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DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 VILLA 
 
 O F 
 
 HORACE WALPOLE, 
 

 
DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 VILLA 
 
 O F 
 
 HORACE WALPOLE, 
 
 Youngeft Son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, 
 
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 Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham. 
 
 With an INVENTORY of the 
 FURNITURE, PICTURES, CURIOSITIES, &>c. 
 
 STRAWBERRY- HILL: 
 PRINTED by THOMAS KIRGATE, M.DCC.LXXIV. 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 
 
 in 2013 
 
 http://archive.org/details/descriptionofvilOOwalp 
 
DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 VILLA 
 
 O F 
 
 Mr. HORACE JVALPOLE, 
 
 At Strawberry- Hill, near Twickenham. 
 
 WHERE the Gothic Caftle now ftands, was originally 
 a fmall tenement,* built in 1698, and let as a 
 lodging-houfe : Cibber once took it, and wrote one of 
 his plays here, The Refufal, or the Lady's Philofophy. After 
 him, Talbot bifhop of Durham had it for eight years: -J- 
 then, Henry Bridges marquis of Carnarvon, fon of James 
 
 B duke 
 
 * It was built by the earl of Bradford's coachman, and was called by the 
 common people, Chopped-Jiraui-hall, they fuppofing, that by feeding his lord's 
 horfes with chopped ftraw, hs had faved money enough to build his houfe : but 
 the piece of ground on which it ftands is called in all the old leafes, Strawberry- 
 bill-Jhot, from whence it takes it name. 
 
 t The bifhop kept a large table here, which is fcarce conceivable, as he had 
 no kitchen but that little place which is now the china-room. 
 
2 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 duke of Chandos, and fince duke himfelf. It was next 
 hired by Mrs. Chenevix,* the noted toy-woman, who, on 
 the death of her hufband, let it to lord John Philip Sack- 
 ville, fecond lbn of Lionel duke of Dorfet : he kept it about 
 two years, and then Mr. Walpole took the remainder of 
 Mrs. Chenevix's leafe in May 1747, and the next year bought 
 it by act of parliament, it being the property of three minors 
 of the name of Mortimer. Along with this houfe and fome 
 other tenements was another fmall one, -J- then occupied by 
 Richard Francklin, printer of the Craftsman, who had been 
 taken up for printing that paper during the adminiflration of 
 fir Robert Walpole. X When Mr. Walpole bought Straw- 
 berry-hill, there were but five acres belonging to the houfe : 
 the reft have been purchafed fince. The Caftle now exifting 
 was not entirely built from the ground, but formed at dif- 
 ferent times, by alterations of and additions to the old fmall 
 houfe. The library, and refectory or great parlour, were 
 entirely new built in 17533 the gallery, round tower, great 
 
 cloyfter, 
 
 * Pere Courayer lodged here with her for fome time. 
 
 f It has fince been pulled down, and a cottage built on the fame fpot. The 
 garden too has been newly laid out by Mr. Walpole, fince it came into his 
 hands by Francklin's death. 
 
 % It is remarkable, that the printer of the Craftfman was Mr. Walpole's ten- 
 ant ; and that the writer of the Craftfman, W. Pultney, earl of Bath, wrote a 
 ballad in praife of Strawberry- hill. 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 3 
 
 cloyfler, and cabinet, in 1760 and 1761 ; and the great 
 north bedchamber in 1770. 
 
 The embattled wall to the road is taken from a print of 
 Aflon-houfe in Warwickshire, in Dugdale's hiffory of that 
 county. 
 
 Entering by the great north gate, the firfl objecl that pre- 
 fents itfelf is a fmall oratory inclofed with iron rails ; in 
 front, an altar, on which {lands a faint in bronze; open 
 niches, and Hone bafons for holy water j defigned by John 
 Chute, efq; of the Vine in Hampfliire. On the right hand, 
 is a fmall garden called the abbot's garden, parted off by an 
 open fcreen, taken from the tomb of Roger Niger bifhop of 
 London, in old St. Paul's. Palling on the left, by a fmall 
 cloyfler,* is the entrance to the houfe, the narrow front of 
 which was defigned by Richard Bentley, only fon of Dr. 
 Bentley, the learned mailer of Trinity-college, Cambridge. 
 Over the door are three fhields of Walpole, Shorter, and 
 Robfart. 
 
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 * In this cloyfkr are three blue and white delft flower-pots ; and a bas-relief 
 head in marble, infcribed Dia Helianora; it is the portrait of the princefs Elea- 
 nora d'Efle, with whom Taflb was in love, and who was the caufe of his mis- 
 fortunes. It was fent to Mr. Walpole from Italy by fir W. Hamilton, minhter 
 at Naples, 
 
 In the winding cloyfters on the right hand are fome ancient bas-reliefs ; and 
 a brafs plate with the effigies of Simon Walpole, bifhop of Norwich and Ely, 
 •ngraven by Muntz. 
 
4 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 You firft enter a fmall gloomy hall, paved with hexagon 
 tyles, and lighted by two narrow windows of painted glafs, 
 reprefenting faint John and faint Francis. This hall is united 
 with the ftaircafe, and both are hung with a gothic paper, 
 painted by one Tudor, from the fcreen of prince Arthur's 
 tomb in the cathedral of Worcester. The balluftrade was 
 defigned by Mr. Bentley; at every corner is an antelope [one 
 of lord Orford's fupporters] holding a fhield. In the well of 
 the ftaircafe, by a cord of black, and yellow, hangs a gothic 
 lanthorn of tin japanned, defigned by Mr. Bentley, and filled 
 with painted glafs j the door of it has an old pane with the 
 arms of Vere, earl of Oxford. 
 
 Turning to the left, through a fmall paffage, on one fide 
 of which is a window entirely of painted glafs, you enter 
 
 The REFECTORY, or GREAT PARLOUR. 
 
 TT is thirty feet long, twenty wide, and twelve high ; hung. 
 
 with paper in imitation of ftucco. The chimney-piece 
 was defigned by Mr. Bentley : upon it ftands a fine Etrufcan 
 vafe, between two bottles of black and gold porcelaine. 
 
 Over the chimney, a converfation, by Reynolds, fmall 
 life : Richard, fecond lord Edgcumbe, is drawing at a table 
 in the library at Strawberry-hill j George James Williams is 
 looking over him; George Auguftus Selwyn ftands on the 
 other fide, with a book in his hand, 
 
 On 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 5 
 
 On one fide of this picture, a head of fir Horace Mann, 
 refident at Florence; painted there by Aftley, and highly 
 coloured : he is dreft in red velvet. 
 
 Oppofite to it, his brother Galfridus Mann, fax brown ; 
 by the fame. 
 
 Over againft the chimney, a bureau of black japan - 7 on it, 
 a clock, fupported by a bronze figure of a woman reading : 
 beneath, an Etrufcan vale, between two white old china 
 beakers. 
 
 The chairs are black, of a gothic pattern,, defigned by 
 Mr. Bentley and Mr. Walpole. The table of Sicilian jafper, 
 on a black frame defigned by Mr. Bentley : upon it, a large 
 punch-bowl and pail of Seve china ; two beakers of old grey 
 porcelaine, veined; two ice-pails of Chelfea china'; three fil- 
 ver owls, as ancient cafiors ; and a filver filligree bread-baf- 
 ket. Under it, two Etrufcan vafes, and a jar of Roman 
 fayence. Over the table hangs a hunting-horn, finely en- 
 amelled on one fide in colours, on the other in chiaro fcuro, 
 with the hiflory of faint Hubert. 
 
 On each fide of the window, the top of which has fome 
 fine painted glafs, and one ridiculous Dutch piece repreferit* 
 ing the triumph of Fame, who is accompan ed by Cato, Ci- 
 cero, and other great men in fquare caps and gowns of mat- 
 ters of arts, are card-tables of rofe-wood, carved in China j 
 and over each, a looking-glafs in a gothic frame of black and 
 
 C gold, 
 
6 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 gold, deilgned by Mr. Walpole. Inclofed in the tops of the 
 frames, with their arms and coronets, are the portraits of 
 George Walpole third earl of Orford, and of George Chol- 
 mondeley vifcount Malpas, elded fon of George earl of Chol- 
 mondely and of Mar)' fecond daughter of fir Robert Wal- 
 pole. The former is copied by Eckardt, from a miniature 
 by Liotard, in the cabinet above flairs : the latter is original 
 by Eckardt. 
 
 At the end of the room, over againft the window, fir Ro- 
 bert Walpole, knight of the gaiter, afterwards earl of Or- 
 ford. On one fide of him, 
 
 Catherine, eldefl: daughter of John Shorter, of By brook in 
 Kent, firfl: wife of fir Robert Walpole ; in white: a copy 
 from fir Godfrey Kneller, by Jarvis. On the other fide, 
 
 Maria Skerret, (in the drefs of a fhepherdefs) fecond wife 
 of fir Robert ; by Jarvis. 
 
 On one fide of the chimney, Robert Walpole fecond earl 
 of Orford, auditor of the exchequer, mafter of the fox- 
 hounds, and knight of the bath, eldefl: fon of fir Robert 
 Walpole, by his firfl wife ; in red velvet, with a globe by 
 him : by Richardfon. 
 
 Margaret, only child of Samuel Rolle of Heynton in De- 
 vonfhire, firfl: married to Robert fecond earl of Orford, and 
 mother of George the third earl, and fecondly to Sewallis 
 Shirley, a younger fon of earl Ferrers ; in a white riding-ha- 
 bit with a flick : by Jarvis. 
 
 On 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 7 
 
 On the other fide, fir Edward Walpole, fecond fon of fir 
 Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter, knight of the bath 
 and clerk of the pells ; in the robes of the bath : by Slaugh-' 
 ter. 
 
 Horace Walpole, third fon of fir Robert and Catherine 
 Shorter; in blue velvet : by Richardfon. 
 
 Over againft the chimney, a large piece of ilill life, by 
 Adrian Van Utrecht. On one fide of it, 
 
 Lady Anne Ofborn, daughter of the firfr. duke of Leeds ; 
 by fir Godfrey Kneller. She was firft married to Thomas 
 Coke of Holkam, by whom fhe was grandmother of Tho- 
 mas Coke lord Lovel and earl of Leicester; and fecondly to 
 Horatio Walpole, fecond fon of fir Edward Walpole, and 
 uncle of fir Robert Walpole. On the other fide, 
 
 Dorothy, fifter of fir Robert, and fecond wife of Charles 
 lord vifcount Townihend, knight of the garter and fecretary 
 of ftate ; in a Turkifh habit : by Jarvis. 
 
 Over one of the doors, Mary lady Malpas, fecond daugh- 
 ter of fir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter ; married to 
 George lord Malpas, afterwards earl of Cholmondeley.: by 
 Eckardt, after Jaryis. Over the other door, 
 
 Lady Maria Walpole, only child of fir Robert Walpole 
 and Maria Skerret, and wife of Charles Churchill, only fon 
 of general Churchill; in a veil, with a mufic-book before 
 her : by Eckardt. 
 
 : Afire 
 
3 A DESCRIPTION 01 
 
 A fire-fcreen of admirable needle-work, reprefenting a 
 vaie of flowers, by lady Caroline Campbell, caughter of 
 John duke of Argyll, countefs of Ailesbury ; married fe- 
 condly to general Henry Seymour Conway, only brother of 
 Francis firft earl of Hertford of that line, knight of the gar- 
 ter, embaffador in France, and lord chamberlain : it is mount- 
 ed in mahogany, carved and inlaid with ivory. 
 
 A Turkey carpet, and a fire-fcreen embroidered with, 
 knotting. 
 
 In the WAITING-ROOM; 
 
 A Head in artificial ftone of John Dryden the poet, great 
 uncle of Catherine Shorter, lady Walpole : a large altar 
 candleiHck of metal, inlaid with gothic inferiptions, very 
 ancient : and a pair of ancient bellows. 
 
 The CHINA-ROOM. 
 
 pAINTED glafs in the windows, and crefts of Shorter and 
 Gcftinthorpe : the cieling painted with convolvulus's on 
 poles, by Muntz, from a cieling in the little Borghefe villa 
 at Frefcati : the fides, white Dutch tyles, with borders of 
 blue and white. 
 
 In the floor fome very ancient tyles with arms, from the 
 cathedral at Gloucester. The upper part of the chimney- 
 piece 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 9 
 
 piece is taken from a window of an ancient farm-houfe, 
 formerly Bradfield-hall, belonging to lord Grimfton in Ef- 
 fex ; the lower part from a chimney at Hurfh Monceaux "in 
 Suflex : it is adorned with the arms of Talbot, Bridges, 
 Sackville, and Walpole, the principal perfons who have in- 
 habited Strawberry-hill. 
 
 In a niche, fupported by two columns of oriental alabafter, 
 over the chimney, is a fine ewer of fayence, defigned by 
 Julio Romano ; and two green glafs tumblers, with golden 
 edges ; and two round faltlellers of old blue and gold Vene- 
 tian glafs, with flowers. 
 
 Over the niche, four chocolate-cups of fayence, by Pietro 
 Cortona ; and a bronze medallion of Pandulfo Malatefta. 
 
 On the the fides, George 2d. and Frederic prince of 
 Wales, in Batteriea enamel. 
 
 In the chimney, a large jar of old blue and white china j 
 and two tyles from Bylham-abbey. 
 
 On the fhelves and floor is a collection of porcelaine, earth- 
 enware, glafs, and enamel on copper, of various ages and 
 countries, as follow : 
 
 Two dozen plates of Venetian glafs ; each plate has a dif- 
 ferent view of Venice, drawn in red. 
 
 A japaned tray with a vafe for cream, and eight chocolate- 
 cups and faucers with landfcapes in brown, of the fame ware. 
 
 D Two 
 
io A DESCRIPTION op 
 
 Two bowls of Worcefter porcelaine, the pattern from old 
 china. 
 
 Two muftard-pots and plates, of Seve china ; given by 
 lord Hertford. 
 
 Five trays, in fhapes of fans, of old Japan china. 
 
 An old blue and white plate with a rib in the middle. 
 
 A coloured handle cup, faucer and fquare plate, a la 
 Grecque, of Seve china. 
 
 Two old blue and white plates, artichoak pattern. 
 
 Thirteen ditto, with peacock feathers. 
 
 Sixteen coloured old Japan plates. 
 
 Four ditto, blue and white, with figures. 
 
 Three ditto, with figures. 
 
 Twelve ditto, of coloured Japan china. 
 
 Four ditto, with birds. 
 
 Four water-plates with figures, of new china. 
 
 Twelve plates of Chelfea china, with fmall coloured birds. 
 
 Three diih.es fcollopped and ribbed, with coloured flowers. 
 
 Two large coloured dimes of the fine old thick Japan china. 
 
 A large deep dim of Roman earth, with ftories from 
 Ovid's Metamorphofis. 
 
 An earthen-ware dim, with the heads of Charles 2d. and 
 queen Catherine in blue and white; a prefent from Mr. 
 Ibbot. 
 
 An old blue and white dim, with landfcapes. 
 
 Ditto, 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. n 
 
 Ditto, larger, with figures. 
 
 Two difhes of very old French earthen-ware, with the 
 arms of France. 
 
 Two fmall difhes of fayence, with grotefques and the 
 arms of a bifhop Contarini. 
 
 An odlagon coloured plate of Saxon china, old pattern. 
 
 Ditto fquare, with a cock and hen. 
 
 A dim and twelve plates enamelled on copper. 
 
 Two round plates of Japan. 
 
 Thirteen old white chocolate-cups and tea-cups, with em- 
 boffed flowers. 
 
 A tea-pot, milk-pot, five coffee-cups, five tea-cups, and 
 ten faucers, of white quilted china of St. Cloud. 
 
 A tea-pot and milk-pot, fix cups and faucers, of modern 
 china, with grey landfcapes. 
 
 Five white cups and faucers with gold borders. 
 
 Two coloured caudle-cups. 
 
 An earthen- ware tea-pot, with the head of lord Chatham. 
 
 A fmall tea-canifter of Seve china, blue and gold, with 
 figures on white. 
 
 A pot pourri of Saxon china, with coloured flowers era* 
 bofTed. 
 
 An old white china cup, with cupids painted in Europe. 
 A cup with a bullfinch, of modern china. 
 Thirteen fmall bafkets of Saxon china for fugar-plumbs, 
 different patterns. 
 
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12 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 An urn and ftand of kennel coal, a prefent from fir Wil- 
 liam Meredith. 
 
 Six coloured water-cups and plates of Chelfea china. 
 
 A blue and white caudle-cup. 
 
 Two ditto, coloured. 
 
 An old blue and white honeycomb tea-pot. 
 
 Two Roman glafs bottles, and two earthen lacryma- 
 tories. M. 
 
 An ewer enamelled with bacchanals on copper. 
 
 Two coffee-cups and faucers of white and gold Bohemian 
 glafs. 
 
 A cup of Mr. Place's china. Vide Walpoles Catalogue of 
 Eng/i/b Engravers. 
 
 A blue and white faucer with a landfcape, of line Nankin 
 china. 
 
 Ajar, with red and white landfcapes and blue and gold 
 borders, of Chelfea china. 
 
 Two coloured Saxon trays with fquirrels. 
 
 A fcollopped faucer of Saxon china, the fecond fort, very 
 rare : in it lies a medal of Louis quinze in Seve china. 
 
 A hand candleftick of coloured Seve china. 
 
 A blue and gold fugar-difh of old Venetian glafs, cover, 
 and plate, with a filver gilt fpoon. 
 
 An old blue and white faucer in the fhapc of a ftar. 
 
 Two trays, ditto. 
 
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STRAWBERRY-HILL. 13 
 
 An ivory drinking-horn, with the arms of the earls of 
 Exeter ; ancient. 
 
 An old earthen mug of Arabian ware. 
 
 Two vafes with handles, of red Portuguefe earth. 
 
 Two plates like fhaving-bafons, of the fame. 
 
 An earthen bottle ; painted on it, Sack, 1647 : it was thus 
 fold by apothecaries. From the collection of Mrs. Kennon, 
 the virtuofa midwife. 
 
 A blue and white eggfhell cup. 
 
 Michael Angelo's Bacchus, made in the china of the comte 
 de Lauragais, from the collection of the comte de Caylus. 
 
 Two Roman glaffes, like water-glaifes ; and two lacryma- 
 tories, ditto. M. 
 
 Buft of Voltaire, in bifcuit of Nancy. 
 
 Two blue and gold cups for eggs, of Seve china. 
 
 Seven old coloured octagon cups and faucers. 
 
 A tea-pot and bafon, fix handle cups and faucers, with 
 battles in black, of Vienna china; a prefent to Catherine 
 lady Walpole, from count Dehn, envoy from the duke of 
 Wolfenbuttle. 
 
 A fquare brown china cup to meafure tea. 
 
 An old white china tea-pot, with birds and flowers finely 
 painted in Europe. 
 
 A bagpiping boy and a dancing girl, of Seve bifcuit. 
 
 Six fine old cups, white within j without, japanned black 
 and mother of pearl : very rare. 
 
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i 4 A DESCRIPTION or 
 
 An ewer enamelled on copper, with naked horfemen fight- 
 
 ing. 
 
 A blue and gold coffee-cup and faucer, with birds on 
 white cartouches, of Seve china. 
 
 A cup and faucer, all blue and gold, of ditto. 
 
 An old glafs tankard, with a battle of Turks and chriftians 
 in black, finely drawn. 
 
 Ditto of old Venetian glafs ftriped with white, mounted 
 in filver gilt ; on the lid, arms of Parr enamelled. 
 
 Six handle cups and faucers with green landfcapes on 
 white, of Chelfea china. 
 
 An urn and cover of red Portuguefe earth. 
 
 Two large coloured faucers with figures. 
 
 Two fmall ditto bafons with flowers. 
 
 Two large coloured bafons. 
 
 Two white faltfellers with crawfifh in relief, of Chelfea 
 china. 
 
 A fine fquare plate, a la Grecque, of Seve china. 
 
 Two old blue and white trays. 
 
 Two Saxon coloured faucers, cinquefoil. 
 
 Two green and gold falts, with flowers on white, of Sev« 
 china. 
 
 Two white Chelfea falts on feet. 
 
 Two fmall blue and white bafons. 
 
 A boy fupporting a fhell, finely modelled in red earth : 
 [ the firft fort of Saxon china before it was glazed or painted, 
 
 and 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 15 
 
 and which was only given as prefents by the elector. Ex- 
 tremely rare. 
 
 Three pieces of rocks, made of rice ; given by Mr. Raf- 
 tor, Mrs. Clive's brother. 
 
 Two Chinefe bafons enamelled with coloured Howers on 
 copper. 
 
 A red cup and faucer, glazed ; the fecond fort of Saxon 
 china : rare. 
 
 Two blue and gold handle cups and faucers, with birds on 
 white cartouches of Seve china. 
 
 One ditto, green. 
 
 One ditto, blue and gold in zigzags, and garlands on 
 white; very beautiful. 
 
 Two white barrels with vines and grapes, of Chelfea china. 
 
 Two fmall bafons with coloured flowers, of the beft mo- 
 dern china. 
 
 A very fine ftanding cup and cover, enamelled on copper 
 with the ftory of Sampfon, from the defigns of Parmegiano. 
 
 A fmall dejeune of blue and gold Seve china : very pretty. 
 
 A handle cup, faucer, and fquare plate, of blue and gold 
 Seve china, with fea-pieces admirably copied from Vernet's 
 pictures. 
 
 Ditto of blue, green, and gold, with flowers on white. 
 
 Two porringers of Portuguefe earth. 
 
 An octagon faltfeller enamelled on copper, droll figures on 
 
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i6 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 the fides with old French verfes : at top, a head, Jejitis 
 Pan's; at bottom, another, La belle Helene. 
 
 A copper tray, fcoliopped and enamelled with faint John 
 and flowers ; a prefent from Mr. G. Montagu. 
 
 A very large glafs urn, damaged, found near London ; a 
 prefent from Dr. Ch. Lyttelton, bifhop of Carlifle. 
 
 Six coloured handle cups and fauctrs, a tea-pot and fugar- 
 dim, in fhapes of leaves, of Chantilli china. 
 
 Four fmall blue and white eggfhell cups. 
 
 The prefent dauphinefs of France, a large medallion of 
 Seve bilcuit ; a prefent from the duchefs dowager d'Aiguil- 
 lon in 1771. 
 
 Two handle cups and faucers, different patterns a la 
 Grecque, of Seve china. 
 
 Two butter-pots and plates of blue and white delft ware ; 
 prefents from lady Ailefbury. 
 
