravat carved by Gibbons ; a prefent from Mr. Grofvenor Bedford, An old enamelled watch, given by Mr. Ch. Churchill, junior. • A filver gilt reliquaire and chain j given to Mr. Walpole by George lord Edgcumbe. An Etrufcan Mars ; very barbarous. A fmall Egyptian figure fitting, of bafaltes. M. A naked man. M. The feal of archbifhop Dowdall, lafi: popifh primate of Ireland; in filver; from Mr. Briftow's colle6lion. Two cups and a faucer of Milan ftone. Two caudle-cups of Chelfea porcelaine, blue with gold figures, A Japan pomatum-pot. A fmall bloodfiione cup fet in gold enamelled. A fmall cornelian box fet in gold. A triangular cornelian feal, with the heads of the two Fauflinas and Lu« cilia, intaglias ; by Chriflian Reifin. A filver feal, extremely ancient, of Hugh Oneal, king of VlHer y brought out of Ireland by Mr. William Brlftow. , A large STRAWBERRY-HILL. 65 A large ancient gold ring, with a caftle on it, and within, Un bon An : found in the Thames. A cornelian feal, with half figure of Omphale ; antique intaglia. M. Seal of Richard Clitherol, admiral for the weft coafts in the reign of Henry 5 th. Seal for indulgences of pope Eugenius. Seal of the corporation of Pool. Seal of the fraternity of faint Mary of Hitchin. Thefe four are of bronze Sind ancient : from Mr. Briftow's colledion. A * fpoon of Englifh pebble, with gold handle of foliage. A filver bottle for effences, that opens into feveral divifions. A fmall buft of Omphale in bronze. A round flat box of filver filigraine. A tooth-pick cafe of Egyptian pebble, and a fmelling-bottle of agate. A fet of beads mounted in filver filigraine, taken in Spain in queen Anne's war by captain Galfridus Walpole, brother of fir Robert. A feal of the head of fir Robert Walpole on white cornelian, by Natter a prefent from Margaret lady Brown. , A filver popifh medal mounted in filigraine. A cup and faucer of Seve porcelaine, blue with white heads. A drelTing-box and tray of fine old gold Japan. A tea-canifter of ftraw ; on one fide Meleager and Atalanta, on the other the arms of fir Robert W alpole and Catherine Shorter. A Japan drefllng-box and tray of irregular fliape. Ditto, odtagon, with tray and fix round boxes within. A Pollux, fmall fine antique bronze. M. A fmall Terminus. M. A round white fnuff-box ; on the top, miniature of madame de Sevigne ; at bottom, the cypher of Rabutin and Sevigne in marcafites. This box, with the letter in it from madame de Sevigne in the Elyfian fields to Mr. K Walpole, - • There were a dozen of thefe fpoons made by order of Catherine lady Walpole, as a prefent to queen Caroline, after whofe death Mr. W. met with this and the handle of another in a toy- fliop. The countefs dowager, mother of R. earl of Burlington, was the firft who countenanced the ^olifhing of Englifh pebbles, and gave a fine table of them, which is now at Chifwick, to her fon. f Letter writen by madame Marie de Vichy, marquife du DefFand [the lady to whom Mr. W. afterwards dedicated his edition of the Memoires de GrammontJ in the name of madame de Sevigne from the Elyfian fields to Mr, Walpole, after his return from Paris in 1766 ; " Des 6^ A DESCRIPTION OF Walpole, was fent to him by madame du DefFand. A toothpick-cafe of gold, enamelled with cameos j a prefent from lady Diana Beauclerc. A gold fnuff-box, with the image in wax of mad. du Deffand's 'dog» Tonton, whom fhe bequeathed with this fnuff-box and her MSS. to Mr, Walpole. A green and white fnuff-box of Drefden porcelaine fet-in gold; a prefent from Francis earl of HuntirTgdon. A bloodflone feal fet in old enamel, given to Mr. Walpole by Mrs, Hen* rietta Conway, daughter of Francis lord Conway. A fmelling-bottle of purple glafs with peacock's feathers in gold. Ditto of Chinefe filver. A fmall amber crucifix. A fmall bronze figure of a woman with a rudder and cornucopia. Model of the great duke's diamond. In the box of antique rings : Tiberius, cameo on onyx, of the firft Greek workmanfhip. Cupid driving a car with two butterflies ; intaglia on cornelian. A man's head; alto relievo on onyx. An Egyptian goddefs's head on a green ftone. M. A cock and cornucopia ; intaglia on cornelian. A bacchante and goat ; fine cameo on onyx : given to Mr. Walpole by the princefs de Craon. Ger- *' Dcs chnmps Elifecs; point de fucccffion de tems, point de datte. Je connois votre folic paflTion pour moi ; votre enthoufiafme pour mes lettres, votre veneration pour Ics lieux que j'ai habites : J'ai apris Je^ culte que vous m'y * avez rendu: j'en fuis penetree, que j'ai follicite Sc obtenula permiffion de mes Souverains de vous venir frouver pour ne vous quitter jamais. J'abandonne fans regret ces lieux fortunes; je vous prefere a tous fes habitans : jouillez