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jEDES JVALPOLI^NM: 
 
 O R, A 
 
 DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CoUedion of Pidures 
 
 AT 
 
 Houghton-Hall in Norfolk^ 
 
 The Seat of the Right Honourable 
 
 Sir ROBERT IV A LP OLE, 
 
 EARL of O R F O R D. 
 
 The Second Edition with Additions. 
 
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 J founded Palaces, and planted Bowers. 
 
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T O 
 
 Lord O R F O R D. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 YO U will eafily perceive how 
 different this addrefs is from 
 other dedications. They are gene- 
 rally calculated, by praifing the noble, 
 the powerful, the rich, to engage pro- 
 tection and favour to the work : and 
 
 A 2 when 
 
iv DEDICATION. ^ 
 
 when the timidity or obfcurity-of 
 the author may be prejudicial to his 
 book, he borrows virtues from other 
 men to patronize and fhelter his own 
 blemiflies. 
 
 This is not the cafe of what I offer 
 You : it is a work of your own ; a 
 plain defcription of the effects of your 
 own tafte. If I defign'd to compliment 
 You, the Book itfelf would fupply me 
 with topics. If I mentioned the 
 Ornaments of the Houfe, your Star, 
 your Coronet are panegyrics on your 
 Nobility; the True Nobility^ as You 
 are the fountain of it in our Family ; 
 
 and 
 
DEDICATION. v 
 
 and however the fenfe of the world 
 may differ from me, I own, I had ra- 
 ther be the firft Peer of my Race than 
 the hundredth. 
 
 Your power and your wealth fpeak 
 themfelves in the grandeur of the 
 
 whole Building And give me leave 
 
 to fay, Sir, your enjoying the latter 
 after lofing the former, is the brighteft 
 proof how honeft were the foundati- 
 ons of both. 
 
 Could thofe virtuous men your Fa- 
 ther and Grandfather arife from yon- 
 der church, how would they be ama- 
 zed to fee this noble edifice and fpa- 
 
 cious 
 
vi DEDICATION. 
 
 cious plantations, where once flood 
 their plain homely dwelling! How 
 would they be fatisfy'd to find only 
 the Manfion-houfe, not the Morals of 
 the Family altered ! 
 
 May it be long, Sir, ere You join 
 Them ! And oh ! as You wear no 
 ftain from Them, may You receive 
 no difgrace from 
 
 Your dutiful 
 
 and affedionate Son, 
 
 Houghton, 
 ^^g' 24, 1743. 
 
 Horace Walpole. 
 
C V" ) 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 THE following account of Lord Orford's 
 Colleftion of Pi£l:ures, is rather intended 
 as a Catalogue than a Defcription of them. 
 The mention of Cabinets in which they have for- 
 merly been, with the addition of the meafures % 
 will contribute to afcertain their originality, and be 
 a kind of pedigree to them. 
 
 In Italy, the native foil of almoft all Vertu, de« 
 fcriptions of great Collections are much more com- 
 mon and much more ample. The Princes and 
 Noblemen there, who lov'd and countenanc'd the 
 Arts, were fond of letting the world know the 
 Curiofities in their poffeffion. There is fcarce a 
 
 large 
 
 * They have been newly meafured, and are- more correct than in 
 the firft edition. 
 
vili INTRODUCTION. 
 
 large Colleftion of Medals but is in print. Their 
 GemSjtheir Statues, and Antiquities are all publifti'd. 
 But the moft pompous works of this fort are the 
 ^DEs Barbarin.^ and GiusTiNiANiE, the latter 
 of which are now extremely fcarce and dear. 
 
 Commerce, which carries along with it the 
 Curiofities and Arts of Countries, as well as the 
 Riches, daily brings us fomething from Italy. How 
 many valuable Colle£tions of Pi£l:ures are there 
 eftabliftied in England on the frequent ruins and 
 difperfion of the fineft Galleries in Rome and other 
 Cities ! Moft of the famous Pallavicini Colleftion 
 have been brought over ; many of them are aQ:u- 
 ally at Houghton. When I was in Italy, there 
 were to be fold the Sagredo Collection at Venice, 
 thofe of the Zambeccari and San Fieri palaces at 
 Bologna ; and at Rome, thofe of the * Sacchetti 
 and Cardinal Ottoboni ; and of that capital one I 
 mention'd, the Barbarini : but the extravagant 
 
 3 prices 
 
 * The Sacchetti CoUedion has been iince purchafed by Pope Benedi<i^ 
 XiVth. and placed in the Capitol. 
 
INTRODUCTION. ix 
 
 prices affix'd had hinder'd the latter from being 
 broke. Statues are not fo numerous, and confe- 
 quently come feldomer, befides that the chief are 
 prohibited from being fold out of Rome : a filent 
 proof, that the fums fent thither for purchafes are 
 not thrown away, fince the prohibition arofe from 
 the profits flowing into the City by the concourfe 
 of Strangers who travel to vifit them. For however 
 common and more reafonable the pretext, I believe. 
 Ten travel to fee the Curiofities of a Country, for 
 One who makes a journey to acquaint himfelf 
 with the Manners, Cufloms, and Policy of the 
 Inhabitants. 
 
 There are not a great many CoUedtions left in 
 Italy more worth feeing than this at Houghton : 
 In the prelervation of the Pifilures, it certainly ex- 
 cells moft of them. That noble one in the Borahefb 
 palace at Rome, is almoft deflroy'd by the damps 
 of the apartment where it is kept. 
 
 B The 
 
X INTRODUCTION, 
 
 The Italian Colledlions are far more numerous 
 and more general. Lord Orford has not been 
 able to meet with a few very principal Hands : but 
 there are enough here for any man who ftudles 
 Painting, to form very true ideas of moft of the 
 chief Schools, and to acquaint himfelf with moft of 
 the chief Hands. Knowledge of this fort is only to 
 be learnt from Pictures themfelves. The numerous 
 volumes wrote on this Art have only ferv'd to perplex 
 It. No Science has had fo much jargon introduc'd 
 into it as Painting : the bombaft exprelTion of the 
 Italians, and the prejudices of the French, join'd to 
 the vanity of the Profeflbrs, and the interefted my- 
 fterioufnefs of Pifture-merchants, have altogether 
 compiled a new language. 'Tis almoft eafier to 
 diftinguifti the Hands of the Mafters, than to decy- 
 pher the Cant of the Virtuofi. Nor is there any 
 Science whofe productions are of fo capricious and 
 uncertain a value. As great as are the prices of fine 
 Pictures, there is no judging from them of the 
 
 3 feveral 
 
INTRODUCTION. xi 
 
 feveral merits of the Painters 5 there does not feem 
 to be any ftandard of eftimation. You hear a Vir- 
 tuofo talk in raptures of Raphael, of Correggio's 
 Grace, and Titian's Colouring ; and yet the fame 
 Man in the fame breath will talk as enthufiafti- 
 cally of any of the firft Matters, who wanted all 
 the excellencies of all the Three. You will perhaps 
 fee more paid for a Picture of Andrea del Sarto, 
 whofe Colouring was a mixture of mitt and tawdry, 
 whofe Drawing hard and forc'd, than for the moft 
 graceful air of a Madonna that ever flowed from 
 the pencil of Guido. And as for the Dutch Pain- 
 ters, thofe drudging Mimicks of Nature's moft un- 
 comely coarfenelTes, don't their earthen pots and 
 brafs kettles carry away prices only due to the fweet 
 neatnefs of Albano, and to the attractive delicacy 
 of Carlo Maratti ? The orentleft fault that can be 
 found with them, is what Apelles faid of Protoge- 
 nes ^ Dixit enim omnia fibi cum illo paria efle, 
 aut illi meliora, fed uno fe praeftare, quod ma- 
 num ille de tabula nefciret tollere." Plin. lib. 35. 
 
 B z cap. 
 
xii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 cap, I o. Their beft commendation was the fource 
 of their faults ; their application to their Art pre- 
 vented their being happy in it. Artis fumma In- 
 tentioj & ideo minor Fertilitas/' Nicolo Pouflin 
 had the greateft averfion for Michael Angelo Car- 
 ravaggio, for debafing the Art by imitations of 
 vulgar and unrefined Nature. His lights and 
 jfhades are as diftinft and ftrongly oppofed, as on 
 objefts feen by candle-light. It was not fo much 
 want of Genius in the Flemifti Mafters, as for want 
 of having fearch'd for fomething better. Their only 
 idlenefs feems to have been in the choice of their 
 Subjects. Rottenhamer and Paul Brill, who tra- 
 velled into Italy, contra£l:ed as pleafing a Stile as 
 any of the Italian Mafters. Lord Orford's Land- 
 fcapes of the latter are very near as free, as pure, 
 and as genteel as Claude's and Titian's. 
 
 There was fomething in the Venetian School, 
 efpecially in Paul Veronefe, which touches ex- 
 tremely upon the fervile imitation of the Dutch : 
 
 I mean 
 
I 
 
 INTRODUCTION. xiii 
 
 I mean their ornaments of Drefs and gavvdy em- 
 broider'd Garments. It puts me in mind of a ftory 
 of Apelles, who looking on a Picture jufl: finiflied 
 by one of his Scholars, which was mightily decked 
 out with gold and jewels , " At leaft, my lad, faid 
 he, if you cou'd not make her Handfome, you 
 " have made her Rich.'* 
 
 If ever Colleflions cou^ be perfeft, the.prefent 
 age feems to be the period for making them fo;. 
 Another century may fee half the works of the 
 great Mafters deftroy'd or decaying : and I am forry 
 to fay, that there feems to be a flop to any farther 
 improvements, or continuation of the perfeilion, 
 of the Art. We feem to be at Plinv's period^ 
 
 Ha(9:enus di£tum fit de dignitate artis morientis." 
 I know none of the Profeflbrs who merit the 
 name (for if ever Solimeni did, which I fcarce 
 think, he is now paft the ufe of his pencil) except 
 Rofaiba and Zink - - two Artifts whofe manners are 
 
 the moft oppofite * Hers, as perifliable as it is 
 
 admirable : 
 
 * Crayons, 
 
XIV I N T R O D U C T I O N. 
 
 admirable : ^ His, almoft as lafting as it deferves 
 to be. Tho' there are no remains of this kind of 
 Painting among the Antients, yet they certainly 
 knew it ; for Pliny, in the fourth chapter of his 
 thirty-fifth book^ abfolutely mentions a kind of 
 Enamel, where he fays, Auguftus bought a Picture 
 which Nicias fcripfit fe inuffilTe.'' They call'd it 
 the Encauftic manner of Painting, and had three 
 different forts of it f . It is not at all improbable 
 that Time fhould difcover fomething of this fort 
 too. I believe, till within thefe fix years, it was 
 agreed among the Virtuofi that the Antients knew 
 little or nothing of Perfpe£live ; but among the 
 very fine pieces of Painting dug out from the 
 new-difcqyer'd underground Town at Portici near 
 Naples, which is fuppofed the ancient Hercula- 
 neum, deftroy'd by an Earthquake with feveral 
 other Towns in the reign of Titus, there was found 
 an excellent and perfect piece of Perfpe£live, con- 
 fifting of a view of a Street with feveral Edifices on 
 
 each 
 
 * Enamel, t Gee Puny, Lib. xxv. cap. ii. 
 
INTRODUCTION. xv 
 
 each fide, which is now preferv'd in the King of 
 Naples's clofet. 
 
 In one part of Painting indeed, their ignorance 
 was very extraordinary ; for they were amaz'd at 
 a Pifture of Minerva, which feem'd to look at you 
 wherever you ftood. Pliny in the above-cited book 
 fays, Amulii erat Minerva fpeftantem afpeftans 
 
 quacunque afpiceretur." One is aftonifh'd how 
 they could ever paint Portraits, and not perceive 
 this common efFeft. I don't imagine they drew all 
 Portraits in Profile, as they did the Heads on their 
 Medals, till about Juftinian's time. Some of their 
 Bufts and Statues have Eye-balls mark'd, and con- 
 fequently have the effedi of other Portraits. 
 
 In anothefr particular, the Painters had a method 
 very common among the Moderns, which was, to 
 make their MiftreflTes fit for the ideal Goddefles they 
 were to draw. One example Pliny mentions of 
 Arellius, " femper alicujus Foeminae amore flagrans. 
 
xvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 " & ob id Deas pingens, fed dileftarum imagine : 
 itaque in Piftura ejus fcorta numerabantur." A- 
 mong the Moderns, Baroccio always drew his Ma- 
 donna's from his Sifter : Rubens all his principal 
 Women from his three Wives. In the Luxemburg 
 Gallery at Paris^ he has painted them for the three 
 Graces. In Lord Orford's Pifture of Chrift at 
 the houfe of Simon the Leper, he has taken the 
 idea of the laft for the Magdalene. Lord Orford 
 has a Head of the fame Woman by him, and her 
 Portrait at leno;th in that celebrated Picture of her 
 by Vandyke. The firft is with him in his Family- 
 piece by his fcholar Jordans of Antwerp j the fe- 
 cond was a dark Woman. 
 
 Sir Peter Lely was employed by the Duchefs of 
 Cleveland to draw Her and her Son the Duke of 
 Grafton for a Madonna and little Jefus, which flie 
 fent for an Altar-piece to a Convent of Nuns in 
 France. It ftaid there two years, when the Nuns 
 difcovering whofe Portrait it was, returned it. 
 
 I can- 
 
INTRODUCTION, xvii 
 
 I cannot conclude this topic of the ancient 
 Painters, without taking notice of an extreme pretty 
 inftance of Prior's tafte ^ and which may make an 
 example on that frequent fubje£l, the refemblance 
 between Poetry and Painting, and prove that Tafte 
 in the one will influence in the other. Every body 
 has read his Tale of Protogenes and Apelles. If 
 they have read the ftory in Pliny, they will recol- 
 le6):, that by the latter's account, it feem'd to have 
 been a trial between two Dutch Performers. The 
 Roman Author tells you, that when Apelles was to 
 write his name on a board, to let Protogenes 
 know who had been to enquire for him, he drew 
 an exadlly ftrait and flender line. Protogenes 
 returned, and with his Pencil, and another Colour, 
 divided his Competitor's. Apelles, on feeing the 
 ingenious minutenefs of the Rhodian Mafter, took 
 a third Colour, and laid on a ftill finer and 
 indivifible line. — But the Englifli Poet, who could 
 diftinguifh the emulation of Genius from nice ex- 
 periments about fplitting hairs, took the ftory 
 
 C into 
 
xviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 into his own hands, and in a lefs number of trials, 
 and with bolder execution, comprehended the whole 
 force of Painting, and flung Drawing, Colouring, 
 and the doctrine of Light and Shade into the noble 
 Contention of thofe two abfolute Mailers. In Prior, 
 the Firft wrote his name in a perfect defign, and 
 
 , with one judicious ftroke 
 
 On the plain ground Apelles drew 
 A circle regularly true. 
 
 Protogenes knew the hand, and fhow'd Apelles that 
 his own Knowledge of Colouring was as great as 
 the other's Skill in Drawing. 
 
 * Upon the happy Line he laid 
 Such obvious Light and eafy Shade, 
 That Paris' Apple flood confefl. 
 Or Leda's Egg, or Cloe's Breafl. 
 
 * Mr. Vertue, the Engraver, made a very Ingenious conjedlure on this 
 Story ; he fujppofes that Apelles did not draw a ftrait Line, but the Out- 
 line of a human Figure, which not being corred:, Protogenes drew a more 
 correct Figure within His j but That ftiil not being perfeft, Apelles drew 
 a Smaller and exactly proportioned One within Both the Former. 
 
INTRODUCTION. xix 
 
 Apelles acknowledged his Rival's Merit, without 
 jealoufly perfifting to refine on the Mafterly Reply : 
 * Pugnavere pares, fuccubuere pares.'* 
 
 I fliall not enter into the Hiftory of either ancient 
 or modern Painting : 'tis fufficient to fay that the 
 former expir'd about the year 580, and reviv'd 
 again in the perfon of Cimabue, who was born in 
 1240. Some of his Works are remaining at 
 Florence ; and at Rome and in other Cities are to 
 be feen the performances of his immediate Succef- 
 fors : But as their Works are only curious for 
 their Antiquity, not for their Excellence ^ and as 
 they are not to be met with in Colleilions, I fhall 
 pafs over thofe Fathers of Painting, to come to the 
 year 1400, foon after which the chief Schools 
 began to form themfelves. Andrea Mantegna was 
 born in the year 1431, and of himfelf form'd that 
 admirable Stile, which is to be feen in his Triumphs 
 of Julius Casfar at Hampton-Court. A Stile which 
 Raphael, Julio, and Polidore, feem rather to have 
 
 C 2 borrow'd 
 
 * Martial. 
 
XX INTRODUCTION. 
 
 borrow'd from him, as he had drawn it from the 
 Antique, than to have difcover'd it themfelves. 
 
 The Firft and acknowledged Principal School 
 was the ROxMx^n : it was particularly admir'd for 
 Drawing, Tafte, and great Ideas ; all flowing from 
 thofe models of improved Nature, which they had 
 before their eyes in the Antique Statues and Bas- 
 reliefs. Their faults were, minute and perplex'd 
 Draperies, and a hardnefs of Colouring : faults 
 arifing from the fame fource as their perfeftions, 
 they copied too exactly the wet Draperies which 
 the ancient Statuaries ufed to cling round their 
 Figures very judicioufly, to Ihow the formation of 
 the limbs, and to give a lightnefs to the Marble, 
 which would not endure to be encumber'd with 
 large folds and flowing garments, but which are 
 the great beauties of Painting, Raphael towards 
 the end of his life grew fenfible of this, and ftruck 
 out a greater Stile in his Draperies. Their hard 
 Colouring too was owing to their clofe Application 
 
 to 
 
INTRODUCTION. xxi 
 
 to the ftudy of the Antique, and neglecting Nature. 
 Raphael's fuperior Genius made him alone compre- 
 hend both. The many volumes wrote on his Sub- 
 jedl make it needlefs to fay more of Raphael. 
 Michael An^elo Buonarotti alone of all the Roman 
 School fell into the contrary extreme : he follow'd 
 Nature too clofeiy, fo enamour'd with that ancient 
 piece of anatomical {kill, the Torfo, that he ne. 
 glefted all the purer and more delicate-proportion 'd 
 Bodies. He was as much too fond of Mufcles, as 
 Rubens afterwards was of Flefh ; each overloaded 
 all their Compofitions with their favourite Study. 
 This great School, after the death of the Difciples 
 of Raphael and Michael Angelo, langui{ht for fe% e- 
 ral years, but reviv'd in almoft all its Glory in the 
 perfon of * Andrea Sacchi, who carry'd one part of 
 the Art to greater perfe£lion than any before him or 
 fince, the Harmony of Colours. His Countryman 
 and Competitor Pietro Cortona was a great Orna- 
 ment to Rome. He had rather a great richnefs than 
 a fruitfulnefs of Fancy. There is too remarkable 
 
 a fame- 
 
 * He firfl fliidy'd under Albano., 
 
xxii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 a famenefs in his fdeas, particularly in the Heads 
 of his Women ; and too great a compofure in his 
 exprelTion of the Paffions. No Colle61:ion can be 
 compleat without one Picture of his hand, and none 
 wants more than one, except of his greater and lefs 
 fort, for his fmall Pieces are his heft. Lord Orford 
 has one in his Cabinet, which is very capital. 
 He had an extreme good Scholar, Ciro Ferri. 
 Andrea Sacchi bred up a moft admir'd Scholar, 
 the famous Carlo Maratti. This latter and his 
 Scholars form'd a new Roman School, and added 
 Grace, Beauty, and Lightnefs, to the Majefty, 
 Dignity, and Solemnity of their Predeceflbrs. 
 Indeed Carlo Maratti has unluckily been one of 
 the Deftroyers of Painting, by introducing that very 
 light Stile of Colouring, which in lefs (killful Hands 
 has degenerated into glare and tawdry. The 
 Drawing-Room in this Colleftion, call'd the Carlo- 
 Marat Room, is a perfeft School of the Works of 
 Him, Nicolo Beretoni, and Giofeppe Chiari, his 
 Difciples. 
 
 Cotem- 
 
INTRODUCTION. xxlii 
 
 Cotemporary with the Elder Roman School was 
 the Venetian, as renown'd for their Colouring, 
 as the other for their Drawing. Titian, Giorgione, 
 Pordenone, Paul Veronefe, Tintoret, the Baflans, 
 Paris Bourdon, Andrea Schiavoni, and the Palma's, 
 were the chief Mafters of it : Titian and Paul Vero- 
 neft by far the beft. The Landfcapes of the for- 
 mer, and the Architefture of the latter, were equal 
 to their Carnations. Gioroione had areat ideas. 
 Pordenone and Tintoret were dark and ungraceful. 
 The Palma's were ftifF, and the Baflans particular. 
 The elder Palma is remarkable for ill-drawn Hands 
 and Arms, of which he was fo fenfible, that he 
 feldom has fliown above one of each figure. The 
 Baflans have always ftooping Figures, and delight- 
 ed in drawing the Backs of them. Their Land- 
 fcapes are dark, and their greatefl: Lights confift: in 
 the Red Draperies, which they promifcuoufly difl:ri- 
 buted to almofl: every Figure, 
 
 T[ h^?< 
 
xxiv INTRODUCTION 
 
 The fame Century produc'd that unlverfal Ge- 
 nius, Lionardo da Vinci, whofe Colouring of Flefti 
 does not yield in roundnefs to Titian's ; nor his 
 fkill in Anatomy to his Cotemporary Michael 
 Angelo's ; his Judgment in it was greater. Tho' 
 he was not born at Milan, yet his refidence there 
 I^^Y'^'ieftabliflit a kind of Milanefe School. It was the 
 
 N£S£ ocnool 
 
 fate of that City not to have its greateft Ornaments 
 born its Natives. The Procacini, who were of 
 Bologna, retir'd thither on fome difputes with the 
 Caracci. Camillo, who was moft known of the 
 Three, was very particular in his Colouring. The 
 variety of Tints in his Flefli, the odd difpofition of 
 his Lights on the verges of the Limbs, and his 
 delighting in cluftering Groupes, made his Pictures 
 extremely eafy to be known. 
 