 A red cup and fiucer, clouded. 
 
 A fmall (quare brown tea-pot. 
 
 A jug of old clouded glafs. 
 
 Two Saxon tankards, one with Chinefe figures, the other 
 with European. Thefe tankards are extremely remarkable. 
 Sir Robert Walpole drank ale ; the duchefs of Kendal, mif- 
 trefs of king George the Firft, gave him the former. A do- 
 zen or more years afterwards, the countefs of Yarmouth, 
 nuftrefs of king George the Second, without having feen the 
 
 other, 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 17 
 
 other, gave him the fecond ; and they match exactly in form 
 and fize. 
 
 Two deflert-difhes of coloured Japan china. 
 
 A fcollopped fugar-difh of old china, white without, flri- 
 ped with colours within : rare. 
 
 A bafon and plate of fcollopped Saxon china. 
 
 A plate with final! flowers, ditto. 
 
 A Monteith of coloured Seve china : beautiful. 
 
 Two old white china candlefticks, mounted in filver. 
 
 A large fcollopped and coloured bowl of Japan china. 
 
 A pale green and white flat bafon ; very old. 
 
 Two green jars. 
 
 A mug of earthen-ware with Arabic characters. 
 > A fugar-difh, cover and plate, of Japan china. 
 
 A green ewer with a purple handle. 
 
 An Etrufcan cup with two handles, and an owl on it* 
 
 Two very fmall brown tea-pots. 
 
 Medallion of Henry quatre, in Seve bifcuit. 
 
 Four blue and white chocolate-cups, and four faucers. 
 
 A triangular faltfeller of fayence with fine figures on terms. 
 
 An old Venetian glafs cup and faucer, with gold flowers. 
 
 A cup of Matlock fpar, on a foot. 
 
 An urn, ditto. 
 
 Four deflert-plates of fayence, with figures and boys round 
 the borders ; by Pietro Cortona : very fine. A fifth ditto, 
 with goats i a prefent from lady Diana Beauclerc. 
 
 F Two 
 
i8 A DESCRIPTION op 
 
 Two light purple handle cups and faucers with landfcapes> 
 of Seve china. 
 
 A larger cup and faucer, a la Grecque, ditto. 
 
 A fcollopped Japan tray. 
 
 A fine glafs urn with golden boys ; Roman : defcribed in 
 doftor Middleton's antiquities. 
 
 A tall blue and white tea-pot with flat fides. 
 
 A round brown tea-pot, quite flat. 
 
 A fine old blue and white box and cover, a prefent from 
 lady Ailefbury. 
 
 A vafe with two handles of Portuguefe earth. 
 
 A cup, ditto, with fantaftic forms within it : given by lady 
 Mary Churchill. 
 
 A green and white mug and faucer, with figures on white, 
 of Seve china. 
 
 Ditto with ruftic implements ; very genteel. 
 
 A white old triangular piece of china and cover, for eggs. 
 
 An old white beaker. 
 
 Two large blue and white tea-pots. 
 
 Twelve old blue and white deflert-plates with figures. 
 
 A fmall difli of Chelfea china in a deflert pattern. 
 
 A blue and white beaker with a Chinefe procefllon. 
 
 Two blue and white foup-di(hes with figures. 
 
 Ten difhes of old Japan ware. 
 
 An ancient tall drinking-glafs, with arms and devices; a 
 prefent from fir John Hawkins. 
 
 Two 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 19 
 
 Two large blue and white beakers. 
 
 Two ditto, of different patterns : a companion to one of 
 them is in the great bedchamber. 
 
 A blue and white difh of Chelfea china. 
 
 A Turkifh earthen bottle, with leaves cafl in relief on it. 
 
 Two blue and white jars. 
 
 Two green, blue, and white beakers. 
 
 Two blue and white beakers. 
 
 A large fayence difh. 
 
 A fine Turkifh jar and cover, with caft leaves : curious, 
 
 A large blue and white difh. 
 
 A blue and white bafket of Chantilli china. 
 
 A white Seve faucepan that bears the fire : 1 771. 
 
 Two blue and white beakers. 
 
 Two fmall coloured ditto. 
 
 Two fquare blue and white bottles. 
 
 An odd green and white tea-pot. 
 
 A tyle from the kitchen of William the Conqueror at 
 Caen in Normandy. 
 
 Two bafons of moft ancient Gombroon china; a prefent 
 from lord Vere, out of the collection of lady Elizabeth Ger- 
 maine. 
 
 A beautiful green bafon. 
 
 Ten coloured patypans of different fizes. 
 
 An old white diih. 
 
 A difh and four defTert-plates, brown, blue, and white. 
 
 A large 
 
zo A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 A large blue and white difh, and a fmall ditto. 
 Four green leaves of Staffordshire- ware for a deflert. 
 A tea-kettle of brown china. 
 A white jar. 
 
 China in the Waiting-Room. 
 
 Two ice-pails with vines, of Saxon china. 
 
 A white butter-pot and plate of Chantilli, and two blue 
 and white faltfellers, ditto. 
 
 Two monteiths of Tolle, a new French metal japanned. 
 
 Four oblong deffert-diihes, four leaves, and twelve plates, 
 with coloured fruits and flowers, of Chelfea china. 
 
 Twelve blue and white coffee-cups and faucers of Chan- 
 tilli. 
 
 Twelve black and white tea-cups and faucers of Bow china. 
 
 Two red and white handle cups and faucers with boys, 
 of Seve. 
 
 A fine coloured ice-pail and cover, ditto. 
 
 A blue and white delft butter-pot and plate. 
 
 Two white and gold falts of Seve. 
 
 Twenty-four white plates with knurled borders and gold 
 edges, four deep leaves, two fquare plates, and a cream- 
 bowl, of Seve. 
 
 A large white plate, and a white glafs beaker. 
 
 A blue 
 
S TRAW BER R Y-H ILL. 21 
 
 A blue and white bafket, two round cheefe-pots and plate, 
 and a fceau for liquors, of Chantilli. 
 
 Twelve fine plates coloured, with rich blue edges, of Seve. 
 
 Two ditto, larger. 
 
 Six ditto, blue and white. 
 
 Two green Staffordfhire flower-pots with maiks, and two 
 plates. 
 
 O 1 
 
 The LITTLE PARLOUR. 
 
 kVER the door is a fhield of Mr. Walpole's arms and 
 quarterings on painted glafs, by Price. The room is 
 lighted by a bow window, in which, among other pieces of 
 painted glafs, are the arms of Ayliffe impaling Clifford of 
 Frampton ; given by Mr. George Selwyn. 
 
 The chimney is taken from the tomb of Thomas Ruthall 
 biihop of Durham, in Werhninfter-abbey. The room is 
 hung with gothic paper of ftone colour in mofaic, on which 
 are wooden prints by Jackfon of Venice ; and furnifhed with 
 a table and eight chairs of ebony, bought at the "lady Con- 
 yers's at Great Stoughton in Huntingdonfhire, as were others 
 in other chambers. " On the table is a bronze of the Her- 
 maphrodite. 
 
 The 
 
22 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 The YELLOW BEDCHAMBER. 
 
 / ~p*HE chimney-piece was defigned by Mr. Bentley. 
 
 This room is hung with prints * from pictures in the 
 collection of lord Orford and Mr. Walpole, or fome way re- 
 lating to them. On the ebony table, two large old blue 
 and white china candlefticks, and a writing-box of fandal 
 wood inlaid with ivory, given by lady Hertford ; and over 
 the table, a looking-glafs in an ebony frame. 
 
 The BREAKFAST-ROOM, one Pair of Stairs: 
 
 T7URNISHED with blue paper, and blue and white linen. 
 Black and yellow painted glafs fet in plain blue glafs in 
 the bow window. On the writing-table, an inlaid writing- 
 box made by Langlois. The chimney-piece and windows are 
 not truly gothic, but were defigned by Mr. W. Robinfon of 
 the Board of Works, before there was any defign of farther 
 improvements to the houfe. 
 
 Over the chimney, a glafs in an ebony frame, a prefent 
 from the reverend Mr. Hemings of Twickenham : two blue 
 and white flower-pots of Seve china : and two candlefticks 
 with Chinefe figures, by Martin, and china flowers. On 
 one fide of the glafs, 
 
 Mary 
 * The Cottage is hung with othex prints of the fame kind, 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 23 
 
 Mary Lepelle lady Hervey -, a print. 
 
 A moonlight; by Bernard Lens. 
 
 A frame with nine miniatures, viz. 
 
 A young bride ; by Ifaac Oliver. 1 Of the family of Digby, 
 
 A lady ; behind her a red curtain, j but not known. 
 
 Venetia Stanley lady Digby, aged 19, very beautiful j by 
 Peter Oliver. 
 
 Sir Kenelm Digby and lady Digby, after Vandyck; by 
 ditto: fet in the form of a book with covers of gold enamelled. 
 
 The fame lady Digby, as me was found dead in her bed ; 
 by ditto, after ditto ; fet in gold enamelled black ; on which 
 behind is a fphere : it feems to mean, that the world was in 
 mourning for her. Sir Kenelm was paffionately fond of this 
 lady, who, lord Clarendon fays, was of extraordinary beauty 
 and as extraordinary fame. At Windfor is a whole length of 
 her, by Vandyck, treading on ferpents, to imply that the 
 ffcories told of her were the produce of malice. At Goat- 
 hurft, where they lived, are two bufts of her in bronze ; on 
 the pedeftal of one are infcribed thefe tender words, Uxorem 
 vivam amare ijoluptas, defundtam religio. 
 
 Sir Kenelm Digby, when young j by Peter Oliver : very 
 fine. 
 
 Lady Digby, again, moft beautiful ; by ditto. 
 
 Lady Lucy Percy, daughter and coheirefs of Thomas ear! 
 of Northumberland who was beheaded, wife of fir Edward 
 Stanley, younger fon of the earl of Derby, mother of Vene- 
 tia 
 
24 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 tia lady Digbyj by Ifiiac Oliver. She is ftill more beautiful 
 than her daughter, though dreft very unbecomingly in a 
 great black hat and large ruff; only let off by a lilac ground. 
 This is perhaps the fined: and moft perfect miniature in the 
 world. All the feven lift are wonderfully preferved, though 
 found in a garret in an old houie in Wales, belonging to a 
 Mr. Watkin Williams, probably defcended from Sir Kenelm, 
 one of whole fons left only two daughters that were married 
 into Welch families. This fet of pictures coft Mr. Walpole 
 300 guineas. 
 
 On the other fide of the glafs, another frame, containing, 
 
 Robert earl of Effex, favourite of queen Elizabeth ; fet in 
 a cafe enamelled with flowers. 
 
 Henry Carey lord Hunfdon, knight of the garter 1585; 
 by Hilliard : fet in black enamel. Thefe two from the col- 
 lection of lady Elizabeth Germaine. 
 
 A lady of the family of Digby ; belonging to the fet 
 above-named ; fet in a white enamelled cafe. 
 
 The due de Vendome, with a red knot; by Petitot. 
 
 Madame la princeffe Palatine; by ditto. 
 
 Madame la ducheffe de Montpeufier, grandmother of ma- 
 demoifelle; by ditto. Thefe three from the collection of 
 the comte de Caylus. 
 
 La ducheffe de Montbazon, called La Belle des Belles ; 
 by ditto. 
 
 . Holbein> 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 25 
 
 Holbein, in a round, original by himfelf. 
 
 An exceedingly fine watch, given to general Fairfax by 
 the parliament after the battle of Nafeby •, by P. Bordier, 
 brother-in-law of Petitot. On one fide is Fairfax on horie- 
 back, after Vandyck's king Charles ; on the other, the houfe 
 of commons ; behind, the battle. It was bought at the fale 
 of Thorefby's mufeum, who has defcribed it in his Ducatus 
 Leodienfis. 
 
 Anne Liddel duchefs of Grafton, and lady Anne Fitzroy, 
 a child ; and Voltaire ; cut out in card, by M. Hubert of 
 Geneva. 
 
 Fontenelle, a drawing; bequeathed to Mr. Walpole by 
 lady Hervey. 
 
 Alandicape, a drawing in water-colours ; by Vanderneer. 
 
 Infide of Walpole church in Lincolnfhire; by Vertue. 
 
 View of Mad. du DefFand's room and cats ; a print; with 
 verfes by the prefident Henault. 
 
 A print of count Antoine Hamilton. 
 
 Head of the comte de Grammont; copied from the ori- 
 ginal at the convent of the Grands Auguftins at Paris. 
 
 Two prints of Rubens's own houfe. 
 
 Infide of King's college chapel ; by Canalletti. 
 
 Two views of Paris, by Raguenet. 
 
 Print of lady Mary Coke. 
 
 A fecretaire of inlaid woods. 
 
 H Cupid, 
 
26 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Cupid, in Seve china. 
 
 Two blue and white fquare tubs, of ditto. 
 
 A blue bafon, mounted in or morlu; it belonged to ma- 
 dame de Pompadour. 
 
 An urn of granite, brought from one of the Greek iflands, 
 and given to lir Robert Walpole by fir Charles Wager. 
 
 Ditto of oriental alabafter, given to fir Robert Walpole by 
 general Charles Churchill. 
 
 A view of Tivoli ; copied by Muntz from Gafpar Pouffin. 
 
 A fea-piece ; by Back Huyfen : very good. 
 
 Richard 3d. and his queen -, a drawing from painted glafs, 
 by Vertue. 
 
 Madame la marquife du Deffand and the ducheffe de Choi- 
 feul giving her a doll, which the former, who was blind, 
 holds out her hands to receive ; alluding to her calling the 
 ducheffe Grand Maman. Every part of the room is exadtly 
 reprefented, and madame du Deffand moft exactly like, which 
 the ducheffe is not; by M. Carmontel, a gentleman belonging 
 to the duke of Orleans, who has done in the fame manner 
 moft of the court of France : a warned drawing. 
 
 Over the clofet door, View of St. John's gate at Col- 
 chefler, on blue paper, by Muntz. 
 
 Virgin and child, a highly finifhed illumination : it be- 
 longed to Gafton duke of Orleans. 
 
 Francis ill. receiving the homage of the clergy, law, and 
 
 army; 
 
STRAWBERRY- HILL, 27 
 
 army ; an illumination. Cardinal du Prat as chancellor is at 
 the head of the law. Two of the officers on the fore ground 
 are engraved in Montfaucon's Antiquities of France. 
 
 View of the hotel de Carnavalet, where madame de Se-r 
 vigne lived, in la rue Coulture St. Catherine, at Paris ; built 
 by Du Cerceau; painted by Raguenet. 
 
 A woman reading; fmall whole figure; great nature; 
 by Le Due. 
 
 A French clock, with Chinefe figures, by Martin. 
 
 A girl's head, in oil ; very lively ; by A. Cuyp. 
 
 A king of France taking an oath before a pope, figures 
 kneeling : an illumination. 
 
 Print of Mr. W. Mafon, the poet. 
 
 Two old blue and white china jars ; a candleftick of Seve 
 china ; tea-things of old china ; a fmall tripod of or moulu 
 to burn incenfe ; and a red velvet purfe embroidered with 
 gold and old French arms, to hold counters. 
 
 The GREEN CLOSET. 
 
 TN the windows are fome very curious pieces of painted 
 glafs. One round pane (one of the beft in the houfe) re- 
 prefents the ftory of the law-giver, who having enacted a law 
 for punifhing adultery with blindnefs, and his own fon being 
 convicted of it, he gave up one of his own eyes to fave one 
 
 of 
 
28 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 of his fon's. The drawing is fine, and the figures of the Ie- 
 giflator and of the young foldier who contemplates him, are 
 evidently taken from fome pifture or defign which gave the 
 hint to Vandyck for his Belifarius, now at Chifwick. There 
 are other curious panes : one with a rofe impaling a pom- 
 granite, the device of Henry 8th. and Catharine of Arragon ; 
 others with a crown in a thorn-bum between the letters H 
 and E, the device of Henry 7th. which he afiumed after the 
 battle of Bofworth, where Richard's crown was found in 
 that manner. Over the door, 
 
 A view of Mr. Pope's houfe at Twickenham, painted fince 
 the alterations made by fir William Stanhope ; by Scott in 
 his very beft manner. On the fame fide of the room are the 
 following pictures, moft of them fmall: 
 
 A portrait of Sarah Malcolm, who was hanged for mur- 
 dering her miftrefs and two other women in the Temple. 
 She is fitting at a table in Newgate, with popiih beads before 
 her. This was drawn by Hogarth the day before her exe- 
 cution, and fhe had put on red to look the better. 
 
 Four landfcapes in water-colours ; by Baudin, 
 
 A landfcape in needle-work, by lady Ailefbury, after Van 
 Uden. 
 
 Eight views of ruins at Rome and other places ; by Luca- 
 telli. 
 
 A landfcape in Indian-ink, with Italian, Chinefe, and Go- 
 thic buildings ; by Mr. Bentley, in his beft ftyle. 
 
 The 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 29 
 
 The head of old Dahl the painter, in water-colours, by 
 himfelf: oval. 
 
 Cibber the ftatuary, with a pair of compaiTes in his hand, 
 in water-colours ; by Christian Richter, 
 
 George Granville lord Landlbwn, in red; ditto; by Ver- 
 tue, after Kneller. 
 
 Two fmall pictures, in oil, the flories of Sufanna and the 
 elders, and of David and Bathfheba : Italian. 
 
 A beggar-boy with a bird's-neft, water-colours on ivory ; 
 by Mr. Horace Walpole. 
 
 Queen Henrietta Maria; by Dixon. 
 . Mary princefs of Orange, mother of king William ; by 
 Hoikins. 
 
 Sir Robert Walpole and Catharine lady Walpole ; heads 
 carved in ivory. 
 
 An- old head, in a laced night-cap and ruff; by Cornelius 
 Janfen. 
 
 Lady Aiabella Stuart, when a child ; by Ifaac Oliver. 
 
 Zachary Kneller, brother of fir Godfrey ; by Vertue, after 
 Kneller. 
 
 St. Catharine reading ; alter Cosreggi®, by Catharine lady 
 Walpole. 
 
 At the end fronting the window : 
 
 A pot of Carnations, drawn at CheMea from the life by 
 Van Huyfum, who lived there two years with fir Robert 
 
 I Walpole : 
 
3 o A DESCRIPTION op 
 
 Walpole : he was brother to the famous flower-painter : in 
 oil. 
 
 Robert Walpole, father of fir Robert Walpole; a head in 
 crayons. 
 
 Mary Burwell, his wife; ditto. 
 
 An herb-market and a fim-market ; after Teniers, in oil, 
 by Angelis. 
 
 Sir Jeffcry Burwell, grandfather cf fir Robert Walpole ; 
 he is an old man fitting ; a death's head by him : in crayons. 
 
 Mary, daughter and coheirefs of fir Robert Crane, of Chil- 
 ton in Suffolk; his wife: in crayons. 
 
 . A ftable-yard, with a cart and a woman paring turneps ; 
 by J. H. Miintz : in oil. 
 
 • Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici 
 and Louis 13th. and five great ducheffes of Tufcany ; copied 
 from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where 
 the originals are dreffed in the very cloaths they wore, parted 
 on the hangings, with the faces painted on fattin. 
 
 Six more drawings of ruins, by Lucatelli. 
 
 Anna Chamber countefs Temple; by Hamilton. 
 
 Henry Carey earl of Monmouth, knight of the bath, tran- 
 flator of many works ;* by Theodore Ruffel. 
 
 Pope Benedict 13th. in wax: behind it is his elogium, 
 written by Mr. Walpole and printed in his Fugitive Pieces. 
 
 Lady 
 
 • See his article in the Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors. 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 31 
 
 Lady Newburgb, lord Lanfdown's Myra, in widow's 
 weeds ; copied by young Lens from the original of fir Godfrey 
 Kneller, in the collection of the earl of Cardigan : in water- 
 colours. 
 
 The countefs of Buckingham, mother of duke George 
 Villiers, in mourning; by ditto : from the fame collection. 
 
 Anna Maria Brudenel countefs of Shrewsbury, famous for 
 her amours with the fecond George Villiers duke of Buck- 
 ingham ; by ditto, from ditto. 
 
 James Stuart duke of Richmond and earl of Litchfield, 
 huiband of the beautiful Mrs. Stuart whom Charles II. was 
 in love with ; in armour ; by Cooper. 
 
 Sufan Airmine lady Bellalis, miftrefs of James II. by Coo- 
 per, unfinished. 
 
 Lady Anne Watfon, daughter of Thomas earl of Strafford; 
 by ditto. 
 
 Spencer Compton earl of Northampton, killed in the civil 
 war. 
 
 A lady's head, temp. James I. 
 
 Two ladies of the court of queen Elizabeth ; by Hil- 
 liard. Thefe five belonged to Spencer Compton earl of Wil- 
 mington. 
 
 An infant's head, ileeping ; by Vifcher : very natural, in 
 black lead. 
 
 A boy's head, in red and black chalks $ by Peter Oliver : 
 very lively. 
 
 A lady's 
 
5 2 A DESCRIPTION ok 
 
 A lady's head ; in a black hood ; by Cooper. 
 
 Boncourt, a French comedian. 
 
 A gentleman's head, in oil ; oval, in a metal cafe, 
 
 Thomas earl of Arundel ; fmall head in oil. 
 
 Charles 2d. in robes of the garter ; in water-colours-, after 
 Lely ; done by Richard fecond lord Edgcumbe, at the age 
 of fixteen. 
 
 Two pieces of fruit and flowers, in water-colours; by 
 old Lens. 
 
 Mrs. Scott, the painter's wife ; by Deacon. 
 
 Mr. Pope, by young Lens, in water-colours j round. 
 
 Pomona ; by Clinkfted. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Gray; etched from his {hade; by Mr. W, 
 Mafon. 
 
 A Jandfcape on copper; by Roland Savery. 
 
 Lord Herbert of Cherbury ; a print coloured from the 
 original of Ifaac Olives. 
 
 William lord Mansfield ; in oil, by Wootton. 
 
 Zeeman, junior, painter, in blue; by his fatheF. 
 
 Impreflion of Oliver Cromwell's privy feal. 
 
 The two fons ©f the old Pretender ; painted! at Rome ira 
 1740. 
 
 On the window-fklc fronting the door, beginning on the 
 
 left hand : 
 
 A view of the Thames from Mr*. Clime's howfe at Twick- 
 enham i in blue and white, by Muntz. 
 
 A fprig 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 33 
 
 A fprig of orange-flowers, and another of apple-bloffoms; 
 by Catharine lady Walpole, in water-colours. 
 