du plaifir de me voir ; ne vous plaignez point que ce ne foit qu'en peinture; c'eft la feule exift€nee que puiflent avoir les ombres. J'ai ete maitrefle de choifir I'age ou je voulois reparoitre j j'ai pris celuy de vingt cinque ans pour m'afTurer d'etre toujour? pour Vous un objet agreable. Ne craignez aucun cbangement ; c'eft un fingulier avantagc des ombres ; quoique legeres, elles font immuablcs. J'ai pris la plus petite figure qu'i) m'a ete poffible pour n'etre jamais feparee de Vous. Je veux vous accompagner par tout, fur terre, fur mer, a la ville, aux champs ; mais ce que j'exige de vous, c'eft^ de me mener inceflammcnt en France, de me faire revoir ma patrie, la ville de Paris, et de choifir pour votre habitation le fauxbourg St. Germain ; c'etoit la qu'habitoient mes meilleures Amies, c'eft le fcjour des votres ; vous me ferez fairc connoiflance avec elles : je ferai bien aife de juger G, dies font dignes de vous, & d'etre les Rivales dc RABUTIN DE SEVIGNE." He had dined at Livrt, S T R A W B E R R Y - H I L L. ■ Germanlcus j very fine intaglia on. cornelian, with the workman*s name Epitu, for Epitynchanes : from the colledion of the marquis Riccardi at Florence. * Head of Jupiter ; ditto : from ditto. Afcenicmalki cameo on onyx. Caius, nephew of Auguftus ; ditto. A lion ; intaglia on fardonyx. A caprice, on white cornelian j intaglia. M. Apollo; intaglia on cornelian : a prefent from fir Horace Mann, Ids } Egyptian cameo on onyx. M. A Cicada; fine intaglia on cornelian, A Syrian king; ditto. M. Fauftina, fenior; ditto. Chriftian infcription ; Fitas Luxurianiy Homo bone : cameo on onyx, Matidia ; intaglia in a green parte : a moft rare head. M. The Horatii ; intaglia on cornelian : given by fir Robert Walpole to his fon Horatio. Mercury ; intaglia in ameythyfl : given to Mr. Walpole by general Conway, Jupiter Serapis ; altiflimo relievo in bloodftone. A ram's head ; intaglia on cornelian. [£W of the ringu Old Japan plate of different colours. Popifh beads, bought at the church of faint Anthony of Padua. Turkifh beads enamelled with blue and gold; probably for ornaments in a proceffion : bought at the fale of monfieur Julienne, at Paris. A fmall wooden crofs, curioufiy carved. A mofi; beautiful filver bell, made for a pope by Benvenuto Cellini. It is covered all over in the higheft relievo with antique mafks, flies, grafshop- pers, and other infefts ; the virgin and boy-angels at top, a wreathe of leaves at bottom. Nothing can exceed the tafte of the whole defign, or the deli- cate and natural reprefentation of the infeds : the wonderful execution makes almoft every thing credible that he fays of himfelf in his life. It came out of the collection of the marquis of Leonati at Parma, and was bought by the K 2 marquis * In Baron Stofch's colle£i;ion of Pierres Gravees which have the names of their artlfts, there is aoother Germanicus with the name of the fame workman Epitynchanes. It is larger than Mr. Walpole's and reprefents that prince younger, but it is imperfect, the lower part being broken oft diredly from the chin, 68 A DESCRIPTION OF marquis of Rockingham, who exchanged it with Mr. Walpole for fome very fcarce Roman medals of great bronze, amongfl: which was an unique medaliun- cino of Alexander Severus with the amphitheatre, in the higheft prefervation. Two cornifh diamonds, one inclofing green, the other yellow mofs. A bronze dtar-pot and a tripod. M. A large Goa ftone. , A filver box, almoH: in the fliape of an egg, engraved. A fmall box of the gold and white Japan. In it are two dates found in a jar at Herculaneum ; they are burnt to a coal, but the (hapes and rivelled fkins are entire. A cornelian fpoon that belonged to Coflim Aly Caun. An amber toothpick-cafe. A tortoifliell fnuff-box, the top reprefents Flemish lace; given to Mr, Walpole by lady Mary Coke. A round fnuff-box, and an egg-fliaped ditto. Pidlures and bronzes in other parts of the Tribune, Side oppofite to the door: A drawing by Mr. Bentley, reprefenting two lovers in a church looking at the tombs of Abelard and Eloifa, from thefe lines of Pope, Jf ever cha72ce two wandering lovers brings To Paraclete's white walls and filver fprings, C^c. Chrift and Mary Magdalen in the garden, in water-colours; by Catherine lady Walpole. Two flower-pieces ; by Baptifle Monoyer. Chrift laid in the fepulchre, after the fine pidure of Parmegiano at Houghton ; by Mr. Horace Walpole. Two more flower-pieces ; by Baptifte Monoyer. Madonna and child ; by Salfa Ferrata, after Guido. Correggio's Magdalen copied in crayons by Rofalba. Temptation of faint Antony j by Teniers. Story of Celadon and Aftrea, in water-colours ; by W. Baur. St. George, in altiflimo relievo in filver. Frances