 F r.STlNE 
 
 /^chooL 
 
 '^!!Llt°' There is little to be faid of the Florentine 
 School, as there was little variety in the Mafters ; 
 and except Andrea del Sarto, and the two Zuc- 
 
 3 chero's, 
 
I 
 
 INTRODUCTION. xxv 
 
 chero's^ their names are fcarce known out of Tuf- 
 cany. Their Drawing was hard^ and their Colour- 
 ring gawdy and gothic. 
 
 The Lombard School was as little univerfal, "^^^^P 
 
 ' BARD bell 
 
 but far more known by producing thofe two great 
 Men Correggio and Parmegiano ; the firft^ for 
 Grace and Sweetneft confeft the firft of Painters ; 
 and the latter as celebrated for the Majefty of his 
 Airs. His Works are eafily known by long Necks 
 and Fingers, and by a certain greennefs in his 
 Colouring. To Correggio feems applicable what 
 Pliny tells us of Apelles ; cum aliorum opera 
 admiraretur, coUaudatis omnibus, deefle iis unam 
 illam Venerem dicebat^ quam Grasci Charita 
 (Grace) vocant : csetera omnia contigiffe, fed hac 
 foil fibi neminem parem. Lib. 35. Cap. 10." 
 Frederico Barroccio was a great imitator of Cor- 
 reggio, but feems rather to have ftudy'd what 
 Correggio did, than what he did w^ell 5 his beau- 
 
 D tifui 
 
 School 
 
xxvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 tiful Colouring and bad Drawing are both like 
 Correaaio's. 
 
 The Neapolitan School has produc'd little good ; 
 if Lanfranc was a good Painter, which in my 
 own mind I do not think, he was bred up in 
 the School of the Caracci. His manner was wild, 
 glaring, and extravagant. What Luca Jordano 
 did well, he ow'd to his Mafter Pietro Cortona. 
 His carelefs and hafty manner prevented his 
 Pictures from almoft ever being excellent. His 
 hand is often difficult to be known, as it was the 
 moft various and uncertain. There cannot be three 
 manners more unlike, than in the Cyclops, the 
 Judgment of Paris, and the two fmall ones in the 
 Carlo-Marat Room, all by him. Generally indeed 
 his Piftures are to be diftinguifht by deep blue 
 Skies, blue and white Draperies, and vaft confufion 
 of unaccountable Lights, particularly on the ex- 
 tremities of his Figures. His Genius was like Ovid's, 
 flowing, abundant, various, and incorredt. 
 
 The 
 
INTRODUCTION, xxvii 
 
 The greateft Genius Naples ever produc'd refided 
 generally at Rome ; a Genius equal to any that 
 City itfelf ever bore. This was the great Salvator 
 Rofa. His Thoughts, his Expreffion, his Land- 
 fcapesj his knowledge of the force of Shade, and his 
 mafterly management of Horror and Diftrefs, have 
 plac'd him in the firft Clafs of Painters. In Lord 
 Townftiend's Belifarius, one fees a Majefty of 
 Thought equal to Raphael^ an ExprelTion great as 
 Pouflin's. In Lord Orford's Prodigal is reprefented 
 the extremity of Mifery and low Nature ; not foul 
 and burlefque like Michael Angelo Caravaggio ; 
 nor minute, circumftantial and laborious like the 
 Dutch Painters. One of them would have painted 
 him eating Broth with a wooden Spoon, and have 
 employed three days in finifliing up the Bowl that 
 held it. In the Story of the old man and his fons, 
 one fees Drawing and a tafte of Draperies equal to 
 the bed collefted from the Antique. Salvator was 
 a Poet and an excellent Satirift. Here again was 
 
 Da a union 
 
xxviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 a union of thofe Arts. His Piftures contain the 
 true genius and end of Satire. Tho' heighten'd and 
 expreffive as his Figures are, they flill mean more 
 than they fpeak. Pliny defcrib'd Salvator in the 
 perfon of Timanthes : In omnibus ejus operibus 
 intelllgitur plus Temper quam pingitur." Does 
 not the very pity and indignation which the Figure 
 of Belifarius excites, filently carry with It the feve- 
 reft Satire on Juftinian ? This great Mafter had a 
 good Cotemporary, who imitated his Manner very 
 happily : It was Bourgognon, the Battle-Painter. 
 There was a fort of Genius fometime before like 
 Salvator 's, but which for want of his ftrength of 
 Mind, foon degenerated into capricious Wildnefles, 
 and romantic Monftroufnefs. This was Pietro 
 Tefta. The comparifon of thefe two, leads me to 
 another between Salvator, and that great Englifli 
 Genius, Shakefpear, of whom it was faid, that he 
 not only invented new Charafters, but made a new 
 Language for thofe Charafters. His Caliban, and 
 Salvator 's Monfter at the Duke of Rutland's, have 
 
 every 
 
INTRODUCTION, xxix 
 
 every Attribute which feem proper to thofe imagi- 
 nary Species. 
 
 Naples was the general Refidence too of Sp 
 
 a^f"" Spanifh 
 
 ^ ^ , ^ ^ Masters. 
 
 nolet) one of the few good Painters produced by 
 Spain. His Pictures breathe the Spirit of his 
 Country ; fierce and dark Colouring ; barbarous 
 and bloody Subjefts. Velafco and Morellio were 
 the only two other Spanifh Painters who have made 
 any figure. Velafco's Manner was bold and ftrong ; 
 his Colours dafh'd on in thick Relief. Morellio's 
 Tafte was much fweeter than that of his Country- 
 men. He imitated Vandyke's Stile in Hiftory- 
 Pieces fo nearly, that at firft they may be miftaken 
 for them. 
 
 The French School has flourifh'd with feveral J^^f'ffNCH 
 
 bchool. 
 
 extreme good Mafters. One Charafter runs thro' 
 all their Works, a clofe imitation of the Antique, 
 unaffifted by Colouring. Almoft all of them made 
 the voyage of Rome. Nicolo PoufTin was a per- 
 
 fea 
 
XXX INTRODUCTION. 
 
 fe£l: Mafter of Expreffion and Drawing, though the 
 proportion of his Figures is rather too long. Le 
 Soeur, his Difciple, to the ftyle of his Mafter, and 
 the ftudy of the Antique, join'd an imitation of 
 Raphael, which, had his life been longer, would 
 have raifed him high above Pouffin. The Man 
 kneeling on the Fore-ground in Lord Orford's 
 Saint Stephen, might be taken for the hand of 
 Raphael. And in the Mofes in the Bullruflies, 
 the diftant Woman is quite in that great Mafter's 
 Tafte. The Cloyfter painted by him at the Char- 
 treufe at Paris, is, in my Opinion, equal to any 
 Compofition extant, for the Paflions and fine 
 Thoughts. His Fault was in his Draperies 3 the 
 Folds are mean and unnatural. Sebaftian Bourdon 
 was liker Pouffin, only that as Pouflin's Figures 
 are apt to be too long, his are generally too fhort, 
 and confequently want the Grace which often con- 
 fifts in over-lengthen'd Proportions. Le Brun's 
 Colouring was better than any of the French, 
 but his Compofitions are generally confufed and 
 
 crouded. 
 
INTRODUCTION. xxxi 
 
 crouded. Lord Orford's Icarus is much beyond 
 and very unlike his ufuai Manner. It is liker to 
 Guercino, without having the Fault of his too 
 black Shadows. France and Lorrain have produced 
 two more Painters, who in their way were the great- 
 eft ornaments to their Profeflion ^ Gafpar Pouffin 
 and Claude Lorrain : the latter efpecially was the 
 Raphael of Landfcape-Painting. 
 
 I fhall not enter into any detail of the Flemifli 
 Painters, who are better known by their different 
 Varnifhes, and the different kind of utenfils they 
 painted, than by any ftyle of Colouring and Draw- 
 ing. One great Man they had, who ftruck out of 
 the littleneffes of his Countrymen, tho' he never 
 fell into a character of graceful beauty : but 
 Rubens is too well known in England to want any 
 account of him. His Scholar Vandyke contracted 
 a much genteeler Tafte in his Portraits. But what 
 ferv'd other Painters for models of beauty, was to 
 him a ftandard of mifcarrying : All his Portraits 
 
 of 
 
xxxii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 of Women are graceful ; but his Madonnas, which 
 he probably drew from fome Miftrefs, are moft re- 
 markable for want of beauty. 
 
 It will eafily be obferv'd that I have yet omit- 
 ted one of the principal Schools, the Bolognefe ; 
 but as I began with the Roman, I referv'd this to 
 conclude with. This, which was as little inferior to 
 the Roman, as it was fuperior to all the reft : This 
 was the School, that to the dignity of the Antique, 
 join'd all the beauty of living Nature. There was 
 no Perfe£l:ion in the others, which was not aflem- 
 bled here. In Annibal Caracci one fees the ancient 
 Strength of Drawing. In his Farnefe Gallery, the 
 naked Figures fupporting the Ceiling are equal to 
 the exerted Skill of Michael Angelo, fuperiorly 
 colour'd. They talk of his Faults in Drawing, but 
 thofe Fio-ures and Lord Orford's little Venus are 
 llandards of Proportion for Men and Women. In 
 Guido v/as the Grace and Delicacy of Correggio, 
 and Colourini^y as natural as Titian's. I can not 
 
 imagine 
 
INTRODUCTION, xxxiii 
 
 imagine what they mean, who fay he wanted know- 
 ledge in the Chiaro Ofcuro : It was never more 
 happily apply'd and difFus'd than in Lord Or- 
 ford's Adoration of the Shepherds. In Albano 
 was Finilhing as high as in the exafteft Flemifli 
 Mafters. His Scholar Mola formed compofitions as 
 rich as the fam'd Barbarini Ceiling by Pietro da 
 Cortona ; Lord Orford's Curtius is an inftance, 
 There are numbers of Figures lefs crouded, mor^ 
 neceflary, and with far more variety of expreffion^ 
 If Nature and Life can pleafe, the fweet Domini- 
 chini muft be admir'd. Thefe two never met in one 
 Picture in a higher degree than in Lord Orford s 
 Madonna and Child, by him. One can't conceive 
 more expreffion in two Figures fo compos'd, and 
 which give fo little room for fhowing any paffion or 
 emotion. Ludovico Caracci, the Founder of this 
 great School, was more famous for his Difciples than 
 his Works; tho' in Bologna they prefer him to An- 
 nibal : but his Drawing was incorred!:, and his Hands 
 and Feet almoft always too long. In one Point I 
 
 E think 
 
xxxiv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 think the Bolognefe Painters excell'd every other 
 Mafter ; their Draperies are in a greater tafte than 
 even Raphael's. The largenefs and fimplicity of the 
 folds in Guido's Difpute of the Doftors, is a pattern 
 and ftandard for that fort of Painting. 
 
 I (hall conclude with thefe few Recapitulations. 
 I can admire Correggio's Grace and exquifite Finifli- 
 ing ; but I can not overlook his wretched Draw- 
 ing and Diftortions. I admire Parmegiano's more 
 majeftic Grace, and wifli the length of Limbs and 
 Necks, which forms thofe graceful Airs, were na- 
 tural. Titian wanted to have feen the Antique ; 
 PoufTin to have feen Titian. Le Soeur, whom I 
 think in Drawing and ExprefTion equal to Pouffin, 
 and in the great Ideas of his Heads and Attitudes, 
 fecond to Raphael, like the firft wanted Colouring, 
 and had not the fine Draperies of the latter. 
 Albano never painted a Pidture, but fome of the 
 Figures were ftiff, and wanted Grace ^ and then his 
 fcarce ever fucceeding in large Subje£ls, will throw 
 
 „ him 
 
INTRODUCTION, xxxv 
 
 him out of the lift of perfeft Painters. Dominichini, 
 vvhofe Communion of Saint Jerome is allow'd to be 
 the fecond Picture in the world, was generally 
 raw in his Colouring, hard in his Contours, and 
 wanted clearnefs in his Carnations, and a knowledge 
 of the Chiaro Ofcuro. In (hort, in my opinion, 
 all the qualities of a perfefl: Painter, never met but 
 in Raphael, Guido, and Annibal Caracci. 
 
 A DE 
 
A 
 
 DESCRIPTION 
 
 O F 
 
 HOUGHTON- HA L L. 
 
 TH E common Approach to the Houfe is by the South- 
 end Door, over which is Engraved this Infcription. 
 
 ROBERTUS WALPOLE 
 Has -ffiDEs 
 Anno S. MDCCXXII. 
 
 Inchoavit, 
 Anno MDCCXXXV. 
 Perfecit. 
 
 On 
 
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 38 ^ Description of 
 
 On the Right-hand you enter a fmall 
 Breakfast Room. 
 
 OVER the Chimney is a very good Pidlure of Hounds, 
 by lVoott072. 
 
 A Concert of Birds, by Mario di Fiori ; a very uncommon 
 Pidiure, for he feldom painted any thing but Flowers ; it 
 belong'd to Gibbins the Carver, and is four Feet feven In- 
 ches high, by fcven Feet nine and a quarter wide. 
 
 The Prodigal Son returning to his Father ; a very dark Pic- 
 ture, by Porde7ione^ the Architedure and Landfcape very 
 good. It is five Feet five Inches high, by eight Feet eleven 
 and half wide. This Piiflure belong'd to George Villiers^ 
 the great Duke of Buckmgha7n, 
 
 A Horfe's Head, a fine Sketch, by V andyke. 
 
 A Grey-Hound's Head, by old JVyck^ who was Wootton^ 
 Mafter. 
 
 Sir Edward Walpole^ Grand-Father to Sir Robert Walpole, 
 He was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of 
 King Charles the Second, and made a great Figure in Par- 
 liament. Once on a very warm Difpute in the Houfe, he 
 proposed an Expedient, to which both Parties immediately 
 concurred : JValler the Poet moved that he might be fent 
 to the Tower, for not having compofed the Heats fooner, 
 
 when 
 
 s 
 
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 when he had it in his Power. He married Sufan^ Daughter 
 to Sir Robert Crane, on whofe Death he wrote thefe Verfes 
 in his Bible, which is now in the Church here : 
 
 She Lives, Reigns, Triumphs in a State of Blifs : 
 
 My Life no Life, a daily Dying is. 
 
 If Saints for Pilgrims here concern'd can be, . 
 
 I'm confident fhe now remembers me. 
 
 My Love for her not leflen'd by her Death,, 
 
 I'm fure will lafl: unto my lateft Breath. 
 
 Thus turn'd into Latin by Dr. * Bland, Dean of Durham^- 
 
 Vivii adhuc^ Regnat^ ccelejli in Jede Triumphat 
 At vita^ heu ! mors eft quotidiana mihi, 
 
 'Tangere ft qua foteft miferorum cur a beatos^ 
 Sat fcio non curas negligit ilia meas. 
 
 Occidit ilia mihiy fed amor non occidit una ; 
 Nec nifi cum per eat Vita^ peribit Amor, 
 
 He is buried in Houghton Church with this plain Epitaph r 
 " Here lies Sir Edward Walpole : Ccetera ft queer as^ jiar- 
 " rabit fama fuperfte:'^ 
 
 Robert 
 
 He alfo drew up the Latin Infcriptlon, Engraved on the Foundation- Stone, 
 
40 A Description of the 
 
 Robert Walpole^ Son to Sir Edward^ and Father to Sir Robert 
 Walpole : he was Member for Cajlle-Rifeing^ from the firft 
 of William and Mary till his Death in 1700. His Wife 
 was Mary^ only Daughter to Sir J^ffery Burwell^ by whom 
 he had Nineteen Children. 
 
 Horatio Lord Townjhendy Father to Charles Lord Vifcount 
 
 Townjhejid. 
 
 Mr. Harold^ Gardener to Sir Robert Walfole^ a Head, by 
 Ellis. 
 
 The Supping Parlour. 
 
 TH E Battle of Confiantine and MaxentiuSy a Copy, by 
 yulio Romano^ of the famous Picture in the Vaticatiy 
 which he executed after a Defign of RaphaeL It is four 
 Feet eight Inches and half high, by nine Feet feven and a 
 quarter wide. The Story is thus told by Zojimus^ Hift. Lib. 2. 
 " Tantis cum ambo copiis inftrudli effent, Maxentius pon- 
 tern fupra Tiburim flumen faciebat, non connexum pror- 
 " fus a ripa, qua urbem fpedtat, ad alteram ufque ripam 5 
 " fed duas in partes ita divifum, ut in medio flumine ea, 
 " qus partem utramque pontis explebant, inter fe quodam 
 " modo concurrentem fibulis ferreis, quo revellebantur, 
 " quoties pontem quis jundum nollet, fimul imperabat 
 " fabris, quamprimum viderent exercitum Conftantini junc- 
 
 " turae 
 
Pictures ^7/ Houghton-Hall. 41 
 
 " tuYX pontis infiftere, fibulas revellerent ac pontem fol- 
 " verent, ut quotquot huic inlifterent, in fluvium dila- 
 " berentur. Ac Maxentius quidem hxc flruebat. Con- 
 " ftantinus autem cum exercitu Romam ufque progreflus, 
 
 ante urbem caftra metabatur in campo, qui & late patet 
 " & equitatui eft opportunus. Maxentius intra muros in- 
 " clufus, Diis vi<3:imas offerebat, 8c extifpices de belli eventu 
 " coniulebat, ipfis quoque Sibyllinis oraculis pervefligatis. 
 " Quumc; reperiflet oraculum, quo fignificaretur in fatis 
 " elTe, ut qui ad perniciem P. R. fpedlantia delignaret, 
 " miferabili morte periret : de femetipfo id accipiebat^ 
 " quail qui Romam adortos eamque capere cogitantes, 
 " propulfaret. Eventu s autem comprobavit id, quod ve- 
 " rum erat. Nam cum Maxentius copias ex urbe produx- 
 " iflet, jamque pontem, quem ipfe junxerat, tranfiiflet ; in- 
 " finita quaedam multitudo nodluarum devolans, muros 
 " complebat. Quo confpe£lo, fuis Conftantinus, ut aciem 
 " ftruerent imperabat. Quum exercitus utrimque corni- 
 " bus adverfis ftarent, equitatum Conftantinus immifit. Is 
 
 equitatum hoftilem adortus, fudit. Peditibus quoque 
 " figno fublato, rite compoliteque in hoftem illi tende- 
 " bant. Acri conferto praelio, Romani quidem ipfi & Itali 
 " focii fegniores ad obeunda pericula fe prasbebant, quod 
 " acerba tyrannide fe liberari optarent. Reliquorum vero 
 " militum innumerabilis quaedam multitudo cecidit, turn 
 
 F " ab 
 
42 Description of fi?e 
 
 " ab equitibus proculcata, turn a peditibus interempta. 
 " Enimvero quum diu refiftebat Equitatus, aliqua Max- 
 " entio {pes effe reliqua videbatur : fed equitibus jam fuc- 
 " cumbentibus, fuga cum reliquis abrepta, per pontem 
 " fluminis ad urbem contendebat. Tignis autem minime 
 " fuftinentibus eam vim oneris, adeoq; ruptis, cum csetera 
 multitudine Maxentius etiam fluminis impetu abripie- 
 " batur." 
 
 Over the Chimney, Horace Walpole^ Brother to Sir Robert 
 Walpole, He was Ambaffador in France and Holland^ 
 Cofferer of the Houfhold, and laftly one of the Tellers of 
 the Exchequer. Three Qviarters Length, by Richardfon. 
 
 Sir Robert Walpole^ when Secretary at War to Queen Anne. 
 Three Quarters, hj Jervafe. 
 
 Catharine Lady Walpole^ his fir ft Wife ; Ditto. 
 
 Sir Charles Turner^ one of the Lords of the Treafury. He 
 married to his firft Wife, Mary^ eldeft Sifter to Sir Robert 
 Walpole. Three Quarters, by Richardfon. 
 
 Charles Lord Vifcount Townjhend^ Secretary of State to King 
 George the Firft and Second. Three Quarters, by Sir God- 
 frey Kneller. 
 
 Dorothy^ his fecond Wife, and fecond Sifter to Sir Robert 
 
 Walpole. Three Quarters, by Jervafe. 
 Amie Walpole^ Aunt to Sir Robert Walpole (a Head.) She was 
 
 Wife to Mr. Spelman of Nai'boroiigh in Norfolk, 
 
 Dorothy 
 
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 Dorothy Walpole^ Ditto (died unmarried.) 
 Mary W alpole^ Ditto, married to yohn Wilfon^ Efq; of Lei- 
 tefterpDire. 
 
 Elizabeth Walfole^ Ditto, fecoi^d Wife to James Hojly Efq. 
 of Sandri7igham in Norfolk. 
 
 The Hunting Hall. 
 
 ^USANNAH and the two Elders, Rubem\ five 
 Feet eleven Inches and half high, by feven Feet eight 
 Inches and a quarter wide. 
 A Hunting Piece. Sir Robert Walpole is in Green ; Colonel 
 Charles Churchill in the Middle ; and Mr. Thofnas Turner 
 on one Side. By Woottoriy fix Feet ten Inches high, by 
 eight Feet five wide. 
 
 The CoFFEE-RoOM. 
 
 OVER the Chimney a Landfcape with Figures dancing, 
 by Swanivelty two Feet three Inches high, by three Feet 
 three wide. 
 
 yupiter and Europa^ after Guido^ by Pietro da Pietris ; four 
 Feet ten Inches high, by fix Feet two wide. 
 