 A bunch of white rofes ; by ditto. 
 
 Four more views of ruins ; by Lucatelli. 
 
 James 5 th. and Mary of Lorrain his queen ; in water-co- 
 lours ; by Wale, from an ancient original in the pofTeffion 
 of the duke of Devonfhire at Hardwicke. 
 
 A Chinefe building, defigned and drawn by Mr. Bentley 
 for the corner of the wood at Strawberry-hill, where the 
 chapel now ftands ; in Indian ink. 
 
 The Farnefe Hercules, in wax ; by GofTet. 
 
 Cleopatra, in water-colours ; Italian. 
 
 Mrs. Beale, and her. fon Charles; heads in water-colours, 
 by her. 
 
 Profile head of a Magdalen, a coloured print by Le Blon. 
 
 A red and white rofe, executed in feathers. 
 
 Bifhop Burnet in robes of prelate of the garter j by Mrs. 
 Rofe. 
 
 Prince Charles of Lorrain, in a frame of tortoifhell. 
 Then pafs to the right hand : 
 
 Over the window, B. Hoadley bifhop of Winchester, in 
 wax ; by GofTet : and, 
 
 Charles Townfhend chancellor of the exchequer : ditto. 
 
 Boors reading : Flemifh. 
 
 A landfcape ; by Teniers. 
 
 Two more views of ruins j by LucatellL 
 
 K The 
 
34 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 The arms of fir Robert Walpole and Catharine Shorter, 
 cut in paper on looking- glafs, by Benningliam. 
 
 A converfation, after Watteau, in water-colours; by Mr. 
 Horace Walpole. 
 
 Defign for arms of the two clnbs at White's ; drawn by 
 the fecond lord Edgcumbe, and invented by him, Mr. G. A. 
 Selwyn, Mr. Geo. J. Williams, and Mr. Hor. Walpole, at 
 Strawberry-hill. The arms as follow : Vert (for the card- 
 table) on a chevron fable (for the hazard-table) two rou- 
 leaus of guineas in faltire between two dice proper, the chev- 
 ron between 3 parolis at Pharaoh, proper; on a canton fable, 
 a white ballotting-ball. Creft, an arm and hand holding a 
 dice-box, ifluant from an earl's coronet. Supporters, an old 
 and a young knave of clubs (for the two clubs.) Motto, 
 Cog-it amor nv.mnri. The arms furrounded by a bottle-ticket 
 inferibed, claret, in the manner of an order. 
 
 A king-fifber and ducks, of the Batterfea enamel : it was 
 a manufacture, ftamped with a copper-plate, fupported by 
 alderman Janfen, but failed. 
 
 Charles 2d. young, in armour, with the garter ; oval 
 miniature. 
 
 Mary duchefs of Beaufort : oval miniature. 
 
 Mr. Congreve, in armour: oil. 
 
 A lady, with Italian mottoes ; in a round. 
 
 A friar and lady at her toilette ; by Clinkfted. 
 
 A woman 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 35 
 
 A woman hiding her lover from her blind hufband ; by- 
 ditto. 
 
 A woman fainting in a man's arms ; after fome great maf- 
 ter : D. Rawdon fe. 1703. 
 
 Mr. Deacon's fon ; by him : unfinifhed. 
 
 Drawing by Muntz, in water-colours, from an illumina- 
 tion to a book of earl Rivers in ths library at Lambeth, and 
 from which the frontifpiece was taken to Mr. Walpole's Ca- 
 talogue of Royal and Noble Authors. 
 
 At the end of the clofet towards the Thames : 
 
 Over the window, Impreflion of the great feal of queen 
 Henrietta Maria : and, 
 
 Frederic prince of Wales, in wax : by Goffet. 
 
 Two prints of old Stocks-market, and EfTex-court in the 
 Temple, coloured by Baudin. 
 
 Head of James firft earl of Stanhope, in crayons. 
 
 Ditto of Mrs. Sclater, in a black gauze hood. 
 
 Four more views, by Lucatelli. There are 24 in all. 
 
 Sir John Shorter, grandfather of Catharine lady Walpole ; 
 in crayons. He was lord-mayor in 1688, when receiving 
 the pope's nuntio in the city, James 2d. gave him an addi- 
 tional quarter to his arms : two years before he had been one 
 of the moft diftinguifhed aldermen on the Whig fide. He 
 died in his mayoralty. 
 
 Ifabella 
 
36 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Ifabella Birkhead, his widow, in weeds. They are buried 
 in the church of St. Saviour, Southwark : vide Maitland's 
 Hillory of London. 
 
 Mary Bruce duchefs of Richmond ; by Hamilton. 
 
 Anne Conway, daughter of general Conway and lady 
 Aileibury, and wife of John Darner, eldeft fon of Jofeph lord 
 Milton ; by Hamilton. 
 
 Oval of Thomas earl of Southampton, in his robes ; but 
 quaere, whether it is not the laft duke of Ormond but one ? 
 
 A landfcape, by Polemberg. 
 
 Two landfcapes in foot-water ; by Mr. Bentley. 
 
 A writing-box, richly carved in ivory. 
 
 Two blue and white jars. 
 
 A red velvet coffer ornamented with filver, and containing 
 fix dram-bottles of the old Venetian glafs flowered with gold 
 and enamelled tops. 
 
 A temple of old japan. 
 
 Two cups and faucers of Seve china. 
 
 A fmall table of ditto. 
 
 Three ebony chairs, and a fmall Perfian carpet. 
 
 The BLUE BEDCHAMBER. 
 
 TTUNG with plain blue paper; a linen bed; eight chintz 
 
 chairs; a toilette worked by Mrs. Clive ; a looking- 
 
 glafs in a tortoiiliell-frame, ornamented with filver ; and a 
 
 cabinet 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 37 
 
 cabinet japanned by lady Walpole : on it, an ewer and bafon 
 of blue and white Seve china. 
 
 The chimney-piece was defigned by Mr. Bentley. Over it, 
 s In a frame of black and gold carved by Gibbons, fir Ro- 
 bert Walpole and Catharine Shorter; fmall whole lengths; 
 by Eckardt, after Zink : the hounds and view of Houghton 
 by Wootton. Sir Robert is fitting; by him, on a table, is 
 the purfe of chancellor of the exchequer, leaning againfl: 
 butts of George ift. and 2d. to denote his being firft minifler 
 to thofe kings : by lady Walpole are flowers, fhells, a pallet 
 and pencils, to mark her love of the arts. On the chimney, 
 
 A boy and girl in Seve bifcuif. 
 
 Three fmall flower-pots, ditto. 
 
 Two cups and faucers, ditto. 
 
 Four blue and white cream-cups. 
 
 In the bow window,, fome very beautiful painted glafs. 
 
 General Henry Seymour Conway, and Caroline countefs 
 dowager of Ailefbury, his wife ; their daughter Anne fitting 
 on the ground playing with a dog. The attitudes and drefles 
 taken from Watteau. This, and all the other pictures in 
 this room, were painted by Eckardt. 
 
 Charles Churchill, and lady Maria Walpole, his wife, 
 with their eldefl fon Charles; taken from the picture at 
 Blenheim, of Rubens, his wife and child. 
 
 Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, knight of the batfu 
 
 L Mr. 
 
38 A DESCRIPTION op> 
 
 Mr. Thomas Gray j* taken from the portrait of a mufi- 
 cian by Vandyck, at the duke of Grafton's. 
 
 Mr. Richard Bentley ; from Vandyck. He holds in one 
 hand his own defign of the figure of Melancholy, drawn by 
 him for the edition of Mr. Gray's Odes. 
 
 Mr. Horace Walpole ; from Vandyck ; leaning on the 
 iEdes Walpolianae : behind him, a view of Strawberry-hill. 
 The frames are of black and gold, carved after thofe to Lom- 
 bard's prints from Vandyck, but with emblems peculiar to 
 each perfon. 
 
 The RED BEDCHAMBER. 
 
 TTUNG with crimfon paper j a chintz bed, in which fir 
 Robert Walpole died in Arlington-ftreet; by it a cruci- 
 fix of ivory ; an ewer and bafon of Chantilli porcelaine; a 
 red and white flower-pot, cup, faucer, and fugar-difh, of 
 Seve porcelainej crimfon Norwich damafk chairs, and an 
 arm-chair of patch-work. 
 
 Pictures on the chimney fide : 
 Alandfcape; by Mullins. 
 An old beggar; by Teniers. 
 
 Catharine, 
 
 * With this motto, alluding to his Ode on Eton, which, though one of 
 his beft productions, was his firft published, Ntc licuit populis parvum te, Nile, 
 videre. 
 
STRAW BERRY- HILL. 3 $ 
 
 Catharine, 2d. czarina ; with Ruffian verfes by the prin- 
 cefs Dafkiou : a print. 
 
 View of Elizabeth-cattle in Jerfey j by Muntz : in oil. 
 
 A landfcape, view in Jerfey ; by Mr. Bentley : ditto. 
 
 Lady Gertrude Conway vifcountefs Villiers ; a print. 
 
 Mary queen of Scots, in water-colours ; by Vertue. 
 
 George Seymour Conway, youngeft fon of lord Hertford i 
 a mezzotinto. 
 
 Chriftian 7th. king of Denmark j drawing by Falconet, 
 Side oppofite the window ; 
 - Henry 8th. giving the charter to the furgeonsj a print. 
 
 Falconet the painter's wife > by him : highly finifhed. 
 
 Mary Kirk, wife of fir Richard Vernon, known by the 
 name of Warmeftre in the Memoires de Grammont. 
 
 Le comte de Grignan -, a print. 
 
 Madame de Caylus, neice of madame de Maintenon j a 
 print. 
 
 Heads of goats ; fine fketch, by Berghem j from the col- 
 lection of Wootton the painter. 
 
 Two old men j an Italian fketch. 
 
 The father of Pope as he lay dead ; drawn by his father* 
 in-law Samuel Cooper: bought by Richardfon, junior, at 
 the fale of Mrs. Martha Blount, to whom Pope had be- 
 queathed this and the three following. 
 
 Mrs. Editha Cooper, mother of Pope* by John Richard- 
 fon, fenior. 
 
 Mr. 
 
4 o A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Mr. Pope himfelf ; ditto. 
 
 Henry St. John vifcount Bolingbroke i ditto. 
 On the fides of the window : 
 
 Maria Walpole, countefs of Waldegrave and duchefs of 
 Gloucefter, with her eldefl daughter lady Elizabeth Laura ; 
 a mezzotinto. 
 
 A moonlight on copper; by Bonus, jun. 
 
 The four feafdns, heads of boys, in rounds j Italian : a 
 prefent from the due de Nivernois. 
 
 Macbeth in the witches cave ; a print. 
 
 Sketch by Kent, for a niche in Mr. Fairfax's houfe in Sa- 
 ville-row. 
 
 Four drawings of humour, warned, by Elias Martin. 
 
 A French partridge, the real feathers j by G. Edwards- 
 
 An owl cut in paper, by Nat. Bermingham. 
 
 In a Niche on the Staircase ; 
 
 The armour of Francis i ft. king of France, of fteel gilt, 
 and covered with bas-reliefs in a fine tafte : his lance is of 
 ebony inlaid with filver ; his fword fteel ,* beautifully inlaid 
 with gold, probably the work of Benvenuto Cellini : there 
 is alfo the armour for the horfe's head. This very valuable 
 fuit of armour was purchafed from the Crozat collection in 
 1772, on the death of the baron de Thiers, when the czarina 
 
 bought 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL 41 
 
 bought the fine collection of pictures and bronzes^ O-ver 
 againft it, 
 
 Henry 5th. and his family; bought in 1773, at the fale 
 of James Weft, president of the Royal Society. See a de- 
 fcription and print of this pidture in the firft volume of the 
 Anecdotes of Painting in England. 
 
 The ARMOURY 
 
 TS an open veftibule of three gothic arches, lighted by a 
 window entirely of painted glafs, and ornamented over 
 the doors and niches with quarterings of the family of Wal- 
 pole, painted by Grant. 
 
 Two fuits of armour, on one of which is the mark of a 
 bullet ; two helmets ; a gauntlet ; a round leathern quiver ; 
 and two pair of ifirrups ; from Coombe, near Kingfton in 
 Surry, which feat formerly belonged to the great Richard 
 Neville earl of Warwick. Thefe arms therefore probably 
 were part of thofe which ferved his troops when he marched 
 to Weftminfter to awe the parliament in the reign of Henry 
 the Sixth. 
 
 A beautiful Perfian fbield, made of a rhinoceros's hide 
 tanned, enamelled, and almoft tranfparent. 
 
 An Indian fcimitar, the handle and ornaments of filver, in 
 a green velvet cafe j and a dagger of the fame j given by a 
 
 M nabob 
 
42 A DESCRIPTION op 
 
 nabob to George Morton Pitt, governor of Fort St. George, 
 and by his widow to Mr. Walpole. 
 
 An Indian fword, the blade waving and damafked, the 
 fcabbard of wood twitted with cane, the hilt an owl carved 
 in wood. 
 
 Two Indian quivers, full of arrows. 
 
 An Indian lance, the head of wood double barbed and 
 delicately wrought, that it might break into fplinters in a 
 wound. 
 
 Several other lances, fpears, and Indian bows. 
 
 An Indian bow, painted. 
 
 An Indian fcimitar in a Japan fcabbard. 
 
 Four broad fwords. 
 
 A collar fet with fpikes, for a wild beaft. 
 
 Five pieces of a coat of mail. 
 
 An Indian pouch made of beads and hair; a girdle, ditto; 
 a collar, ditto; and two leather fhoes, ornamented ditto. 
 
 An Eaftern powder-horn of fteel and bronze, richly graved, 
 and hung to a chain with a tablet of bronze, characters in 
 the middle on a red ground. 
 
 An Indian mace, inlaid with brafs. 
 
 A hatchet, ditto. Thefe three from the collection of 
 Monf. Julienne at Paris. 
 
 A tall ofluarium with bas-reliefs, a facrifice and tripods. 
 
 Another, 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 43 
 
 Another, curious for being a double one; the infcriptions, 
 
 VIBIA. P. L. 
 
 ASI ATICE. 
 VIXIT 
 
 ANN. XXII. 
 
 P. VIBIVS. 
 
 P. O. L. 
 
 MODES TVS. 
 
 The LIBRARY. 
 
 *TpHE books are ranged within gothic arches of pierced 
 work, taken from a fide-door cafe to the choir in Dug- 
 dale's St. Paul's. The doors themfelves were defigned by 
 Mr. Chute. The chimney-piece is imitated from the tomb 
 of John of Eltham earl of Cornwall, in Wettminfter-abbey ; 
 the ftone-work from that of Thomas duke of Clarence, at 
 Canterbury. The cieling was painted by Clermont, from 
 Mr. Walpole's defign drawn out by Mr. Bentley. In the 
 middle is the fhield of Walpole furrounded with the quarters 
 borne by the family. At each end in a round is a knight on 
 horfeback, in the manner of ancient feals j that next to the 
 window bears the arms of Fitz Ofbert, the other of Robfart. 
 At the four corners are fhields, helmets and mantles j on 
 one fhield is a large H, on another a W, femee of crofs 
 crofslets, in imitation of an ancient bearing of the Howards 
 in Bloomfield's Norfolk. On another fhield is the Saracen's 
 iead, the crefl of the family, but here the catharine-wheel 
 
 is 
 
44 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 is above the cap, not on it ; having been (o borne by the 
 Robfarts, as appears from the tomb of Lodowic Robfart 
 lord Bourchier, in Weftminfier-abbey. On the fourth fhield 
 is an antelope, one of lord Orford's fupporters, with the 
 arms about his neck, refting under a tree, as in old devices. 
 On either fide is the motto of the family, Fart qua fentlat ; 
 and at the ends, m.dcc.liv, the year in which this room 
 was finhhed, expreffed in gothic letters : the whole on a 
 mofaic ground. 
 
 The large window and the two rofe windows have a great 
 deal of fine painted glafs, particularly, Faith, Hope, and 
 Charity, whole figures in colours; a large fhield with the 
 arms of England, and heads of Charles ift. and Charles 2d. 
 
 Over the chimney, an ancient and valuable piece, repre- 
 fenting the marriage of Henry 6th. of which fee a defcriptiorv 
 in the nrft volume of the Anecdotes of Painting. Above it 
 are that king's arms, the red rofe crowned, and queen Mar- 
 garet's arms in a lozenge. On each fide, two bronze medal- 
 lions of the Malateftas, fovereigns of Rimini. 
 
 A girl and cat, in water-colours, copied by Mr. Walpole- 
 from Rofalba. 
 
 A boy with a flute, by ditto, from a picture of Cavalier 
 Luti, at Houghton. 
 
 Sir Robert Walpole, when a boy, in crayons. 
 
 Sit 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 45 
 
 Sir Edward Walpole, knight of the bath, grandfather of 
 fir Robert; in oil. 
 
 Henry duke of Richmond, natural fon of Henry 8th. in 
 his fhirt and night-cap, which is embroidered with black : 
 a miniature. 
 
 Mary, fole daughter and heirefs of Thomas lord Fairfax, 
 wife of George Villiers fecond duke of Buckingham : ditto, 
 by Cooper. 
 
 The queen of Bohemia, daughter of James ift. ditto, by 
 Ifaac Oliver. 
 
 Sir Francis Drake : ditto, by Hilliard. 
 
 Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham, the great admiral, 
 jet. 27i by Ifaac Oliver. 
 
 Lady Penelope Compton, daughter of Spencer earl of 
 Northampton, and wife of fir Edward Nicholas, fecretary of 
 fiate ; by Cooper. 
 
 Count Gondomar, a fine head in oil ; fmall. 
 
 A Roman fimpulum in bronze. 
 
 Two bronze antique lamps and chains. 
 
 One ditto, modern, with a triton. 
 
 A cow, ditto. 
 
 An ancient brafs padlock in the fhape of a hand. 
 
 A greyhound in bronze, to keep down papers. 
 
 A filver ftandifh that was fir Robert Walpole's, with his 
 arms. 
 
 N Pictures 
 
46 A DESCRIPTION op 
 
 Pi&ures over the book-cafes. 
 
 Lady Fairborne, daughter of fir Rookefby, and wife 
 
 of fir Stafford Fairborne; in red : ncice of 
 
 Catharine, daughter of Edward Darcy, efq; and wife of 
 fir Erafmus Philipps, of Pifton-caftle in Pembrokefhire, 
 grandmother of Catharine bdy Walpole, whom fhe educated. 
 
 Sir John Shorter, lord mayor of London in 1668; in 
 black. 
 
 Ifabella Birkbe^d, his wife. 
 
 Francis Seymour Conway, earl of Hertford, and knight 
 of the garter ; by Aftley, after Liotard. 
 
 Lady Ifabella Fitzroy, youngeft daughter of Charles fe- 
 cond duke of Grafton, and wife of Francis earl of Hertford ; 
 by Eckardt, after Vanloo. 
 
 Henry Seymour Conway, only brother of lord Hertford ; 
 in armour; by Eckardt. 
 
 Charlotte, fecond daughter of John Shorter of Bybrook in 
 Kent, and third wife of Francis lord Conway ; in yellow. 
 
 Thomas Shorter, fecond fon of fir John Shorter; in brown. 
 
 John Shorter, efq; of Bybrook in Kent, eldeft fon of fir 
 John Shorter; in red. 
 
 John Shorter, in armour, eldeft fon of the foregoing, and 
 brother of Catharine Shorter, eldeft daughter of John Shorter 
 of Bybrook, and firft wife of fir Robert Walpole afterwards 
 carl of Orford : a copy after old Dahl. 
 
 A clock 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 47 
 
 A clock of filver gilt, richly chafed, engraved, and orna- 
 mented with fleurs de lys, little heads, &c. on the top fits a 
 lion holding the arms of England, which are alfo on the 
 fides. This was a prefent from Henry 8th. to Anne Bokyn; 
 and fince, from lady Elizabeth Germain e lo Mr. Walpole. 
 On the weights are the initial letters of Henry and Anne, 
 within true lovers knots ; at top, Dieu et mon droit ; at bot- 
 tom, 'The mqft happy. — One of the weights, agreeably to the 
 indelicacy of that monarch's galantry, is in a fhape very 
 conformable to the laft motto. The pedeftal is adorned with 
 fmall heads of bronze gilt of the age of Henry 8th. but 
 which did not belong to the clock. 
 
 A femicircular ofluarium, an uncommon form : in the 
 pediment, a tripod fupported by grifons : at each corner, a 
 horned head of a man and a bird, a feftoon hangs from the 
 horns of the men, on which are two more birds : the in- 
 fcription, p. lenilio 
 
 MARTIALI 
 
 POSVIT FORTVNATVS 
 
 PATRONO SVO B. M. 
 
 A fquare ofTuarium ; heads of rams, a feftoon and birds j 
 the infcription, d. q^ i. c. l. m. 
 
 FECIT MCEEI 
 
 CAEIIAPRI 
 
 MIGENIAPD. 
 
 Thefe two urns were in the collection of dodtor Meade. 
 
 An 
 
4 8 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 An offuarium adorned on the front and Tides with ivy and 
 birds drinking out of a vafe ; the infcription, 
 
 D. TI. CL. M. SVCCESSO. FILIO. PIENTISSIMO. QVI. 
 ANN. VIX. XIIX. PARENTES FEC. 
 
 Three more, fquare ; and one round, with a bird on the 
 cover. 
 
 Rare books of prints and drawings in the library. 
 
 Thuanus, the large edition in 14 volumes, enriched with 
 beautiful prints of the befl impreffions, containing portraits 
 of the principal perfonages. This fet was collected by fir 
 Clement Cotterel Dormer. 
 
 JEdts Walpolianae, the original drawings, with every print 
 that has been engraved from the pictures, and with other 
 prints and drawings of houfes and buildings that belonged to 
 fir Robert Walpole and the family of Walpole. 
 
 A collection of initial letters from the beginning of print- 
 ing, with fome drawings of heads of the firfl printers -, col- 
 lected by Mr. Ames, author of the Typographical Antiquities. 
 
 Sir Julius Csefar's travelling library, containing 44 fmall 
 volumes in Latin, inclofed in a cafe the fize of a folio. 
 
 Faithorne's works, mofl beautiful impreffions ; folio. 
 
 Hogarth's ditto j the mod complete fet of his works that 
 is known, with fome of his original drawings. 
 
 Vertue's ditto, in 2 large folios. 
 
 Teniers's ditto. 
 