Howard, the famous countefs of Efl!ex and Somerfet ; by Ifaac Oliver : from Mr. Weft's colledlion. Vandyck's head, by himfelf ; a fl^etch for the duke of Grafton's pidure. Soldiers at cards, a curious pidure, being painted in the manner of Ten- iers, by Vandyck ; from lord Oxford's coUedion, The STRAWBERRY-HILL. 69 The education of Cyrus, in water-colours, by Judith Boiffiere, a French woman, in 1725 : from Caftiglione, in the colledion at Houghton. A wreath of flowers ; odlagon ; by Phil. Laura : in the middle, head of Rofalba's Tirolefe girl, by Carlevares, a female fcholar of Rofalba. Cornelius Polemberg, by himfelf, oval on copper ; exquifltely finiflied like enamel, yet with great freedom. His wife, by ditto ; inferior in freedom and labour. Thefe two from fir Robert Walpole's colledlion. A beautiful bronze vafe, taken from the antique by Flamingo, who has added fine bas-reliefs of boys ; from the Harleian collection. A young gladiator in bronze. M. A young Hercules, ditto, with the lion's fkin on his arm ; fine. M. An antique ewer of bronze ; a greyhound reaching to drink forms the handle : a prefent from Charles Churchill efq; A very rare figure of Diana of Ephefus, in ferpentine fi:one. A green Egyptian figure, one of thofe found in the pyramids. Pictures and bronzes on the fide where the altar is : A man and woman fitting ; by Watteau : from fir Robert Walpole*s col- ledion.* Thompfon, printfeller j by Riley. An oval hunting-piece, by Wyck j from fir Robert Walpole's colledion. Mary queen of Scots, whole length in water-colours ; by Vertue, from the pidure at Hatfield. A merry-making, very neat j by a Swifs lady. A rural ball j ditto. St. Sebafiiian ; by Goltzius. An old woman's head ; by Gerard Dow. Boys with vines on a monument ; from fir Robert Walpole's colledion : by Philippo Laura. Chrift as a pilgrim, and faint Catherine, crowned by an angel : by Tad- deo Zucchero. A calm fea with fhips j by Samuel Scott. The engagement betv/een the Lion and Elizabeth in the year 1745 ; the young pretender was on board the latter : by ditto. The Florentine boar in bronze. A fmall bronze vafe, with a facrifice to Priapus. A larger * All the pi(ilurc5 that were not at Houghton were fold after his death* 70 A DESCRIPTION OF A larger, ditto. Thefe two from Dr. Meade*s collection. A bronze bull. An Egyptian hieroglyphic hand j bronze. Afphinx; ditto. M. Pidlures and bronzes on the fide oppofite to the altar : A dog drinking j by Caftiglione. Two more flower-pieces ; by Baptifle Monoyer. Two larger ; by young Baptifle. Charlotte de la Tremouille, grand-daughter of William the great prince of Orange, and wife of James Stanley earl of Derby, who was beheaded ir^ the civil war : fhe defended Latham-houfe for feveral weeks againft the re- jpublicans. The virgin and child, with other faints ; a capital drawing by Parmeglano. UlylTes difcovering Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes ; by Wer- mer, in water-colours, after Nicolo Pouffin. The architefture is mofl beau- tiful, and in the roof Pouflin has judicioufly introduced an ancient has- relief with the judgment of Paris, as connected with the ftory of Achillesv Madame Suarez, a Florentine beauty ; in crayons, by Rofalba. Madame de Sevigne, when a young widow. Madame de Grignan. Thefe two are ovals on copper, by Miintz. A woman carrying a pig to be facrificed bronze. M. A lamp with a fatyr's head > ditto : copied from the antique. An antique lamp, of bronze, with a face. Sketch of the head of Roger Palmer earl of Caftlemaine, hufband of ther duchefs of Cleveland ; by fir Godfrey Kneller. Chrifl depoiited in the fepulchre : by Mola, after Raphael. Chrift praying in the garden > by Philippo Laura : from the colledion of monfieur Julienne. Margaret Cecil lady Brown, in crayons ; by Rofalba, Madame de la Fayette, on copper : by Miintz, Lady Mary * Coke, in wax : by GolTet. Raphael's Jonas, in ivory. A beautiful lamp, in the fliape of a foot, Cupid fallen afleep over the flame ; antique bronze with fiiver ornaments : it was found in the temple of Cupid * Lady Mary Campbell, fourth daughter of John duke of Argyll and Greenwich, widow of Edward lord Coke, only fon of Thomas earl of Lieceftcr. ^ This was the lady to whom Mr, W. (dedicated the Caftle of Otianto, 9 S T R A W B E R R Y-H ILL. 71 Cupid, is publifhed by Montfaucon, and was bought at the fale of the Har- leian colledion. • Another bronze lamp. Pidlures and bronzes on the door fide ; A landfcape; by Miintz. Two hermits ; after Rubens. Two flower-pieces ; by young Baptifte. A Dutch furgeon drefling a boor's leg j from fir R. Walpole's colledlion. The circumfion ; by Ludovico Carracci, on copper : a defign for an altar* piece which he