 F 2 Galateay 
 
44 Description of the 
 
 Galatea^ by Zimeni \ four Feet ten Inches high, by fix Feet 
 two wide. 
 
 Horatio Walpole^ Uncle to Sir Robert Walpole. He married 
 Lady Anne OJhorn^ Daughter of Thomas the firft Duke of 
 Leeds^ and Widow of Robert Coke^ Efq; of Holkham in 
 Norfolk^ Grandfather to the prefent Earl of Leicejier, 
 Three Quarters. 
 
 Galfridus Walpole^ younger Brother to Sir Robert^ and one of 
 the General Poft-Mafters. He was Captain of the Lion in 
 Queen Anne% Wars, and was attacked by five French 
 Ships on the Coaft of Italy againft three Englijh^ two of 
 which deferted him, but his own he brought off, after 
 fighting bravely and having his Arm fhot off. 
 
 Returning thro' the Arcade^ you afcend the Great Stair-Cafe, 
 which is painted in Chiaro Ofcuroy by Kent. In the mid- 
 dle four Doric Pillars rife and fupport a fine Cafl in Bronze 
 of the Gladiator, by John of Boulogne^ which was a Prefent 
 to Sir Robert from 'Thomas Earl of Pembroke, 
 
 The Common Parlour. 
 
 THIS Room is thirty Feet long by twenty-one broad. 
 Over the Chimney is fome fine Pear-tree Carving, by 
 Gibbi?is^ and in the middle of it hangs a Portrait of him by 
 
 Sir 
 
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 Sir Godfrey Kneller, It is a Mafter-piece, and equal to an)'" 
 
 of Vandykes. Three Quarters. 
 King William^ an exceeding fine Sketch by Sir Godfrey ^ for 
 
 the large Equeftrian Pidure which he afterwards executed 
 
 very ill at Hampton-Court ^ and with feveral Alterations. 
 
 Four Feet three Inches high, by three Feet fix wide *. 
 King George the Firft, a Companion to the former, but 
 
 finifiied. The Figure is by Sir Godfrey^ which he took 
 
 from the King at Guilford Horfe-Race. The Horfe is 
 
 new painted by W ootton. 
 A Stud of Horfes by W overmans ; two Feet one Inch and 
 
 three quarters high, by two Feet nine wide. 
 Venus Bathing, and Cupids with a Carr, in a Landfcape, by 
 
 Andrea Sacchi ; one Foot ten Inches and half high, by 
 
 two Feet fix Inches wide. It was Lord Halifax's. 
 A Holy Family by Raphael da Reggio^ a Scholar of Zucchero ; 
 
 two Feet two Inches and three quarters high, by one Foot 
 
 and a quarter wide. 
 A fine Picture of Architedure in Perfpedtive, by Steenwycky 
 
 one Foot nine Inches high, by two Feet eight wide. 
 A Cook's Shop, by Teniers. It is in his very beft Manner. 
 
 There are feveral Figures ; in particular his own, in a 
 
 Hawking Habit, with Spaniels j and in the Middle an old 
 
 Blind 
 
 * Mrs. Barry and another Aftrefs fat for the Two Emblematic Figures, on the 
 Fore-ground, in the great Pidture. 
 
46 ^ Description of the 
 
 Blind Fifherman, finely painted. Five Feet fix Inches and 
 three quarters high, by feven Feet feven and three quarters 
 wide. 
 
 Another Cook's Shop, by Martin de Vos^ who was Sny- 
 ders\ Mafter, and in this Pidure has excell'd any thing 
 done by his Scholar. It is as large as Nature. There is a 
 Greyhound fnarling at a Cat, in a moft mafterly manner. 
 Five Feet eight Inches high, by feven Feet ten and half 
 wide. 
 
 A Bacchanalian^ by Rubens. It is not a very pleafant Pi£lure, 
 but the Flefh of the Silenus and the Female Satyrs are 
 highly colour'd. There is a fmall Defign for this Pidure 
 revers'd, in the Great Duke's Tribune at Florence. Two 
 Feet eleven Inches and three quarters high, by three Feet 
 fix wide. 
 
 The Nativity, by Carlo Cignani. The Thought of this Pic- 
 ture is borrow'd (as it has often been by other Painters) 
 from the famous Notte of Correggio at Modena^ where all 
 the Light of the Pidure flows from the Child. Three Feet 
 feven Inches and half high, by two Feet ten and half 
 wide. ■ 
 
 Sir Thomas Chaloner^ an admirable Portrait, three Quarters, 
 by Vandyke. Sir Thojnas was Governor to Henry Prince of 
 Wales^ [Vide Strafford Papers, Vol. I. page 490.] and 
 in 1 610 appointed his Lord Chamberlain. [Vide Sand- 
 
 ford\ 
 
Pictures at Houghton-Hall. 4 7 
 
 ford's Genealogical Tables, page 529.] He died in 16 15, 
 
 and was buried at Chifwick. * 
 Sir Thomas Grefham^ the Founder of Grefljam-QoW^g^^ by 
 
 Antonio More. Two Feet fix Inches and a quarter high, by 
 
 two Feet and half wide. 
 ErafmuSy by Holbein^ a half Length, fmaller than the Life. 
 A Friar's Head, by Rubens, 
 
 Francis 
 
 * He wrote a Treatife on the Virtue of Nitre, Printed at London 1584, fome 
 other Philoibphic Works, and a Paftoral. He difcovered the Allom-Mines at 
 Gijburg in Torkjhire (where he had an Eftate) towards the latter End of Queen 
 Elizabeth's Reign ; but they being adjudged to be Mines Royal, little Benefit ac- 
 crued to the Family, tho' the Long Parliament afterwards reftored them to his Sons, 
 who were from thefe Caufes engaged on the Parliament Side •, and Thomas and James, 
 two of them, fat as Judges on King Charles the Firft. James, who wrote a Treatife 
 on the JJle of Man, and made feveral Colledlions of Antiquities, poifoned himfelf 
 with a Potion prepared by his iVIiftrefs 1660, on an Order for taking him into 
 Cuftody. Thomas, who was one of the Torkjhire Members, had been a Witnefs 
 againft Archbifhop Laud, and one of the Council of State, and died in Exile at 
 Middleburg in Zeland \66i. He wrote an Anfwer to the Scotch Papers concerning 
 the Difpofal of the Perfon of the King •, A Juftification of that Anfwer •, A true and 
 exa6l Relation of finding the Tomb of Mofes near Mount Nebo ; And a Speech 
 containing a Plea for Monarchy in 1659. Thomas, his Grandfather, was a celebrated 
 "Wit, Poet and Warrior, having ferved in the Expedition againft Algier under 
 Charles the Fifth, where being fhipwrecked, and having fwam till his Arms failed 
 him, he caught hold on a Cable with his Teeth and faved himfelf. He was knighted 
 by the Duke of Somerfet, for his Valour, after the Battle of Mujfelborough ; and by 
 Queen Elizabeth fent Ambaflador to the Emperor Ferdinand and to King Philip the 
 Second, where he refided four Years, and died foon after his Return in 1565, and 
 was buried with a fumptuous Funeral in St. Paul's. He wrote a little Didlionary 
 for Children : A Poem in Ten Books in Latin Verfe, De Republica Anglorum 
 Inftauranda, printed 1579, ^^^^ ^" Appendix, De Illuftrium quorundam Enco- 
 miis, cum Epigrammatibus & Epitaphiis nonnullis : His Voyage to Algier 1541 : 
 And tranflated from the Latin, the Office of Servants, written by Gilbert Cognatus : 
 And Erafmus's, Praife of Folly, 1549, and Re-printed 1577. [Vide Wood's 
 Athenas OxonJ 3 
 
40 A Description of the 
 
 Francis Halls y Sir Godfrey Knelkr\ Mafter, a Head hy 
 himfelf. 
 
 The School of Athens^ a Copy (by 'Le Brun] of RaphaeFs. 
 
 fine Pidure in the Vatican. Three Feet two Inches high, 
 
 by four Feet two and three quarters wide. 
 Jofeph Carreras^ a Spanijh Poet, writing : He was Chaplain 
 
 to Catherine of Braganza^ Queen of Charles II. Half 
 
 Length, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 Re7nbrandt\ Wife, half Length, by Rembrandt. 
 Rubens\ Wife, a Head, by Rubens. 
 A Man's Head, by Salvator Rofa. 
 Mr. Locke, a Head, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 Jnigo Jones, a Head, by V andyke. 
 
 Over the Door, a Daughter of Sir Hejtry Lee, three Quarters, 
 by Sir Peter Lely. She was married to Mr. Wharton, af- 
 
 ' terwards created a Marquifs ; and was herfelf a celebrated 
 Poetefs. Waller has addrefs'd a Copy of Verfes to her on 
 the Death of Lord Rochefler, whofe great Friend and Re- 
 lation fhe was. 
 
 Over another Door, Mrs. Jenny Deering, Miftrefs to the 
 Marquifs of Whvrton. Thefe Two canae out of tlie 
 Wharton Collection. 
 
 Over the two other Doors, Two Pieces of Ruins, by Viviano. 
 
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 The Library. 
 
 THIS Room is twenty-one Feet and half, by twenty- 
 two and half. Over the Chimney is a whole Length, 
 by Sir Godfrey Kneller^ of King George 1. in his Corona- 
 tion-Robes, the only Picture for which he ever fat in 
 England. 
 
 The Little Bed-Chamber. 
 
 THIS Room is all wainfcoted with Mahogany ; and 
 the Bed, which is of painted Taffaty, ftands in an 
 Alcove of the fame Wood. Over the Chimney is a half 
 Length, by Dahly of Catharine Shorter, firft Wife of Sir 
 Robert JValfoky and eldeft Daughter of John Shorter, Efq; 
 of Bybrook in Kent, by Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Erafmus 
 Phillips of PiBon-caJlle in Pembrokejhire. This is an ex- 
 treme good Portrait. 
 On the other Side, a Portrait of Maria Skerret, fecond Wife 
 to Sir Rohert JValfole, three quarters, by Fanloo. 
 
 G 
 
50 A Description of the 
 
 * 
 
 The Little Dressing-Room. 
 
 A 
 
 Landfcape by Wootton^ in the Stile of Claude Lorraine 
 over the Chimney. 
 
 The Blue Damask Bed-Chamber 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 S of the fame Dimenfions with the Library, and is hung 
 with Tapeftry. Over the Chimney, Sir Robert JValpok, 
 afterwards Earl of Orford, Prime Minifter to KingGeorge I, 
 and to King George II. 
 
 ^em neque Tjdides^ nec Lariffceus Achilles^ 
 Nan Anni domuere Decern. 
 He built this Houfe, and made all the Plantations and 
 Waters here. A whole Length, in the Garter-Robes, 
 by anloo. 
 
 The Drawing-Room 
 
 S thirty Feet by twenty-one, and hung with yellow 
 Caffoy. The Cieling is exadly taken, except with the 
 Alteration of the Paternal Coat for the Star and Garter, 
 from one that was in the Dining-Room of the old Houfe, 
 built by Sir Edward Walpoky Grandfather to Sir Robert, 
 
 Over 
 
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 Over the Chimney is a genteel Buft of a Madonna in Marble, 
 ' by Camillo Rufconi. 
 
 Above, is Carving by Gibbins^ gilt, and within it a fine Pidture 
 by V andyke^ of two Daughters of Lord Whartony out of 
 whofe Colle6lion thefe came, with all the other Vandykes 
 in this Room, and fome others at Lord Walpole\ at the 
 Exchequer. Five Feet four Inches high, by four Feet three 
 wide. 
 
 The Judgment of Paris^ by Luca Jordano, There is an odd 
 Diifufion of Light all over this Pidure : The Pallas is a 
 remarkably fine Figure. Eight Feet high, by ten Feet 
 eight and a quarter wide. 
 
 A fleeping Bacchus^ with Nymphs, Boys, and Animals ; its 
 Companion. 
 
 King Charles I. a whole Length, in Armour, by V andyhe. 
 By a Miftake, both the Gauntlets are drawn for the Right- 
 Hand. * 
 
 Henrietta Maria of France^ his Queen, by ditto. 
 
 Archbifhop Laud^ the Original Portrait of him ; three Quar- 
 ters, by Vandyke. The Univerfity of Oxford once of'- 
 fered the Wharton Family Four Hundred Pounds for this 
 Pidlure, 
 
 G 2 . Philip 
 
 * When this Picture was in the Wharton Colledlion, old Jacch Tonfon^ who had 
 remarkably ugly Legs, was finding Fault with the two Gauntlets Lady Wharton 
 faid, Mr. T onfotty why might not one Man have two Right Hands, as well as ano- 
 ther two Left Legs ? 
 
52 A Description of the 
 
 Philip Lord Wharton^ three Quarters, by Vandyke. 
 
 Lord Chief Baron Wandesford^ Head of the Cafilecomer 
 Family ; three Quarters, fitting, by Vandyke, 
 
 Lady Wharton^ three Quarters, by Ditto. 
 
 yam Daughter of Lord W ^n?nan ; Ditto. The Hands, in 
 which Vandyke excelled, are remarkably fine in this Pidlure. 
 
 Robert Lord Walpole^ eldeft Son to Sir Robert Walpole^ by 
 Catharine his firfl Wife ; a Head in Crayons, by Rofatba, 
 He fucceeded his Father in the Earldom, and died in 1751, 
 being Knight of the Bath, Auditor of the Exchequer, and 
 Mafter of the Fox-Hounds to the King. 
 
 Edward Walpole^ fecond Son to Sir Robert Walpole^ ditto. 
 
 Horace Walpole^ third Son to Sir Robert TValpole^ ditto. 
 
 Mary Lady Vifcountefs Malpas^ fecond Daughter to Sir Robert 
 Walpole by his firfl: Wife, and married to George Lord 
 Malpas, Mafler of the Horfe X.o Frederick Prince of TV ales ^ 
 and Knight of the Bath ; afterwards Earl of Chohnondeley ^ 
 and Chancellor of the Dutchy of La?icajler, and Lord Privy 
 Seal. She died of a Confumption at Aix in Provence^ 
 JEitatis fu(£ 29. A Profile Sketch, by yervafe. 
 
 N. B. There is no Portrait of Catharine IV alpole, eldeft 
 Daughter to Sir Robert Walpole, who died at Bath of a 
 Confumption, ^tatis fuce 19. 
 
 Lady Maria Walpole, only Child to Sir Robert W alpole Earl 
 of Orford by Maria his fecond Wife, married to Charles 
 Churchill^ Efq- in Crayons, by Po?id, Ths 
 
I 
 
 I 
 
 Pictures at Houghton-Hall. 53 
 The Salon 
 
 Is forty Feet long, forty high, and thirty wide ; the Hang- 
 ing is Crimfon flower'd Velvet ; the Cieling painted by 
 Kenf, who defign'd all the Ornaments throughout the 
 Houfe. The Chimney-piece is of Black and Gold Marble, 
 of which too are the Tables. 
 In the broken Pediment of the Chimney flands a fmall anti- 
 que Buft of a enus ; and over the Garden- Door is a 
 larger antique Buft. 
 On the great Table is an exceeding jfine Bronze of a Man 
 and Woman, by yo/)n of Boulogne. When he had made 
 the fine Marble Groupe of the Rape of the Saline : in the 
 Loggia of the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florencey he was 
 found Fault with, for not having expreft enough of the 
 Softnefs of the Woman's Flefh, on which he modelTd this, 
 which differs in it's Attitudes from the other, and has but 
 two Figures ; but thefe two are Mafter-pieces for Draw- 
 ing, for the Strength of the Man, and the tender Delicacy 
 of the Woman. This Bronze was a Prefent to Lord Oi^fot^d 
 from Horace Mann^ Efq; the King s Refident at Flore?J€e. 
 On the other Tables are two Vafcs of Oriental Alabafter. 
 Over the Chimney, Chriji baptized by St. John, a moft capital 
 Pidure of Albano. His large Pieces are feldom good, but 
 '3 this 
 
54 Description of the 
 
 this is equal both for Colouring and Drawing to any of his 
 Mafter Caracci, or his Fellow- Scholar Guido. It is eight 
 Feet eight Inches high, by {\\. Feet four and a half wide. 
 There is one of the fame Defign in the Church of San 
 Giorgio at Bolog7ta^ with an Oval Top, and God the Father 
 in the Clouds, with different Angels ; two are kneeling, 
 and fupporting Chrijl\ Garments. This Picture belong'd 
 to Mr. Laws^ firft Minifter to the Regent of France. 
 
 The Stoning of St. Stephen ; a capital Pidure of Le Sceur. 
 It contains nineteen Figures, and is remarkable for expref- 
 fing a moft Mafterly Variety of Grief. The Saint, by a 
 confiderable Anachronifm, but a very common one among 
 the Roman Catholics, is drefl: in the rich Habit of a modern 
 Prieft at high Mafs. Nine Feet eight Inches and a half 
 high, by eleven Feet three and three quarters wide. 
 
 The Holy Family, a mofl celebrated Pidure of Vandyke. 
 The chief Part of it is a Dance of Boy- Angels, which are 
 painted in the higheft Manner. The Virgin feems to have 
 been a Portrait, and is not handfome ; it is too much 
 crowded with Fruits and Flowers and Birds. In the Air are 
 two Partridges finely painted. This Picture was twice 
 fold for Fourteen Hundred Pounds : Since that, it be- 
 longed to the Houfe of Orange. The Princefs of Friejland^ 
 Mother to the prefent Prince of Orange^ fold it during his 
 Minority, when Sir Robert bought it. 'Tis feven Feet and 
 
 half 
 
Pictures at Houghton-Hall. 5 5 
 
 half an Inch high, by nine Feet one and three quarters 
 wide. 
 
 Mary Magdalen wafhing Chrifi% Feet ; a capital Pidure of 
 Rubensy finifhed in the higheft Manner, and finely pre- 
 ferved. There are fourteen Figures large as Life. The 
 Magdalen is particularly well coloured. Six Feet and three 
 quarters of an Inch high, by eight Feet two wide. It was 
 
 ;:^f^Monfieur de MorvilWs. 
 
 The Holy Family in a Round, by Cantarini. The Child is 
 learning to read. Three Feet fix Inches every way. 
 
 The Holy Family, by Titian. It belonged to Monfieur de 
 Morvilkj Secretary of State in France, Four Feet feven 
 Inches and a half high, by three Feet four and a half wide. 
 
 Simeon and the Child ; a very fine Pidure of Guido. The 
 Defign is taken from a Statue of a Silenus with a young 
 Bacchus y in the Filla Borghefe at Rome. This was in Mon- 
 fieur de Morville\ Colledlion. Three Feet two Inches and 
 a half high, by two Feet feven and a half wide. There is 
 another of thefe, but much lefs finilhed, in the Palace of 
 the Marquis Gerini at Florence. 
 
 The Virgin with the Child afieep in her Arms, by Augufline 
 Caracci. Three Feet fix Inches high, by two Feet nine 
 and three quarters wide. 
 
 An 
 
56 A Description of the 
 
 An old Woman giving a Boy Cherries, by Titian. It is his 
 
 own Son and Nurfe, four Feet ten Inches high, by three 
 
 Feet Hx and three quarters wide. 
 'I'lie Holy Family, by Andi^ea del Sarto, This and the laft 
 
 were from the Colledion of the Marquis Mari at Genoa, 
 
 Three Feet one Inch and a quarter high, by two Feet feven 
 
 and a quarter wide. 
 The AfTumption of the Virgin ; a beautiful Figure fupported 
 
 by Boy-Angels, in a very bright Manner, by Morellio. 
 
 Six Feet four Inches and three quarters high, by four Feet 
 
 nine and half wide. * 
 The Adoration of the Shepherds, its. Companion : All the 
 
 Light comes from the Child, 
 The Cyclops at their Forge, by L,uca yordano. There is a 
 
 Copy of this at St. yames\^ by TValton, This belong'd to 
 
 Gibbi7is, Six Feet four Inches high, by four Feet eleven 
 
 wide. 
 
 Daedalus and Icarus, by Le Brun. In a different Manner 
 from what he generally painted. Six Feet four Inches high, 
 by four Feet three wide. For th e Story, fee it twice told 
 in Ovid\ Met amor phojis. Lib. 8. and Lib. 2. de Arte- 
 Amandi, 
 
 The 
 
 * The Duke of Bedford has a large Piflure like this, except that it wants the 
 Virgin, by the fame Hand, brought out of Spain by Mr. Bagnolsy from whofe 
 Collection the Prince of IVales bought fome fine Pidlures. 
 
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 The Carlo Maratt Room 
 
 IS thirty Feet by twenty-one. The Hangings are Green 
 Velvet, the Table of Lapis Lazuli ; at each End are two 
 Sconces of maillve Silver. 
 Over the Chimney is * Clement the Ninth, of the Rofpigliofi 
 Family ; three quarters fitting, a moft admirable Portrait, 
 by Carlo Maratti, It was bought by Jervafe the Painter 
 out of the Arnaldi Palace at Florence^ where are the re- 
 mains of the great Pallavicini Colleilion, from whence Sir 
 Robert bought feveral of his Piftures. Nothing can be 
 finer than this, the Boldnefs of the Penciling is as remark- 
 able as his Delicacy in his general Pi<£lures, and it was fo 
 much admired, that he did feveral of them ; one is at Lord 
 Burli?2gton\ at Chifwick. 
 The Judgment of Paris^ drawn by Carlo Maratti, when he 
 was eighty-three Years old, yet has none of the Rawnefs of 
 his latter Pieces ; the Drawing of the Juno is very faulty, 
 it being impoflible to give fo great a turn to thePerfou as 
 he has given to this Figure ; it came out of the Pallavicini 
 CoUedion. The Earl of Strafford has a very good Copy 
 of it, by Giofeppe Chiari, Five Feet nine Inches and three 
 quarters high, by feven Fe^t fevcn and a quarter wide. 
 