 Twenty 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 49 
 
 Twenty-one large volumes of prints after different great 
 matters. 
 
 A volume of drawings by Mr. Sam. Scott and Mr. Miintz. 
 
 Three volumes of Hollar's prints. 
 
 Drawings of the Florentine gallery. 
 
 Prints from pictures, antiquities, and curiofities, at Straw- 
 berry-hill. 
 
 Drawings by Italian mailers, bound in red morocco, 3 vols. 
 
 Drawings and prints of heads of Engliih painters and 
 artiits, in 2 volumes folio. 
 
 Twelve large folios of Engliih heads, bound in vellum, 
 and ranged according to the reign of each king. 
 
 A large volume of the reign of George 3d. not ranged. 
 
 A volume of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. 
 by Vertue and others. 
 
 Deiigns by Mr. Richard Bentley, bound in marble and gilt. 
 
 Ditto by Rembrandt, Van Huyfum, &c. 
 . Proceffion of knights of the garter temp, queen Elizabeth, 
 copied by Vertue from the originals by Mark Garrard. 
 
 Curious books in the glafs clofet in the library. 
 Mr. Bcntley's original deiigns for Mr. Gray's poems, 
 bound in red morocco and gilt. 
 
 Six views after nature in Indian ink, by Bernard Lens. 
 A book of patterns for old point lace ; exceedingly rare. 
 . Baker an Learning, with MS. notes. 
 
 O Holbein's 
 
5 o A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Holbein's prints for the bible, with French verfes by 
 Nicholas Borbonius. 
 
 Drawings of all the Spintrian medals. 
 
 Apologie de Jehan Chattel : very rare. 
 
 Mad. de Sevigne's Letters to M. de Pomponne on Fouquet's 
 trial: MS. 
 
 Milton's Paradife Loft, given by the duke of Wharton to 
 lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who has written verfes in the 
 firft leaf. 
 
 A mifTal, engraved on copper-plates at Venice. 
 
 Deon's Letters, with prints of the principal perfons: quarto. 
 
 Callot's pocket-book, with a great number of exquifite 
 original drawings by himfelf: a prefent to Mr. Walpole 
 from his brother Robert earl of Orford : very valuable. 
 
 Bizarie di varie figure di Giovan Batifta Bracelli, pittore 
 Fiorentino al Ill ai °. S. Don Pietro Medici: 1624. This 
 moft rare and lingular book contains prints of human figures 
 formed by the ftrangeft materials, as diamonds, hoops, blad- 
 ders, pieces of carpentry, battledoors, kitchen-ftuff, &c. &c. 
 It feems to be the compofition of a madman, but the draw- 
 ings are mafterly, and the attitudes moft noble. 
 
 Le Tombeau de Marguerite de Valois, with verfes by 3 
 daughters of the protector duke of Somerfet : very fcarce. 
 
 The pocket-book, with his expences, of Robert Walpole, 
 father of fir Robert Walpole. 
 
 Accounts 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 51 
 
 Accounts of Blenheim, Stowe, Wilton, and other places, 
 with MS. notes by Mr. Horace Walpole. 
 
 A German book with prints coloured of Charles 5th. and 
 the German princes of his time. 
 
 The arms of the knights of the garter made by Richard 3d. 
 in their proper colours, and bound in red velvet : a prefent 
 from Walter Robertfon, mayor of Lynn. 
 
 Defcription of Wilton, with drawings and notes by Vertue. 
 
 A book of heads and fketches, by Vertue. 
 
 A complete fet of the books printed at Strawberry-hill. 
 
 A book of drawings of vales, bas-reliefs, and other an- 
 tiquities. 
 
 Catalogue of the Harleian collection with the prices, and 
 drawings of fome of the curioiities by Vertue. 
 
 Dr. Percy's book of the earl of Northumberland's houfe- 
 hold. 
 
 Two books of fwan-marks, on vellum : extremely rare. 
 
 A book of defigns of buildings, by John Chute, efq; of 
 the Vine. 
 
 Drawings of churches, monuments, &c. by fir Charles 
 Frederick and Smart Lethuillier, efq; in 3 vols, folio. 
 
 A thin folio containing 35 prints after grotefque paintings. 
 
 The Iliad and OdyfTey, the very books from which Pope 
 made his tranflations : in one of the volumes is a view of 
 Twickenham drawn by Pope. 
 
 Three 
 
52 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Three illuminated miffals. 
 
 Whifton's Life, with MS. index of the principal pafTuges. 
 
 Sir Thomas More's Life, with marginal writing by Philip 
 earl of Pembroke. 
 
 The Charter of Forefts, one of the original copies finely 
 preferved, with the great leal of Edward lit. appendant ; 
 found at Hackney 1743, among writings of the ancknt fa- 
 mily of Shordich, by Robert Bygrave ; prefcnted by him to 
 fir Edward Walpole, and by him to his brother Horace. 
 
 Catalogue of the 25 moft precious coins and medals in 
 the rofe-wood cafe. 
 
 1. An unique crown of king Edward 6th. bought at lord 
 Oxford's fale in 1742. 
 
 2. Medal of pope Julius the 3d. in filver, ftruck on the 
 reftoration of the Roman catholic religion in England by 
 queen Mary. 
 
 3. A fatirical filver medal flruck in Holland. On the ob- 
 verie, the head of Oliver Cromwell laureated in armour. 
 On the reverie he is kneeling in the lap of Britannia, with 
 his breeches down ; the French and Spanifh ambaffadors are 
 contending which mall kifs firft : the former fays to the lat- 
 ter, Retire toy, Vhonneur appartient au Roi mon maitre Louis 
 le Grand. Very fcarce j from lord Oxford's collection. 
 
 4. A filver medal ; on one fide the head of queen Mary of 
 England, on the other, of Philip 2d. both in alto-relievo, 
 
 and 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 53 
 
 and of the mofr, exquiiite workmanfhip. It was a trial-piece, 
 and is certainly the fineft modern medal known. It was 
 bought by Mr. Walpole in Italy. 
 
 5. A large gold medal of Henry 8th. On the reverfe, his 
 titles in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. It is the firft medal of 
 the Eneiiih ieries. From lord Oxford's collection. 
 
 6. A lilver medal on the deftruition of the Spanifh arma- 
 da. See an account of this medal, and the preceding, in 
 Evelvn. From the fame collection. 
 
 7. Coin of young king Henry, fon of Henry 2d. From 
 ditto. 
 
 8. Fine gilt coin of pope Paul 3d. Reverfe, a Ganymede, 
 admirably drawn: this beautiful coin was the work of Michael 
 Angelo Buonaroti. From the collection of Baron Stofch. 
 
 9. Silver medal of lord treafurer Southampton j by Abra- 
 ham Simon. 
 
 10. Gold fragment of queen Elizabeth's laft broad piece, 
 defcribed in the Royal and Noble Authors. Unique; from' 
 the Oxford collection. 
 
 11. Gold medal of Nero Claudius Drufus : reverfe, tro- 
 phies, De Ger mam's. 
 
 12. Gold medal of Trajan: reverfe, his forum. Thefe 
 two are very rare. 
 
 13. Gold medal of Marc Antony : reverie, the head of 
 Octavia, the only one of her known* which makes this me- 
 dal of the highefl value- 
 
 P 34. Gold 
 
S4 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 14. Gold medal of Otho : very fcarce, and finely pre- 
 ferved. 
 
 15. Ditto of Pertinax: not only very rare, but in the 
 molt exquifite preservation. 
 
 16. Copper coin of king Ferdinand of Naples ; a pun on 
 the reverie; his arms, a horje ; the motto, Equitas regni. 
 
 17. Silver coin of Eurtace, lbn of king Stephen; very 
 rare : from lord O .ford's collection. 
 
 18. A filver half crown of pope Clement nth. Reverfe, 
 the pantheon. 
 
 19. Copper medal of pope Gregory 13th. on the correct- 
 ion of the callendar : the reverfe, which is in beautiful 
 tafte, was deiigned by Parmcgiano. 
 
 20. Silver medal of the fame pope, on the maffacre of St. 
 Barthelemi : on the reverfe, the deilroying angel murdering 
 the proteftints ; the legend, Hugonotarum Strages. This 
 fcandalous medal was called in and the die broken, which 
 has made it very uncommon. 
 
 21. A filver coin ftruck by the republic of Florence when 
 they declared Jefus Chrift their king, to keep off the pope : 
 from baron Stofch's collection : extremely rare. 
 
 22. Copper medal of Lorenzo of Medici, who ftabbed 
 duke Alexander : the reverfe copied from Brutus's medal, 
 with the cap of liberty between two daggers ; the legend, 
 vni Id. "Jan Very rare. 
 
 23. Copper 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 55 
 
 23. Copper medal of Clement 7th. Reverie, Jofeph and 
 his brethren : defigned by Raphael. 
 
 24. Coin of Theodore king of Corfica : rare. 
 
 25. Brafs fatirical medal on queen Anne : reverfe, the 
 queen and lady Maiham embracing ; motto, All for Love. 
 
 Mr. WALPOLE's BEDCHAMBER, two 
 Pair of Stairs. 
 
 'T^HE chimney-piece was defigned by Mr. Chute, and has 
 great grace. 
 
 In the window, compofed of feven lights, are feveral cu- 
 rious pieces of painted glafs ; as, the arms of Anne Boleyn 
 with the quarterings which the king allowed her to bear of 
 the families from which fhe was defcended, though with no 
 right of quartering ; a large lion coloured; four large angels 
 in black and white; cypher and portcullis of king Edward; 
 arms of Clinton and Ratcliffe ; fine heads in black and white 
 of Charlemagne, prince William, and prince Maurice of 
 Orange, &c. 
 
 Over the chimney, View of the Vine in Hampfhire, the 
 feat of John Chute, efq; by Muntz. 
 
 A fmall print of Mr. Andrews's gothic houfe near Don- 
 nington-caftle and Spine-hill, Berkshire > defigned by John 
 Chute, efq; 
 
 Fifteen 
 
56 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Fifteen fmall drawings of Engli£h and French comedians ; 
 by Fefch. 
 
 View of the gate at St. Edmund, at Bury. 
 
 A fable, in cut paper on looking-glafs j by Bermingham, 
 
 Over the door, Head of John Chute, efq; by Muntz, af- 
 ter Pompeio Battoni. 
 
 La fignora Elifabetta Capponi Grifoni, a Florentine beauty; 
 by Ferd. Richter, 1741. 
 
 Patapan, a Roman dog, belonging to Mr. Walpole ; by 
 Wootton. 
 
 Doctor Conyers Middleton ; by Eckardt. 
 
 Doctor Thomas Afhton, fellow of Eton-college ; by ditto. 
 
 Frederic prince of Wales, when a child : painted at Han- 
 over. 
 
 Ulrick, a young Turk belonging to king George iff.. 
 
 A man and woman in water-colours, after Watteau ; by 
 Mr. Walpole. 
 
 A rural ball, after Watteau ; by ditto. 
 
 Catharine Walpole, eldefl daughter of fir Robert Walpole ; 
 fmall head in oil. 
 
 Horace Walpole, when a child, in a white frock; in 
 crayons. 
 
 A fprig of orange, in water-colours ; by lady Walpole. 
 
 A bunch of flowers, ditto ; by lady Anne Conway, eldeft 
 daughter of lord Hertford, and wife of the earl of Drogheda. 
 
 Drawing 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 57 
 
 Drawing of Rembrandt's mother, from the picture at 
 Windfor, called the countefs of Defmond ; by Muntz. 
 
 Prints, of the houfe of commons and warrant for behead- 
 ing Charles ift. infcribed with a pen, Major charta; of 
 Ethelreda lady Townfhend ; of lord Chatham ; lord Hol- 
 land; lord and lady Strafford; Mr. H. Walpole; and le 
 comte de Guerchy. 
 
 The STAR CHAMBER 
 
 TS a fmall anti-room, painted green, with golden ftars in 
 mofaic. It has a large window entirely of painted glafs j 
 and two triangular chairs taken from a piece of glafs in 
 the breakfaft-room ; a japan trunk;, a card-table of the 
 fame; and a buff of Henry 7th. in ftone, a model in great 
 tafle for his tomb, by * Torreggiano. Hence you go into a 
 trunk-cieled paffage, lighted by a window of painted glafs, 
 in which are many quarterings of Latton, a family formerly 
 feated at Efher in Surry : in the window, a candleftick en- 
 amelled on copper. This paffage leads to. 
 
 The HOLBEIN CHAMBER. 
 
 'HpHE cieling is taken from the queen's dreffing-room at 
 Windfor. t 
 
 Q^ The 
 
 * Vide Anecdotes of Painting, vol. 1, g. 102., 
 
58 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 The chimney-piece, defigned by Mr. Bentley, is chiefly 
 taken from the tomb of archbilhop Warham at Canterbury. 
 Over it, a glafs in a black and gold frame; and a piece of 
 Roman fayence in the lhape of a boat, Bacchus and Ceres in 
 relief in the middle. 
 
 The pierced arches of the fcreen from the gates of the 
 choir of Rouen ; the reft of the fcreen was defigned by Mr. 
 Bentley. 
 
 In the bow windows fbme fine painted glafs, and the arms 
 of England, and thofe of George prince of Denmark ; the 
 ground is a beautiful mofaic of crimlbn, blue, and pearls, 
 defigned and painted by Price of Hatton-garden. 
 
 A table and fix chairs of ebony. On the table a tray with 
 four ancient combs ; one of ivory is extremely ancient, carv- 
 ed with figures, on one fide reprefenting perfons bathing and 
 going to bed, on the other, two men and a woman with 
 mufical inftruments j another comb, faid to have belonged 
 to the queen of Scots, is of tortoifhell ftudded with filver 
 hearts and rofes ; the two others of tortoifhell likewife, of 
 which the one with very long teeth belonged to the father of 
 the firfl lord Edgcumbe, and was ufed when the large flow- 
 ing wigs were in fafhion : two bottles of Roman fayence, 
 and a bafon and ewer of purple and white Seve china. 
 
 A very ancient chair of oak, which came out of Glafton- 
 bury-abbey j on it are carved thefe fentences, "Joannes Ar~ 
 
 thurus 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 59 
 
 fhurus Monacus Glafionie, falvet eum Deus : Da pacem Do- 
 mine : Sit Laus Deo. Lord Bathurft had feveral chairs co 
 pied from this. 
 
 ; The bed is of purple cloth lined with white fattin, a plume 
 of white feathers on the center of the teller j the room is 
 hung with purple paper. By the bed, 
 
 Chrifl crowned with thorns ; by Mabeufe. 
 1 Over the chimney, an ancient painting of the emperor 
 Maximilian and his fon Philip the Fair : from the collection 
 of Mr. Bryan Fairfax. 
 
 Lady Arabella Stuart, in white, whole length in water- 
 colours ; copied by Vertue from the original at Welbeck. 
 
 A man's head with a book ; by Quintin Matfis : it was in 
 fir Robert Walpole's collection. 
 
 . Anne Stanhope duchefs of Somerfet, fecond wife of the 
 protector, whofe portrait me holds in one hand : a prefent 
 to Mr. Walpole from Mr. Bateman. 
 
 - Catharine of Arragon, firft wife of Henry 8th. by Holbein: 
 it was in the collection of fir Robert Walpole, and has been 
 engraved among the Illuftrious Heads. 
 
 * Sir Thomas More. This and all the following heads 
 marked with an afterifm, were taken off on oil-paper by 
 Vertue from the original drawings of Holbein in queen Ca- 
 roline's clofet at Kenfington, aow removed to Buckingham- 
 houfe. 
 
 Lord 
 
6o A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Lord Vaux. This is done in the fame manner by Muntzy 
 from the fame collection. 
 
 A man's head, in old enamel. 
 
 Margaret queen of Navarre, who wrote the Tales : ditto. 
 
 Between the bow windows : 
 Queen Elizabeth, when a girl. 
 
 * Lady Henningham. 
 
 * William Parr, marquis of Northampton, brother of 
 queen Catherine Parr. 
 
 * A lady, unknown. 
 
 * Ditto. 
 
 * Sir Nicholas Poines. 
 
 * Catharine Willoughby, fourth wife of Charles Brandon 
 duke of Suffolk. 
 
 Queen Mary,, when a child : from Mr. Fairfax's collection. 
 
 * Henry Howard earl of Surrey, the poet. 
 
 * Nicholas Cratzer, aftronomer to Henry 8 th. 
 
 * Edward Clinton earl of Lincoln, lord high admiral of 
 England. 
 
 * Dr. Colet, dean of faint Paul's. 
 
 * Sir Thomas Elyot, the author. 
 
 * Henry Howard earl of Surrey ; younger than the pre- 
 ceding. 
 
 Edmund Montacute, a judges by Holbein: from fir R* 
 Walpole's collection. 
 
 * A gen- 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 61 
 
 * A gentleman, unknown. 
 
 * William Fitzwilliam earl of Southampton. 
 
 * Edward Stanley, earl of Derby. 
 
 * Borbonius, a French poet. 
 
 * Fifher, bifhop of Rochefter. Richardfon the painter 
 had another of thefe, which was engraved among the Jlluf- 
 trious Heads. 
 
 * Thomas Boleyn earl of Ormond, father of queen Anne 
 Boleyn. 
 
 On the fide oppofite to the chimney : 
 
 A fine and very valuable picture by Lucas de Heere, re- 
 prelenting Frances duchefs of Suffolk, mother of the lady 
 Jane Grey, and Adrian Stoke, her fecond hufband. This 
 picture was in the collection of the earl of Oxford, and was 
 engraved by Vertue : Vide Walpoles Anecdotes of Painting. 
 
 Philip and Mary, copied in water-colours by Vertue, from 
 the original by Antonio More, at the duke of Bedford's at 
 Woob urn-abbey. 
 
 A {ingle combat before the emperor Maximilian, in terra 
 cotta, by Albert Durer. 
 
 Anthony king of Navarre, father of Henry 4th. by Janet. 
 
 The marechal de Montluc, who wrote the Commentaries : 
 by ditto. 
 
 A very fmall head of a man, in a round j by Holbein. 
 
 * Lord Wentworth. 
 
 R *Lord 
 
62 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 * Lord chancellor Rich. 
 
 * Lady Rich, his wife. 
 
 * Sir Thomas Wyat, the poet. 
 
 * George Brook lord Cobham. 
 
 * Edward 6th. when a child; very like Henry 8th. 
 
 * Jane Seymour. 
 
 Frobenius, the printer, in a round. 
 
 Melancthon, ditto; by Holbein : very fine. 
 
 A man's head with a black beard ; ditto. 
 
 Margaret queen of Scots, daughter of Henry 7th. copied 
 by Vertue from the picture at Hampton-court. 
 
 Jane Gray; by ditto, from the original, that was the 
 duke of Somerfet's. 
 
 Head of Henry 8th. with a watch at his neck, carved in 
 box by Holbein. 
 
 * John Ruffel, firft earl of Bedford. 
 
 * Anne Savage lady Berkeley. She held up the train of 
 Anne Boleyn, at her coronation : Vide StoivesCbron. p. 543. 
 
 * Sir W. Sherrington, mafter of the mint, whence he 
 furnifhed admiral Seymour with money. 
 
 * Sir John Gage. 
 
 * Sir Richard Southwell, one of the accufers of the earl 
 of Surrey. 
 
 * Queen Mary, when princefs. 
 
 * Thomas duke of Norfolk; beheaded in the reign of 
 Elizabeth : young. 
 
 Holbein 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 63 
 
 Holbein ; in a round. ] 
 
 AnneBoleyn; ditto. ] Copies by Eckardt. 
 
 Charlotte, daughter of Francis ift. died at five years of 
 age ; by Janet : fine. From fir Luke Schaub's collection. 
 
 Lord Darnley , by Vertue, from the original at Hampton- 
 court. 
 
 A young man's head; by Holbein. 
 
 Leonora, queen of Portugal, fifter of Charles 5th. and 
 afterwards fecond wife of Francis ift. 
 
 Henry 8th. fine whole figure in terra cotta, by Holbein ; 
 from lady Elizabeth Germaine's collection. 
 Pictures in the alcove : 
 
 The triumph of Riches ; by Frederic Zucchero, from the 
 original of Holbein that was in the Steel-yard. Henry 8 th. 
 in the character of Crcefus, and one of his queens, I believe 
 Anne Boleyn, follow the carr. Vide a defcription of this and 
 the next in the Anecdotes of Painting, vol. 1 . 
 
 The triumph of Poverty ; ditto. Thefe drawings, inva- 
 luable by the originals being loft, were purchafed from Buck- 
 ingham-houfe, when fir Charles Sheffield fold it to the king. 
 
 A man's head with a red beard, in the manner of Holbein. 
 
 Claude de Clermont fieur de Dampierre; by Janet. 
 
 Thomas lord Cromwell, in a round, after Holbein. 
 
 Lord keeper Bacon j by Vertue. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Roper, daughter of fir T. More j copied 
 out of the great pidture of the family, by Vertue. 
 
 Mary 
 
64 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Over the door, Mary queen of Scots, a head ; on her ruff, 
 the arms of France and England. 
 
 Between the door and the fcreen : 
 
 Henry the 8th. three quarters ; a prefent from the reverend 
 Mr. Pennicott. 
 
 Henry due de Longueville ; in crayons. 
 
 Sir John Godfalve, knight of the carpet; after Holbein. 
 
 A drawing of architecture ; by ditto. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wyat ; by Vertue. 
 
 A man's head ; an original drawing, by Holbein. 
 
 A man in a mafquerade habit; ditto. 
 
 Louis nth. an original: his prayer-book opens in the 
 fhape of a heart. 
 
 A carpet worked by Mrs. Catharine Clive, the celebrated 
 comedian. 
 
 The GALLERY. 
 
 T?IFTY-fix feet long, feventeen high, and thirteen wide 
 without the five recefles. The cieling is taken from one 
 of the fide ifles of Henry 7th's. chapel. In the windows, 
 painted by Peckitt, are all the quarterings of the family. 
 The great door is copied from the north door of faint Al- 
 bans, and the two fmaller are parts of the fame defign. The 
 fide with recefles, which are finiihed with a gold net-work 
 
 over 
 
S T R AW B E RRY-H ILL. 6$ 
 
 over looking-glafs, is taken from the tomb of archbifhop 
 Bourchier at Canterbury. The chimney-piece was defigned 
 by Mr. John Chute, and Mr. Thomas Pitt of Boconnoch. 
 The room is hung with crimfon Norwich damafk : the 
 chairs, fettees, and long ftools are of the fame, mounted on 
 black and gold frames. The carpet made at Moorfields. 
 