executed at Bologna. A farm-yard; moft natural. Young Hercules with the ferpents ; by Annibal Carracci, St. George j painted by Giofeppe d'Arpino on lapis lazuli. Sir Godfrey Kneller, when young ; by himfelf : great fpirit, Thcfe fouf laft from fir Robert Walpole's collection. A Roman emperor in bronze, as an idol, with thunderbolt and cadu- ceus. M. Two Roman lamps of bronze j one Chriftian, of the latter empire. Sir Peter Lely, in crayons j by himfelf. Rubens, his wife and child, in water-colours, by B. Lens, from the ori- ginal at Bleinham. A battle, in black and gold, exquifitely touched by Callot : bought Mrs. Stanley's fale. The virgin and child in the clouds, the city of Bologna beneath j hy Goupy, after Annibal Caracci. A drunken boorj by Brauwer. Head of an abbe ; by Teniers : from the colledlion of monfieur Hareng, Bull: of an emperor, in black marble. A bagpiper ; bronze. M. A facrificing prieft ; ditto. M. N. B. AH the bronzes t lamps y &c. Jland on brackets under the piBures^ In the passage, Over the entrance of which is an owl in cut paper, by Bermingham; An Indian bottle and pipe, ornamented with gold and pearls; brought from Bengal by Henry Churchill, efq; in 1776. • A flower 72 A DESCRIPTION OF A flower in paper mofaics, by Mifs Jennings. A head in profile of Robert Vere earl of Oxford and duke of Ireland, fa* vourite of Richard 2d. from Mr. Scott's collection. Mary duchefs of Richmond, daughter of George Villiers, duke of Bucks 5. fmall whole length from Vandyck. Head of Fiamingo the fculptor, holding an ivory groupe of boys. The great NORTH BEDCHAMBER, TS hung with crimfon Norwich damafk. The bed is of tapeftry of Aubuf* fon, fefloons of flowers on a white ground, lined with crimfon filk ; plumes of oftrich feathers at the corners. Six elbow chairs of the fame tapeftry, with white and gold frames ; and fix ebony chairs. A carpet of the manufadiure of Moorfields ; a foot-carpet of needle-work and a fire- fcreen of the tapeftry of the Gobelins. . The chimney was defigned by Mr. Walpole from the tomb of W. Dudley bifhop of Durham, in Weftminfter-abbey, and is of Portland ftone, gilt ; with dogs of or moulu with arms and trophies ; the chimney-back is ancient, and bears the arms of Henry 7th. On the hearth, two old red china bottles. Over the chimney, a large picture of Henry 8th. and his children ; bought out of the collection of James Weft, efq; in 1773. See a defcription of this furious piece in the firji vol. of the Anecdotes of Faintijig. On the chimney, A buft of Francis 2d. king of France, huft^and of Mary queen of Scots. A bronze bas-relief in profile of Anne of Bretagne, queen of Charles 8th. and of Louis 12th. Thefe two heads from the colledtion of the count de Caylus. A nautilus mounted in filver gilt, with fatyrs and the arms of Pafton. A cryftal tankard and cover, mounted in filver gilt. Thefe two pieces belonged to the laft earl of Yarmouth. Four old blue and white china bottles. Two bas-reliefs of boys in wax on glafs, defigned and modelled by lady Diana Beauclerc, fifter of George duke of Marlborough. On the back are written thefe lines. '^hd tajie mid grace thro all my limbs you fee. And nature breathes her foft fmplicity, M.e nor Praxiteles nor Phidias formed ; 'T was Beauclerc s art the fweet creation warm'd. From STRAWBERRY-HILL, 73 From Marlbro fprung.'—We in one heavn-born race Th' attemper d rays of the fame genius trace j As big with meteors from one cloud depart Majejiic thunder and keen lightnings dart. H. W. On one fide of the chimney, a fine whole length, by Vandyck, of Margaret Smith, wife of Thomas Carye, groom of the bedchamber to Charles ift. From the Wharton colledtion, afterwards in that of fir Robert Walpole. On the other fide, Philip Herbert earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, (with a view of old Wilton) whole length ; by Mytens. On one fide of the bed, a whole length of Henry Vere earl of Oxford, in his robes. He was made knight of the bath at the creation of Henry prince of Wales, and died in Flanders in 1625. On the other fide, Robert Walpole 2d. earl of Orford; whole length, in robes of the bath ; by Vanloo. On the fide oppofite to the bed : Frances daughter of Richard Jennings efq; [the mademoifelle Jennings of Grammont] firfl: married to George Hamilton, and afterwards to Richard Talbot duke of Tirconnel : copy by Milbourn from the original at lord Spencer's. Two views of Venice ; by Mariefki, A fine landfcape with cattle ; by Gafpar Poufiin. The ducheflfe de la Valiere, miflrefs of Louis 14th. given by the duchefs dowager of Portland, Mademoifelle Hamilton, comtefi*e de Grammont ; copy after Lely, by Eckardt. Ninon L'Enclos, the only original pidlure of her ; given by herfelf to the countefs of Sandwich, daughter of Wilmot earl of Rochefler, and by her grandfon John earl of Sandwich to Mr. Walpole. Richard ift. prifoner to the archduke of Auftria; highly finifhed, by Mieris. The prefentation in the temple ; its companion : by Rembrandt.