 H Galatea 
 
 * He was a Poet. See an account of him in the Sidney Papers pubUflied by CoIIhif. 
 Vol.11, page 714. and Firmani's Seminar. Roman, pag. 189. 
 
58 A Description of the 
 
 Galatea fitting with Acis^ T'ritons and Cupids ; its Compa- 
 nion. Five Feet eight Inches and three quarters high, by 
 leven Feet feven and a half wide. 
 
 Tlie Holy Family, an unfinifh'd Pidure, large as Life, by 
 Carlo Marattiy in his laft Manner. Three Feet two Inches 
 and three quarters high, by two Feet eight and a quarter 
 wide. 
 
 The Virgin teaching yefus to read, by Carlo Maratti. Two 
 Feet three Inches and a quarter high, by one Foot ten and 
 a quarter wide. Giofeppe Chiari has executed this Thought 
 in the Barberini ^2X2,0,^ at Rome^ but with Alterations. la 
 this the Virgin is in Red. Giofeppe^ is in White, and in- 
 ftead of St. John^ St. Elifabethy and the Angels, he has 
 drawn a Cardinal reading. 
 
 St. Ccecilia with four Angels playing on Mufical Inftruments,, 
 Companion to the former. 
 
 Or dreft in Smiles of fweet Q&cihihyjhine 
 With Jtmp'ring Angels ^ Palms and Harps divine. 
 
 Pope. 
 
 Thele two lafh are moft perfe<fl and beautiful Pictures in his 
 beft and moft finifh'd Manner, and were in the Pallavicini 
 Colledlion. 
 
 The 
 
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 Pictures at Houghton-Hall. 5 9 
 
 The Aflumption of the Virgin^ by Carlo Marattu She has a 
 deep blue Veil all over her. Two Feet three Inches and 
 three quarters high, by one Foot ten and a quarter wide. 
 
 The Virgin and yofeph with a young yefus^ a fine Picture, 
 by Carlo Maratti^ in the Manner of his Mafter Andrea 
 Sacchi. Two Feet five Inches and a quarter high, by two 
 Feet wide. 
 
 The Marriage of St. Catharine^ by Carlo Maratti, two Feet 
 feven Inches high, by one Foot ten and a half wide. 
 
 Two Saints worfhiping the Virgin in the Clouds, by Carlo 
 Maratti, Two Feet three Inches and a half high, by one 
 Foot nine and a half wide, 
 
 St. John the Evangelift, its Companion. 
 
 A naked V znus and Cupid^ by Carlo Maratti^ in a very parti- 
 cular Stile. Three Feet one Inch and a half high, by four 
 Feet four and a half wide. 
 
 The Holy Family, by Nicholo Beret oni^ Carlos beft Scholar : 
 This Pidlure is equal to any of his Mafter's. The 
 Grace and Sweetnefs of the Virgin^ and the Beauty and 
 Drawing of the young Jefus^ are incomparable. Three 
 Feet one Inch and a half high, by four Feet four and 
 a half wide. 
 
 The Aflumption of the Virgin^ by ditto. Two Feet two 
 Inches and a half high, by one Foot eight and a half wide. 
 
 H 2 The 
 
6o A Description of the 
 
 The Pool of Bethefduy by Giofeppe Ch'tari^ another of Carlos 
 Scholars. Three Feet three Inches high, by four Feet five 
 wide. 
 
 Chrift\ Sermon on the Mount, ditto. 
 Apollo and Daphi^e^ ditto. 
 
 Bacchus and Ariachie^ ditto, the befl: of the Four ; the Bac- 
 chus feems to be taken from the Apollo Belvedere^ as the 
 Ideas of the Ariadne^ and the Venus^ evidently are from 
 the Figures of Liberality and Modefty in the famous 
 Pidlure of Guido^ in the Colledion of Marquis del Monte 
 at Bologna. There are Four Pictures about the Size of 
 thcfe in the Spada Palace at Rome^ by the fame Hand ; 
 two, juft the fame with thefe two laft, the other two are 
 likewife Stories out of the Metamorphofis. 
 
 Apollo^ in Crayons, by Rofalba. Two Feet two Inches high, 
 by one Foot eight wide. 
 
 Diana^ its Companion. 
 
 A profile Head of a Man, a Capital Drawing, in a great Stile, 
 
 by Raphael, 
 A profile Head of St. Catharine^ by Guido. 
 The Birth of the Virgin^ by Luca Jordano, Two Feet one 
 
 Inch high, by one Foot and a quarter of an Inch wide. 
 The Prefentation of the Virgin in the Temple, its Companion. 
 
 Thefe two are finifli'd Defigns for two large Pidures, 
 
 which 
 
Pi c T u R Es Houghton-Hall. 6 1 
 
 which he . painted for the fine Church of the Mado?ma 
 
 Delia Salute at Venice, 
 The Fhght into Egypt ^ by MorelUo^ in the manner of Vandyke, 
 
 Three Feet two Inches and a quarter high, by one Foot 
 
 eleven and a quarter wide. 
 The Crucifixion, its Companion. 
 
 Hercules and Ojnphale^ by Romanelli. Three Feet one IncK 
 and half high, by four Feet three Inches wide. 
 
 The Velvet Bed-Chamber 
 
 Is t\venty-one Feet and half, by twenty-two Feet and half, 
 the Bed is of Green Velvet, richly embroider'd and laced 
 with Gold, the Ornaments defigned by Kent ; the Hang- 
 ings are Tapeftry, reprefenting the Loves of V enus and 
 Adonis^ after Albano. 
 Alexander adorning the Tomb of Achilles^ by Le Mer. The 
 Subjed is taken from the Fourth Chapter of the Second 
 Book of ^uintus Curtius. Achillem, cujus origine (Alexander) 
 glortebatur^ imprimis mirari folitus, etiam circum cippum 
 ejus cum amicis nudus decucurrit^ unSioque coronam im- 
 pofuit. The Head of Alexander is taken from his Medals, 
 the Figures are in the true Antique Tafte, and the Build- 
 ings fine. Eight Feet two Inches and three quarters high,, 
 by five Feet two and a half wide. 
 
 Over 
 
62 A Description of the 
 
 Over one of the Doors, a Sea-port, by old Griffier, Three 
 Feet two Inches and half high, by four Feet one Inch 
 wide. 
 
 A Landfcape over the other Door, by ditto. 
 
 The Dressing-Room 
 
 Is hung with very fine gold Tapeftry after Fi6lures of 
 Vandyke, There are Whole- Length Portraits of James 
 the Firft, Queen Anne his Wife, Daughter to Frederick the 
 fecond King of Denf?iarky Charles the Firft, and his 
 Queen, and Chrijlian the Fourth King of Denmark^ Brother 
 to Queen Anne ; they have fine Borders of Boys with 
 Feftoons, and Oval Pictures of the Children of the Royal 
 Family. At the upper end of this Room is a Glafs Cafe 
 filled with a large Quantity of Silver Philegree, which 
 belonged to Catharine Lady Walpole. 
 Over the Chimney, the confulting the Sibylline Oracles, a fine 
 Picture, by he Mer ; Companion to that in the Bed- 
 chamber, the Architedure of this is rather the better. 
 The Painter has miftaken, and reprefented a large Number 
 of Books ; whereas the Hiftories fay, that when the Sibyl 
 offer'd them at firft to Tarquinius Superhus^ there were but 
 Nine, and on his Twice refufing them, She burnt Six, and 
 then made him pay the firft demanded Price for the 
 
 remaining 
 
Pi c T u R Es Houghton-Hall. 6 3 
 
 remaining Three, which were kept in a Stone Vault with 
 the greatefl: Care ; and only confulted on extraordinary 
 Occalions, by two of the Nobility who had the Charge 
 of thera. This Number in the Time of the Common- 
 Wealtli was encreafed to Ten, and in Syllas Time, the 
 lafl Time they were confulted, to Fifteen. The Year 
 before his Didatorfhip, the Capitol was burnt, and they 
 with it. There were fome difpers'd Sibylline Oracles 
 afterwards colleded, but never much credited, which re- 
 mained to the Reign of Honorius, when Siilicho burnt 
 them. * There is an Anacronifm in this Pid:ure, which 
 may be pardoned in a Painter i He has thrown in among 
 the Buildings, the Septizonium Severi ; now Sylla\ 
 Diif^atorfhip began in the Year 672 U. C. and Severus^ 
 did not begin his Reign till 945 U. C» or 193 A. D. 
 
 Over the Door, Dogs and Still Life, by Jervafe, 
 
 Over the other Door ; its Companion. 
 
 Ihe 
 
 * In the Reign of 'Tiberius^ an Adi pafled in the Senate at the Motion of one 
 of the Tribunes, to add a Book to the Sibylline Oracles, at the Requeft of Caninius 
 GalluSy one of the ^indecim Viri. The Emperor reprimanded the Fathers, and 
 told them, that Augufius^ quia mult a Van a fub nomine celebri'vidgahantur, fanxijjey 
 quern intra Diem ad Pratorem Urbanum deferrentur, neque habere privatim liceret. 
 He added, d Majoribus quoque decretum eraty pojl exujlum fociali Bello Captolium^ 
 qu^fitis Samo, Ilio^ Erythris, per Africam etiam ac Siciliam, et Italicas Colonias^ 
 Car minibus Sibyll^e (Una^ feu plures fuere) datoque Sacerdotibus negotio^ quantum 
 humand ope potuijfent^ Vera difcernere. Tacit. Ann. 6. 12. It is probable that 
 Tiberius^?, Stridnefs on this Subjedl proceeded from his Apprehenfions of the People 
 being excited by Prophecies to rebel againft him ; he having but a little Time 
 before put feveral Perfons to Death for publifhing a Predidlion that he had left 
 Rome in fuch a Conjundion of the Planets as for ever to exclude his Return, 
 Am, 4» 58. 
 
64 ^ Description of the 
 
 The Embroidered Bed-Chamber. 
 
 TH E Bed is of the fineft Indian Needle- work. His 
 Royal Highnefs Francis Duke of Lorrain^ afterwards 
 Grand Duke of Tufcany^ and fince Emperor, lay in this 
 Bed, which flood then where the Velvet one is now, when 
 he came to vifit Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton. The 
 Hangings are Tapeftry. 
 Over the Chimney, the Holy Family, large as Life, by 
 Nicolo PouJJtn, It is one of the moft Capital Pidures 
 in this Colledion, the Airs of the Heads, and the Drape- 
 ries are in the fine Tafte of Raphael^ and the Antique, 
 Elizabeth's H^ead is taken from a Statue of an old Woman 
 in the Villa Borghefe at Rome^ the Colouring is much 
 higher than his ufual manner ; the Virgin\ Head and the 
 young J ejus are particularly delicate. Five Feet feven Inches 
 high, by four Feet three and three quarters wide. 
 Over the Doors, Two pieces of Cattle, by Rofa di Tivoli, 
 
 The Cabinet 
 
 Is twenty- one Feet and a half, by twenty- two and a 
 half, hung with Green Velvet. Over the Chimney is a 
 celebrated Picture of Rubens' s Wife, by Vandyke ; it was 
 
 fijtted 
 
Pictures at Houghton-Hall. 65 
 
 fitted for a Pannel in her own Clofet in Ruhens\ Houfe, 
 She is in black Sattin with a Hat on, a whole Length ; 
 the Hands and the Drapery are remarkably good. 
 
 Rubens' s, Family, by yordano of Antwerp ; Rubens is playing 
 on a Lute, his firft Wife is fitting with one of their Chil- 
 dren on her Lap, and two others before her. There are 
 feveral other Figures, and Genii in the Air. Five Feet nine 
 Inches high, by four Feet five Inches and a half wide ; 
 this Pidure belong'd to the Duke of Portland. 
 
 A Winter-Piece, by Giacomo Bajfan. Three Feet eight Liches 
 and a half high, by five Feet eleven and three quarters wide. 
 
 A Summer-Piece, by Leonardo Bajfan, Three Feet eight 
 Inches and a half high, by five Feet eleven and three 
 quarters wide. Thefe two were in the Colledion of 
 Monjieur de la V rilliere. 
 
 Boors at Cards, by Teneirs, One Foot four Inches high, by 
 one Foot ten wide. 
 
 Chrijl appearing to Mary in the Garden, an exceeding fine 
 Pidure, by Pietro da Corto7ia, One Foot nine Inches and 
 a half high, by one Foot eight Inches wide. 
 
 The Judgment of Paris^ by Andrea Schiavone. ' 
 
 JVote, That all the Pidures in this Room, except the Portraits, 
 that have not the Sizes fet down, are very fmall. 
 
 Midas judging between Pan and Apollo, by ditto. ■ 
 ' I Chrift 
 
66 A Description of the 
 
 Chrift laid in the Sepulchre, one of the fineft Pictures that 
 Parmcgiano ever painted, and for which there is a Tradi- 
 tion, that he was knighted by a Duke of Parma ; there 
 are eleven Figures ; the Expreflion, the Drawing and 
 Colouring, the Perfpedlive, and Chiaro ScurOy are as fine as 
 pofTible. The Figure of "Jofeph of Arimathea is Parme- 
 giano\ own Portrait ; there are two Drawings in the 
 Grand Duke's Colledlion for this Pidlure, but with varia- 
 tions from what he executed : In one of thefe, Jofeph has 
 his Hands extended like Paul preaching at Athens^ in the 
 Cartoon of Raphael ; there have been three different Prints 
 made of this Pidure, and the Drawings for it. 
 
 The Adoration of the Magiy by Velvet Brueghel \ there 
 are a Multitude of little Figures, all finifhed with the 
 greateft Dutch exadnefs ; the Ideas too are a little Dutchy 
 for the 'Ethiopian King is drefl: in a Surplice with Boots and 
 Spurs, and brings for a Prefent a Gold Model of a Modern 
 Ship. 
 
 The Virgin and Child ^ a very pleafing Picture, by Baroccioy 
 
 but the Drawing is full of Faults. 
 Naked Venus Sleeping, a moft perfect Figure, by Annibal 
 
 Caracci \ the Contours- and the Colouring exceflively 
 
 fine. 
 
 Head of Diihfo7i%. Father, by Dohfon, 
 
 3 St. John^ 
 
FicrvRES af Houghton-Hall. 6 7 
 
 St. yohn, a Head, by Carlo Dolci. 
 
 Head of Innocent the Tenth, by F" elafco ; he was fent by the 
 King of Spain to draw this Pope's Pidlure ; when the 
 Pope fent his Chamberlain to pay him, he would not re- 
 ceive the Money, faying the King his Mafter always paid 
 him with his own Hand : The Pope humour'd him. This 
 Pope was of the Pamphilii Family, was reckoned the ug- 
 lieft Man of his Time, and was rais'd to the Papacy by 
 the Intrigues of his Sifter-in-law Donna Olimpia^ a moft 
 beautiful Woman and his Miftrefs. -f 
 
 A Boy's Head with a Lute, by Cavalier Luti. 
 
 Friars giving Meat to the Poor, by John Miel, One Foot 
 feven Inches and a half high, by two Feet two Inches 
 wide. 
 
 Its Companion. 
 
 I 2 A dying 
 
 ■f- Amelot de la Houjfaie relates the following remarkable Story as the Foundatioa 
 of this Pope's Hatred to the French^ and of his Perlecution of the Family of his 
 PredecefTor Urban the Eighth. While Cardinal Barberim, UrharC% Nephew, was 
 Legate in France^ he went to fee the curious Library and CoUedion of the Sieur Du. 
 Mouftier. Monfignor Pamphilio^ who attended him, flipped a fmall and fcarce Book, 
 into his Pocket. As they were going away, the Legate fhut the Door, and de- 
 i\rtA Du Mouftier to examine whether he had loft any Book: He immediately 
 miffed the ftolen One. The Cardinal bid him fearch all his Train, but Pamphilia 
 refufmg to be examined, they came to Blows, and Du Mouftier getting the better by 
 the Prelate's being encumbered in his long Habit, beat him feverely and found 
 the JBook in his Pocket. 
 
 Mem. Hiftor. Vol. I. Pag. 362. 
 
68 A Description of the 
 
 A dying Officer at Confeffion, by Bourgognone ; very bright 
 Colouring and fine Expreflion. One Foot fix Inches and 
 a half high, by 2 Feet one Inch and three quarters wide. 
 
 Its Companion. 
 
 Boors at Cards, by Tem'ers. 
 
 Boors drinking ; its Companion, by OJIade. 
 
 Chriji laid in the Sepulchre, by Giacomo Bajfan ; a very 
 particular Pidure, the Lights are laid on fo thick that it 
 feems quite Baflb Relievo. It is a fine Defign for a great 
 Altar-piece which he has painted at Padua. This Pidure 
 was a Prefent to Lord Orfordy from James Earl of 
 Waldegrave^ Knight of the Garter, and Emballador at 
 Paris. 
 
 Holy Family, with St. yohn on a Lamb, by WtlUberts^ a 
 Scholar of Rubens^ who has made a large Pidure, from 
 whence this is taken, now in the Palace Pkti^ at 
 Florence : This is finely finifli'd, and the Colouring neater 
 than Rubens. 
 
 Holy Family, by Rottenhatner, 
 
 The Firgin and Child, h-^ Alexander Veronefe \ painted on 
 black Marble. 
 
 Three Soldiers ; a fine little Pidure, by Salvator Rofa, ia 
 his brighteft manner. 
 
 The 
 
Pictures at Houghton-Hall, 6 9 
 
 The Virgin with the Child in her Arms, by Morellio^ on black 
 Marble. A Prefent, from Be7tjami7t Keene^ Embaffador at 
 Madrid. 
 
 The Virgin with the Child in her Arms afleep, by Sebaftian 
 Concha. 
 
 Edward the Sixth, an original fmall whole Length, by 
 Holbein ; it was in the Royal Colledion, and upon the 
 Difperfion of King Charles's Pidlures in the Rebellion, fold 
 into Portugal^ where it was bought by Lord Tyraisoley^ 
 Embaffador to the Court of Lijbon^ and by him fent as a 
 Prefent to Lord Orford ; within the Frame is wrote in 
 Golden Letters, Edvardus Dei Gratii Sextus Rex Anglia, &^ 
 
 . Francia,. &^ Hibernia. 
 
 Laban fearching for his Images, by Sebaftian Bourdon. When 
 'Jacob withdrew privately from Laban^ Rachel ftole her 
 Father's Idols, which he purfued them to demand. Gen* 
 xxxi. 33. Three Feet one Inch three quarters, by four 
 Feet four Inches and a half wide.. 
 
 The Banquetting-Houfe Cieling ; it is the original Defign of 
 Rubens for the middle Compartment of that Cieling, and 
 reprefents the Affumption of King James the Firft into 
 Heaven ; it belonged to Sir Godfrey Kneller^ who ftudied 
 it much, as is plain from his Sketch for King TVilliams 
 
 Pid:ure 
 
70 A Description of the 
 
 Pidure in the Parlour. Two Feet eleven Inches high, by 
 one Foot nine Inches and a half wide. 
 
 Six Sketches of Rubens for triumphal Arches, ^c. on the 
 Entry of the Infant Ferdinand of Aujlria into A?ttwerp \ 
 they are printed with a Defcription of that Feftival. They 
 are about two Feet and a half fquare. 
 
 Bathjheba bringing Abijhag to David ; an exceeding high- 
 finifh'd Pi6lure in Varnifh, by V anderwerffe ; a Prefent to 
 Lord Orfordy from the Duke of Chandos, Two Feet ten 
 Inches high, by two Feet three wide. 
 
 Two Flower-pieces, moft highly finifli'd, by VanHuyfum ; his 
 Brother lived with Lord Orford^ and painted moft of the 
 Pidlures in the Attic Story here. Two Feet feven Inches 
 high, by two Feet two wide. 
 
 Chrijl and Mary in the Garden, by Philippo Laura, 
 
 The Holy Family, by John Bellino ; it belonged to Mr. Laws. 
 
 A Landfkip with Figures, by Bourgogncne^ in the Manner of 
 Salvator Rofa» 
 
 Its Companion with Soldiers. 
 
 Two fmall Landfkips, by Gafpar Poujftn. 
 
 Over the Door into the Bed-chamber, the Holy Family, by 
 Matteo Po?izo7ii^ a moft uncommon Hand, and a very fine 
 Pidure. Three Feet feven Inches and a half high, by five 
 Feet two and a half wide. It belonged to Count Plattem- 
 herg^ the Emperor's Minifter at Ro7ne^ who had carried all 
 
 his 
 
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 his Pi(fi:ures thither and died there. They were fent to 
 ^mjlerdam to be fold, where Mr, Trevor bought this for 
 Sir Robert Walpole. Lord Burlington has a Head by the 
 fame Mafter, who was a Venetian \ there are no others in 
 England o£ ihGHoind, 
 
 Over the Parlour Door, the Murder of the Innocents, by 
 Sehajiian Bourdon. Four Feet and half an Inch high-, by 
 five Feet eight wide. 
 
 Over the other Door, the Death of Jofeph^ by Velafco. Three 
 Feet three Inches high, by four Feet ten w^dc 
 
 Saint Chrifiopher^ a very fmall Pidure, by Eljheimer. Here 
 is a very common Error among the Roman Catholick Pain- 
 ters ; in the diftant Landfkip is a Hermit, with an Oratory 
 of the Virgin Marj, at the Time that Saint Chrijlopher is 
 carrying Jefus yet a Child. At Bologna there is an old 
 Pidure of the Salutation, where the Angel finds the Virgin 
 Mary praying before a Crucifix, with the Oficiufn heatce 
 Virginis in her Haad. 
 
 The Marble Parlour. 
 
 ON E intire fide of this Room is Marble, with Alcoveg. 
 for Side-boards, fupported with Coloimns of Plymouth 
 Marble. Over the Chimney is a fine Piece of j4lto Reli&vo 
 in Statuary-Marble, after the Antique, by Ryjhrack^ and 
 before one of the Tables, a large Granite Ciilern. 
 