 Eaft end : 
 
 Laura and Charlotte Walpole, eldeft and youngeft daugh- 
 ters of fir Edward Walpole, and wives of Frederic Keppel 
 
 bifhop of Exeter, and of Talmach earl of Dyfart; 
 
 Mrs Keppel in white, lady Dyfart in pink : by Ramfay. 
 
 Marriage of Henry 7th. and Elizabeth of York ; by Ma- 
 beufe : Vide Anecdotes of Painting. 
 
 Sir Francis Walfingham, with a view of his houfe at Scad- 
 bury in Kent; by Frederic Zucchero. This picture has 
 been engraved by Houbraken amongft the Illuftrious heads. 
 
 Sir George Villiers, leaning his hand on the head of a 
 greyhound. He was father of George duke of Buckingham', 
 and lord Clarendon relates a ftory of his ghoft. This is a 
 very fine picture. 
 
 George duke of Buckingham, his fon $ a very fine head> 
 by Rubens : the garter is put on the wrong way. 
 
 Admiral Montagu, earl of Sandwich ; by fir Peter Lelyr 
 very good head. 
 
 Holy family, with boy angels, in a landfcape y by Van 
 
 S Artoifi 
 
66 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Artois, fcholar of Rubens : from fir Robert Walpole's col- 
 lection. 
 
 Infide of an ancient Flemish houfe. 
 
 A cheft of old japan inlaid with mother of pearl. 
 
 Two coins of old japan with marble flabs : on one, 
 
 A bronze of Moles, after Michael Angelo : 
 
 A light blue pot pourri of Seve, mounted in or moulu : 
 
 Two octagon bafons, Saxon, old china pattern. 
 
 On the other, a bufr. of a woman ; another pot pourri ; 
 and two Saxon bafons. 
 
 Chimney fide, left hand : 
 
 Virgin and child, after the picture of Dominichino ; by 
 John Davis, efq; of Watlington. 
 
 Mr. Leneve, mailer of the company of merchant taylors : 
 a molt bright and pure picture, by Cornelius Janfen. 
 
 Marguerite de Valois, duchefie de Savoie, filler of Henry 
 2d. of France •, he was killed at the tournament for her wed- 
 ding ; by fir Antonio More. This picture belonged to king 
 Charles ill. In one niche, 
 
 Maria, fecond daughter of fir Edward Walpole, widow 
 of James earl of Waldegrave, and wife of William Henry 
 duke of Gloucefter, brother of king George 3d. by fir Jo- 
 Ihua Reynolds. 
 
 John Law, inventor of the Miflifipi-fcheme, and prime 
 minifter to the regent Philip duke of Orleans: one of the 
 beft of Rofalba's works. 
 
 Francis 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 67 
 
 Francis Seymour Conway earl of Hertford ; by ditto. 
 
 Death of admiral Sandwich ; by Scott. 
 
 Views, of Kirkftall-abbey, and of a church near Boulogne 
 in France ; by ditto. 
 
 The eagle, found in the gardens of Boccapadugli within 
 the precinct of Caracalla's baths at Rome, in the year 1742. 
 One of the fineft pieces of Greek fculpture in the world, and 
 reckoned fuperior to the eagle in the villa Mattei. There 
 are extremely few fine ftatues of animals ; the chief are thefe 
 two eagles, the Tufcan boar, the Barberini goat, and the 
 dog belonging to Mr. Jennings of Shiplake. The boldnefs, 
 and yet great finilhing of this ftatue, are incomparable j the 
 eyes inimitable. Mr. Gray has drawn the flagging wing.* 
 It flands on a handfome antique fepulchral altar, adorned 
 with eagles too. 
 
 Frances Bridges, daughter of the lord Chandos, and fe- 
 cond wife of Thomas Cecil earl of Exeter, on whofe left 
 hand fhe refufed to lie on his tomb in Weftminfter-abbey. 
 This picture, which is an excellent one of Vandyck, belong- 
 ed to Richard fon the painter, who has written a difTertation 
 of eight pages on it in one of his books.-)- 
 
 A young 
 
 * Ode on the Power of Poetry. 
 
 f This lady was moft falfely accufed of many crimes, of which fhe was en- 
 tirely innocent, and acquitted ; of which fee an account in Granger's Biogra- 
 phical Hiftory of Engliih portraits, vol. i, p. 548. 
 
68 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 A young man ; by fir Godfrey Kneller : quaere, if not his 
 own portrait ? From the collection of Sclater Bacon of 
 C amb ridge (h ire. 
 
 Over a door, Catharine Sidley countefs of Dorcb.efr.er, 
 miftrefs of James 2d. and mother of the duchefs of Bucking- 
 ham ; by Dahl. 
 
 Madame de Sevigne : a head. 
 
 A girl fcowering pots ; a curious picture, being painted 
 by Watteau in the ityle of Rembrandt. 
 
 A landfcape by Muntz, painted in encauftic, which he 
 improved from count Caylus's rules. 
 
 Thomas earl of Arundel, and his grandfon cardinal How- 
 ard ; in water-colours, by Vertue, after Vandyck. 
 Right hand of the chimney : 
 
 Leneve, alderman of Norwich ; fon of the foregoing 
 
 Leneve. The befl piclure fir Peter Lely ever painted, and 
 as fine as Vandyck's countefs of Exeter, before-mentioned. 
 
 His wife, in blue j ditto. 
 
 John lord Sheffield, hufband of lady Douglas Sheffield, on 
 whofe account it was furmifed that he was poifoned by R. 
 earl of Leicefter ; by Ant. More : from Buckingham-houfe. 
 
 Henry Jermyn, earl of faint Alban's, favourite, and, as fir 
 John Rerefby fays, fecond hufband of queen Henrietta Ma- 
 ria : I believe by old Stone. 
 
 James earl of Waldegrave ; by Reynolds. 
 
 Bacha 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 6g 
 
 - Bacha Bonneval ; by Liotard. 
 
 Henry Fox, lord Holland ; by ditto. 
 
 Sea-piece; views, of Briftol-crofs, and of a gothic farm 
 near Marble-hill, belonging to the countefs of Suffolk, and 
 deiigned by Richard Bentley : all by Sam. Scott. 
 
 Vefpalian, in bifaltes j a noble buft, bought out of the 
 collection of cardinal Ottoboni. It ftands on a Roman fe- 
 pulchral altar, on which, in bas-relief, is a man facrificing, 
 with this infcription, 
 
 TI. CLAVDIVS AVG. L. 
 
 DOCILIS 
 
 AEDITVS AEDIS 
 
 FORTVNAE TVLLIANAE. 
 
 Over a door, Anne Hyde duchefs of York - } by Mrs. Beale, 
 after fir Peter Lely. 
 
 Lady Sophia Farmor, eldeft daughter of Thomas earl of 
 Pomfret, and fecond wife of John earl Granville, prime 
 minifter to George 2d. by Rofalba. She is drawn as Juno. 
 
 Two men cheating another at cards j by John Miel : very 
 good. 
 
 A landfcape, in encauftic ; by Muntz. 
 
 Weft end : 
 
 A large piece of Catharine de* Medici and her children, 
 Charles 9th. Henry 3d. the duke d'Alencon, and Margaret 
 queen of Navarre j whole lengths, by Janet- 
 
 T Griffiere, 
 
7 o A DESCRIPTION op 
 
 Griffiere, the painter ; by Zouft : the i'attin on the arm 
 remarkably well painted. 
 
 A young man's head, aet. 18 ; admirable nature : by Gior- 
 gione. 
 
 A pot of flowers, highly finifhed, yet very free ; by old 
 Baptift. 
 
 Sevonyans, the painter, by himfelf j a very fine head. 
 
 Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk, and Mary queen of 
 France. This pifture was Lord Granville's. Kent defigned 
 the frame. 
 
 Tobit burying the dead. And when T obit found any dead, 
 he buried them without the walls of ferufalem : by Benedetto 
 Caftiglione. 
 
 A coin of old japan ; on it, bufls of Julia Domna, Julia 
 Titi, and Cicero; the latter a prefent from ladyHervey; a 
 flat vafe of white, blue, and gold Seve china, with cover and 
 handles. 
 
 Another coin, ditto -, ftatue of Harpocrates and Telefpho- 
 rus ; Antinous, Greek work ; and Zenocrates, a prefent 
 from general Conway ; a flat vafe, like the former. 
 
 Window fide: 
 
 Thomas lord Howard of Bindon, father of Frances duchefs 
 of Richmond and Lenox ; whole length, in robes of the 
 garter. 
 
 Lodowic Stuart, duke of Richmond and Lenox ; ditto : 
 
 thefe 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL 71 
 
 thefe two laft came out of Luton-houfe in Bedfordshire, 
 .where the latter lived. 
 
 Frances duchefs of Richmond and Lenox. See a curious 
 account of this great lady in Wilfons Reign of King James the 
 Firji. This picture came from Eafton-Neiton, the feat of 
 Thomas earl of Pomfret. By Mark Garrard. 
 
 Henry Carey lord Falkland, deputy of Ireland, and father 
 of the famous Lucius lord Falkland ; in white, by Vanfomer. 
 
 Mrs. Catharine Phillips, the poetefs; ahead: it belong- 
 ed to Charles earl of Halifax. 
 
 Philip Villiers de Lifle Adam, the laft grand mafter of 
 Rhodes, which he defended two years againft Soliman the 
 Magnificent and a prodigious army : a head. 
 
 A view of Mount Orgueil in Jerfeyj by Richard Bent- 
 ley, efq; 
 
 Heads in the upper line, begin from the left : 
 
 Vandyck. Richard Rigby, paymafter of the forces and 
 mafter of the Rolls in Ireland, by Eckardt. Prior, the poet. 
 Cooke, the painter; by himfelf. General Edward Corn- 
 wallis, governor of Gibraltar and groom of the bedchamber 
 to George 2d. by Eckardt. Pearce, fenior, ftatuary. Wal- 
 ler, the poet. Horatio lord Walpole, younger brother of 
 fir Robert Walpole ; by Vanloo. Mr. Chiffinch, privy-purfe 
 to Charles 2d. by Riley. Dobfon, the painter. George 
 Keppel, third earl of Albemarle ; by Eckardt. Sir Nicholas 
 
 Dorigny, 
 
72 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Dorigny, the engraver. Van Wyck, the younger, painter. 
 George Montagu, efq; by Eckardt, after Vanloo. Dahl, 
 the painter. Anne Clifford,* countefs of Dorfet, Pembroke 
 and Montgomery. 
 
 Thomas Howard duke of Norfolk, beheaded for the caufe 
 of the queen of Scotts. In this picture he is young, and it 
 was probably painted in the reign of Edward 6th. before he 
 was reftored in blood, for there are his arms without a co- 
 ronet, and yet on his handkerchief are an N and a f, to 
 mark his title and his religion. 
 
 A fea-piece j by Scott. 
 
 Bronzes in the windows ; an Ibis : a Ceres with filver 
 eyes, and a cow in her lap : the Laocoon : Antinous on a 
 tripod : an oftrich, very fpirited. 
 
 Two tables of folid granite, from the Farnefe gardens at 
 Rome ; the frames black and gold, from a tomb in Wefl- 
 minfter-abbey. 
 
 On the firft table, bufls of Marcus Aurelius : Domitilla, 
 wife of Vefpafian, exceedingly rare : a Camillus or facri- 
 ficing prieft. Beneath, a bronze from John of Boulogne's 
 rape of the Sabines : two antique urns of marble ; that, with 
 a cover heavily defigned by Kent, belonged to Brian Fairfax. 
 
 On the other table, bufts of Julia Maefaj Fauftina fenior; 
 and Antonia Claudii Mater ; very rare. Beneath, the liften- 
 
 ing 
 
 * See an account of her in the fecond vol. of Royal and Noble Authors. 
 
STRAWBERRY- HILL. ji 
 
 ing flave in bronze ; and two antique urns of jnarble ; on 
 one this infcription. pailiovi. ritio filio svo qvi bxsit 
 
 ANNIS XX FECIT SIB I, 
 
 Two commodes of old japan with marble ilabs; on one, 
 a vafe, boat-fhaped, of deep blue Seve china, mounted in or 
 moulu with fnake handles ; two large vafes,, ditto, of Roman 
 fayence finely painted, and infcribed, Fatte irr botega de 
 Qratio Fontanel. 
 
 On the other commode, another blue vafe like the former; 
 and two bottles of blue and white and gold Seve china, moffc 
 beautifully defigned and ornamented. 
 
 A mother of pearl box,, with fifties and counters of the 
 fame; a prefent from Mrs.. Clive. 
 
 The ROUND DRAWING-ROOM. 
 
 TTUNG with crimfon Norwich damalk : the chairs of 
 Aubuffon tapeftry, flowers on a white ground ; the 
 frames green and gold. 
 
 The defign of the chimney-piece is taken from the tomb 
 of Edward the ConfefTor, improved by Mr. Adam, and beau- 
 tifully executed in white marble inlaid with fcagliuola,, by, 
 Richter. The dogs are filver : on the chimney are three 
 large jars and two beakers, of filver alfo, bought at the auc- 
 tion of lady Eliz. Germayne ; on the middle one is the rape 
 
 U of. 
 
74 A DESCRIPTION ov 
 
 of the Sabines emboffed. Two filver fconces, with hiftories, 
 on the fides. 
 
 A fcreen, worked in Chenille, to fuit with the chimney, 
 by the countefs of Ailefbury. 
 
 The cieling is taken from a round window in old faint 
 Paul's ; the freeze was defigned by Mr. Adam. 
 
 In the great bow window is a large fhield of the arms of 
 Robert Dudley earl of Leicefter; under it a thornbufh with 
 H R, the device of Henry 7th ; the arms of queen Eliza- 
 beth, on the left hand, from Eflex-houfe in the Strand ; 
 rofes ; other arms of nobility ; and fix fine pieces, by a fcho- 
 lar of Price, from Raphael's bible. The furbafe of the win- 
 dow is taken from the tomb of queen Eleanor in Weftmin- 
 fter-abbey. 
 
 Over the chimney, lady Dorothy Percy countefs of Lei- 
 cefter, in red, and her fifter lady Lucy, the famous countefs 
 of Carlifle ; a very capital picture of Vandyck, fold out of 
 Penfhurft by lady Yonge, when me inherited half of that an- 
 cient feat by the will of lady Brownlow. Mr. Hoare of 
 Stourhead offered the lail earl of Leicefter of the Sidney fa- 
 mily an hundred pounds for this picture. 
 
 Over the door, Mrs. Lemon, miftrefs of Vandyck, with 
 a fword, as Judith j by Vandyck j bought out of Bucking- 
 ham-houfe : very boldly and freely painted. 
 
 Bianca 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 75 
 
 Bianca Capello ; by Vafari ; bought out of the Vitelli pa- 
 lace at Florence by fir Horace Mann, and fent to Mr. Wal- 
 pole : the hands never finiihed. Her ftory is thus written 
 in a cartouche on the frame. Bianca Capello, a Venetian 
 lady, who having difobliged her family by marrying a Florentine 
 banker, was reduced to maintain him by wajhing linen ; Francis 
 the great duke, Jaw, fell in love with, and niade her his mif- 
 trefs, and her hufband his minijler : but the latter, after num- 
 berlefs tyrannies, for which Jhe obtained his pardon, and after 
 repeated ill ufage of her, for which Jhe pardoned him, having 
 murdered a ?nan, and being again protected by her, the great 
 duke told her, that though he would remit her hufband' s pun- 
 i/hment, he would pardon whoever Jhould kill him. The rela- 
 tions of the deceafed murdered the ajfafjin, and Francis married 
 his widow Bianca, who was poifoned with him at a banquet by 
 cardinal Ferdinand, afterwards called the Great, brother and 
 fucceffor of duke Francis. 
 
 Jacob travelling from Laban ; very fine ; by Salvator Rofa : 
 a prefent from the fame. 
 
 The education of Jupiter ; by Nicolo Pouffin. This pic- 
 ture coft fir Robert Walpole an hundred and fourteen pounds. 
 
 A mod beautiful landfcape -, by Paul Brill. 
 
 A piece of rocks, with the temple of Tivoli ', by Gobbo 
 Caracci. 
 
 A trunk of tortoifhell and bronze j by Boul, on a frame of 
 
 the fame j a fmall jar of Seve china under it. 
 
 A tea 
 
76 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 A tea-table of old japan, with white china. 
 Two old japan coffers on gilt frames. 
 
 The TRIBUNE. 
 
 "IT is a fquare with a femicircular recefs in the middle of 
 each fide, painted Hone-colour with gilt ornaments, and 
 with windows and niches, the latter taken from thofe on the 
 fides of the north door of the great church at faint Albans ^ 
 the roof, which is taken from the chapter-houfe at York, is 
 terminated by a ftar of yellow glafs that throws a golden 
 gloom all over the room, and with the painted windows 
 gives it the folemn air of a rich chapel. The windows con- 
 tain a head of Chrift and two apoftles, one in the middle of 
 each, fet round with four hiftories, all old, but finely re-co- 
 loured by Price, and furrounded with moft beautiful mofaics 
 of the pureft tafle. In five of the niches, on pedeftals, are, 
 I. A cart in plaifter bronzed of Catharine lady Walpole, 
 the model of her llatue in Weftminfler-abbey, executed at 
 Rome by Valory, and taken from the Livia or Pudicitia in 
 the villa Mattei. 2. The Venus of Medici. 3. Antinous,. 
 4. The Apollo Belvedere. 5. The Farnefe Flora in bronze. 
 In the windows, fix fmaller bronzes from ancient ftatues ; a 
 Chinefe incenfe-box of bronze -, and two pots pourri of red 
 japan fet in or moulu and furmounted with Indian figures by 
 
 Martin. 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 77 
 
 Martin. The carpet is taken from the mofaic of the win- 
 dows, and in the middle has the reflection from the ftar in 
 the cieling. The grated door was defigned by Mr. Thomas 
 Pitt. 
 
 On the right hand {lands an altar of black and gold, with 
 a marble flab of the fame colours, taken from the tomb of 
 two children of Edward 3d. in Weflminfler-abbey. On the 
 altar, a Florentine box inlaid with hard ftones, a prefent 
 from fir Horace Mann : two moll beautiful vafes in pafle,. 
 imitating root of amethyfl and ornamented with vines and 
 heads of goats, by Germaine of Paris : a filver difh of bafket- 
 work, and two candlefltcks of German agate, prefents from 
 general H. S. Conway. On the fides, two filver fconces with 
 the arms of Frances Pelham * vifcountefs Caftlecomer ; and 
 two vafes of ivory from the antique, carved by Verikovis. 
 Over the altar, 
 
 A cabinet of rofe-wood, defigned by Mr. Walpole; on 
 the pediment, ilatues in ivory of Fiamingo, Inigo Jones, 
 and Palladio, by Verikovis, after the models of Ryfbrach. 
 In the pediment, Mr. Walpole's arms, a cupid and lion, by 
 the fame : on the doors, bas-reliefs in ivory, Herodias with 
 the head of the baptut, by Gibbons j a lady, half-length, by 
 the fame ; Perfeus and Andromeda j the Hercules Farnefe j 
 
 X the 
 
 * Sifter of Thomas duke of Newcaftle; fh.e died, and is buried at Twickenham-. 
 
7 8 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 the Flora ; Diomede with the Palladium ; the Medufa of 
 Strozzi; the Perfeus of ditto ; Caracalla and Alexander, by 
 Pozzo; and eight other heads. On the drawer, the Barbe- 
 rini lion, by Pozzo ; and heads of eagles, by Verfkovis. 
 Within the cabinet of enamels and miniatures : 
 
 The virgin and child, in miniature, round -, by old Lens, 
 from the original by Annibal Caracci, at Kenfington. 
 
 Head of Chrift ; by Carlo Dolce -, in a rich frame of filver 
 gilt and filver cherubim. 
 
 Venus, Cupid, and other figures in enamel ; by Boit, from 
 the original by Luca Giordano, at Devonfhire-houfe. 
 
 Ethelreda Harrifon, wife of Charles vifcount Townmend j 
 a capital piece of enamel, by Zincke, after Vanloo j fet in 
 a frame of enamel flowers in relief: on the back, her arms 
 fupported by Cupids, enamelled by Groth. 
 
 A fine old enamelled watch-cafe, after Raphael and Do- 
 minichino. 
 
 Emperor Jofeph ift. fmall. 
 
 Colonel Horatio Walpole, uncle of fir Robert Walpole j 
 fmall. 
 
 The duchefTes of Cleveland and Portfmouth ; very fmall. 
 
 Sir Edward Walpole, father of Maria duchefs of Glou- 
 cefter, in enamel ; by Zincke. 
 
 Galfridus Walpole, youngefl brother of fir Robert Wal- 
 pole i in water-colours. 
 
 Byzas, 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 79 
 
 Byzas, imaginary founder of Byzantium; large intaglia 
 on onyx. M.* 
 
 A valuable jewel of lord Burleigh's head on onyx, by Va- 
 lerio Vicentino, cut on the reverfe of an antique of Cara- 
 calla; appendent is the head of queen Elizabeth, cut like- 
 wife on fardonyx, by the fame Vicentino; the whole fet 
 with 52 brilliants : given to Mr. Walpole by his father, who 
 bought it of fir Andrew Fountaine, who had it fet on pur- 
 pofe, with allufion to queen Caroline and fir Robert Walpole. 
 
 Sir Robert Walpole, earl of Orford ; very like ; painted 
 in enamel by Zincke, two years before fir Robert's death : fet 
 in a frame of enamelled oak-leaves. 
 
 Catharine Shorter, firft wife of fir Robert Walpole ; ditto, 
 after fir Godfrey Kneller : fet with enamel flowers. The 
 two heads are in Zincke's bell manner, and were engraved 
 for the w^des Walpolianas. 
 
 Mary Walpole, fecond daughter of fir Robert Walpole 
 and Catharine Shorter, and wife of George Cholmondeley 
 vifcount Malpas, afterwards earl of Cholmondeley ; in water- 
 colours ; by Groth, after Jarvis. 
 
 Lady Maria Walpole, only child of fir Robert Walpole 
 
 and Maria Skerret his fecond wife, married to Charles 
 
 Churchill, efq; in enamel ; by Zincke. 
 
 Horace 
 
 * All the curiofities marked M. belonged to Dr. Conyers Middleton, whofe 
 whole colle&ion Mr. Walpole bought. See an account of them in the doftor's 
 Germana quaedam Antiquitatis Monumenta. 
 