* Over the doors, which were defigned by Mr. Chute, and have medallions of Louis 14th. and Charles 5th. in bronze, Madame de Maintenon j and Hortenfe Mancini duchefs of Mazarin ; the latter a copy from Carlo Maratti, at the duke of St. Albans's. L Afmall * Thefe two pl£tures were bought of a very old gentlewoman, for whofe grandfather they had been painted, and till then had never been taken out of their old black frames, 74 A DESCRIPTION OF A fmall japan cabinet ; a dejeune of Seve china, blue and white with co- loured birds and a blue and white old china jar. On the window fide : A large looking-glafs in a rich ebony frame ; and two bronze arms with mafks, for candles. Over the glafs, the original portrait of Catherine of Braganza, that was fent from Portugal previous to her marriage with Charles 2d. and from which Faithornc fcraped his print : a prefent from Richard Bull, efq; A table of Saracen mofaic, fent to Mr. Walpole from Rome by fir Wil- liam Hamilton, mounted on an ebony frame, with two ebony ftands. An ewer and two beakers, of Roman fayence j a prefent to Mr. Walpole from mifs Speed, afterwards married to the comte de Virri, minifter from Turin. A fmall table with a landfcape of Seve porcelaine, mounted in old Japan ; a legacy to Mr. Walpole from Mary lady Hervey. In the window, two china porcelaine flools. Richard Wellborn, mafter of requefts temp. Henry 8th. He was defcended from a younger fon of Simon de Montford earl of Leicefter, on whofe death to fecure himfelf, he changed his name to Wellborn : a prefent from the earl of Exeter. Sir Nicholas Carew, knight of the garter and mafter of the horfe to Henry 8th. in whofe reign he was beheaded : copied by Milbourn from the original by Holbein, at Beddington in Surrey. Sir John Perrot, lord deputy of Ireland in the time of queen Elizabeth ; in black and white chalk, by Chambars, from the original at fir Herbert Perrot Packington's. The original fketch of the Beggar's Opera : Walker, as Macheath j mifs Fenton, afterwards duchefs of Bolton, as Polly ; Hippifley, as Peach'em ; Hall, as Lockit : on one fide in a box, fir Thomas Robinfon, very tall and lean ; fir Robert Fagg, a famous horfe-racer, fat, with fliort grey hair : by Hogarth. Bought at the fale of John Rich, the well-known harlequin, and mafter of the theatres in Lincoln's-inn-fields and Covent-garden, for whom the pidure was painted. Van Helmont, the chymift ; copied by Miintz from a fine original by fir Peter Lely, at the earl of Hertford's at Ragley. Lady Henrietta Berkeley, fifter-in-law and miftrefs of Ford lord Grey in the reign of Charles 2d. Bought at lady Suffolk's fale. Mary S T R A W B ERR Y-H I L L. 75 Mary prlncefs of Orange, daughter of king Charles, ifl. given to Mr. Walpole by the prince of Monaco. Rehearfal of an opera, with caricatures of the principal performers : Nicolini ftands in front, Mrs. Toft is at the harpfichord, Margarita is enter- ing in black. -f* Bought at the fale of John duke of Argyll, who bought it at that of Charles Staiiliope, efq; by Sebaftian Ricci, the landfcape in it by Marco Ricci. In the bow windows are ten coats of arms in painted glafs, by PecJ^itt of York, with the principal matches of the family of W alpole. The cieling was copied from one at the Vine in Hampfhire. Curiofities in the glafs clofet in the great bedchamber : A falver of Raphael fayence, ftory of the prodigal fon. A large difh, ditto, ftory of Abfalom. One ditto, fmaller, flory of Jael and Sifera. A large plate, ditto, feaft of the gods. One fmaller, Chrift walking on the water. One ditto, cupids in relievo, ribbed border. Pitto, Apollo and Marfyas, fcolloped border. Two fmall ditto, with landfcapes and buildings. Two ditto, twelve fquare, very coarfe. Two ten fquare difhes of the old dragon china. A fine filver trunk to hold perfumes, with bas-reliefs, the top from Ra- phael's judgment of Paris; the work of Benvenuto Cellini. Bought out of the great duke's wardrobe; a prefent from fir Horace Mann. A Chinefe fteelyard. An amber fiianding cup and cover, from Mrs. Kennon's coUedion. ' A bottle of purple glafs.