72 A Description of the 
 
 Henry Dmtvers Earl of Danhy^ a fine whole Length in the 
 Garter Robes, by V andyke. This Lord was Son of Sir John 
 Da7wers, by Elizabeth Daughter of John Nevil Lord 
 Latimer^ Son-in-Law of Queen Catharine Parr^ and was 
 firft diftinguifhed by his Behaviour in the War in the Low 
 Countries^ where he ferved under Prince Maurice^ and 
 afterwards in France under He?try IV. where he was 
 knighted for his Valour. In the IriJJj Wars, he was Lieu- 
 tenant General of the Horfe, and Serjeant-Major of the 
 whole Army, under Robert Earl of EJfeXy and Charles Lord 
 Mou7itjoy. In the Firft of King James 1. he was made Baron 
 of Dauntefey^ and afterwards Lord Prefident of Munjler 
 and Governor of Guernfey, By King Charles I. he was 
 created Earl of Da?iby^ made a Privy Counfellor and 
 Knight of the Garter. He founded the Phy£c-Garden at 
 Oxford^ and died aged 71, 1643, at Cornbury^ and is 
 buried, at Dauntefey in J^iltjhire^ where he built an Alms- 
 Houfe and Free-School. His elder Brother Sir Charles loft 
 his Life in the Earl of EJ[fex\ Infurredlion, Temp. Eliz. 
 This Pidure was given to Lord Orford^ by Sir Jofeph 
 Danvers. 
 
 Sir 'Tko7tias Wharton, Brother to Philip Lord Wharton^ and 
 Knight of the Bath, whole Length, by Vandyke, (from the 
 Wbarto?i Colledion.) 
 
 Two 
 
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 Two Fruit-pieces over the Door, by Michael Angela Campi- 
 
 doglio^ from Mr. Scawen\ Colle6lion. 
 The Afceniion, by Paul Veronefe^ over a Door. 
 The Apoftles after the Afcenfion, ditto. 
 
 The Hall 
 
 Is a Cube of Forty, with a Stone Gallery round Three 
 Sides. The Cieling and the Frieze of Boys are by Altari. 
 The Bafs-reliefs over the Chimney and Doors are from the 
 Antique. 
 
 The Figures over the great Door, and the Boys over the lefter 
 Doors, are by Ryjbrach In the Frieze are Bafs-reliefs of 
 Sir Robert Walpole and. Catharine his Firft Lady, and of 
 Robert Lord Walpole their Elder Son and Margaret P.olle 
 his Wife. From the Cieling hangs a * Lantern for Eighteen 
 Candles, of Copper gilt. 
 
 K Over 
 
 * Ben Johnfon^ in his Foreft, Poem 2d. has taefe Lines on Penpurjl. 
 
 Thou art not, Penjhurjl, built to envious fliow. 
 Of Touch or Marble ; nor can'ft boaft a Row 
 Of poliPa'd Pillars, or a Roof of Gold, 
 Thou haft no Lantern, whereof Talcs are told. 
 
 I imagine there was fome old Pamphlet or Ballad wrote on a Lantern of fome 
 great Man at that Time, from whence was taken the Craft fman, which made fo 
 much Noife about this Lantern at Houghton. This Lantern has fince been fo'd to 
 the Earl of Chefterfidd^ and is replaced by a French Luftre. 
 
74 ^ Description of the 
 
 Over the Chimney is a Buft of Sir Robert Walpole^ Earl of 
 
 Orford, by Ryjbrack. 
 Before a Nich, over againft the Chimney, is the Laocoon, a 
 
 fine Caft in Bronze, by Girardon^ bought by Lord Walfole^ 
 
 at Parts. 
 
 On the Tables, the Tiber and the Nile in Bronze, from the 
 
 Antiques in the Capitol at Rome. 
 Two Vafes in Bronze, from the Antiques in the Villas of 
 
 Medici and Borghefe at Rome. 
 The Buft of a Woman, a moft beautiful Antique. 
 The Buft of a Roman Emprefs, Antique. * 
 
 On Terms and Confoles round the Hall are 
 the following Busts and Heads. 
 
 Marcus Aurelius^ Antique. 
 Trajan^ Ditto. 
 
 Septimius 
 
 * This and the Laft were bought from Mrs. Vernon'^ a.t Twickenham Park, which 
 belonged to Robert Earl of EJfex^ the celebrated Favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who 
 having promifed Sir Francis Bacon to get him made Sollicitor-General, juft before 
 his own Difgrace, and not being able to perform it, gave Sir Francis this Villa to 
 make him amends. Sir Francis entertained the Queen here, and prefented her with 
 a Sonnet of his own compofing, to intercede for the Earl's Pardon. He foon after 
 fold T'wickenham Park for Eighteen Hundred Pounds. From thence it came into 
 the Earl of Cardigan''s Family ; they fold it to King William : he gave it to his 
 Favorite Lord Albemarle, who fold it to Mr. Vernon, after whofe Widow's Death, 
 Lord Montrath bought it for Fifteen Thoufand Pounds. 
 
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 Septimius SeverUS^ Ditto. iThefe two were given to General Churchill, by 
 ^ V Cardinal Alexander Albania and by him to 
 
 CommoduS^ Ditto. J Robert fValpok. 
 
 A Young Hercules^ Ditto. 
 Baccio Bandinelliy by himfelf. 
 Faufiina Senior, Antique. 
 A Young CommoduSy Antique. 
 Homer y Modern. 
 Hejiody Ditto. 
 Jupiter^ Antique. 
 A Philofopher, Ditto. 
 Hadrian^ Ditto. 
 Pollux^ Dit?to. 
 
 Going from the Salon, down the great Steps 
 through the Garden, you enter a Porch adorn'd 
 with Busts of 
 
 RomCy 
 Minerva^ 
 AnttnouSy 
 Apollo Belvedere^ 
 A Philofopher's Head, 1 
 Julia Pia Severi^ J Antique. 
 
 'Heads. 
 
 Out 
 
76 \A Description of the 
 
 Out of this you go into a Veftibule, round which 
 in the Niches are Six Vafes of Volterra Ala- 
 bafter. This leads into 
 
 The Gallery, 
 
 WHICH is Seventy-three Feet long, by Twenty-one 
 Feet high, the Middle rifes eight Feet higher, with 
 Windows all round ; the Cieling is a Defign of Serlio\ in 
 the Inner Library of St. Mark\y at Venice^ and was brought 
 from thence, by Mr. Horace Walpole Junior ; the Frieze 
 is taken from the Sybils Temple at Tivoli. There are two 
 Chimnies, and the whole Room is hung with Norwich 
 Damafk. It was intended originally for a Green-houfe ; 
 but on Sir Robert Walpole\ religning his Employments 
 February 9, 1742, it was fitted up for his PiAures, which 
 had hung in the Houfe in Downi?ig-Jireet. That Houfe 
 belonged to the Crown ; King George the Firft gave it to 
 Baron Bothmar\ the Hanoverian. Minifter, for Life. On his 
 Death the prefent King offer 'd it to Sir Robert Walpole^ 
 but he would only accept it for his Office of Firfl: Lord of 
 the Treafury, to which Poft he got it annexed for ever. 
 Over the fartheft Chimney is that Capital Pidure, and the 
 Firft in this Collection, The Podors of the Church : they 
 
 are 
 
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 are Confulting on the Immaculatenefs of the Virgin, who 
 is above in the Clouds. This has been a moft controverted 
 Point in the Romijh Church. Bonofus, Bifliop of Naijfus 
 in Dacia^ was one of the Firft, who held, that the Virgin 
 Mary had other Children after Chrift, which was rcckon'd 
 a great Herefy. He was condemn'd for it by Pope Da- 
 mafus^ fufpended by the Council of Capua ^ cenfured by 
 the Bifliops of Macedon^ who declared their Abhorrence of 
 this deteftable Error, as they call'd it ; and wrote againfl: 
 by Pope Syricius. His Followers were ftyled Bonojiacs^ or 
 Bonofians. This Do(3:rine had been taught before by 
 Helvidius Anno 383, and before him by Tertullian. Thofe 
 who oppofed the perpetual Virginity of the Virgin Mary, 
 were ftyled A72tidkomarianites . St. "Jerom and St. Ambrofe 
 were two of the principal Champions for the Virginity, 
 and are probably the Chief Figures in this Pidure. Vide 
 Bower s Hiftory of the Popes, Vol. I. 263, This pretended 
 Herefy is founded on the 25th Verfe of the firft Chapter of 
 St. Matthew, where it is faid, that Jofeph knev/ not his Wife 
 till fhc had brought forth her Firft-born ; and from James 
 and Johji being frequently called the Brethren of Ch^iji. 
 In Anfv/er to this laft Evidence, the Orthodox fay, that a- 
 mong the Jews all near Relations are called Brothers, and 
 that yames and yohn were only firPt: Coufins to Chrijl. It 
 is obfervable, that Raphael has followed the Opinion of 
 
 the 
 
78 yl Description of the 
 
 the Virgin Mary having had other Children, in many of his 
 Piclures, particularly in the Laft Supper in this Colledlion,. 
 he having drawn St. "James extremely like Jefus Chrijl, 
 There has been another Controverfy in the RomiJJj Church, 
 which is more properly called the Queftion of the Immacu- 
 late Conception : viz. Whether the Virgin was conceived 
 in Original Sin, though fandlified in her Mother's Womb, 
 or was preferved from that Stain of general Infedlion by a 
 fpecial Privilege, on the Forefight of the Merits of Cbrift^ 
 whom She was to bear. Alberttis Magnus and his Followers 
 maintained the Firfl: againft many learned Dodlors, who 
 defended her Exemption from Original Sin ; and the Debate 
 grew fo warm, that it was judged neceffary to put an End 
 to it by a Public Difputation. It was in Defence of the 
 Immaculate Conception that the famous Dims Scotus ob- 
 tained the Name of the Subtile DoEior. Vide Antiquities 
 of the Englijh Francifcans, page 129. I cannot help ob- 
 ferving, that the celebrated Pidlure at Windfor of this 
 Dodor muft be Ideal, for he died in the Year 1308, when 
 there was no fuch Thing as a tolerable Painter ; befides, 
 that Portrait reprefents him as an elderly Man, whereas he 
 was not Thirty-four when he died. In the Year 1387, the 
 Domi?iicans were expelled the Univerfity of Paris ^ for Op- 
 pofing the Dodlrine of the Immaculate Conception, and 
 many of them were kill'd. In 1438, the Council of Bajil 
 
 declared 
 
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 declared it Immaculate; andlaftly, in 1655, Alexander VIL 
 peremptorily determined it to be fo. 
 
 About the Year 1670, the SpaniJJj Jefuits prevailed on 
 Charles II. to requefl: from the Court of Ro7ne, that a 
 Definition might be made of the Immaculate Conception, 
 and the famous Cardinal Nidhard^ who had been Prime 
 Minifter to the Queen Regent, and was then in honorable 
 Banifliment as Embaffador to Clement IX. was order'd ta 
 write for the Queftion, which he did, and pretended to 
 prove that the Immaculate Conception was morally, phyfi- 
 cally, metaphyfically and infallibly certain. The Court of 
 Rome gave a Bull that was rather favorable to the Domi7ii~ 
 cans. Vide Bayle in Artie. Nidhard ; and for a more par- 
 ticular Account, the Article of M/7/, in the General Dicli- 
 onary. Vol. VII. page 559, and Geddes\ Tradls, Vol. III. 
 page 113. 189. 
 
 In this Pidure, which is by Guido in his brighteft Manner, 
 and perfedly preferved, there are fix old Men as large as 
 Life. The Expreflion, Drawing, Defign, and Colouring, 
 wonderfully fine. In the Clouds is a beautiful Virgin all 
 in White, and before her a fweet little Angel flying. Eiglit 
 Feet eleven Inches high, by fix Feet wide. After Sir Robert 
 had bought this Pidlure, and it was gone to Civita Vecchia 
 to be fiiipt for England^ Innocent XIII. then Pope, re- 
 manded it back, as being too fine to be let go out of Rome ; 
 
 but 
 
8o A Description of the 
 
 but on hearing who had bought it, he gave Permiffion for 
 its being fent away again. It was in the Colledion of the 
 Marquifs Angeli. 
 
 Over the other Chimney, the Prodigal Son, by Sahatoj^ Rofa. 
 This fine Pidiire was brought out of Italy by Sir Robert 
 Geare^ and carried back by him when he went to Hve there. 
 On his Death it was fent back to England to be fold. Eight 
 Feet three Inches high, by fix Feet five and a half wide. 
 
 Meleager and Atalanta^ a Cartoon, by Rubeits^ larger than 
 Life ; brought out of Flanders by General TVade : it be- 
 ing defign'd for Tapeflry, all the Weapons are in the Left 
 Hand of the Figures. Ten Feet feven Inches high, by 
 twenty Feet nine and a half wide. For the Story fee Ovid's 
 Metamorphofis, Lib. III. 
 
 Four Markets, by Snjders, One of Fowl, and another of Fifii, 
 another of Fruit, and the Fourth of Herbs. There are 
 Two more of them at Mwikh^ a Horfe and a Flefii 
 Market ; each fix Feet nine Inches and a half high, by 
 eleven Feet one and a half wide. Mr. Pelham has four 
 Markets by S?iyders like thefe, which he bought at Marfiial 
 Wade's Sale, the Figures by Long John, 
 
 Marcus Ciirthis leaping into the Gulph, an exceeding fine 
 Pidure, by Mola, There are Multitudes of Figures, fine 
 Attitudes, and great Exprefiions of Pafilon. To ornament 
 the diftant Profped, he has committed fome Anachronifms, 
 
 by 
 
I 
 
 Pictures at Hooghton-HalL 8 1 
 
 by placing among the Buildings an Amphitheater, whij:h 
 were of far later Invention, and the Pant/jeon with the 
 Portico of ^grippa ; ^now Pompey was the firft that made 
 a kfting Theater, before him they were temporary, and 
 often deftroyed by Public Authority. Statilius 'Taurus 
 built the Firft Amphitheater in the Fourth Confuliliip of 
 Augujtus, This Adlion of Curtius happen'd in the Year 
 391. U. C. and the Portico was \y\\Ax.\yj Agrippa (who 
 died 741 U. C.) in his third Confullbip, as appears by the 
 Infcription ftill remaining : M, Agrippa. L. F.Cos. III. fecit. 
 The Story of this Exploit is thus told by Livy. " Eodem 
 " anno (fcil. U. C. 391) feu motu terra, feu qua vi alia, 
 " Forum medium ferme fpecu vafto collapfum in immenfam 
 " altitudinem dicitur : neque earn voraginem conjedlu 
 " terrae, quam pro fe quifque gereret, expleri potuifle, 
 " prius quam Deum monitu quaeri coeptum, quo pluirimum 
 " P. R. poflet. Id enim illi loco dicandum Vates cane- 
 " bant, {i rempublicam Romanam perpetuam efie vellent. 
 " Cum Marcum Curtium juvenem. bello egregium, cafti- 
 gaffe ferunt dubitantes, an ullum magis Ro7nanum bonum, 
 quam arma virtufque effet. Silentio fado, Templa Deo- 
 " rum Immortalium, quae Foro imminent, Capitoliumquc 
 " intuentem, et manus nunc in coelum, nunc in patentes 
 " Terrae Hiatus, ad Deos Manes porrigentem fe devoviffe : 
 " equo deinde quam poterat maxime exornato infidenteni, 
 
 . L " armatiim 
 
82 A Description of the 
 
 " armatum fe in fpecum immififfe, donaque ac fruges fuper 
 eum a multitudine virorum ac mulierum congeftas : la- 
 " cumque Curtium non ab antique illo T. Tatii milite 
 Curtio Metio, fed ab hoc appellatum." Lib. VII. Cap. 6. 
 This Pidure is fix Feet four Inches and half high, by eleven 
 Feet four Inches and a quarter wide. And, with the next^ 
 belong'd to Gibbi7is the Carver. 
 Horatius Codes defending the Bridge. Its Companion. Thus 
 defcribcd by Livy^ Lib. II. Cap. lo. " Quum hoftesadef- 
 " fent, pro fe quifque in urbem ex agris demigrant : 
 " urbem ipfam fepiunt praefidiis : alia muris , alia 
 Tiberi objedlo videbantur tuta : pons fublicius iter 
 psene hoftibus dedit ; ni unus vir fuiflet, Horatius 
 " Codes (id munimentum illo die fortuna urbis Romame 
 " habuit) qui pofitus forte in ftatione pontis, quum captum 
 repentino impetu Janiculum, atq; inde citatos decurrere 
 " hoftes vidifTet : trepidamque turbam fuorum arma ordi- 
 ** nefq; relinquere, reprehenfans fingulos, obfiftens, obtcf- 
 tanfq; Deum 8c hominum fidem, teftabatur : mqukquam- 
 defer to pr^sjidio eos fugere^ Ji tranfitum pontem a tergo re- 
 liquijjent : jam plu^ hofiium in Palatio Capitolioque^ quam 
 *' in yanicuh fore. Itaque monere, praecipere, tit pontem 
 ferro, igm^ quacunque vipoffent^ interrumpant : fe im- 
 *' petuin hoftium^ qtiantu7n corpora uno pofftt ohfifli^ except 
 turum. Vadit inde in primum aditum pontis : infignifq; 
 
 <i " inter 
 
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 inter confpeda cedentium pugnas terga, obverus cominus 
 ad ineundum praslium armis, ipfo miraculo audaciae ob- 
 ftupefecit hoftes : duos tamen cum eo pudor tenuit, Sp. 
 Larcium ac T.Herminium, ambos claros genere fadiifque : 
 cum his primam periculi procellam, & quod tumultuo- 
 fiffimum pugnae erat, parumper fuftinuit, deinde eos quo- 
 que ipfos €xigua parte pontis relidla, revocantibus qui 
 refcindebant, cedere in tutum coegit, Circumferens inde 
 truces minaciter oculos ad proceres Etrufcorum : nunc 
 " fingulos provocare : nunc increpare omnes : fervitia 
 regmn fuperborum^ fuee liber tatis immemores^ alie7tam op- 
 pugnatum venire. Cundati aliquamdiu funt, dum alius 
 alium, ut praslium incipiant, circumfpec^tant : pudor 
 deinde commovit aciem, & clamore fublato undiq; in 
 unum hoftem tela conjiciunt : quas quum in objedo 
 cun6ta feu to hssfiffent, neque ille minus obftinatus in- 
 genti pontem obtineret gradu : jam impetu conabantur 
 detrudere virum, quum fimul fragor rupti pontis, fimul 
 clamor Romanorum alacritate perfefti operis fublatus, 
 " pavore fubito impetum fuftinuit. Turn Codes, Tiberine 
 " pater ^ inquit, te fanBe precor^ hcsc arma &^ hum militem 
 propitio jiumine accipias : ita fic armatus in Tiberim de- 
 " filuit : multifque fuper incidentibus telis incolumis ad 
 *^ fuos tranavit, rem aufus plus famae habituram ad pofte- 
 " ros, quam fidei. Grata erga tantam virtutem civitas fuit : 
 
 L 2 ftatua 
 
84 Description of the 
 
 ftatim in comitio pofita : agri quantum uno die circum- 
 " aravit, datum, privata quoque inter publicos honores 
 " ftudia eminebant : nam in magna inopia pro domefticis 
 " copiis unufquifque ei aliquid, fraudans fe ipfe vidlu fuo, 
 
 contulit. 
 
 A Lionefs and two Lions, by Rubens, Nothing can be live- 
 lier, or in a greater Stile than the Attitude of the Lionefs. 
 Five Feet 6 Inches high, by eight Feet wide. 
 
 Architedure ; it is a kind of a Street with various Marble 
 Palaces in Perfpedive, like the Strada Nuova at Genoa ; 
 the Buildings and Bafs-reliefs are extreamly fine, the latter 
 efpecially are fo like the Hand of Polydore^ that I fhould 
 rather think that this Picture is by this Mafter, than by 
 Julio Romano^ whofe it is called. There are fome Figures, 
 but very poor ones, and undoubtedly not by the fame 
 Hand as the reft of the Pidure ; there is an Officer kneeling 
 by a Woman, who fhows the Virgin and Child in the 
 Clouds fitting under a Rainbow^ 
 
 About the Year 1525, yuUo Romano made Defigns iox Aretine\ 
 Putana Errante, which were engraved by Marc Antonio^ 
 for which the latter was put in Prifon, and Julio fled to 
 Maiztua. Two Years after Rome was fack'd by Charles V. 
 who made Public Proceffions and Prayers for the Delivery 
 of the Pope [Cle?nent VIL] whom he kept in Prifon ; 'tis 
 fuppofed the Figure kneeling in this Pidure is Charles V. 
 
 who 
 
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 who is prompted by Religion to afk Pardon of the Virgin 
 (above in the Clouds) for having fo ill treated the Pope : 
 The Figure fitting on the Steps is certainly Aretine^ and 
 the Man in Prifon in the Corner Marc Antonio. Vide Bayh 
 in Artie. Aretine, This Pidure was a Prefent to Lord 
 Orfordy from General Charles Churchill. Five Feet fix 
 Inches three quarters high, by fix Feet eleven wide. 
 
 An old Woman fitting in a Chair, a Portrait three quarters, 
 by Rubens J bought at Mr. Scawe?t\ Sale. 
 
 An old Woman reading, an extream fine Portrait, by Bolly 
 bought at the Duke of Portland' % Sale, when he went Go- 
 vernor to yamaica. 
 
 Cupid burning Armour, by Rlifabetta Siraniy Guide's Favou- 
 rite Scholar. Two Feet one Inch and half high, by two 
 Feet feven and a half wide. 
 
 The Holy Family, a Groupe of Heads, by Camillo Procaccino, 
 One Foot nine Inches high, by two Feet three and three 
 quarters wide. 
 