80 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Horace Walpole, [who made the collection] youngeft fon, 
 of fir R. Walpole and Catharine Shorter ; ditto. 
 
 Horatio Walpole, lord Walpole, brother of fir Robert; 
 in enamel ; by Groth, after Vanloo. 
 
 Two lockets in fhape of hearts, with hair of fir Robert 
 Walpole and Catharine Shorter, fet with diamonds. 
 
 An Egyptian duck j antique cameo, on agate. M. 
 
 A fleeping hermaphrodite with two fatyrs j ditto ; very 
 fine. M. 
 
 Sir Anthony Shirley, embafladoryn?/« the fophy of Perfia 
 to king James ift. drefs, half Englifh half Perfian ; by Ifaac 
 Oliver. 
 
 The queen of Bohemia; by Ifaac Oliver: bought out of 
 the collection of lady Ifabella Scott, daughter of the duchefs 
 of Monmouth. 
 
 Serjeant Maynard; by Hofkins : given to fir R. Walpole 
 by fir Everard Falkener. 
 
 Sir Kenelm Digby; by Peter Oliver: it was in do&or 
 Meade's collection. 
 
 James the ift. by Ifaac Oliver. 
 
 Charles ift. by Petitpt : fine. ' 
 
 Charles 2d. ditto ; in a cafe enamelled blue; done abroad: 
 bought of an old gentlewoman, to whom he gave it when 
 he ftood godfather to her in Holland. 
 
 James 2d. when duke of York j fine, by Petitot : bought 
 
 at 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 81 
 
 at the fale of Mrs. Dunch, daughter of his miftrefs, Mrs. 
 Godfrey. 
 
 Robert Cecil earl of Salifbury ; by Ifaac Oliver. 
 
 A lady's head, in enamel ; by Petitot. 
 
 Nicholas Burwell, brother of fir Jeffery Burwell, grand- 
 father of iir Robert Walpole ; by Hoikins : let in a cafe 
 with frnall diamonds, and enamelled with the judgment of 
 Paris in relief, very neat. 
 
 Mrs. Godfrey, mifirefs of king James, in enamel; by 
 Petitot : was Mrs. Dunch's. 
 
 Robert Devereux earl of Effex ; by Ifaac Oliver : it be- 
 longed to Frances lady Worfeley, who was defcended from 
 him. It was engraved for the 111 uftrious Heads. 
 
 Frances, his wife, daughter of fir Francis Walfingham, 
 widow of fir Philip Sydney, and lafily wife of the earl of 
 Clanrickard and faint Albans. 
 
 Robert Walpole, fecond earl of Orford ; painted in water- 
 colours by Rofalba with all the force of oil. 
 
 An elderly lady's head j by Cooper : fine. 
 
 Robert Carr earl of Somerfet, in his latter time, favourite 
 of king James ; by Holkins : bought at the fale of the cu- 
 rious colledion of T. Barrett of Lees in Kent, 1758. 
 
 Richard Cromwell, protector, in armour j by Cooper : 
 from the fame collection. 
 
 Marivaux, author of Marianne; by Liotard, in water- 
 colours. 
 
 Y George 
 
82 A DESCRIPTION or 
 
 George Walpole, third earl of Orford ; ditto. 
 
 John Chute, efq; of the Vine in Hampfhire ; finely paint- 
 ed in water-colours, by Pompeio Battoni, at Rome. 
 
 A watch enamelled with hiftories, after Pietro Cortona. 
 
 Another enamelled watch. 
 
 Admiral Churchill, brother of John duke of Marlborough •> 
 very finely enamelled by Boit : it belonged to his neice, 
 Mrs. Dunch. 
 
 A curious antique miniature in gold, of a Roman lady and 
 her fonj the boy has a bulla at his neck. M. 
 
 Lady Arabella Stuart ; by Hilliard : it was lord Wil- 
 mington's. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth ; ditto : ditto. 
 
 George the 2d. by Mr. Deacon. 
 
 Cowley, the poet, after fir Peter Lelyj byZincke; his 
 mafler-piece, and perhaps the hnefr. piece of enamel in the 
 world. It was engraved for Mr. Hurd's edition of Cowley. 
 
 A lady, faid to be Henrietta duchefs of Orleans, but pro- 
 bably Martinozzi, princefs of Conti: one of the nneft works 
 of Petitot. A looking-glafs behind it : bought of Zincke. 
 
 Bianca Capello, great duchefs of Tufcany -, a fmall head 
 in oil, by Bronzino. See her bijtary, p. 75. 
 
 Louis 14th : Mary of Auftria, his queen : Anne of Aus- 
 tria, his mother, very delicate : madame de Montefpan, his 
 miftrefs, beautiful. Thefe four arc fmall heads in enamel, 
 
 by Petitot. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 83 
 
 Mrs. Middleton, a beauty in the reign of Charles 2d. ditto. 
 
 Duchefie of Mazarin, in water-colours. 
 
 Conftant Hayes, wife of Galfridus Walpole, and after- 
 wards of Mr. Kerwood ; very fmall. 
 
 Katharine duchefs of Buckingham, daughter of James 2d. 
 in enamel j by Zincke : given to Mr. Walpole by her neice 
 madame de Bouzols, daughter of marfhal Berwick. 
 
 A filver gilt heart; within, the arms of fir Robert and 
 Catharine lady Walpole, his firft prefent to her on their 
 marriage. 
 
 Anne Boleyn j copied by Wale from a portrait of her by 
 Hofkins, which he did from an ancient pidhire of her for 
 king Charles ift. and which is mentioned in his catalogue 
 with other royal miniatures in the fame frame ; all which 
 are now in the poffeffion of the duke of Richmond, 
 
 Catharine Parr j by Holbein : a moft fcarce head, and 
 exactly like the pi&ure of her at the earl of Denbigh's at 
 Nuneham Padox, Warwickshire. 
 
 A girl with flowers, in water-colours j by Rofalba. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell ; by Boit, after Cooper : given to Mr. 
 Walpole by his brother lord Orford. 
 
 John Dodd, of Swallowfkld, Bucks, by Rouquet. 
 
 Catharine Clopton, wife of Henry Talbot, and coufin of 
 Catharine lady Walpole j by Zincke. 
 
 Jane Seymour ; by Holbein, in water-colours : was lady 
 
 Worfeley's. 
 
 Peter 
 
84 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Peter Oliver, profile in black lead, from a leaf of his own 
 pocket-book, and his wife, full-faced, on the other fide; 
 both line : it belonged to Vertue the engraver. 
 
 Lucius Carey, the famous lord Falkland ; by Hofkins ; 
 fine : it was doctor Meade's. 
 
 Doctor Bragge, a dealer in pictures ; by Mr. J. Deacon. 
 
 A Calcedonian ftone, antique, ufed as an ornament to a 
 horfe cf a triumphal chariot. M. 
 
 Another ftone ; defcribed in Germana quasdam. M. 
 On the infides of the doors : 
 
 Thomas Howard duke of Norfolk, beheaded temp. Eliza- 
 beth ; by Antonio More : belonged to Richardfon the paint- 
 er, and engraved amongfl the Illuftrious Heads. 
 
 A lady, painted by Holbein ; engraved by Hollar when in 
 the Arundelian collection, and probably Mary Tudor queen 
 of France, lifter of Henry 8th. but amongft the Illuftrious 
 Heads called Catharine Howard. This alfo was Richardfon's. 
 
 Lucy Barlow, alias Waters, mother of the duke of Mon- 
 mouth ; by Cooper. 
 
 Countels of Dorlet ; by Dixon. 
 
 Catharine of Arragon, firft wife of Henry 8th. an admira- 
 ble original ; by Holbein. Thefe three were bought at the 
 auction of lady Ifabella Scott. 
 
 Ifaac Oliver j by himfelf : perfectly fine. 
 
 Waller, the poet; by Cooper. And a lord Digby; ditto. 
 Thefe three from the collection of Mr. Barrett of Lees. 
 
 Liotard 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 85 
 
 Liotard, the painter, in his Turkifh drefs, in enamel; 
 by himfelf : given to Mr. Walpole by his lifter lady Mary 
 Churchill. 
 
 Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, a moft beautiful miniature 
 by Clinkfted ; given to Mr. Walpole by Mr. Chute : fet in 
 a gold frame enamelled blue. 
 
 A naked Venus, whole length, and very fine; copied by 
 Zincke from a picture of Annibal Caracci in the collection 
 at Houghton : fet in a frame like the former. 
 
 [End of the cabhtet of enamels and miniatures. 
 Other pictures and curiofities in the fame room : 
 
 Little children prefented to Chrift ; Italian, on copper. 
 
 The virgin, child, and faint John ; Baroccio, after Cor- 
 reggio. 
 
 The virgin and Child ; by Carlo Cignani : from lord 
 Cholmondeley's collection. 
 
 Head of a cardinal, and an old man's head ; rounds, on 
 fayence. 
 
 A fine dim, enamelled on copper, with the hiftory of 
 Mofes. P. R. 1557. 
 
 A fayence difh, painted in grotefque. 
 
 Rembrandt ; by old Lens. 
 
 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, as a fhepherdefs ; after 
 Jarvis, by ditto. 
 
 Two vafes carved in ivory, by Verfkovis, after the an- 
 tique. 
 
 Z Queen 
 
U A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Queen Anne of Denmark, and a lady of the fame time; 
 by Ifaac Oliver : in one frame. 
 
 Louis 1 2th. of France, and fir John Gage; by Holbein: 
 in another frame. Thefe four from the collection of lady 
 Elizabeth Germaine. 
 
 Margaret of Auftria, daughter of Charles 5th. in a white 
 religious habit ; enamelled on copper, in a round : behind 
 it, Moles receiving the law ; enamelled on gold. 
 
 Henry d'Albret, king of Navarre, grandfather of Henry 
 4th. in enamel. Thefe two were prefents to Mr. Walpole 
 from Mifs Rachael Loyd, and belonged to the princefs So- 
 phia, mother of king George ift. 
 
 In the glafs-cafe near the window : 
 
 A chalice of filver gilt, richly ornamented with figures, 
 jewels, and chryftal. 
 
 Model of the fhrine of Thomas Becket, enamelled. 
 
 An amber jewel box. 
 
 Great feal of Theodore king of Corfica. 
 
 That very curious piece by which he took the benefit of 
 the adt of infolvency : he is only filled, Theodore Stephen 
 baron de NewhofF. 
 
 His capitulations made with the people of Corfica, on his 
 election, figned by his own hand. 
 
 An antique figure of the deity of gardens ; fine. 
 
 Two phalli, a fibula, two facrificing infiruments, and a 
 fmall eagle; all of bronze. M. 
 
 Gold 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. t 7 
 
 Gold medal of Maximilian, with a chain enamelled. 
 
 A crofs of cedar inlaid with mother of pearl. 
 
 A fmall gold watch, given by George 2d. when prince of 
 Wales to Catharine lady Walpole, 
 
 A coffer enamelled on all fides with battles, and fet in 
 filver gilt. 
 
 Two caudle-cups, with flowers on gold grounds, of Chel- 
 fea porcelaine. 
 
 A red fnuff-box, with enamelled top and bottom ; given 
 to Mr. W. by Francis earl of Hertford. 
 
 A fquare fnuff-box of lapis lazuli, fet in gold. 
 
 A round fnuff-box of ditto, fet in gold enamelled. 
 
 A fmall bull of Vefpafian in cornelian. 
 
 An agate cup and faucer. 
 
 A fmall cornelian faucer. 
 . Two antique Roman ear-rings, one with a pearl, the other 
 ©f gold. M. 
 
 A box in compartments of old japan. 
 
 A fmall buft in bronze of Caligula, with filver eyes. This 
 exquifite piece is one of the fineft things in the collection, 
 and fhews the great art of the ancients. " It is evidently a 
 portrait, carefully done, and feems to reprefent that emperor 
 at the beginning of his madnefs. It was found with fome 
 other fmall bulls at the very firft difcovery of Herculaneum, 
 which happened by digging a well for the prince d'Elbceuf, 
 
 who 
 
83 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 who refided many years afterwards at Florence, where It was 
 fold on his return to France, and being purchafed by fir 
 Horace Mann, was by him fent to Mr. Walpole. 
 
 A broken patera engraved. M. 
 
 A facrificing inftrument in the fhape of a (hell. M. 
 
 A Roman bulla of gold, very rare : bought at Rome of 
 Ficaroni, who wrote his book of La Bolla d'oro from this. 
 
 A lady's head, miniature, fet in gold : given to Mr. Wal- 
 pole by Ifabella de Jonghe, countefs of Denbigh. 
 
 A chryftal fceptre, fet in gold enamelled, with pearls; 
 from lady E. Germayne's collection, and given to Mr. Wal- 
 pole by her neice lady Temple. 
 
 A cup and faucer of Seve china, blue ground with white 
 heads and feftoons. 
 
 A drefling-box and tray of the fined old filver japan. 
 
 Two caudle-cups of Chelfea china, claret colour and gold. 
 
 A magnificent miflal, with miniatures by Raphael and his 
 fcholars, fet in gold enamelled, and adorned with rubies 
 and turquoifes -, the fides are of cornelian, engraved with 
 religious fubjedts ; the clafp, a large garnet. This precious 
 prayer-book belonged to Claude queen of France, wife of 
 Francis id. and feems to have belonged to the father of 
 Thuanus; vide vol. i, p. 142, of the French edition. It was 
 purchafed by Mr. Walpole from the collection of do«flor 
 Meade, 1755. 
 
 A round 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 89 
 
 A round fnuff-box, enamelled with the ftories of Jofeph 
 and Potiphar's wife, Sufannah and the elders, Lot and his 
 daughters, and a landfcape. 
 
 A gold fnuff-box, enamelled : at top, a miniature of 
 James 1 ft- and within, of queen Elizabeth; an onyx at 
 bottom. 
 
 A fmall fnuff-box fet in gold, with a fragment of a fine 
 antique cameo in grotefque foliage on fardonyx; from the 
 Arundelian collection. 
 
 A needle-cafe, with monkies, ofoldjapam 
 
 Two boxes in compartments, ditto. 
 
 Two fmall ewers of bronze. M. 
 
 A tea-kettle of Chinefe filver, richly chafed.. 
 
 An agate oval cafket. 
 
 Henry 8th's. dagger, of Turkifh work; the blade is of 
 fteel damalked with gold, the cafe and handle of chalce- 
 donyx, fet with diamonds and many rubies. From the col- 
 lection of lady Elizabeth Germaine. The duchefs of Port- 
 land has fuch. another fet with jacinths. 
 
 Antique figure of a mufe caff in filver ;: fitting: given to 
 Mr. Walpole by lord Frederic Campbell, from the collection 
 of his father John duke of ArgylL 
 
 Four fmall japan boxes.. 
 
 A boy's head modelled in wax on copper, by Abraham 
 Simon. 
 
 A ditto with a bulla, in Roman glafs- 
 
 A a A large: 
 
9 o A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 A large amethyft, fet coarfely in gold. It belonged to 
 the fecond bifhop of LandafF, and was given by doctor John 
 Ewer bifhop of LandafF, in whole time * it was found, to 
 doctor Frederic Keppel bifhop of Exeter, and by him to his 
 wife's uncle Mr. Walpole. 
 
 One of the only feven mourning rings given at the burial 
 of Charles ift. It has the king's head in miniature ; behind, 
 a death's head between the letters C. R. The motto, Pre- 
 pared be to follow me. A prefent to Mr. Walpole from lady 
 Murray Elliot. 
 
 An urn, cameo on onyx, mourning ring for Henrietta 
 Hobart countefs of Suffolk. 
 
 An urn fet with diamonds, mourning ring for Arthur 
 Onflow, fpeaker of the houfe of commons. 
 
 A chimera, antique intaglia, a green ftone in the ancient 
 brafs fetting. 
 
 A fmall antique ring with the head of Cybele, all of one 
 piece of gold. 
 
 A gold ring for a child with a phallus -, ditto. 
 
 A boy with his head in a fcenic mafk, on a red ftone ; 
 antique, fet in gold. 
 
 An Egyptian pebble reprefenting exactly the portrait of a 
 woman in profile, a rock behind her, fky before; fet in 
 gold. 
 
 Two 
 * Anno 1764. 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 91 
 
 Two pateras of bronze, engraved. M. 
 
 Ivory covers of a Roman pocket-book. JVL 
 
 A fibula, a fmall votive foot, an agate ornament for a bri- 
 dle, and fome other fmall bronzes. M. 
 In the other glafs cafe : 
 
 A leaf of a water-plant, gracefully tied up into the fhape 
 of a cup, with a faucer, of Chinefe bronze. 
 
 Two vafes of Chelfea porcelaine, claret colour, gold and 
 white, with cartouches of hiftoric figures. 
 
 Two long japan boxes 
 
 Two Roman fpears, a votive foot and toe. 
 
 A point cravat carved by Gibbons. 
 
 An old enamelled watch, given by Mr. Ch. Churchill, 
 junior. 
 
 A friver gilt reliquaire and chain j given to Mr. Walpole 
 by George lord Edgcumbe. 
 
 An Etrufcan Mars ; very barbarous. 
 
 A fmall Egyptian figure fitting, of bifaltes. M. 
 
 A naked man. M. 
 
 The feal of archbifhop Dowdall, laft popifh primate of 
 Ireland j in filver. 
 
 Two cups and a faucer of Milan ftone. 
 
 Two caudle-cups of Chelfea porcelaine, blue with gold 
 figures. 
 
 A japan pomatum-pot. 
 
 A fmall 
 
92 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 A fmall bloodftone cup fet in gold enamelled. 
 
 A fmall cornelian box fet in gold. 
 
 A triangular cornelian feal, with the heads of the two 
 Fauftinas and Lucilla, intaglias ; by Chriftian Reifin. 
 
 A filver feal, extremely ancient, of Hugh Oneal, king of 
 Ulfter ; brought out of Ireland by Mr. William Briftow. 
 
 A large ancient gold ring, with a caftle on it, and within, 
 XJn bon An : found in the Thames. 
 
 A cornelian feal, with half figure of Omphale ; antique 
 intaglia. M. 
 
 Seal of Richard Clitherol, admiral for the weft coafts in 
 the reign of Henry 5th. 
 
 Seal for indulgences of pope Eugenius.. 
 
 Seal of the corporation of Pool. 
 
 Seal of the fraternity of faint Mary of Hitchin. Thefe 
 four are of bronze and ancient. 
 
 A fpoon of Engliih pebble, with gold handle of foliage. 
 
 A filver bottle for efTences, that opens into feveral diviiions.. 
 
 A fmall buft of Omphale in bronze. 
 
 A round flat box of filver philigree. 
 
 A toothpick-cafe of Egyptian pebble, and a fmelling-bot- 
 tle of agate. 
 
 A fet of beads mounted in filver philigree, taken in Spain 
 in queen Anne's war by captain Galfridus Walpole, brother 
 of fir Robert. 
 
 A filver 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 93 
 
 A filver popilh medal mounted in philigree. 
 
 A cup and faucer of Seve porcelaine, blue with white heads. 
 
 A dreifing-box and tray of fine old gold japan. 
 
 A tea-canifter of ftraw ; on one fide Meleager and Ata- 
 lanta, on the other the arms of fir Robert Walpole and 
 Catharine Shorter. 
 
 A japan drefiing-box and tray of irregular fhape. 
 
 Ditto, octagon, with tray and fix round boxes within, 
 
 A Pollux, fin all fine antique bronze. M. 
 
 A finall Terminus. M. 
 
 A round white fnuff-box ; on the top, miniature of ma- 
 dame de Sevigne; at bottom, the cypher of Rabutin and 
 Sevigne in marcafites. This box, with the letter* in it 
 from madame de Sevigne in the Elyfian fields to Mr. Wal- 
 pole, was fent to him by madame du DefFand. 
 
 B b A blood- 
 
 * Letter written by madame Marie de Vichy, marquife du DefFand [the 
 lady to whom Mr. W. afterwards dedicated his edition of the Memoires de 
 Grammont] in the name of madame de Sevigne from the Elyfian fields to Mr, 
 Walpole, after his return from Paris in 1766. 
 
 " Des champs Elifees ; point de fucceffton de terns, point de datte. 
 
 Je connois votre folle paflion pour moi ; votre enthoufiafme pour mes lettres, 
 votre veneration pour les lieux que j'ai habites : J'ai appris le culte que vous 
 m'y + avez rendu : j'en fuis fi penetre'e, que j'ai follicite & obtenu la permif- 
 fion de mes Souverains de vous venir trouver pour ne vous quitter jamais. J'a- 
 bandonne fans regret ces lieux fortunes ; je vous prefere a tous fes habitans j 
 
 jouinex 
 ■f- He bad dined at Livry. 
 
94 A DESCRIPTION op 
 
 A bloodftone feal fet in old enamel, given to Mr. Walpole 
 by Mrs. Henrietta Conway, daughter of Francis lord Conway. 
 
 A fmelling-bottle of purple glafs with peacocks feathers 
 in gold. 
 
 Ditto of Chinefe filver. 
 
 A fmall amber crucifix. 
 
 A fmall bronze figure of a woman with a rudder and 
 cornucopia. 
 
 Model of the great duke's diamond. 
 
 In the box of antique rings : 
 
 Tiberius, cameo on onyx, of the firfi: Greek workmanfhip. 
 
 Cupid driving a car with two butterflies ; intaglia on cor- 
 nelian. 
 
 A man's 
 
 jouifTez du plaifir de me voir ; ne vous plaignez point que ce ne foit qu'en pein- 
 ture j c'eft la feule exiftence que puiflent avoir les ombres. J'ai ete maitrefle 
 de choifir l'age ou je voulois reparoitre ; j'ai pris celuy de vingt cinque ans 
 pour m'affurer d'etre toujours pour Vous un objet agreable. Ne craignez aucun 
 changement ; c'eft un fingulier avantage des ombres ; quoique legeres, elles 
 font immuables. J'ai pris la plus petite figure qu'il m'a ete poflible pour n'etre 
 jamais feparee de Vous. Je veux vous accompagner par tout, fur terre, fur 
 mer, a la ville, aux champs ; mais ce que j'exige de vous, c'eft de me mener 
 inceflamment en France, de me faire revoir ma p3trie, la ville de Paris, et de 
 choifir pour votre habitation le fauxbourg St. Germain ; c'etoit la qu'habitoient 
 mes meilleures Amies, c'eft le fejour des votres ; vous me ferez faire connoif- 
 fance avec elles : je ferai bien aife de juger fi elles font dignes de vous, & d'etre 
 les Rivales de 
 
 RABUTIN de SEVIGNE." 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 95 
 
 A man's head ; alto relievo on onyx. 
 