* This and all the following articles marked with an afterifm, were bought at the fale of count Caylus at Paris. Seven boxes of the old gold and white Japan, with fmaller boxes of the fame within. A filver gilt plate in relievo, the meeting of Charles 5th. and Francis ift: a prefent from fir William Hamilton. A pair of gloves worn by king James the Firfi:, bought out of Thorefby's mufeum. L 2 The f The gentleman in blue, with a patch on one eye fitting by the Margarita, is fir Robert Rich, father of Elizabeth lady Lyttelton. See curious accounts of Mrs. Toft and the Margarita in the 5th« vol* of fu John Hawkins's Hiilory of Mufic, 76 A DESCRIPTION OF The wedding gloves of Mrs. Hampden, wife of the celebrated John Hampden. An agate puncheon with the arms of Mr. Gray the poet, and a Goa ftonej given to Mr. Walpole by dodtor Browne and Mr. W. Mafon, Mr. Gray's executors. A carved bottle for perfumes, mounted in filver; Indian. A bronze perfume-pot. A clouded ewer of polifhed earth.* An ewer of Villeroy ware. Three packs of Florentine cards, for playing at Minchiati and Tarocco. Rubens's child, in bifcuit china of Nancy. Three French fnuff-boxes mounted in gold. Small ivory box, containing a fuite of prints reprefenting medals on the vidlories in the war at the end of the reign of George 2d. A fnuff-box with views of Spa j given by mifs Churchill. Two enamel plates, prefents from Caroline lady Greenwich. A filver gilt apoftle-fpoon. Addifon, in the Drummer, mentions apoftle- fpoons ; and fo do Beaumont and Fletcher, in one of their plays. It was an ancient fafhion to have a little figure at the end of a fpoon's handle, as this has. It was a prefent from the reverend Mr. W. Cole. Three ditto, ungilt. An antique bronze of a man, naked, the head of fir Robert Walpole ad- ded by Nattier. Small o when old, coloured from the life, and extremely like. He gave it to Mrs. Clive, the celebrated adtrefs, and her brother Mr. Raftor gave it, after her death, to Mr. Walpole. In the China-Room. A white cup and faucer with coloured flowers, made for the comte d'Artois, and called Porcelaine dAngouleme j a prefent from the vifcountefs Mount-Edgcumbe. Two cuftard cups of old crackled china, with floWers of plated lilver, A fmall jar, white within and japanned without i a prefent from Mr« Barrett of Lee. A Delft beaker, and two blue and white bottles, ditto. A large flattifh drinking glafs, one of the firft manufacture at Venice, with the initials of an Englifh lady's name for whom it was made, and the date 1580 i a prefent from lady Giorgiana Smythe. Three pieces of Moorifh mofaic j on one a fliield, with the name or title of a Moorifh king ; bought at the audion of Mr. Carter, who publilhed an account of Spain. Two vafes of white porcelaine, flriped with blue and gold, and orna'*' mented with red feftoons ; from the manufadture of marquis Ginori at Florence: fent by fir Horace Mann, In the Beauty-Room. Bufl of the lady vifcountefs Melbourne j a cafi from the original by Mrs. Damer. In the Breakfast-Room. A mafquerade at Vauxhall, inbifter; by lady Diana Beauclerc. There is wonderful expreffion in the faces, and atti- tudes, though fome of the figures arc quite maiked, and others have half mafks. 90 APPENDIX. In the green Closet. Profile of lady Ailej[bury, in wax^ by her daughter Mrs. Darner. Thomas Seymour lord l|)udley, brother of the protedtor Somerfet, copied by lady Lucan from the original in the pofTeffion of the marquis of Buckingham. On the Staircase. A Perfian fliield, over the door into the blue room. An ancient difh of fayence, over the door of the red room. Top of a warming-pan that belonged to Charles 2d. with his arms and this motto, Sarve God and live for ever. As the date on it is 1660, with C. R. it probably was ufed for his majefty and the duchefs of Cleveland. Wootton the painter, his wife and children; fmall life, painted by Gav. Hamilton. Armoury. Head of Ifis, fmall model in terra-cotta by Mrs. Darner, which fhe executed in large in ftone for the bridge at Henley. An ancient battle-axe and a bandelier. 4- In Mr. Walpole's Bedchamber. A cat, in an ebony frame. In the Library. A print of king Staniflaus in his old age, coloured and drelTed with filks after the cloaths he wore : a prefent from Mrs. Damer. In the Starchamber. Catherine Haftings, firfl countefs of Chefter- field. In the Holbein Chamber. A man in black, holding aringj fmall half-length, by Holbein. On the back is written H. II, data excel. Fnfis Valliflari avunculi munere. A young lady, its companion ; feems to be painted by Lionardo da Vinci. On the back, Cojlanza Fregofa, moglie del Co. Manfredo Landoy niadre Agojlino Landi Prin^. di Val di Taro. Tableau dii palais di Monaco. Plipts Vallijlari mmms. Thefe two pictures were prefents to Mr. W. from his great nephew George earl of Cholmondeley. In THE China Closet, Three blue bafkets made like rufhes, of old blue china ; bought at the fale of the duchefs dowager of Portland, In APPENDIX. 