 An Ufurer and his Wife, by ^intin Matfis.^ the Blackfmith of 
 Antwerp : This Picture is finifhed with the greateft Labour 
 and Exadnefs imaginable, and was painted for a Family 
 in France ; it differs very little from one at TFindfor^ which 
 he did for Charles the Firft. Two Feet eight Inches and 
 half highj. by one Foot ten and three quarters wide. 
 
86 A Description of the 
 
 Friends bringing hira Prefents ; a iine Pidture, by Guido^ 
 wliich he has executed in large, and in his brighteft manner 
 m the Church of the Mendkaitts at Bologna ; this is Dark ; 
 but there is moft mafterly Skill in the Naked, and in the 
 Difpofition of the Figures. Three Feet one Inch high, by 
 two Feet four and a half wide. 
 
 Europa^ a fine Landfcape, by Paul Brill^ the Figures by 
 Dominichini. Two Feet five high, by three Feet five and 
 three quarters wide. 
 
 Africa, Its Companion. 
 
 Dives and Lazarus^ by Paul V zronefe. There are few of 
 him better than this, the Building is particularly good. 
 Two Feet leven and half high, by three Feet five wide ; 
 it belong' d to Monfieur de Morville, Secretary of State in 
 France, 
 
 The Expofition of Cyrus ^ by Cajliglione ; a very Capital 
 Picture of this Mafter, the Subjed: is taken from yujlin* 
 Lib. I. Cap. 4. " Paftori regii pecoris puerum exponendum 
 
 tradit. Ejus uxor audita regii infantis expofitione, fum- 
 " mis precibus rogat fibi afFerri oftendique puerum. Cujus 
 " precibus fatigatus paftor, reverfus in filvam, invenit juxta 
 *' infantem canem foeminam, parvulo ubera praeftantem, & 
 
 a feris alitibufque defendentem." Two Feet four Inches 
 and half high, by 3 Feet fix and a quarter wide. 
 
 Its 
 
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 Its Companion ; the Subject, which feems at firft to be the 
 Story of OrpheuSy but certainly is not, from the principal 
 Figure's being thrown into the diftant Landfcape, was 
 gueffed by Lord Orford to be taken from this Stanza of 
 the 19th Ode, Lib. IL of Horace, 
 
 Baechum in remotis carmina ruptbm 
 Vidi doce7item ; (credite pojleri) 
 Nymphafque di/centes^ &^ aures 
 
 Capripedum Satyrorum acutas. 
 
 The Adoration of the Shepherds, by old Palma, from the 
 Colledlion of Monfieur de la rilliere^ Secretary of State 
 in France, Two Feet fix Inches high^ by three Feet ten. 
 wide. 
 
 The Holy Family, by Ditto. Two Feet feven Inches and 
 half high, by four Feet five wide, from Monfieur Flinck's, 
 Collection. 
 
 A fine Moon-light Landfcape with a Cart over-turning, by 
 Rubens. Two Feet ten Inches high, by four Feet one wide. 
 (It was Lord Cadogan%.) 
 
 A Nymph and Shepherd, by Carlo Cignani. Three Feet 
 four Inches high, by four Feet one and a half wide. 
 
 TVvTO- 
 
88 A Description of the 
 
 Two Women, an Emblematical Pidure, by Paris Bourdon. 
 Three Feet fix Inches high, by four Feet two wide, from 
 Mr. Fli7tck\ Colleilion. 
 
 Abraham^ Sarah^ and Hagar^ by Pietro Cortona, The Great 
 Duke has a fmall Sketch of this, but revers'd, and with the 
 Sarah and other Figures at a Diftance, the Hagar is much 
 fairer than in this. Six Feet ten Inches high, by fix Feet 
 one wide. 
 
 Abrahams Sacrifice, by Rembrant. Abraham% Head, and 
 the naked Body of Ifaac, are very fine ; the Painter has 
 avoided much of the Horror of the Story, by mdikingAbraham 
 cover the Boy's Face, to hide the Horror from himfelf. 
 Six Feet three Inches high, by four Feet three and three 
 quarters wide. 
 
 The Old Man and his Sons with the Bundle of Sticks, by 
 Salvator Rofa in his fine Tafte. Six Feet high, by four 
 Feet two and a half wide. 
 
 The Adoration of the Shepherds, Oc^lagon, a moft perfect and 
 Capital Pidure of Guido^ not inferior to the Dodlors : The 
 Beauty of the Virgin, the Delicacy of her and the Child, 
 (which is the fame as in the Simeons Arms in the Salon) 
 the Awe of the Shepherds, and the Chiaro Ofcuro of the 
 whole Pidure, which is in the fineft Prefervation, are all 
 incomparable ; you fee tlie Shepherds ready to cry out one 
 to another, Dcus ! Dens ille^ Menalca I There is one of 
 
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 this fame Defign in the Church of the Chartreufe at 
 JVapleSy large as Life, Oblong, with many more Figures, 
 but unfinifh'd : This belong d to Monlieur de la V rillierc. 
 Three Feet three Inches and a half every way. 
 The Continence of Scipio, by Nicolo Poujfm ; painted with all 
 the Purity and Propriety of an ancient Bafs-relief. The 
 Story is told by Livy^ Lib. XXVL Cap. 50. " Captiva 
 " deinde a militibus adducitur ad eum adulta virgo, adea 
 eximia forma, ut quacunque incedebat, converteret om- 
 " nium oculos. Scipio percundatus patriam, parentefque, 
 inter castera accepit, defponfatajn earn principi Celtibero- 
 " rum adolefcenti, cut Allucio nofnen e7'at, Extemplo igitur 
 parentibus, fponfoque ab domo accitis, quum interim 
 *' audiret deperire eum fponfae amctf-e ; ubi primiuii venit, 
 " accuratiore eum fermone quam parentes alloquitur. yu- 
 " venisy inquit, juvenem appello : quo minus Jit inter nos 
 hujus fermonis verecundia. Ego^ quum fponfa tua capta 
 " a militibus nojlris ad me deduEla ejfet^ audiremque earn tibi 
 " cordi ejfe^ &^ forma faceret fidem ; quia ipfe^ Ji frui liceret 
 " ludo cetatis fpnefertim reSio legit imo amore) & non 
 " Refpublica aniinum nojlrum occupaffet^ veniam mihi dart 
 fponfam impenftus amanti vellem : tuo^ cujus pojfujn^ a77iori 
 faveo. Fult fponfa tua apud me eddem^ qua apud foceros 
 tuos pare?ttefque fuos verecundia : fervata tibi efi^ ut i?2vio- 
 latum & dignum me teque dari tibi do7ium poffet. Hanc 
 
 M " mercedem 
 
90 A Description of the 
 
 " 7ne?'cedem unam pro eo munere pacifcor^ a?nicus popula 
 " Romano fis : M Ji me virum bonum credis ejfe, quale s pa- 
 " trem-i patruumque meum jam ante h(Z gentes 7iora7it^ fcias 
 " mult OS nojlri Jimiles in civitate Romana ejfe : nec ullum 
 ■ in t err is populum hodie did pojfe^ quern minus tibi hofie^n 
 " tuifque eJfe velisy aut amicum malis. Quum adolefcens 
 " fimul pudore, gaudioque perfufus, dextram Scipionis te- 
 " nens, Deos omnes invo caret ad gratiam illi pro fe refer en- 
 " dam : quoniam Jibi nequaquam Jatis facultatis pro fua 
 " animoy at que illius erga fe merito^ Parentes inde, 
 
 " cognatique virginis appellati. Qui quoniam gratis fibi 
 " redderetur virgo ; ad quam redimendam fatis magnum 
 " attuliffent auri pondus : orare Scipionem, ut id ab fe do- 
 " nu7n acciperety cceperunt : baud minor em ejus rei apud fe 
 gratiam futuram eJfe affirmantes, quam redditce inviolata- 
 *' foret virginis. Scipio, quando tanta opere peterent^ accep- 
 turum fe poUicitus, poni ante pedes juilit : vocatoque ad 
 " fe Allucio : Super dotem^ inquit, quam accepturus a fo- 
 cero eSy haec tibi a me dot alia dona accedent^ aurumq; tol- 
 lere, ac fibi habere juffit. His lastus donis honoribufque 
 ** dimiffus domum, implevit populares laudibus 8c meritis 
 Scipionis : F eniffe Diis fmillimum juvenem, vincentem^ 
 " omnia quum armis^ turn benignitate ac benefciis.'^ 
 
 When 
 
I 
 
 Pi c T u R Es ^2-/ Houghton-Hall. 9 1 
 
 When thus the virtuous Conful had decreed, 
 
 A captive Virgin to his Tent they lead : 
 
 In her each Motion fhin'd attradive Grace, 
 
 And Beauty's faireft Features form'd her Face. 
 
 A Celtiberiait Prince her deftin'd Spoufe, 
 
 But, more than Int'reft, Love had bound their Vows, 
 
 Allucius was his Name. When Scipio heard * 
 
 How fond the Youth, how for his Bride he fear'd ; 
 
 He fummons to his Tribune all her Friends : 
 
 Allucius in that Number chief attends. 
 
 To him the Conful moft addrefs'd his Word, 
 
 To him, her anxious Lover and her Lord. 
 
 " A Youth myfelf, to thee a Youth I call. 
 
 Left diftant Awe thy freer Speech appall. 
 " When to my Tent this beauteous Maid was brought, 
 
 When of your mutual Paflion I was taught, 
 " And foon her Charms confirm'd the Story true 
 " (For Scipio% felf could idolize like you) 
 
 Durft I indulge the Character of Age, 
 " And in a youthful, lawful Love engage ; 
 " Did not the Commonwealth employ me whole, 
 ■ ' And all majeftick Rome poffefs my Soul ; , , . 
 " Oh ! I could love like thee ; like th^e cou'd pine .j, 
 " Like thee cou'd— But, AlluQiuSy^^\%^\y^^\ 
 
 M 2 " Inviolate 
 
92 A Description of the 
 
 Inviolate have I prefervM the Maid ; 
 " Not purer in her native Courts fhe ftay'd : 
 
 Pure, as becomes a Roman Chief to give ; 
 " Pure, as becomes thy Paflion to receive. 
 " The fole Return for this fair Boon I alk : 
 " To Hve a Friend to Rome be all thy Tafk : 
 
 And if in me fome Virtue you have known, 
 " As other Scipios in this Realm have fhown ; 
 " Think many fuch fpring from her glorious Womb, 
 " And learn to love the virtuous Sons of Rome. 
 This Picture belong'd to Monfieur de Morville^ and is three 
 Feet eight Inches and three quarters high, by five Feet 
 two wide. 
 
 Mofes ftriking the Rock ; by Nicolo Pouffm, There is a great 
 Fault in it ; Mofes is by no means the principal Figure,, 
 nor is he ftriking the Rock angrily, and with a great Air, 
 but feems rather fcraping out the Water : The Thirft in all 
 the Figures, the Piety in the young Man lifting his Father 
 to the Stream, and the Devotion in others, are extreamly 
 fine. It was painted for Stella^ and bought of a French 
 Nobleman, in the beginning of the laft War between France 
 and the Emperor Charles VI. who declared he fold it to. 
 pay for his Campaign Equipage. Three Feet eleven Inches, 
 and a half high, by fix Feet three and a half wide. 
 
 The 
 
I 
 
 Pictures at Houghton-Hall. 93 
 
 The placing Chrift in the Sepulchre, over the Door, by Luda^ 
 vico Caracci. Six Feet three Inches high, by five Feet one 
 wide, 
 
 Mofes in the Bulrufhes, by Le Soeur ; a Prefent to Lord Or- 
 ford from the Duke of Montague. Seven Feet one IncL 
 high, by four Feet eight and a half wide. 
 
 The Adoration of the Magi^ by Carlo Marattk He has painted 
 another of them in the Church of tlie F enettan St. Mark at 
 Rome. Six Feet eleven Inches high, by four Feet four wide. 
 
 Cows and Sheep, by T'eniers^ in his beft Manner ; one Foot 
 eleven Inches high, by two Feet nine wide. 
 
 A Landfcape with a Cafcade and Sheep ; a very fine Pidure, 
 by Gafpar PouJ/tn. It was bought at the late Earl of Hali- 
 fax's Sale. One Foot eleven Inches high, by two Feet 
 nine wide.. 
 
 The laft Supper, by Raphael. It was in the Arundel Col- 
 lection, and is printed in the Catalogue of thofe Pictures ; 
 from thence it came iato the Poflefiion of the Earl of 
 Yarmouth^ and from him to Sir John Holland^ of whom 
 Lord Or ford bought it. It is in fine Prefer vation. One 
 Foot eight Inches high, by two Feet eight and a half 
 wide. 
 
 Solomons Idolatry, by Stella.. It is painted on black and gold- 
 Marble, which is left untouch'd in many Places for the. 
 Ground. There are many Figures finely finifhed, and feveral 
 
 beautiful 
 
94 ^ Description of the 
 
 ' beautiful Airs of Women's Heads. One Foot ten Inches 
 
 " high, by two Feet five and a quarter wide. 
 
 A Sea-port ; a fine Pidlure of Claude Lorrain. There is a 
 bright Sun playing on the Water, and the whole Shine of 
 the Pi6lure is in his very beft Manner, It belonged to Mon- 
 fieur Morville. Three Feet one Inch and a quarter high, 
 by four Feet two and a half wide. 
 
 A calm Sea, ditto. A mofi: pleafing and agreeable Pidure, 
 There are two Figures on the fore Ground, Apollo and the 
 Sibyl ; fhe is taking up a handful of Sand, for every Grain 
 of which fhe was to live a Year. Apollo granted her this 
 Boon as the Price of her Perfon, which afterwards fhe re- 
 fus'd him. The Promontory is defigned for Cumce^ the 
 Refidence of the SihyL Among the Buildings are the Ruins 
 of the Cajlellum Aqu<z Martice^ with the Trophies of 
 MariuSy which are now placed in the Capitol ; the Remains 
 of the Building itfelf ftand near the Colifceum. Three 
 Feet two Inches and three quarters high, by four Feet 
 one wide. 
 
 Two Landfcapes by Gafpar Poujftn^ in his dark Manner, that 
 at the upper End of the Gallery is fine. Thefe two and 
 the latter Claude were in the Colledion of the Marquis di 
 Mari. Mr. Edwin^ of whom thefe were purchas'd, had two 
 more; the Prince of Wales bought the fine one of yonah 
 in the Storm, the only Sea-piece, I believe, of that Hand. 
 
 3 Three 
 
Pictures af Houghton-Hall. 95 
 
 Three Feet three Inches and quarter high, by four Feet five 
 
 and a quarter wide each. 
 The Joconda^ a Smith's * Wife, reckon' d the handfomeft 
 
 Woman of her Time : She was Miftrefs to Francis I. King 
 
 of France \ by Lionardo da Vinci. She would often fit. 
 
 half naked, with Mufick, for feveral Hours together, to be 
 , drawn by him. Mr. Richard/on had another of them. This 
 
 was Monfieur de Morvilles. Two Feet nine Inches high, by 
 
 two Feet and a quarter wide. 
 Apollo^ by Cantarini a Contemporary of Guido^ whofe Manner 
 
 he imitated. Two Feet feven Inches high, by two Feet 
 
 and a quarter wide. 
 The Holy Family, with Angels, by Vahrio Cajlelli^ who ftu- 
 
 died Vandyke. Two Feet five Inches high, by one Foot 
 
 eleven and half wide. ^ 
 The Eagle and Ga?tymede^ by Michael Angela Euonarotti ; a 
 
 Subjed he has often repeated, but with Alterations. The 
 
 King has one larger, and the Queen of Hungary another, 
 
 printed in Teniers^^ Gallery : There is another in the 
 
 Altieri Palace at Rome. Two Feet eleven Inches high, 
 
 by one Foot eleven wide. 
 
 ^therias 
 
 *- Mezeray calls her La Ferroniere, and fays, her Hufband being enraged at the 
 King's taking her, caught on purpofe a very violent Diftemper, which he communi- 
 cated thro' her to the King, who never recovered it. The fame Story is told of Lord 
 Soutbejk and King James II. when Duke of Tork. 
 
96 A Description of the 
 
 jEtherias Aquila puerum portante per auras ^ 
 Illafum timidis unguibus h<zfit onus. 
 
 Mart. Lib. 1. Ep. 7^ 
 
 The Virgin and Child, a moft beautiful, bright, and capital 
 Pidure, by Dominicbino, Bought out of the Zambeccarl 
 Palace at Bologna^ by Horace Walpole^ junior. Two Feet 
 four Inches high, by one Foot eleven and a half wide. 
 
 The Salutation, a fine finifhed Pidlure, by Albano. The 
 Angels are much the fame with thofe in the great Pic^lure 
 by this Mailer in the Salon. Two Feet high, by one Foot 
 £x Inches and a half wide. 
 
 A S E R M O N 
 
S E R 
 
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 P A I N T I 
 
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99 
 
 A 
 
 SERMON 
 
 O N 
 
 PAINTING. 
 
 PreacHed before the EARL of 
 
 O R F O R D, 
 
 At Houghton, 1742. 
 
 Psalm CXV. Ver. 5. 
 Tloey have Mouths^ but they /peak not : Eyes have they^ 
 but they fee not : Neither is there any Breath in 
 their Nojlrils, 
 
 THESE Words, with which the Royal Prophet 
 lafhes the InfenfibiHty of the Gods of Paganifm> 
 are fo defcriptive of modern Idolatry, that tho' fo 
 frequently applied, they ftill retain all the Force of 
 
 N 2 their 
 
loo A Sermon on Painting. 
 
 their firft Severity. I do not delign to run into the 
 Parallel of ancient and modern Superftition, but fhall 
 only obferve with Concern, that the fame Arguments 
 which at laft exploded and defeated the Heathenifm 
 of the Gentiles, have not yet been able to conquer 
 the more obflinatc Idolatry of Chriftians. The blind, 
 the mif-led Pagans^ bow'd and ador*d the firft Ray of 
 Truth that broke in upon them : but We have Eyes, 
 and will not fee 1 
 
 I muft remark to you, that the Words in the Text, 
 tho' fpoken of Images, which were more particularly 
 the Gods of the Ancients, are equally referable t© the 
 Pidures of the Rotnijh Church, and to them I fhall 
 chiefly confine this Difcourfe* 
 
 Indeed, fb grofs is the Error of adoring the Works 
 of the Creature, that the Folly feems almoft greater 
 than the Sin ; feems rather to demand Pity, than pro- 
 voke Indignation \ They would worfhip ! they bow 
 
 to a Shadow ! They would adore the incompre- 
 
 henfible God ! but they revere the faint Produce of 
 their own Idea ! Inftead of him who is the Eye of the 
 univerfal World ; who fpeaks through all Nature, 
 who breathes Life into every Being ; inflead of him, 
 
 they 
 
A Sermon on Painting, ioi 
 
 they adore Shadows, that have Eyes, but fee not ; 
 Mouths, but fpeak not ; neither is there any Breath 
 in their Noftrils. Thefe are thy Gods, O Rome 1 
 
 It has been obferved, that the Evil Principle has 
 with the moft refined Policy always chofe to fpread 
 his Law under the Covert of the tru e one ; and has 
 never more fuccefsfully propagated Sin, than when 
 introduced under the Veil of Piety. In the prefent 
 Cafe, has he not deluded Men into Idolatry by pafT- 
 ing it on the World for Religion ? He preached up 
 Adoration of the Godhead, but taught them to wor- 
 fhip the Copy for the Original,, Nay, what might 
 have tended to heighten their Devotion, he perverted 
 to the Means of their Deftrudion. Painting, in it- 
 felf, is innocent ; No Art, no Science can be crimi- 
 nal ; 'tis the Mifapplication that muft conftitute the 
 Sin. Can it be wrong, to imitate or work after the 
 Works of the Divinity, as far as Man can. copy the 
 Touches of the great Artificer ? 'Tis when with im- 
 pious Eyes we look on the Human Performance as 
 Divine ; when we call our own trifling Imitations of 
 the Deity, inimitable Gods : 'Tis then we fin : This 
 is Vanity! this is Idolatry I Would we with other Eyes 
 regard thefe Efforts of Art ; how conducive to Reli- 
 gion !. 
 
I02 A Sermon on Painting. 
 
 gion ! What Subjeds for devout Meditation ! How 
 great that Being, that could give to his Produdions 
 the Power even to work after his Almighty Hand, to 
 draw after his Heavenly Defigns ! Could we fo in- 
 form our Labours, our Creations ; then were Idola- 
 try more excufable ; then might the Veflel fay to the 
 Potter, How haft thou made me thus f 
 
 And here I can but refled on that infinite Good- 
 nefs, whofe Thought for our Amufement and Em- 
 ployment is fcarce lefs admirable than his Care for our 
 Being and Prefervation, Not to mention the various 
 Arts which he has planted in the Heart of Man, to 
 be elaborated by Study, and ftruck out by Applica- 
 tion ; I will only mention this one of Painting, Him- 
 felf from the Duft could call forth this glorious Scene 
 of Worlds ; this Expanfe of azure Heavens and 
 golden Suns ; thefe beautiful Landfcapes of Hill and 
 Dale, of Foreft and of Mountain, of River and of 
 Ocean ! From Nothing, he could build this goodly 
 I^Vame of Man, and animate his univerfal Pidure with 
 images of himfelf. To Us, not endowed with Om- 
 nipotence, nor Mailers of Creation, he has taught 
 with formlefs MafTes of Colours and Diverfifications 
 of Light and Shade, to call forth little Worlds from 
 the blank Canvafs, and to people our mimic Land- 
 fcapes 
 
Sermon on Painting. 103 
 
 fcapes with almofh living Inhabitants ; Figures, who 
 tho' they fee not, yet have Eyes ; and have Mouths 
 that fcarce want Speech. Indeed fo great is the Per- 
 fection to which he hath permitted us to arrive, that , 
 one is lefs amazed at the poor Vulgar, who adore 
 what feems to furpafs the Genius of human Nature ; 
 and almofl: excufe the Credulity of the Populace, who 
 fee Miracles made obvious to their Senfes by the Hand 
 of a Raphael or a Guido, Can we wonder at a poor 
 illiterate Creature's giving Faith to any Legend in the 
 Life of the RomiJJj Virgin, who fees even the Dodors 
 of the + Church dilputing with fuch Energy on tti^^u^f bj^cj/- 
 marvellous Circumftances afcribed to her by the Ca-caiiSy^^^ 
 tholicks ? He muft be endowed with a Courage, a 
 Strength of Reafoning above the common Standard, 
 who can reje<ft Fables, when the Sword enforces, and 
 the Pencil almoft authenticates the Belief of them^ 
 Not only Birds have peckt at painted Fruit, nor 
 Horfes neigh'd at the colour'd Female Apelles him- 
 felf, the Prince of the Art, was deceived by one of its 
 
 Performances. No wonder then the Ignorant fhould 
 
 adore, when even the Matter himfelf could be cheated 
 by a Refemblance. 
 