 An Egyptian goddefs's head on a green ftone. M. 
 
 A cock and cornucopia j intaglia on cornelian. 
 
 A bacchante and goat <, fine cameo on onyx : given to Mr. 
 Walpole by the princefs de Craon. 
 
 Germanicus ; very fine intaglia on cornelian, with the 
 workman's name Epitu, for Epitynchanes : from the col- 
 lection of the marquis Riccardi at Florence. 
 
 Head of Jupiter; ditto: from ditto. 
 
 A fcenic mafk ; cameo on onyx. 
 
 Caius, nephew of Auguftus ; ditto. 
 
 A lion ; intaglia on fardonyx. 
 
 A caprice, on white cornelian ; intaglia. M. 
 
 Apollo ; intaglia on cornelian. 
 
 Ifis j Egyptian cameo on onyx. M. 
 
 A Cicada j fine intaglia on cornelian. 
 
 A Syrian king -, ditto. M. 
 
 Fauftina, fenior j ditto. 
 
 Chriftian infcription ; Vitas Luxuriam, Homo bone : cameo 
 on onyx. 
 
 Matidia ; intaglia in a green pafte : a moll rare head. M. 
 
 The Horatii ; intaglia on cornelian : given by fir Robert 
 Walpole to his fon Horatio. 
 
 Mercury ; intaglia in amethyft : given to Mr. Walpole by 
 general Conway. 
 
 Jupiter 
 
96 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Jupiter Serapisj altiffimo relievo in bloodftone. 
 
 A ram's head ; intaglia on cornelian. \End of the rings. 
 
 Old japan plate of different colours. 
 
 Popiih beads, bought at the church of faint Anthony of 
 Padua. 
 
 Turkiih beads enamelled with blue and gold ; probably 
 for ornaments in a proceflion : bought at the file of monfieur 
 Julienne, at Paris. 
 
 A {mall wooden crofs, curioufly carved. 
 
 A moll beautiful filver bell, made for a pope by Benve- 
 nuto Cellini. It is covered all over in the highefl relievo 
 with antique maiks, flies, grafshoppers, and other infedts; 
 the virgin and boy-angels at top, a wreathe of leaves at bot- 
 tom. Nothing can exceed the tafte of the whole defign, or 
 the delicate and natural reprefentation of the infects : the 
 wonderful execution makes almoft every thing credible that 
 He fays of himfelf in his Life. It came out of the colleclion 
 of the marquis Leonati at Parma, and was bought by the 
 marquis of Rockingham, who exchanged it with Mr. Wal- 
 pole for fome very fcarce Roman medals of great bronze, 
 amongft which was an unique medaliuncino of Alexander 
 Severus with the amphitheatre, in the highefl: prefervation. 
 
 Two Cornifh diamonds, one inclofing green, the other 
 yellow mofs. 
 
 A bronze altar-pot and a tripod. M. 
 
 A large 
 
STRAWBERRY- HILL. 97 
 
 A large Goa ftone. 
 
 A filver box, almoft in the fhape of an egg, engraved. 
 A fmall box of the gold and white japan. In it are two 
 dates found in a jar at Herculaneum -, they are burnt to a 
 coal, but the lhapes and rivelled fkins are entire. 
 
 A cornelian fpoon that belonged to Coffim Aly Caun. 
 An amber toothpick-cafe. 
 
 A tortoiihell fnuff-box, the top reprefents Flemim lace ; 
 given to Mr. Walpole by lady Mary Coke. 
 A round fnufT-box, and an egg-ihaped ditto. 
 Pictures and bronzes in the other parts of the Tribune. 
 Side oppofite to the door : 
 A drawing by Mr. Bentley, reprefenting two lovers in a 
 church looking at the tombs of Abelard and Eloifa, from 
 theie lines of Pope, 
 
 If ever chance two wtmd'ring /overs brings 
 To Paraclete's white walls and Jilver Jprings, &<r. 
 Chrift and Mary Magdalen in the garden, in water-colours,- 
 by Catharine lady Walpole. 
 
 Two flower-pieces ; by Baptifte Monoyer. 
 Chrift laid in the fepulchre, after the fine picture of Par- 
 megiano at Houghton ; by Mr. Horace Walpole: 
 Two more flower-pieces -, by Baptifte Monoyer. 
 Madonna and child ; by Salfa Ferrata, after Guido. 
 Correggio's Magdalen copied in crayons by Rofalba. 
 
 C c Temptation; 
 
9 8 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Temptation of faint Antony j by Teniers. 
 
 Story of Celadon and Aitrea, in water-colours ; by W. 
 Baur. 
 
 St. George in altiffimo relievo in filver. 
 
 Frances Howard, the famous countefs of Eflex and Somer- 
 fet ; by Ifaac Oliver : from Mr. Weft's collection. 
 
 A beautiful bronze vafe taken from the antique by Fia- 
 mingo, who has added fine bas-reliefs of boys : from the 
 Harleian collection. 
 
 A young gladiator in bronze. M. 
 
 A young Hercules, ditto, with the lion's fkin on his arm ; 
 fine. M. 
 
 An antique ewer of bronze; a greyhound reaching to 
 drink forms the handle : a prefent from Charles Churchill, 
 efquire. 
 
 A very rare figure of Diana of Ephefus, in ferpentine ftone. 
 
 A green Egyptian figure, one of thofe found in the pyra- 
 mids. 
 
 Pictures and bronzes on the fide where the altar is : 
 
 A man and woman fitting ; by Watteau : from fir Robert 
 Walpole's collection.* 
 
 Thompfon, printfeller ; by Riley. 
 
 An oval hunting-piece; by Wyck. 
 
 Mary 
 
 * All the pictures that were not at Houghton were fold after his death. 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 99 
 
 Mary queen of Scots, whole length in water-colours ; by 
 Vertue, from the picture at Hatfield. 
 
 A merry-making ; very neat j by a Svvifs lady. 
 
 A rural ball ; ditto. 
 
 A wreath of flowers ; octagon ; by Phil. Laura : in the 
 middle, head of Rofalba's Tirolefe girl, by Carlevares, a fe- 
 male fcholar of Rofalba. 
 
 Cornelius Polemberg, by himfelf, oval on copper; ex- 
 quifitely nnifhed like enamel, yet with great freedom. 
 
 His wife, by ditto ; inferior in freedom and labour. Thefe 
 two from fir Robert Walpole's collection. 
 
 St. Sebaflian ; by Goltzius. 
 
 An old woman's head j by Gerard Dow. 
 
 Boys with vines on a monument ; from fir Robert Wal- 
 pole's collection. 
 
 Chrift as a pilgrim, and faint Catharine, crowned by an 
 angel ; by Taddeo Zucchero. 
 
 A calm fea with mips ; by Samuel Scott. 
 
 The engagement between the Lion and Elizabeth in the 
 year 1745; the young pretender was on board the latter: 
 by Samuel Scott. 
 
 The Florentine boar, in bronze. 
 
 A fmall bronze vafe, with a facrifice to Priapus. 
 
 A larger, ditto. Thefe two from Dr. Meade's collection. 
 
 A bronze bull. 
 
 An 
 
ioo A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 An Egyptian hieroglyphic hand ; bronze. 
 
 A fphinx ; ditto. M. 
 Pictures and bronzes on the fide oppoiite to the altar : 
 
 A dog drinking ; by Cafliglione. 
 
 Two more flower-pieces ; by Baptifle Monoyer. 
 
 Two larger ; by young Baptifle. 
 
 Charlotte de la Tremouille, grand-daughter of William 
 the great prince of Orange, and wife of James Stanley earl 
 of Derby, who was beheaded in the civil war : me defended 
 Latham-houfe for feveral weeks againft the republicans. 
 
 The virgin and child, with other faints ; a capital draw- 
 ing by Parmegiano. 
 
 UlyiTes difcovering Achilles among the daughters of Ly- 
 comedes ; by Wermer, in water-colours, after Nicolo Pouf- 
 fin. The architecture is mod beautiful, and in the roof 
 PoufTin has judicioufly introduced an ancient bas-relief with 
 the judgment of Paris, as connected with the flory of 
 Achilles. 
 
 Madame Suarez, a Florentine beauty •> in crayons, by 
 Rofalba. 
 
 Madame de Sevigne, when a young widow. 
 
 Madame de Grignan. Thefe two are ovals on copper, by 
 Muntz. 
 
 A woman carrying a pig to be facrifked ; bronze. M. 
 A lamp with a fatyr's head j ditto : copied from the an- 
 tique. 
 
 An 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 101 
 
 An antique lamp, of bronze, with a face. 
 
 Sketch of the head of Roger Palmer earl of Cafllemaine, 
 hufoand of the duchefs of Cleveland ; by iir Godfrey Kneller.- 
 
 Chrift depofited in the fepuichre ; by Mola, after Raphael. 
 
 Chriff. praying in the garden ; by Philippo Laura : from 
 the collection of monfieur Julienne. 
 
 Margaret Cecil lady Brown, in crayons ; by Rofalba. 
 
 Madame de la Fayette, on copper ; by Muntz. 
 
 Lady Mary Coke, in wax ; by GofTet. 
 
 Raphael's Jonas, in ivory. 
 
 A beautiful lamp, in the fhape of a foot, Cupid fallen 
 afleep over the flame ; antique bronze with filver ornaments : 
 it was found in the temple of Cupid, is publifhed by Mont- 
 faucon, and was bought at the fale of the Harleian colled ion. 
 
 Another bronze lamp. 
 
 Pictures and bronzes on the door fide : 
 
 A landfcape ; by Muntz. 
 
 Two hermits ; after Rubens. 
 
 Two flower-pieces ; by young Baptifle. 
 
 A Dutch furgeon drefling a boor's leg; from fir Robert 
 Walpole's collection. 
 
 The circumcifion -, by Ludovico Caracci, on copper : a 
 defign for an altar-piece which he executed at Bologna. 
 
 A farm yard ; moft natural. 
 
 Young Hercules with the ferpents j by Annibal Caracci. 
 
 Dd St 
 
io2 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 St. George; painted by Giofeppe d'Arpino on lapis lazuli. 
 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller, when young ; by himfelf : great 
 fpirit. Thefe four laft from fir Robert Walpole's collection. 
 
 A Roman emperor in bronze, as an idol, with thunder- 
 bolt and caduceus. M. 
 
 Two Roman lamps of bronze ; one Chriflian, of the lat- 
 ter empire. 
 
 Sir Peter Lely, in crayons ; by himfelf. 
 
 The virgin and child in the clouds, the city of Bologna 
 beneath ; by Goupy, after Annibal Caracci. 
 
 A drunken boor j by Brauwer. 
 
 Head of an abbe -, by Teniers : from the collection of 
 monfieur Hareng. 
 
 Buft of an emperor, in black marble. 
 
 A bagpiper; bronze. M. 
 
 A facrificing prieft ; ditto. M. 
 N. B. All tbe bronzes, lamps, &c. Jland on brackets under 
 
 the pictures. 
 
 The GREAT NORTH BEDCHAMBER, 
 
 TS hung with crimfon Norwich damafk. The bed is of 
 
 tapeflry of Aubuffon, feftoons of flowers on a white 
 
 ground, lined with crimfon filk ; plumes of oftrich feathers 
 
 at the corners. Six elbow chairs of the fame tapeflry, with 
 
 white 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 103 
 
 white and gold frames ; and fix ebony chairs. A carpet and 
 foot carpet of the manufacture of Moorfields. 
 
 The chimney was defigned by Mr. Walpole from the 
 tomb of W. Dudley biihop of Durham, in Weftminfter- 
 abbey, and is of Portland flone, gilt; with dogs of or 
 moulu with arms and trophies; the chimney-back is an- 
 cient, and bears the arms of Henry 7th. 
 
 Over the chimney, a large picture of Henry 8th. and his 
 children j bought out of the collection of James Weft, efq; 
 in 1773. See a defcription of this curious piece in the firft vol. 
 of the Anecdotes of Painting. On the chimney, ■ 
 
 A buft of Francis 2d. king of France, hufband of Mary 
 queen of Scots. 
 
 A bronze bas-relief in profile of Anne of Bretagne, queen 
 of Charles 8th. and of Louis 12th. Thefe two heads from 
 the collection of the count de Caylus. 
 
 A nautilus mounted in filver gilt, with fatyrs and the arms 
 of Pafton. 
 
 A cryftal tankard and cover, mounted in filver gilt. Thefe 
 two pieces belonged to the laft earl of Yarmouth. 
 
 Four old blue and white china bottles. 
 
 On one fide of the chimney, A fine whole length, by Van- 
 dyck, of Margaret Smith, wife of Thomas Carye, groom 
 of the bedchamber to Charles ift. From the Wharton col- 
 lection, afterwards in that of fir Robert Walpole. 
 
 On 
 
104 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 On the other fide, Philip Herbert earl of Pembroke and 
 Montgomery, (with a view of old Wilton) whole length; 
 by Mytens. 
 
 On one fide of the bed, A whole length of Henry Vere 
 earl of Oxford, in his robes. He was made knight of the 
 bath at the creation of Henry prince of Wales, and died in 
 Flanders in 1625. 
 
 On the other fide, Robert Walpole, 2d. earl of Orford ; 
 whole length, in robes of the Bath ; by Vanloo. 
 On the fide oppofite to the bed : 
 
 Head of Niobe j by Guido. 
 
 Two views of Venice -, by Mariefki. 
 
 A fine landfcape with cattle; by Gafpar Pouffin. 
 
 The ducheffe de la Valiere, miftrefs of Louis 14th. 
 
 Mademoifelle Hamilton, comteffe de Grammont; copy 
 after Lely, by Eckardt. 
 
 Ninon L'Enclos, the only original pidhire of her ; given 
 by herfelf to the countefs of Sandwich, daughter of Wilmot 
 earl of Rochefter, and by her grandfon John earl of Sand- 
 wich to Mr. Walpole. 
 
 Richard ift. prifoner to the archduke of Auftria; highly 
 finifhed, by Mieris. 
 
 The prefentation in the temple -, its companion ; by Rem- 
 brandt. 
 
 Over 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 105 
 
 Over the the doors, which were defigned by Mr. Chute, 
 and have medallions of Louis 14th. and Charles 5th. in 
 bronze, 
 
 Madame de Maintenon ; and Hortenfe Mancini duchefs 
 of Mazarin : the latter a copy from Carlo Maratti. 
 
 A imall. japan cabinet ; a dejune of Seve china, blue and 
 white with coloured birds ; and a blue and white old china 
 jar. 
 
 On the window fide : 
 
 A large looking-glafs in a rich ebony frame ; and t wo 
 bronze arms with mafks, for candles. 
 
 Over the glafs, Henry 8th. aged 29, and Charles 5th. 
 aged 20, in one picture ; from Mr. Weft's collection. 
 
 A table of Saracen mofaic, fent to Mr. Walpole from 
 Rome by fir W- Hamilton, mounted on an ebony frame, 
 with two ebony ftands. 
 
 An ewer and two beakers, of Roman fayence ; a prefent 
 to Mr. Walpole from mifs Speed, afterwards married to the 
 comte de Virri, minifter from Turin. 
 
 A finall table with a landfcape of Seve porcelaine, mounts 
 ed in old japan; a legacy to Mr. Walpole from Mary lady 
 Hervey. 
 
 Richard Wellborn, mafter of requefts temp. Henry 8th. 
 He was defcended from a younger fon of Simon de Mont- 
 ford earl of Leicefter, on whofe death, to fecure himfelf, 
 
 E e be 
 
io6 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 he changed his name to Wellborn : a prefent from the earl 
 of Exeter. 
 
 A woman's head in crayons, after Guido. 
 
 Sir John Perrot, lord deputy of Ireland in the time of 
 queen Elizabeth ; in black and white chalk, by Chambars, 
 from the original at fir Herbert Perrot Packington's. 
 
 The original iketch of the Beggar's Opera : Walker, as 
 Macheath ; mifs Fenton, afterwards duchefs of Bolton, as 
 Polly i Hippifley, as Peach'em ; Hall, as Lockit : on one 
 fide in a box, fir Thomas Robinfon, very tall and lean ; fir 
 Robert Fagg, a famous horle-racer, fat, with fhort grey 
 hair : by Hogarth. Bought at the fale of John Rich, the 
 well known harlequin, and mailer of the theatres in Lin- 
 coln's-inn-fields and Covent-garden, for whom the picture 
 was painted. 
 
 Van Helmont, the chymiftj copied by Muntz from a 
 fine original by fir Peter Lely, at the earl of Hertford's at 
 Ragley. 
 
 Lady Henrietta Berkeley, fifler-in-law and miftrefs of 
 Ford lord Grey in the reign of Charles 2d. 
 
 Mary princefs of Orange, daughter of king Charles ift. 
 given to Mr. Walpole by the prince of Monaco. 
 
 Rehearfal of an opera, with caricatures of the principal 
 performers : Nicolini itands in front, Mrs. Toft is at the 
 harpfichord, Margarita is entering in black. Bought at the 
 
 fale 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 107 
 
 fale of John duke of Argyll, who bought it at that of Charles 
 Stanhope, efq. 
 
 In the bow windows are ten coats of arms in painted glafs, 
 by Peckitt of York, with the principal matches of the family 
 of Walpole. 
 
 The cieling was copied from one at the Vine in Hampshire. 
 Curiofities in the glafs clofet in the great bedchamber: 
 
 A falver of Raphael fayencej flory of the prodigal fan. 
 
 A large difh ; ditto, ftory of Abfalom. 
 
 One ditto, fmaller ; ftory of Jael and Sifera. 
 
 A large plate, ditto j feaft of the gods. 
 
 One fmaller ; Chrifl walking on the water. 
 
 One ditto ; Cupids in relievo j ribbed border. 
 
 Ditto j Apollo and Marfyas ; fcolloped border. 
 
 Two fmall ditto ; with landfcapes and buildings. 
 
 Two ditto, twelve fquare ; very coarfe. 
 
 Two ten fquare dimes of the old dragon china. 
 
 A fine filver trunk to hold perfumes, with bas-reliefs ; the 
 top from Raphael's judgment of Paris: the work of Ben- 
 venuto Cellini. Bought out of the great duke's wardrobe ; 
 a prefent from fir Horace Mann. 
 
 A Chinefe fleelyard. 
 
 An amber ftanding cup and cover. 
 
 A bottle of purple glafs. * This and all the following 
 
 articles marked with an afterifm, were bought at the fale 
 
 of count Caylus at Paris. 
 
 Seven 
 
108 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 Seven boxes of the old gold and white japan, with fmajler 
 boxes of the fame within. 
 
 A lilver gilt plate in relievo, the meeting of Charles 5th. 
 and Francis ill. A prefent from fir William Hamilton. 
 
 A pair of gloves worn by king James the ift. bought out 
 of Thorefby's mufeum. 
 
 The wedding gloves of Mrs. Hampden, wife of the cele- 
 brated John Hampden. 
 
 An agate puncheon with the arms of Mr. Gray the poet,, 
 and a Goa ftone -, given to Mr. Walpole by doctor Browne 
 and Mr. W. Mafon, Mr. Gray's executors. 
 
 A carved bottle for perfumes, mounted in lilver ; Indian. 
 
 A bronze perfume-pot. 
 
 A clouded ewer of polifhed earth. * 
 
 An ewer of Villeroy ware. 
 
 Three packs of Florentine cards, for playing at Minchiati 
 and Tarocco. 
 
 Rubens's child, in bifcuit china of Nancy. 
 
 Three French fnufF-boxes mounted in gold. 
 
 A fmall ivory box, containing a fuite of prints reprefent- 
 ing medals on the vi&ories in the war at the end of the reign 
 of George 2d. 
 
 A fnuff-box with views of Spa ; given by mifs Churchill. 
 
 Two enamel plates, prefents from Caroline lady Green- 
 wich. 
 
 A filver 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 109 
 
 A filver gilt apoftle-fpoon. Addifon, in the Drummer, 
 mentions apoftle-fpoons ; and ib do Beaumont and Fletcher, 
 in one of their plays. It was an ancient fafhion to have a 
 little figure at the end of a fpoon's handle, as this has. It 
 was a prefent from the reverend Mr. W. Cole. 
 
 An antique bronze of a man, naked, the head of fir Robert 
 Walpole added by Nattier. 
 
 A fmall octagon difh of old china with figures. 
 
 Nineteen draftfmen of box, with heads of German princes 
 and princelfes -, a prefent from Charles duke of Richmond. 
 
 Two vales of blue china mounted in or moulu. 
 
 A blue and white plate with the brown edge, old china. 
 
 A fmaller with dragons, without the border. 
 
 Two octagons of blue and white with figures, pierced. 
 
 Two hexagon faucers, ditto, with feet. 
 
 A box with ancient round trenchers, with fcriptural mot- 
 toes ; a prefent from the reverend Mr. W. Cole. 
 
 A German pitcher and cover, with bas-reliefs of figures 
 dancing. * 
 
 Two plates of Chantilly china, of different fizes. 
 
 A tea-pot of the old red Japan ware. 
 
 Another, red and black, of China. 
 
 A Turkish mug, with characters. * 
 
 An earthen pot, Indian. * 
 
 A blue and white earthen barrel, with handles. * 
 
 F f A drinking 
 

 no A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 A drinking veffel of black earth, with ditto. * 
 
 A faltfeller of old fayence fupported by dolphins. 
 
 Two blue and white diflies and feven plates of old china ; 
 a legacy from Mrs. Henrietta Conway, filler of Francis earl 
 of Hertford. 
 
 Two old blue and white water-plates. 
 
 A copper difh with a foot, enamelled with the ftory of 
 Abraham and Melchizedec •, a prefent from Geo. William 
 Hervey, earl of Briftol. 
 
 A baiket of Seve china, blue, gold, and white. 
 
 A Staffordshire Etrufcan vafe. 
 
 A blue vafe of antique Roman glafs with a boy's head. * 
 
 Four water-plates of old coloured china. 
 
 An urn and cover of Volterra alabafter. 
 
 Two ewers of ancient glafs. * 
 
 A blue and white fquare pot for flowers, of old china. 
 
 A fpeculum of kennel-coal, in a leathern-cafe. It is cu- 
 rious for having been ufed to deceive the mob by Dr. Dee, 
 the conjurer, in the reign of queen Elizabeth. It was in 
 the collection of the Mordaunts earls of Peterborough, in 
 whofe catalogue it is called, the black Jlone into which Dr. 
 Dee ufed to call his fpirits. From the Mordaunts it pafTed to 
 lady Elizabeth Germayne, and from her to John laft duke 
 of Argyll, whofe fon, lord Frederic Cambell, gave it to 
 Mr. Walpole. 
 