91 In the Cabinet of Enamels in the Tribune. A fmaH head of a foreign general, in buff with a black fafh. It is painted with all the force of oil, though in enamel, and in a grander ftyle than Petitot's. From the Portland coUedion. In the Passage. Drawing of a concert, by captain Laroon. View of the cathedral of Gloucefter, by Samuel Lyfons, efq. 1785. View of Windfor-caftle, by lady Diana Spencer, duchefs of Bedford. Print of monfieur le due de Nivernois, In the small Closet. Venus and Cupid in ivory, finely drawn an4 executed, but in the Flemifh flyle ; a prefent from Mr. Watfon the furgeon. An ivory comb, fent by pope Gregory to queen Bertha ; from the Port- land colledlion. In the great Bedchamber. Henry 7th. a mofl: capital portrait on board, and incomparable for the truth of nature, expreffion, and chiaro fcuro. The character and thought in the countenance, and its exadl con- formity with the bufl by Torreggiani in the Star-chamber, make it unquefl- ionably a portrait for which the king fat ; and yet the knowledge of light and fhade, not pofleiTed even by Holbein, makes it probable that this pidture was retouched by Rubens, of whofe colouring it is worthy and refembles. In Lady "Diana Beauclercs Cabinet. The book of Pfalms, with 21 inimitable illuminations by don Julio Clovio, fcholar of Julio Romano. If any thing can excel the figures, it is the execution of the borders, which are of the pureft antique tafte, and unrivalled for the luftre and harmony of the colours, as well as for the prefervation, which is allowed to be more perfedt than any of the few works of this extraordinary mafter. It was painted, as is faid on one of the illuminations, Principi Andegavenfi, 1537; was afterwards in the Arundelian colleftion, on the difperfion of which it was purchafed by the earl of Oxford in 1720, who bequeathed it to his daughter the duchefs of Portland, at whofe fale Mr. Walpole bought it in 1786. The head of Jupiter Serapis, in bafaltes. The divine majefty and beauty of this precious fragment prove the great ideas and confummate tafte of the ancient fculptors. This buft was purchafed, with the celebrated vafe, from N 2 the APPENDIX. the Barberlni colle6lion at Rome, by fir William Hamilton ; and was fold with the vafe to the duchefs of Portland, and on her grace's death waa bought by Mr. Walpole. A locket with hair of Mary Tudor, queen of France ; whofe tomb was opened in 1784; a prefent from mifs Fauquier. A very fmall cryftal watch ; a prefent from general Fitzwilliam. In the round Bedchamber. Portrait of Oliver Cromwell's mother, copied from the original at Hinchinbrook ; given by lord Sandwich. Mrs. Catherine Clive, the adtrefs, with a mufic-book; painted by Davifon ; a prefent from her brother Mr. James Raftor. THE END. SOlTTIi EROHT of §' 'mil EAisT F]R.O:^T OF §T1 I I, t * o 'xi o iz: [ 93 ] Curiosities added fince this Book was compleated. TN THE Waiting-Room. Tradefcant, junior, with a fkull covered with mofs for the powder of fympathy. A fmall whole length of Dryden, in oil, by Maubert. In the Beauty-Room. Prince Arthur and Catharine ofArragon, on board, in the original frame ; a prefent from colonel Myddelton of Denbighlhire, in which county it had remained from the death of the prince at Ludlow. In the Breakfast-Room. A waflied drawing of les Rochers, the Gountry-houfe of Mad. de Sevigne in Bretagne, done on the fpot by Mr, Hinchliffe, fon of the bifliop of Peterborough, in 1786. Mifs Hannah More, the poetefs j in water-colaurs, by Roberts, after Opie, Mifs Farren, the comedian > in water-colours. Two wafhed drawings, by mifs Agnes Berry. View of Lee, the feat of T.Barrett, efq; in Kent, byPether; in an ebony frame. A young Paris, caft in terra-cotta, from a marble buft by Mrs. Darner of the fon of mademoifelle Roffi, a dancer. In the green Closet. Mary Churchill, fecond wife of Charles lord Cadogan ; fmall life, in oil, by W. Stavely. A wafhed drawing of the walnut-tree covered with ivy on the terrace at Strawberry-hill, in winter; by lady Diana Beauclerc, Two kittens in marble, by Mrs. Darner. In the red Bedchamber. A fine drawing in wafer-colours, by the reverend Mr. Gilpin. Sophia Dorothea, wife of George the Firft ; copied by Hardinge from the original which princefs Amelie bequeathed to her nephew the landgrave of HelTe, and which George the Second hung up in Leicefber-houfe as foon as he heard of his father's death. A fmall head of Oldham, the poet, in oil ; as clear and fine as Vandyck. It had been in the collection of Mr. Dinely. A view of lady Di. Beauclerc's villa at Twickenham, by Sam. Lyfons, efq. In the Armoury. A curious royal lock, made as early as in the reign €f Henry 7th. from one of the palaces ; a prefent from Thomas Aftle, efq. O In 94 CURIOSITIES ADDED. In the Library. The fi(hing eagle, modelled