 When 
 
104 A Sermon on Painting. 
 
 When I thus foften the Crime of the Deceived, I 
 would be underftood to double the Charge on the 
 real Criminal ; on thofe Minifters of Idolatry, who 
 calling themfelves Servants of the living God, tranf- 
 fer his Service to inanimate Images. Inftead of point- 
 ing out his Attributes in thofe Objedls, that might 
 make Religion more familiar to the common Concep- 
 tions ; they enfhrine the frail Works of Mortality, and 
 bum Incenfe to Canvafs and Oil ! 
 
 Where is the good Prieft ? where the true charita- 
 ble Levite, to point out the Creator in the Works of 
 the Creature ? To aid the Doubting ; to ftrengthen 
 the Weak, to imprint the eternal Idea on the frail 
 Underftanding ? I.et him lead the poor unpradifed 
 Soul through the Paths of Religion, and by familiar 
 Images mould his dut^lile Imagination to a Know- 
 ledge of his Maker. Then were Painting united with 
 Devotion, and ranfom'd from Idolatry ; and the 
 blended Labours of the Preacher and the Painter 
 might tend to the Glory of God : Then were each" 
 Pidure a Sermon ; each Pencil the Pen of a heavenly 
 Writer. 
 
 Let 
 
u4 Sermon on Painting. 105 
 
 Let him fay, Thus humble, thus refign'd ioO'-^ ^^^ fu^eby^J/ir^r^ 
 the Son of God, when he deign'd to receive Baptifm 
 from the Hand of Man • while miniftring Angels 
 with holy Awe beheld the wondrous Office. 
 
 Thus chaftly beauteous, in fuch meek Majefty ^^^^'J^J^^^^;^ 
 fhone the Mother of God ! Thus highly-favour'd^lTi^Ke 
 among Women was the Handmaid of the Lord ! Here Roomf and " 
 behold the heavenly Love of the Holy Family ! the lies J 
 tender Care, the innocent Smiles, the devout Con- 
 templation ! Behold infpired Shepherds bowing be- p/j^^'-^fShe 
 fore the heavenly Babe, and the holy Mother herfelfcS^^irthc 
 adoring the Fruit of her Womb 1 Whilft good Simeon A Simeoji and 
 
 (. . the Child, by 
 
 in Raptures of Devotion pronounces the Bleflings of '^'^ 
 that miraculous Birth ! 
 
 Then let him turn his Eyes to fadder Scenes I to See the Pk- 
 
 J ture of Chrift 
 
 Affliaion I to Death I Let him behold what his God',"''^ /" 
 
 Sepulchre, by 
 
 endured for his Sake I Behold the pale, the wounded f^J cS.'" 
 Body of his Saviour ; wafted with Fafting ! livid 
 from the Crofs ! See the fuffering Parent fwooning ! 
 and all the Paffions exprefs'd, which fhe muft have 
 felt at that melancholy Inftant ! Each Touch of the 
 Pencil is a LefTon of Contrition ; each Figure an 
 Apoftle to call you to Repentance. 
 
 O This 
 
io6 A Sermon on Painting. 
 
 This leads me to confider the Advantages of 
 Painting over a Sifter Art, which has rather been 
 allotted the Preference, I mean Poetry. The Power 
 of Words, the Harmony of Numbers, the Expreflion 
 of Thoughts, have raifed Poetry to a higher Station, 
 than the mute Pidure can feem to afpire to. But yet 
 the Poem is almoft confined to the Nation where it 
 was wrote : However ftrong its Images, or bold its 
 Invention, they lofe their Force when they pafs their 
 own Confines \ or not underftood, they are of no Va- 
 lue ; or if tranflated, grow flat and untafted. But 
 Painting is a Language every Eye can read : The 
 pictured Paflions Ipeak the Tongue of every Country. 
 
 The Continence of Scipio fhines with all its Luftre, 
 Sec the Pic when told by the Hand of a Poufftn : while all the 
 
 tare on this • m ^ 
 
 I'^^j^^^^'^ '^^Imagination of the Poet, or Eloquence of the Hifto- 
 rian, can caft no Beauty on the virtuous Ad:, in the 
 Eye of an illiterate Reader. 
 
 When fuch Benefits flow from this glorious Art, 
 how impious is it to corrupt its Ufes, and to employ 
 the nob I eft Science to the mercenary Purpofes of 
 Prieftly Ambition ! to lend all the Brightnefs with 
 which the Mafter's Hand could adorn Virtue, to deck 
 
 the 
 
A Sermon on Painting. 107 
 
 the perfecuting, the barbarous, the wicked Head of a 
 fainted Inquifitor, a gloomy Vifionary, or an imagi- 
 nary Hermit ! Yet fuch are deified, fuch are fhrouded 
 in Clouds of Glory, and expofed for Adoration, with 
 all the Force of Study and Colours ! How often has a 
 confecrated Glutton, or noted Concubine, been dreft 
 in all the Attributes of Divinity, as the Lewdnefs 
 or Impiety of the Painter or Pontiff has influenced 
 
 the Picture ! the Pontiffs ! thofe Gods on Earth ! 
 
 thofe Vicegerents of Heaven ! whofe Riches, whofe 
 Vices, nay, whofe Infirmities and near Approach to 
 the Grave has perhaps raifed them to the Seat of In-^^^^.^^^^^ p^J^ 
 fallibility ; foon proved how frail, how mortal, whenZ'^Cc^rh 
 the only Immortality they can hope, is from ^q^^'"''"^^'^^'^' 
 mafterly Pencil of fome ineflimable Painter ! 
 
 This is indeed not one of the leaft Merits of this, 
 
 I may fay, heavenly Art its Power to preferve the 
 
 Form of a departed Friend, or dear Relation dead ! 
 To fhow how feverely juft look'd the good Legiflator ! 
 how awfully ferene the humane, the true Patriot ! It 
 fhows us with what Fire, what Love of Mankind, ^ ^ „ 
 
 ' ' See the For- 
 
 WILLIAM flew to fave Religion and Liberty l;^;;^.;^^;;^ 
 It expreffes how honefl:, how benign the Line ofc^t^^L by 
 HANOVER! It helps our Gratitude to confe- Kacller in tilC 
 
 Parlour. 
 
 O 2 crate 
 
io8 yl Sermon on Painting. 
 
 crate their Memory ; and fhould aid our Devotion to 
 praife the Almighty Goodnefs, who by thofe his In- 
 ftruments has preferved his People Ifrael ! 
 
 When we can draw fuch Advantages from the Pro- 
 diidions of this Art, and can colled fuch Subjed:s 
 for Meditation from the Furniture of Palaces, need 
 we fly to Deferts for Contemplation, or to Forefts to 
 avoid Sin ? Here are ftronger Ledures of Piety, more 
 See the Judg- Admonitions to Repentance. Nor is he virtuous who 
 
 ment of Paris ^ . , • ^ n 
 
 by c«r^ M«- ihuns the Danger, but who conquers in the Conteft. 
 
 ratt and by o ' j. 
 
 Lucajordano thc truc Philofophcr, who can turn from three 
 
 in the yellow a ' 
 
 Drawing- ^j^^ brighteft Forms that Paganifm or Painting could 
 See the Pic- ^^^^^ibc to ideal Goddefles ; and can prefer the peni- 
 I'tThe'iSfc tent, the contrite Soul of the' Magdalene^ whofe 
 Pharffee^y big-fwoln Eyc and diflievel'd Hair fpeak the Anguifli 
 
 Ruhens, in the 
 
 Salon. of her Confcience ; her coftly Offering, and humble- 
 Embraces of her Saviour's Feet, the Fervency of her 
 Love and Devotion ; who can fee this without Re- 
 pentance ? who view the haughty worldly Pharifee, 
 without Abhorrence and Indignation ? 
 
 Sights like thefe, mufl: move, where the Preacher 
 fails ; for each PiAure is but Scripture realized ; 
 and each Piece a Comment on the Hiftory ; they 
 
 3 are 
 
A Sermon on Painting. 109 
 
 are Explications of Parables, that feeing ye may 
 fee and underfiand. The Painter but executes Pic- 
 tures, which the Saviour himfelf defigned. He drew 
 in all the Colours of Divine Oratory, the rich, the 
 pamper'd Nobleman, fwelling in Purple and fine 
 Linen, and fumptuoufly banquetting his riotous Com- 
 
 TTJ ' n •> A T r \ ' SeethePic- 
 
 panions : lie drew poor anguiln d l^azarus^ lighmg cure of Di<ve! 
 without the proud Portal for the very Crumbs that by Paul Vero^ 
 
 tiefe, in the 
 
 fell from the Rich Man's Table, while the Dogs g^ii^"*/- 
 came and lick'd his Sores ! Who can hear this De- 
 fcription without Sentiments of Compaffion, or Emo- 
 tions of Anger ? Who can fee it reprelented, with- 
 out blaming the one, or fhedding a charitable Tear 
 
 for the other ? Who can, is as the Idol that 
 
 has a Mouth but /peaks not^ and Eyes that cannot 
 fee. 
 
 Again, behold the Divine Mafter fketching out nev^ 
 Groupes of Figures, which every Day compofe Pic- 
 tures of Sin, of Folly and Repentance ! Hear him 
 paint the luxurious Prodigal, given up to Riot and 
 
 *■ D D r turc on this 
 
 Debauchery ; hear him draw the confequential Ills, f ^^yf 
 the Miferies, the Want, that tread hard upon 
 Profufion and Excefs. See that Prodigal, half naked, 
 haif in Rags, uncouth and foul, kneeling among 
 
 Swine^, 
 
1 10 A Sermon 6?;^ Painting. 
 
 Swine, and curfing the Vices that drew on him fuch 
 
 Extremity of Diftrefs With him let us arife and 
 
 fay, / will go to my Father^ and fay unto him. Father ^ 
 I have finned againfi Heaven and thee^ and am no 
 more worthy to be called thy Son I That Father will 
 hear, will not turn from the Cry of the Penitent : 
 He is not like thofe Idols, that have Ears and hear 
 
 not. Will the Rojmflj Saints do thus ? Can their 
 
 hallowed Madonna s thus incline to their Supplica- 
 tions ? Can thofe gaudy Miflionaries, whofe confe- 
 crated Portraits elbow the Altars of the living GOD, 
 can they caft their unfeeing Eyes on their proftrate 
 Votaries ? Can their fpeechlefs Mouths fay, / will^ 
 
 he thou clean f Alas ! thofe Saints which thofe 
 
 worfliip'd Pidures reprefent, may themfelves want 
 the very Pardon, which their deluded Adorers fo ido- 
 latroufly demand of them. Thus, be it as we affirm, 
 that they worOiip them and their Images ; or as they 
 pretend, that they only pray to them to pray to GOD. 
 How lamentable is their Option ! Either to adore 
 Idols inftead of the Divinity ; or to beg their Inter- 
 ceflion, v/ho themfelves want all the Interceffion of 
 the Son of GOD. 
 
 One 
 
A Sermon on Painting. hi 
 
 One really knows not how to account for the Pre- 
 valence of this Sin. Men fly from GOD into all the 
 various Crimes which human Nature is capable of 
 committing ; and when Apprehenfions of Futurity* 
 or Decay of Appetite overtake them, inftead of 
 throwing themfelves into the Arms of eternal Mercy 
 or infinite Goodnefs, they barter for Pardon with 
 impotent Images, or perifhed Mortals, who died with 
 the Repute of a few lefs Sins than the reft of Man- 
 kind ! But could thefe fuppofititious Deities at- 
 tend to their Prayers : Why fhould Canvafs or 
 
 Stone, why Men, who when living were fubjed: to all 
 the Obduracy, ill Nature, and PafTions of Humanity, 
 why be fuppofed more capable of Pity, more fen- 
 fible of our Sorrows, than that Fountain of Tenderr 
 nefs and Compaftion, who facrificed his Beft beloved 
 for the fake of Mankind ? Or why prefer the Purchafe 
 of Pardon from interefted mercenary Saints, to the 
 free Forgivenefs of him, who delighteth not in Burnt- 
 Offerings ? who hath no Pleafure in the Death of a 
 Sinner, but rather that he fhould turn from his 
 Wickednefs and live ? 
 
 Yet 
 
112 ^ Sermon Painting; 
 
 Yet ftill this Prodigality of Devotion is the favou- 
 rite, the fafhionable Religion ! This builds thofe 
 Hofpitals for droning Monks ; this raifes thofe fump- 
 tuous Temples, and decks their gorgeous Altars. 
 turVof thi^ Mifers, who count Farthings with fuch Labour and 
 ^ITmI^s, Exadnefs, with fuch careful Minutenefs, who would 
 lery. dcuy a Mite to the Fatherlefs and Widow ; here 
 fquander their precious Treafures and darling Ex- 
 , actions. View but the Tabernacle of a Saint in 
 Vogue ! How Offerings pour in ! What Riches are 
 fhower'd upon their Altars ! Not happy y<?^, when 
 See the Pic- relicv'd from his Misfortunes, and replaced on the 
 
 ture on this A 
 
 l^tinL Seat of Felicity, faw fuch Treafures, fuch Oblations 
 Gallery. Jjgap'd ou him by the Bounty and Munificence of his 
 returning Friends. 
 
 How great is one's Surprize, on coming to enquire 
 into the Merits that are the Foundation of this uni« 
 verfal Efteem ! Perhaps a churlifh Reclufenefs ; a 
 bold Oppofition of lawful Magiftrates ; a dogmatical 
 Defence of Church-Prerogatives ; a felf-tormenting 
 Spirit ; or worfe, a Spirit that has tormented others, 
 under Colour of eradicating Herefies, or propagating 
 the Faitli, is the only Certificate they can fhow for 
 
 their 
 
I 
 
 I 
 
 Sermon 6?;^ Painting. 113 
 
 their Titles to Beatitude. No Love of Society ; no 
 Publick Spirit ; no Heroick Adions, are in the Ca- 
 talogue of their Virtues. A morofe Carthufian^ or 
 bloody Dominican^ are invefted with Robes of Glory, 
 by Authority of Councils and Confiftories ; while a 
 Cur tins or a Codes are left to the Chance of Fame,p[;J,fre!,oT 
 which a private Pencil can beftow on them, b/ Wlola, in 
 
 the Gallery, 
 
 But it is not necefTary to dive into profane Fliftory 
 for Examples of unregarded Merit : The Scriptures 
 themfelves contain Inftances of the greatefh Patriots, 
 who lie neglected, while new-fa(hion'd Bigots or noify 
 Incendiaries are the reigning Objedls of publick Vene- 
 ration. See the Great Mofes himfelf ! the Lawgiver, 
 the Defender, the Preferver of Ifrael ! peevilli Orators ^ 
 
 r 1 r 1 /• • 1 through this 
 
 are more run arter, and artrul jejuits more popular, whok cha- 
 
 . rafter. 
 
 Examme but the Lire or that flighted Patriot : how 
 boldly in his Youth he undertook the Caufe of Liberty \ 
 Unknown, withcait Intereft, he flood againft the 
 Face of Pharaoh ! he faved his Countrymen from 
 the Hand of Tyranny, and from the Dominion of an 
 idolatrous King : How patiently did he bear for a 
 Series of Years the Clamours and Cabals of a fadious 
 People, wandering after flrange Lufts, and exafperated 
 by ambitious Ringleaders ! How oft did he intercede 
 
 P for 
 
 The Allunon 
 to Lord Or- 
 for,rs Life is 
 carried on 
 
Ii4 ^ Sermon 6>>^ Painting. 
 
 for their Pardon, when injured himfelf ! How ten- 
 derly deny them fpecious Favours, which he knew 
 muft turn to their own Deftrudlion ! See him lead 
 them through Oppofition, through Plots, thro' Ene- 
 mies, to the Enjoyment of Peace, and to the PofTefTion 
 of a La?2d flowing with Milk and Honey ! Or with 
 Alludes to the more Surprize fee him in the barren Defert, where 
 
 Waters made rill 
 
 zt Houghton, Sands and Wilds overfpread the dreary Scene, where 
 
 and to the ' 
 
 S^^ftHking Hopes of Moifture, no Profped of undifcover'd 
 ?i|°,t'theSprings could flatter their parching Thirft ; fee how 
 Gallery. ^j^j^ ^ miraculous Hand 
 
 A Line of J^e flvuck the Rocky a7td flrait the TV aters flowd. 
 
 Whoever denies his Praife to fuch Evidence of 
 Merit, or with jealous Look can fcowl on fuch Bene- 
 fits, is like the fenfelefs Idol, that has a Mouth that 
 /peaks noty and Eyes that cannot fee* 
 
 Now to GOD the Father, &c. 
 
 A JOURNEY 
 
A 
 
 JOURNEY 
 
 T O 
 
 HOUQHTON, 
 
 The Seat of the Right Honourable 
 
 Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, 
 
 In the County of Norfolk. 
 
 A P O E M. 
 
 By the Reverend Mr. W H A L E Y, 
 
A 
 
 JOURNEY 
 
 T O 
 
 HOUGHTON. 
 A POEM. 
 
 SWEET Nymphs, that dwell on Pindus" verdant fide. 
 And o er the Woods, without a Blufli, prefide, 
 Celeftlal Mufes, deign your Bard a Lay, 
 As on the winding Banks of Tan I ftray. 
 
 Yet 
 
1 1 8 A Journey to Houghton : 
 
 Yet if the Nymphs from Pindus fcorn to bow. 
 Nor deign to liften to a Voice fo low ; 
 Their Pride I will repay, and in defpite. 
 While fuch my Theme, of all the Mufes write. 
 
 Recall we then, for fl:ill 'twill pleafe, to mind 
 The Morn we left dull Norwich Smoke behind. 
 When, as the lofty Spire juft funk from View, 
 To a fair verdant watered Vale we drew 5 
 Where 'midft fair Liberty's all-joyous Plains 
 PopVy ftill feems to hug her galling Chains. 
 The Dragon in Hefperian Gardens old 
 Thus flumb'ring lay, and tailed not the Gold j 
 Thus, 'midft th' eternal Spring yudaa keeps. 
 The lazy Poifon of Afphaltus fleeps. 
 
 Bend then, my Mufe, thy Flight to WeJlon\ Plains^ 
 (No Verfe can flow where Papal Slav'ry reigns) 
 
 JVejlon! 
 
A POEM. 119 
 
 Wejlon ! whofe Groves not envy Pindus" Shade^ 
 Nor bleft with Ridley^ want Apollo % Aid. 
 Here Virtue reigns, and o'er the fruitful Land 
 Reli gion walksj with Freedom Hand in Hand ^ 
 His little Flock the pious Prieft informs. 
 And ev'ry Breaft with Heav'n-born Doctrine warms, 
 Soft flows his Stream of Eloquence along. 
 And Truths Divine come mended from his Tonrae. 
 Here the known Bounty of the Place we bleft, 
 And to our Number join'd the chearful Prieft. 
 Thro' ancient ^ Elmham next our Way we take. 
 And gravely nodding, wife Refleftions make y 
 How ftrongeft Things deftrudlive Time o'erturns. 
 And the wafte Town its ravifli'd Mitre mourns ^ 
 Mitre ! repeats the Prieft with fimp'ring Leer, 
 'Twill fit at Norwich full as well as here. 
 
 But 
 
 f Elmham, now a fmall Village, formerly the Bilhop's See, which is now at Norivich. 
 
I20 j1 Journey to Houghton : 
 
 But now, my Mufe, in Blulhes hide thy Face, 
 Nor deign the next vile Town in Verfe a Place ; 
 Unlefs thou canft indite in Blackmore\ Strain, 
 And fay, we call'd full hungry at the Swan^ 
 But found not Hay for Horfe^ nor Meat for Man, 
 Dire Hunger ! that with meagre Vifage ftalks. 
 And never fails to crofs the Poet's Walks, 
 But three fhort Miles foon brought us bounteous Aid, 
 And Mileham^s Fulnefs Brifley'^s Want o'er paid. 
 See ! the gay Unicorn the Wood adorn, 
 Fair fign of Plenty with his Iv'ry Horn ! 
 Here Ceres fpread her Fruits with lavifli Hand, 
 And Bacchus laughing waited our Command. 
 
 Hence pleas'd and fatisfy'd we take our Roadj 
 And fometimes laugh and talk, but oftner nod. 
 Yet this foft Indolence not long we kept. 
 But wak'd to fee where others fafter flept j 
 
A POEM. 121 
 
 ^ Where Coke\ Remains beneath the Marble rot, 
 His Cafes and Diftin£lIons all forgot , 
 His Body honoured and to Fame confign'd. 
 For Virtues flowing from th' immortal Mind. 
 What would avail this fumptuous Mafs of Stone, 
 Were he not from his Works for ever known ? 
 Let the Survivors of fuch great Men's Dufl, 
 Ne'er think to add to Virtue by a Buft j 
 If falfe, Pofterity will find the Lie ; 
 If true, without it, it will never die ; 
 But thro' fucceeding Ages fliine the fame. 
 Or from fome Leic'fler catch a brighter Flame. 
 