in terra-cotta, the fize of life. This bird was taken in lord Melbourn's park at Brocket-hall, and in taking it one of the wings was almofl cut off, and Mrs. Darner faw it in that momentary rage, which (he remembered, and has executed exadly. She has written her own name in Greek on the bafe, and Mr. W. added this line, Non me Praxiteles Jinxity at Anna Darner ^ 1787. In Mr. Walpole's Bedchamber. A landfcape by Mr. Taverner, exadly in the manner of Gafpar Pouffin. In the Gallery. A fine fmall landfcape with flieep, by Gafpar Pouf- fin; a legacy from fir Horace Mann, envoy to Florence. In the Tribune. In the Cabinet of Rnamels ; Hair of king Edward IV. cut from his corpfe when difcovered in St. George's chapel at Windfor, 1789 J given by fir Jofeph Banks. In the glafs Cafe near the window. Kn Egyptian pebble, with a lufus naturas that reprefents Voltaire in his night-gown and cap. A fmall head in water-colours of Liotard, without his beard, by himfelf; a legacy from Mrs. Delany. In the Passage. A fcene in adt 4th. of the Myfterious Mother, by Wefi:al. In the small Closet. A view of the caftle of Otranto as it really cxifts, a wafhed drawing j given by lady Craven. A model of the druidical temple that was difcovered in Jerfey, in 1786, and was prefented by the fiates of the ifland to their governor general Con- way, and is now eredted at his feat at Park-place in Berkfliire. A flower in paper mofaic, by Mrs. Delany ; a legacy from her. In the great Bedchamber. A table painted by lady Anne Fitz-^ patrick, daughter of the earl of Ofibry. /;/ the glafs Clofet, A fnuff-box of red and white plaifler, from the Pifcine mirabili at Rome; a prefent from mifs Campbell. A fnuff-box with mofaic pidgeons, from the antique ; a prefent from her royal highnefs the duchefs of Gloucefier. A large black ftone bafon, made from the quarry with which the duke of Argyll's houfe at Inverary is built, and which is foft when firfl cut ; given by Mr. Pinkerton. In Lady Diana Beauckrcs Cabinet » General Moncke, by Cooper, [95 ] MORE ADDITIONS. A Two-leafed fcreen, painted on Manchefter velvet, with the heads of a Satyr and Bacchante, by lady Diana Beauclerc, in 1788. Twelve earthen plates, painted at Delft, with the figns of the zodiac, by fir James Thorahill ; bought at Mrs. Hogarth's fale. The death of cardinal Wolfey, copied by mifs Agnes Berry in water- colours, of the fame fize, and with all the ftrength of the original in oil by Mr. William Lock a fublime compofition, in which the expreflions arc worthy of the greateft mafters, as the colouring and chiaro-fcuro are equal to Rubens. Proceffion in the Caflle of Otranto, in water-colours, by J. Carter. A drawing, whole length, of Mrs. Darner, in the attitude of having juft carved her young Paris ; by Richard Cofway. A drawing in water-colours, by mifs Agnes Berry, with figures of her and her fifter, and a view of Strawberry-hill at a diftancc. One ditto, with nymphs in Arcadia ; by the fame. A fmall head of Harris the adtor, in the charader of cardinal Wolfey, in oil. There is an unique print of it in the Pepyfian library at Cambridge, A fox and partridge : and, a water-dog and duck. Both by Oudry. Frances Stuart, duchefs of Richmond j oval head. Vide Grammont. An emblematic brafs difh, by Francis Briot. A Venetian morion: and, a curious round helmet: engraved in captain Orofe's Armoury. Both bought at Mr. Rawle's fale. O 2 Johanna 96 MORE ADDITIONS. Johanna lady Abergavenny; i^ide Royal and Noble Authors : a prefent from mifs Beauclerc« the maid of honour. An iron back of a grate, with general Fairfax on horfeback, dated 1649; found in the old kitchen at Strawberry-hill. The original buft in marble of the young Paris, by Mrs. Darner. Lady Elizabeth Butler, countefs of Chefterfield ; half length, by fir Peter Lcly : brought from her houfe at Breadby. Vide Grammont. An ancient knife, with a curious handle of gold ; a prefent from mifs Mary Carter. The original portrait of Samuel Cooper, the miniature painter, from the royal collection ; bought at Mr. Dalton's fale. Head of a gentleman, by Rofalba ; ditto. Prince Arthur, prince Henry, and princefs Margaret, children of Henry the Seventh, by Mabufe j from Cofway's colledion. A rabbit, by Adrian Vandevelde j from ditto. Thomas Wriothefley earl of Southampton, lord treafurer, by Samuel Coo* per; from the coUedion of Mr. Browne, of Shipton-Mallet. Two very large blue jars ; from Mrs. French's coUedlion. An ewer of ancient fayence ; ditto. A fmall vafe of porphyry ; from lord James Manncrs's colledlion. A fmall hamper of filver wire, containing a Goa (lone ; ditto. A Scottish mull, made of a large ram's horn, and mounted in filver j a prefent from fir James Colquhoun. 1^^