 But 
 
 Tittlejhali^ a Village, in the Church of which is the Burial-Place of the 
 noble Family of Coke^ and a very fine Marble Monument of the Right Honour- 
 able Sir Edward Cokey Lord Chief Juftice of the King's Bench in the Reign of 
 King James I, and Anceftor to the prefent Right Honourable Thomas Earl 
 of Leicejier. 
 
122 A Journey to Houghton : 
 
 But farewel Death and Tombs, and mouldVingUrns^ 
 Our Eye with Joy on neighb'ring ^ Rainham turns ; 
 Where Pleafures undecaying feem to dwell, 
 Such as the Happy in Klyfium feel. 
 Where Heroes, Statefmen, and the virtuous Croud, 
 Receive the great Reward of being Good. 
 Such Pleafures ev'n on Earth had Heav'n ordain'd. 
 For him who once our tott'ring State fuftain'd ; 
 Who join'd the glorious Freedom-loving Crew, 
 Fixt to great Cafar what was defars Due, 
 And then^ Didiator-like, to Fields withdrew. 
 Fair ran the Current of his Age, ferene 
 As the pure Lake that bounds the various Scene. 
 Here whate'er Nature beauteous boafts we find, 
 Charming when fep'rate, but more charming join'd, 
 
 3 Pleafures, 
 
 * Raynham, the Seat of the Right Honourable Charles Vifcount Townpend. 
 
A P O E M. 123 
 
 Pleafures, tho' changy, we meet where'er we rove, 
 On Hill, in Dale, on Plain, in (hady Grove j 
 Here fwell the Hillocks crown^ with golden Grain, 
 There, at their Feet, fair flows the liquid Plain, 
 O'er thofe the Larks extend their labour'd Note, 
 On this the Swans in Inowy Grandeur float. 
 
 To Houghton then we take our pleafing Way, 
 Thrice happy Bound 'ry of a well-fpent Day ; 
 Here chearful Plenty met the wearied Guefl, 
 And fplendid Welcome doubly crown 'd our Reft. 
 
 Thou then, Apollo^ aid the Poet's Lay, 
 Thy Beams gave Lufl:re to the following Day ; 
 When in one Houfe more Beauties join'd we found. 
 Than e'er thou feefl: in all thy glorious Round ; 
 Where Walpole plac'd with curious happy Cofl:, 
 Whate'er Magnificence or Tafl:e can boafl: ; 
 
 0^2 Where, 
 
1 24 ^ Journey to Houghton : 
 
 Where, in what Building nobleft has, we find 
 Preferv'd, what Painting livelieft e'er defign'd. 
 See ! Sculpture too her Beauties here difclofe,^ 
 Such as old Phidias taught, and Ryjbrack knows. 
 ^ Laocoon here in Pain ftill feems to breath, 
 While round his Limbs the pois'nous Serpents wreath. 
 Life ftruggling feems thro' ev'ry Limb to pafs, 
 And dying Torments animate the Brafs. 
 
 The Pencil's Pow'r the proud Salon difplays. 
 And ftruck with Wonder on the Paint we gaze. 
 
 See ! the proud ^ Rabbins at the fumptuous Board, 
 Frown on the Wretch who kneels before her Lord, 
 
 And 
 
 The Statue of Laocoon in Bronze by Girardoriy from the Antique. 
 
 • The Pidture of Mary Magdalene wafhing Chriji'% Feet, by Sir Peter Paul 
 Rubens^ hom iLt Antwerp 1577, and died 1640. 
 
A . P O E M. 125 
 
 And the rich Unguent, in Devotion meet. 
 
 Pours, mixt with Tears, on her Redeemer's Feet. 
 
 In vain with Hypocritic Rage they glow, 
 
 While Mercy fmooths the Heavenly Stranger's Brow, 
 
 He the true Penitent with Eafe defcries,^ 
 
 Sees the Heart fpeaking in the melting Eyes, 
 
 Bids evVy Tear with full EfFefl: to ftream. 
 
 And from his Vengeance all her Sins redeem. 
 
 On the next ^ Cloth behold Vandyke difplay 
 Celeftial Innocence, immortal Day, 
 His Pencil here no more with Nature vies. 
 Above her plaftic PowV his Genius flies \ 
 Soars on Promethean Wing aloft, and there 
 Steals Forms which Heav'n-born Cherubs only wear 5 
 
 Pours 
 
 * The Holy Family with a Dance of Angels, by Sir Anthony Vandyke^ a 
 Scholar of Rubens^ hoxvL^ii Antwerp 1599, and died 1641, 
 
126 yl Journey to Houghton : 
 
 Pours Airs divine into the human Frame, 
 Darts thro' his Children's Eyes Seraphic Flame, 
 While o'er the facred Forms fuch Beauties reign. 
 As not belie the Sainthood they contain. 
 
 Behold ! where ^ Stephen fainting yields his Breath, 
 By great Le Sueur again condemn'd to Death ; 
 With ftrange Surprize we view the horrid Deed, 
 And then to Pity melted turn the Head, 
 Left, as Spectators of the Martyr's Fall, 
 We innocently fhare the Crime of SauL 
 Here too ^ Albano\ Pencil charms the Eye 5 
 Morellio here unfolds the azure Sky, 
 
 Sweet 
 
 « The Stoning of St. ^tephen^ by Euftache Le Sueur ^ born at Paris 1617, 
 and died 1655. 
 
 ^ yeJjn baptizing Chriji^ by Francis Albani, who died 1662. 
 
A POEM. 127 
 
 * Sweet modeft Charms the Virgin's Cheek adorn, 
 To Heav'n, on Wings of fmiling Seraphs born. 
 
 The next gay Room is known by ^ Carious Name, 
 Fair Maufoleum of Maratti\ Fame ! 
 Such Strokes, fuch equal Charms each Picture boafts. 
 We venture not to fay which pleafes moft. 
 Thus on the Galaxy with Joy we gaze, 
 Nor know which Star emits the brighteft Rays. 
 Yet if beyond himfelf he ever flew. 
 If e'er beyond a Mortal's Touch he drew, 
 Amidft. the Glow that from that Purple breaks. 
 Look on yon ^ Pope, nor wonder if he fpeaks. 
 
 With 
 
 * An Affumption of the Virgin Mary^ by Morellia, 
 
 * The Green Velvet Drawing is called the Carlo-Marat Room, from being 
 filled with Pictures of that Mafter and his Scholars. Carlo-Maratti was born 
 at Rome 1625, was a Scholar of Andrea Sacchi^ and died 1713. 
 
 * A Portrait of Clement IX. 
 
128 yl Journey to Houghton : 
 
 With Length of Days and Fame Maratti bleft. 
 Ne'er wept departed Genius from his Breaft ; 
 
 But when juft drooping, finking to the Ground, 
 
 Spread fportive Loves, and laughing Cherubs round j 
 E'en Death approaching, fmil'd, and made a ftand, 
 And gently ftole the Pencil from his Hand. 
 Thus falls the Sun, and, as he fades away. 
 Gilds all th' Horizon with a parting Ray. 
 
 Next on the gorgeous Cabinet we gaze. 
 Which the full Elegance of Paint difplays, 
 In ftrong Expreflions of each Matter's Mind, 
 The various Beauties of this Art we find ; 
 Here vaft Invention, there the juft Defign, 
 Here the bold Stroke, and there the perfect Line, 
 
 With 
 
 Wt painted the Judgmeat of Vans in this Room, when he was 83. 
 
A P O E M. 129 
 
 With Eafe unequall'd here the Drawing Sows, 
 And there inimitable Colour glows. 
 With Summer here the Cloth Bajffam warms, 
 There locks the World in Winter's hoary Arms 5 
 On the warm View we look with pleas'd Amaze, 
 Then turn to Froft, and ftiudder as we gaze. 
 
 Mirth unreftrain'd in Rufticks humble Cells 
 On chearful Teniers* laughing Canvafs dwells^ 
 Nor ever are his warm Expreffions faint. 
 But laughing we enjoy the Comic Paint j 
 'Till Scenes more horrid break upon your Eye, 
 Effects of Borgogmne^s too cruel Joy. 
 Strong was his Fancy, and his Genius good, 
 But bred in Camps, he mixM his Tints in Blood ; 
 
 R Alternate 
 
 " The BaJfanSy Father and Son, were very eminent Landlcape- Painters, about 
 the Middle and towards the End of the fixteenth Century. 
 
130 A Journey to Houghton : 
 
 Alternate bore the Pencil and the Sword, 
 
 And the fame Hands that fought, the Fight record. 
 
 But lo ! and let the pious Tear be fhed. 
 On the fad ° Cloth the World's great Mafter dead. 
 The Mother fee ! in Grief amazing drown'd, 
 And Sorrow more than mortal fpread around. 
 What ftriking Attitudes ! what ftrong Relief ! 
 We fee, we wonder at, we feel the Grief. 
 \Vho cou'd fuch Pow'r of fpeaking Paint employ ? 
 Own, Parmay own thy darling Son with Joy ; 
 Still to his Memory frefh Trophies rear, 
 Whofe Life infatiate ^ War itfelf cou'd fpare. 
 
 No 
 
 • Chri/i laid in the Sepulchre, by Parmegiam. 
 
 p Francis Mazzuoli, commonly called Parmegiam^ was born 1504,. and 
 died 1 540. There is a Story of this IVlafter at the taking of Parma^ like that 
 of Archimedes^ and alfo like that of Protogenes^ at the taking of Rhodes^ wiiile. 
 he was painting his famous lalyfus,. 
 
I 
 
 A POEM. 131 
 
 No Arms he needed 'midft the fatal Strife, 
 But to his potent Pencil ovv'd his Life, 
 The wond'ring Soldier dropp'd the lifted Sword, 
 Nor ftain'd thofe Hands he only not ador'd. 
 Now as j^neas in the Stygian Glades 
 Wond'ring beheld departed Heroes Shades, 
 Amidft the Forms of Worthies dead we range. 
 By eternizing Paint preferv'd from Change. 
 Here Law and Learning dwell in Wandesford\ Face, 
 While valiant Whartons ftiine with martial Grace ^ 
 And the foft Females of the Race declare, 
 That thefe no braver were, than thofe were fair ; 
 
 R 2 In 
 
 " In the Yellow Drawing are Portraits by Vandyke^ of Lord Chief Baron 
 Wandesfordy Lord and Lady Wharton, their Daughters, Archbifhop Laud, 
 King Charles \. and his Queen. The Portrait of the Earl of Danbyy now 
 hangs in the Great Parlour. 
 
132 A Journey to Houghton : 
 
 In garter'd Glory dreft here Danby ftands j 
 And Laud with Air imperious ftill commands. 
 
 The next great ' Form with melancholy Eye, 
 And inaufpicious Valour feems to figh. 
 Peace to his Soul ! howe'er 'gainft Right he fought^ 
 Be in his dreadful Doom his Sin forgot j 
 Too much mifled to leave his Honour clear. 
 Too wretched not to claim a genVous Tear ! 
 A Wretch to Virtue's ftill a facred thing ; 
 How much more facred then, a murder'd King ! 
 But be our Wrath, as it deferves, apply 'd 
 To his Two Guides, ftill clofeft to his Side, 
 Laud and the Queen, whofe fatal Condufl: ftiow. 
 What bigot Zeal, and headftrong Pride cou'd do. 
 
 3 But 
 
 ' King Charles the Firfl. 
 
A POEM. 133 
 
 But fee where ' Knelkr now our Eye commands 
 To pi£lur'd Kings, familiar to his Hands ; 
 Kings, to fupport a free-born People made, 
 Kings, that but rul'd to blefs the Lands they fway'd ; 
 Sov'reigns, whofe inoppreffive Pow'r has ftiown 
 Freedom and Monarchy, well-join 'd, are One. 
 
 See mighty * William*^ fierce determin'd Eye, 
 Freedom to fave, or in her Caufe to die ; 
 As when on Boyne\ important Banks he ftood. 
 And, as his Deeds furpriz^ the fwelling Flood, 
 All torn and mangled falfe Religion fled. 
 And crufh'd Oppreflion fnarl'd beneath his Tread. 
 
 Next, 
 
 • Sir Godfrey Knelkr. 
 
 ' K. William III. on Horfeback. 
 
134 ^ Journey to Houghton : 
 
 Next, in the fteady Lines of " Brunfwick's Face, 
 Majeftick manly Honefty we trace ^ 
 Pleased, as on Sarum\ Plain with glad Accord, 
 When willing Thoufands hail'd their new-come Lord, 
 And (far beyond a Tyrant's baleful Glee) 
 The King rejoic'^d to find his People free. 
 Good Prince, whofe Age forfook thy native Land 
 To blefs our Albion with thy mild Command, 
 Long may this facred Form of Thee remain. 
 Here placM by him whofe Counfels blefs'd thy Reign, 
 And ever may his Sons with Joy relate. 
 That He as Faithful was as Thou wert Great. 
 
 But now, my Mufe, to fob'rer Pomp defcend. 
 And to the cool Arcade my Steps attend. 
 
 Here, 
 
 " K. George I. on Horfeback. 
 
A POEM. 135 
 
 Here, when the Summer Sun fpreads round his Ray, 
 Beneath the bending Arch young Xephyrs play. 
 And, when it farther from our Orb retires. 
 Old Vulcan fmiling lights his chearful Fires. 
 Hither the jolly Hunter's Crew refort. 
 Talk o'er the Day, and re-enjoy their Sport ; 
 Here too, with Brow unbent, and chearful Air, 
 The mighty Statefman oft forgot his Care ; 
 Knew Friendfhip's Joys, and ftill attentive hung 
 On Pelham^ Edgcumbe^ Devonjhire^ or Tonge^ 
 In Senates form'd or private Life to pleafe, 
 There ftiar'd his Toil, and here partook his Eafe. 
 
 Here be thy Stay, my Mufe, tho' pleas'd, not long, 
 Thy Sifter Painting claims again my Song, 
 Where throned in State the Goddefs we defcry 
 As the gay Gallry opens on our Eye, 
 
 Fie re 
 
136 A Journey to Houghton : 
 
 Here in her utmoft Pomp well-pleas'd ihe reigns, 
 Nor weeps her abfcnt Rome^ or Lombard Plains ; 
 Here the great Matter's Genius ftill furvives, 
 Breathes in the Painty and on the Canvafs lives. 
 * Whate'er in Nature's forming Pow'r is piac'd. 
 Fair to the Eye, and lufcious to the Tafte, 
 Is by our cheated Senfe with Joy perceiv'd. 
 Nor but by Touching are we undeceived. 
 Paufing and loth to be convinc'd we ftand. 
 Left the fair Fruit fhould fufFer from our Hand, 
 Left the prefs'd Plum our ruder Touch (hould own, 
 Or fwelling Peach bewail its injur'd Down ; 
 Lefs dare v/e to the Fifli or Fowl draw near, 
 Tho' tempting, ftrongly guarded they appear, 
 
 Frighted 
 
 " The fciir lVInke(5j by Rudcm iind Snyders. 
 
A POEM. 137 
 
 Frighted we fcarce can brook the horrid Looks 
 Of Dogs, and fnarling Cats, and fwearing Cooks, 
 What Strokes, what Colours Snyder s could command ! 
 How great the Power of Rubens^ daring Hand ! 
 Immortal Rubens ! whofe capacious Mind, 
 Of the vaft Art to no one Part confined, 
 Pierc'd like the Sun's quick Beam, all Nature thro' 5 
 And whatfoe'er the Goddefs formed, he drew. 
 See ! y Mola next the Roman Deeds difplays, 
 That bid our Hearts be Patriot as we gaze. 
 Here jfulio's wond'rous Buildings ftill appear. 
 And fwelling Domes ftill feem to rife in Air. 
 
 S Great 
 
 ^ The Stories of Curimzn^ Codes, hy Mola ^ born 1609. died idt^. 
 * A Piece of Architecture, hy Julio Romano, born 1492, and died 1546^ 
 
138 A Journey to Houghton : 
 
 Great Shade of * FouJJin^ from the Mufe receive 
 All the Renown a Verfe, like hers, can give. 
 Genius fublime ! to reach thy foaring Praife, 
 A Mufe like Maro\ fliould renew her Lays ; 
 Rival of Raphael! fuch thy wondVous Line, 
 ^Tis next to his, and only not divine. 
 
 Ye Maids, employ 'd in fpotlefs Vefld'^ fight. 
 Lend me a Beam of your Eternal Light ; 
 Full on yon PiSure throw the facred Ray, 
 And high Ijnperial Chaftity difplay. 
 See ! the gxfdit Roman on his martial Throne, 
 Outdo whatever in War his Arms had done. 
 See him rife far beyond a Soldier's Fame, 
 And Afric\ VitSlor but a fecond Name. 
 
 Valiant 
 
 Here are the Stories of Scipio\ Continence, and of Mofei ftriking the Rock^ 
 by 'Nicolo FQujJin^ born 1594, and died 1665. 
 
A POEM. 139 
 
 Valiant and Great he trod the Field of Bloody 
 But here is Virtuous, Bountiful, and Good ^ 
 Refifts the utmoft Pow'r of Female Charms, 
 Feels all the Force, yet gives 'em from his Arms, 
 And Lord of all the Paffions of his Breaft, 
 Defeats e'en Love, and makes his Rival bleft. 
 Wonderful Strokes, that thro' the Eye impart 
 Such various Motions to the human Heart ! 
 Thro' it a thoufand floating Paffions move, 
 
 ♦ 
 
 We pity, wonder, weep, rejoice and love. 
 
 The moral Tale thus exquifitely told. 
 His Colours now diviner Truths unfold 5 
 At Horeb\ Rock in facred Awe we ftand. 
 And penciled Miracles our Faith command. 
 The mighty Law-giver his Rod difplays, 
 And the tough Flint his potent Touch obeys j 
 
 S z Quick 
 
1 40 A Journey to Houghton : 
 
 Quick into Streams difTolves the folid Stone, 
 And floats the Wafte with Waters not its own. 
 See there the ftirivel'd Cheek, or languid Eye, 
 Swell into Health, or lighten into Joy ; 
 As eager, crouding in the Draught they join. 
 Reviving Thoufands blefs the Stroke Divine. 
 But thou, fair Damfel, with diftingulfli'd Worth, 
 Emblem of filial Piety, ftand forth ; 
 Forgot her own confuming inward Fire, 
 She lifts untouch 'd the VelTel to her Sire ; 
 With the cool Draught his heaving Breaft relieves. 
 And, as fhe fqoths his Pain^ her own deceives. 
 
 With ^ Scenes too fad Salvator ftrives to pleafe. 
 Since what creates our Wonder Ijpoils our Eafe j 
 
 We 
 
 ' A very .capital Pidure of the Prodigal Son on his Knees at Prayers amidft 
 the Herd of Swine, by Salvator Rofa^ born 1614, and died 1673. 
 
A P O E M. 141 
 
 We give the wretched Prodigal a Tear, 
 And wifti his kind forgiving Father near. 
 
 As on Avernu^ Banks the Hero ftood. 
 Scared at the dreary Darknefs of the Wood, 
 'Till thro' the Leaves fair fliot th' aufpicious Light, 
 And with the branching Gold reliev'd his Sight 3 
 So refcu'd from the horrid Scene we ftand. 
 By the fweet EfHuence of Guidon Hand. 
 Soft to the Sight his ev'ry Colour flows, 
 As to the Scent the Fragrance of the Rofe. 
 Pure Beams of Light around the * Virgin play. 
 Clad in the Brightnefs of celeftial Day ; 
 Be as they may the Broils of fierce Divines, 
 Pure and unfpotted here at lead fhe fliines. 
 
 Thee 
 
 * The famous PIdture, by GuidOy of the Dodtors of the Church difputing 
 on the Immaculate Conception. Guido Renit born 1575, and died 1642. 
 
1 42 ^ Journey to Houghton : 
 
 Thee too, ^ Lorraine^ the well-pleas'd Mufe fliould 
 
 [name, 
 
 Nor e'er forget DomemchinVs Fame ^ 
 
 But fudden Sorrow ftops the flowing Line, 
 
 And not one Smile is found among the Nine. 
 
 ^ Behold where all the Charms that Heav'n could give, 
 
 Blended in one fweet Form, ftill feem to live ^ 
 
 Then fink to Tears, nor flop the burfting Groan, 
 
 When thou art told that all thofe Charms are gone. 
 
 Relentlefs Death ftill forcins to the Grave 
 
 The Good, the Fair, the Virtuous, and the Brave, 
 
 Here the whole Malice of his Pow'r put on, 
 
 And aim'd a Dart that flew them all in one. 
 
 How 
 
 ^ Claud. Gille of Lorraine ^ born 1600, and died 1682. 
 
 ' DomenicoZampieriy commonly c2Mt^Domenichini yhom 1561, and died 1641. 
 
 ' The Portrait of Catharine Shorter, firft Wife to Sir Robert Walpole, She 
 died Aug, 20, 1737. 
 
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 How Fair, how Good, how Virtuous was the Dame, 
 A thoufand Hearts in Anguifh ftUl proclaim ; 
 How brave her Soul, againft all Fear how try'd. 
 Sad fatal Proof (he gave us when (he dy'd. 
 
 Thou then, my Friend, no farther Verfe demand. 
 Full fwells my Breaft, and trembling (hakes my Hand^ 
 And thefe fad Lines conclude my mournful Lay, \ 
 Since we too once muft fall to Death a Prey, > 
 May we like JValpole meet the fatal Day. 
 
 FINIS, 
 
 {Printed hy John Hughs, mar Lincoln's-Inn-Fidds,'] 
 
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