 In 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. in 
 
 In the clofet- window is a head of queen Elizabeth in 
 painted glafs, and another pane with men playing at cards, 
 very old. 
 
 GREEN BEDCHAMBER in the ROUND 
 
 TOWER, two Pair of Stairs. 
 
 npHE infide of a church, a very good Flemifh picture on 
 board ; a legacy to Mr. Walpole from doctor Meyrick 
 of Ifle worth. 
 
 Henrietta Hobart countefs of Suffolk, fitting, a view of 
 her houfe at Marble-hill, Twickenham; by Jarvis. It was 
 Mr. Pope's; lady Suffolk bought it at Mrs. Martha Blount's 
 fale, and gave it to Mr. Walpole. 
 
 Ogleby, the poet, in his fhirt ; fine, by Fuller : from fir 
 Robert Walpole's collection. 
 
 Tillemans, the painter. 
 
 Mrs. Barry, the celebrated actrefs ; profile, by fir Godfrey 
 Kneller. Sketch for the head of Britannia in the great 
 equeflrian picture of king William at Hampton-court. 
 
 Henrietta duchefs of Orleans, as Pallas ; bought at lady 
 Suffolk's fale. 
 
 The emperor Maximilian; a curious head. 
 
 Robert Dudley earl of Leicefter. 
 
 The 
 
ii2 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 The GREAT CLOYSTER. 
 
 A T each end, a blue and white china flower-pot, and in 
 the middle, the tub ditto in which Mr. Walpole's cat 
 was drowned; on a label of the pedeftal is written the firft 
 flanza of Mr. Gray's beautiful ode on that occafion, 
 'Twas on this lofty vafe's Jide, 
 Where China's gayejl art has dy'd 
 
 The azure flow' rs that Mow, 
 Demureji of the tabby kind, 
 The penfve Selima reclind, 
 Gaz'd on the lake below. 
 
 The piers of the garden-gates are of artificial flone, and 
 taken from the tomb of William de Luda bifhop of Ely, in 
 that cathedral. 
 
 The CHAPEL, 
 
 TN the fouth-wefl: corner of the wood, is built of brick, 
 with a beautiful front of Portland flone, executed by Mr. 
 Gayfere of Weftminfler, and taken from the tomb of Ed- 
 mund Audley bifhop of Salisbury, in that cathedral. In the 
 anti-chapel is an oaken gothic bench, defigned by Mr. Bent- 
 ley; 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 113 
 
 ley ; over it, a head of faint John Baptift,, alto relievo, in 
 marble, on a pedeilal of the fame in a fine tafie, the work 
 of Donatello, and a prefent from fir Horace Mann. On the 
 oppofite fide, a crucifix of bronze; and beneath it, on an 
 angular pedeilal of fayence on which is a buft of an angel, 
 ftands an eneenfoir of bronze. By the door is a holy-water- 
 pot of earthen-ware, given by Mr. G. A. Selwyn. 
 
 In the window are the original portraits * of Henry 3d. 
 and his queen in painted glafs, with other faints and coats of 
 arms. Fronting the door ftands a magnificent fhrine of mo- 
 faic, three ftories high; and beneath it, a crucifix inlaid 
 with mother of pearl,, bought at the fale of the honorable 
 Richard Bateman in 1774. On one fide of the fhrine, in a 
 recefs, ftands on a confole a figure of an ancient king of 
 France, in fayence ; on the other fide, the virgin Mary, of 
 bronze. The roof was defigned by Mr. Chute. On a ta- 
 blet over the door is the following infcription, 
 
 The Jhrine in front was brought in the year 1768 from the 
 church offanta Maria maggiore in Rome, when the new pave- 
 ment was laid there v This Jhrine was ere died in the year 1256 
 over the bodies of the holy martyrs Simplicius, Faufiina, and 
 Beatrix, by John fames Capoccio and Vinia his wife; and 
 was the work of Peter Cavalini, who made the tomb of Ed- 
 
 G g ward 
 
 * Thefe were a prefent from the earl of Afhburnham. 
 
ii 4 A DESCRIPTION op 
 
 ward the ConfeJJor in Wejlminfter-abbey. See the Anecdotes 
 of Painting, vol. i. p. 17. 
 
 The window was brought from the church of Bexhill in Suf- 
 fex. The two principal figures are king Henry $d. and Eleanor 
 of Provence his queen, the only portraits of them extant. King 
 Henry died in 1 272, and we know of no painted gl of s more an- 
 cient than the reign of his father king 'John. Thefe portraits 
 have been engraved for the frontifpiece to the Anecdotes of 
 Painting. 
 
 This chapel was erected by Horace Walpole in the year 1771. 
 The facade was copied from a chapel-tomb in the cathedral of 
 Sali/bury. 
 
 At the end of the winding walk is a large feat in the form 
 of a fhell, carved in oak, from a defign by Mr. Bentley. 
 
 The Cottage in the Flower-Garden. 
 
 The TEA-ROOM 
 
 TS hung with green paper and prints. Over the chimney, 
 
 two fconces of Chantilly china, a fceau for liquors of 
 
 Seve, two chocolate-cups ditto, a handle cup and faucer, a 
 
 caudle-cup and deep faucer, all with coloured flowers ; a 
 
 rice 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. n S 
 
 rice cup on feet, a faltfeller of old fayence, and four bifcuit 
 figures. On the hearth, a flower-pot of fine blue earth. 
 
 On a fhelf and brackets, two blue and white pot pourris 
 of Nankin china, two pierced blue and white bafons of old 
 delft, and two fceaus of coloured Seve ; a blue and white 
 vafe and cover, and two old fayence bottles. 
 
 On the tea-table, a white tea-pot with gold edge of Seve, 
 four handle cups and faucers, a fugar-diih, milk-pot, bafon, 
 and plate of the fame ; a tea-pot of crackled china with blue 
 and brown flowers, an octagon green bafon with coloured 
 flowers, a ditto white with ditto, a green leaf of Stafford- 
 mire-ware, two blue and white handle cups of Seve, one 
 ditto larger in fhape of a pail, two ditto with coloured flow- 
 ers and blue rims, one ditto with dark blue and gold edges 
 and coloured flowers, and one ditto with blue and gold mo- 
 faic on white. 
 
 The LITTLE LIBRARY 
 
 TS painted green and white. Over the chimney, an origi- 
 nal half-length of Milton, set. 45, in black, a ring tied 
 to one of his button-holes. In the key-flone of the chimney, 
 an antique bas-relief with the ftory of Mars and Venus. On 
 the mantle-piece, thirteen antique fepulchral earthen lamps. 
 Over the door, an antique painting in frefco. Vide Mid- 
 
 dktoris Germana, &c, 
 
 A bronze 
 
u6 A DESCRIPTION of 
 
 A bronze tripod for burning incenfe. M. 
 A marble Canopus. 
 
 Over the book-cafes ; A fmall marble bull of lord chan- 
 cellor Clarendon. 
 
 Fourteen fmall Etrufcan vafes. 
 
 Ten black Staffordihire ditto. 
 
 Two yellow beakers with flowers of StafTordlhire-ware. 
 
 Two red china ditto. 
 
 Two flower-pots of crackled china. 
 
 A blue china bottle. 
 
 In this library are feveral volumes of MSS. 
 
 In the GARDEN. 
 
 A N extraordinary large brain-ftone : a prefent from Mr. 
 Grofvenor Bedford. 
 Bernini's Apollo and Daphne in bronze. 
 A large antique farcophagus in marble, with bas-reliefs : 
 from the collection of Bryan Fairfax, efqj 
 Two ofluaria. 
 The fleeping Morpheus in plaiiter. 
 
 
 STRAWBERRY- 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 117 
 
 STRAWBERRY-HILL, 
 
 A BALLAD, 
 By William Pulteney Earl of Bath. 
 
 <To the tune of a former fong written by G. Bubb Doddington 
 lord Melcomb, the burthen of which was, My Strawberry, 
 my Strawberry jliall bear away the Bell. 
 
 I. 
 
 COME cry up Gunnerfbury, 
 
 For Sion fome declare ; 
 And fome fay that with Chifwick-houfe 
 
 No villa can compare : 
 But alk the beaux of Middlefex, 
 
 Who know the country well, 
 If Strawb'ry-hill, if Strawb*ry-hill 
 
 Don't bear away the bell ? 
 
 II. 
 
 Some love to roll down Greenwich-hill 
 
 For this thing and for that ; 
 And fome prefer fweet Marble-hill, 
 
 Tho' fure 'tis fome what flat : 
 
 Hh Yet 
 

 n8 A DESCRIPTION or 
 
 Yet Marble- hill and Greenwich-hill, 
 
 If Kitty Clive can tell, 
 From Strawb'ry-hill, from Strawb'ry-hill 
 
 Will never bear the bell. 
 
 III. 
 
 Tho' Surry boafls its Oatlands, 
 
 And Clermont kept fo jim, 
 And fome prefer fweet Southcote's, 
 
 'Tis but a dainty whim : 
 For afk the gallant Briflow, 
 
 Who does in taile excell, 
 If Strawb'ry-hill, if Strawb'ry-hill 
 
 Don't bear away the bell ? 
 
 IV. 
 
 Since Denham fung of Cooper's, 
 
 There's fcarce a hill around, 
 But what in fong or ditty 
 
 Is turn'd to fairy-ground — 
 Ah, peace be with their memories ! 
 
 I wifh them wond'rous well, 
 But Strawb'ry-hill, but Strawb'ry-hill 
 
 Muft bear away the bell. 
 
 Great 
 
STRAWBERRY-HILL. 119 
 
 V. 
 
 Great William dwells at Windfor, 
 
 As Edward did of old, 
 And many a Gaul and many a Scot 
 
 Have found him full as bold. 
 On lofty hills like Windfor 
 
 Such heroes ought to dwell, 
 Yet little folks like Strawb'ry-hill, 
 
 Like Strawb'ry-hill as well. 
 
 The 2d. 4th. and 5th. ftanzas were added by another hand. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Pictures and Curiofities added fince the 
 Catalogue was printed. 
 
 In the GREAT PARLOUR. 
 
 A N old woman letting a boy light a candle, by Schalken j 
 very good. 
 Two boys, a dog and a goat, by BafTan -, from Mr. Jen- 
 nings's collection. 
 
 In the CHINA-ROOM. 
 
 Two white handle cups and faucers, finely painted with 
 natural flowers, of Seve porcelaine. A Mercury, ditto. 
 
 A groupe of the graces fupporting a bafket, of Seve bifcuit. 
 
 A large old white china tea-pot, that was the duke of 
 Monmouth's ; a prefent from lord Harcourt. 
 
 A fauce-boat of Roman fayence, with Cupid riding on a 
 dolphin. 
 
 I i Twelve 
 
122 APPENDIX. 
 
 Twelve plates of Wedgwood's ware, with cameos of blue 
 and white, and blue fefloons ; from a defign of lady Diana 
 Beauclerc. 
 
 A bafon and ewer of Roman fayence, painted with land- 
 fcapes ; a prefent from the earl of Exeter. 
 
 A large round vafe and cover, and a difh to it, of Roman 
 fayence. 
 
 Two dimes of the fame. 
 
 A cup and faucer, white with green fefloons, of Briflol 
 porcelaine. 
 
 A round picture of white flowers in alto relievo, of the 
 fame manufacture. 
 
 A fquare compotier with blue and gold flowers, of Salo- 
 pian porcelaine. 
 
 A blue, gold, and colour'd fugar-difh and plate, of Wor- 
 cefler porcelaine. 
 
 Two white glafs cups, with gold fefloons and rams heads, 
 of Englilh manufacture. 
 
 Two defTert-plates of old china in form of herons. 
 
 A groupe of two figures and five fingle cupids, of HefTe 
 and Brunfwick porcelaine ; prefents from lord Beauchamp. 
 
 Sir William Hamilton, envoy at Naples, and Catherine 
 lady Walpole j medallions of Wedgwood's ware. 
 
 Louis quinze, the queen of Louis feize, and Dr. Franklin, 
 medallions in bifcuit. 
 
 Two 
 
APPENDIX. 123 
 
 Two tall chocolate-cups and faucers, beautifully painted 
 with holyoaks, of Seve china. 
 
 A white and gold mug and faucer, with Chinefe phea- 
 fants, of ditto. 
 
 A cup and faucer of ditto, all over ftrawberries ; a prefent 
 from madame du DefFand. 
 
 A cup and faucer of ditto, lilac and gold, with the flory 
 of Pan and Syrinx in crimfon. 
 
 A cup and faucer of Wedgwood's ware, finely painted 
 with Englifh views. 
 
 In the YELLOW BEDCHAMBER, 
 or BEAUTY-ROOM. 
 
 The chimney-piece was defigned by Mr. Bentley. The 
 room is hung with grey fpotted paper, the bed and chairs of 
 yellow filk and ftufF damafk. On the ebony table, two large 
 old blue and white china candlefticks, and a writing-box of 
 fandal-wood inlaid with ivory. On the commode with a flab 
 of white marble, bought at Mr. Bateman's fale, a bronze caft 
 of the hermaphrodite. A fire-fcreen worked by lady OfTory. 
 
 Over the chimney, Charles 2d. James duke of York and 
 Mary princefs of Orange, when children, copied from Van- 
 dyck by Charles Beale. 
 
 A fine portrait of fir Peter Lely, after himfelf, by ditto. 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
124 APPENDIX. 
 
 Elizabeth Wriothefly countefs of Southampton, and after- 
 wards firft wife of Ralph the firil: duke of Montagu, by dit- 
 to, after ditto. Theie three are In water-colours. 
 
 Nineteen fmall heads in oil of the court of Charles 2d. 
 (except SachariiTa) copied by Jarvis for himfelf, and bought 
 with his houfe at Hampton by Mr. Lovibonde, at whofe fale 
 thefe and the three foregoing were purchafed. 
 
 Charles the fecond. 
 
 Queen Catherine. 
 
 King William when prince of Orange. 
 
 Queen Mary, when princefs. 
 
 Catharine Sidley, countefs of Dorchefter, miftrefs of 
 James 2d. 
 
 Frances Stuart (of Grammont's Memoires) duchefs of 
 Richmond. 
 
 Louife de Querouaille, duchefs of Portfmouth. 
 
 Lady Dorothy Sidney, countefs of Sunderland, Waller's 
 SacharifTa. 
 
 Barbara Villiers, duchefs of Cleveland. 
 
 Arabella Churchill, wife of Mr. Godfrey, miftrefs of 
 James 2d. 
 
 Mrs. Philadelphia Saunders. 
 
 Mrs. Trevor, maid of honour : having feen the duke of 
 Monmouth in bed with another lady, and divulged it, the 
 duke engaged Mr. Thynne to debauch her. M r « Thynne 
 
 being 
 
APPENDIX xsy 
 
 feeing killed before he bedded lady Ogle, this epigram wa# 
 made on him, 
 
 Here lies Tom Thynne of Longleat-hall, 
 
 Who never would have mifcarried, 
 Had he married the woman he lay withal, 
 Or lain with the woman he married. 
 
 Lady Anne Cavendifh, daughter of William earl of De- 
 vonshire, and wife of John earl of Exeter. 
 
 Lady Gertrude Pierpoint, daughter of William earl of 
 Kingfton, and wife of George Saville, marquis of Halifax. 
 
 Lady Mary Rich, daughter of Robert earl of Warwick, 
 wife of Henry vifcount St. John, and mother Of the famous 
 lord Bolingbroke. 
 
 Henry earl of Ogle, only fon of Henry Cavendifh duke 
 of Newcaftle. 
 
 Lady Elizabeth Percy, only daughter and heirefs of Jofce- 
 line laft earl of Northumberland, married firft to Henry lord 
 Ogle, fecondly to Thomas Thynne, efq; and laftly to Charles 
 Seymour, duke of Somerfet. 
 
 Two other ladies, unknown. 
 
 Over the door, Mary queen of Scots, by Vertue. 
 
 Lady Anne Hamilton, daughter of W. duke of Hamilton, 
 and wife of Robert Carnegie, earl of Southefk. 
 , Lady Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James duke of Ormond, 
 and wife of Philip Stanhope earl of Chefterfield. Thefe two, 
 
 K. k heads 
 
126 APPENDIX. 
 
 heads are copied in chalks by Mr. Faringdon, from the origi- 
 nals by fir Peter Lely, at Mr. Fountaine's at Narford. See 
 an account of the two ladies in the Memoir es de Grammont. 
 
 In the BREAKFAST-ROOM. 
 
 A moft curious picture of Rofe, the royal gardiner, pre- 
 fenting the firft pine-apple raifed in England to Charles 2d. 
 who is ftanding in a garden. The whole piece is well paint- 
 ed, probably by Danckers. It was a prefent to Mr. W. 
 from the rev. Mr. Pennicott of Ditton, to whom it was be- 
 queathed by Mr. London, grandfon of him who was partner 
 with Wife. 
 
 Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, wife of lord Craven ; by Rom- 
 ney. 
 
 Cowley, by fir Peter Lely ; the fine original of Zincke's 
 Cowley in enamel, in the cabinet ; bought at the fale of 
 Mr. Lovibonde in 1776. 
 
 The virgin and child, and two angels holding tapers ; an 
 ancient carving in ivory : a prefent from Mr. Watfon the 
 chirurgeon. 
 
 Sir Kenelm Digby, his wife and two fons, by Peter Oli- 
 ver, after Vandyck ; a large miniature in the higheft pre- 
 fervation ; in an ebony cafe fet with Wedgwood's cameos. 
 On the infides of the doors, two other ladies of the fame fet. 
 
 Two 
 
A P P : E . N D I X; t% 7 
 
 Two other ebony cafes, ditto. In one, a lady of the 
 Digby family, half-length, after Vandyck, with a beautiful 
 landfcape, by Peter Oliver. 
 
 In the other cafe, lady Digby enamelled, in a frame of the 
 fame, with her arms, and Latin mottoes, fupported by two 
 goddeifes ; by G. Toulin, 1637. 
 
 Lady Catharine Howard, daughter of H. Fred, earl of 
 Arundel, and firft wife of John Digby fon of fir Kenelm. 
 
 On the reverfe, in the fame enamelled frame, another la- 
 dy of the family, exquifitely painted by Peter Oliver; pro- 
 bably the fecond wife of John Digby. 
 
 Lady Frances Howard countefs of EfTex and then of So- 
 merfet ; copied by lady Bingham, now lady Lucan, from 
 the original at Woburn. 
 
 Catherine duchefs of Buckingham, daughter of James 2d,, 
 in enamel by Zincke : a prefent from her neice madame de 
 Bouzzols. 
 
 Added to the fecond frame and glafs. Two boys, fons of 
 fir Kenelm Digby. Note, thefe and the above-mentioned 
 additional pictures of the Digby's were the other divifion of 
 that collection, and were purchafed by Mr. W. of the lady 
 who fhared them with the other heir. 
 
 John duke of Lauderdale, copied by lady Lucan from the 
 original by Cooper, in the poffeffion of lady Greenwich. 
 
 William Henry, duke of Gloucefter j by lady Lucan, af- 
 ter Meyer. 
 
 Charlotte 
 
i28 APPENDIX. 
 
 Charlotte de la Tremouille countefs of Derby ; in a frame 
 of filver filigraine. 
 
 A lady's head, fuppofed to be the countefs of Pembroke, 
 wife of earl William ; by Hofkins : finely preferved. A pre- 
 fent from the duchefs dowager of Portland. 
 
 Mifs Temple, maid of honour to Anne Hyde duchefs of 
 York, and fecond wife of fir Charles Lyttelton ; by Spenfer, 
 after the unfinished picture by Cooper, in the poffeffion of 
 lord Lyttelton. 
 
 Two beautiful bas-reliefs of boys in wax, by lady Diana 
 Beauclerc; fet in frames with her arms, and cameos by 
 Wedgwood and Taffie. 
 
 A print by Bartolozzi of Giorgiana Spencer duchefs of 
 Devonshire, from the drawing of lady Diana Beauclerc ; in 
 a frame with Wedgwood's cameos, and two flies engraved 
 and painted by Hill. 
 
 Lady D. Beauclerc's two daughters, engraved from her 
 drawing by Bartolozzi ; in a blue and gold frame painted in 
 mofaic with lions and flower de luces, in allufions to the 
 arms of Beauclerc. 
 
 Four warned views of the chateau de Grignan in Provence: 
 a prefent from George Hardinge, efq; 
 
 A view of the church of Stokepogeys in Buckinghamshire; 
 the moon ihining on Mr. Gray's tomb in the church-yard ; 
 by Baron : a prefent from fir Edward Walpole. 
 
 Anne 
 
APPENDIX. 120 
 
 Anne Liddel counteis of Ofiory ; in crayons, by Hamilton. 
 Margaret Smith, wife of fir Charles Bingham lord Lucan ; 
 ditto. This lady arrived in five months, by copying in wa- 
 ter-colours the enamels and miniatures in this collection, at 
 great perfection, and in that fhort time copied forty pieces, 
 imitating moft exactly the manners of the feveral mailers. 
 Mr. W. wrote the following lines on that fubjecT:; 
 Without a rival long on paintings throne 
 Urbino's modeji artift fat alone. 
 At laft a Britijh Fair's unerring eyes 
 In Jive fhort moons contejls the glorious prize. 
 Raphael by genius, nurs'd by labour, gaind it — 
 Bingham but faw perfeBion, and attain d it. 
 An allegoric warned drawing of Chriflina of Pifa writing 
 her Cite des Dames, from an illumination in the library of 
 of the king of France. 
 
 A flower, in paper mofaic, executed by Mrs. Delany, the 
 inventrefs, who between the feventieth and eightieth years 
 of her age executed 500 plants in this manner. She was 
 daughter of Mr. Granville by the daughter of fir John Stan- 
 ley, and was firft married to Mr. Pendarvis, and then to Dr, 
 Delany. 
 
 Its companion, by Mrs. Delany's fcholar, mifs Jennings 
 of Shiplake. 
 
 George Hamilton, brother of count Antony Hamilton; 
 
 L 1 fmall 
 
130 A P P E N D I X. 
 
 fmall copy in oil by E. Edwards, from the original in the 
 pofTefTion of lord Kingfland. 
 
 In the GREEN CLOSET. 
 
 Infide of a church, by Steenwick. 
 
 Profile of an angel, after Guido; done in hair by Mary 
 Lane, 1778. 
 
 Mrs. Catharine Clive, the excellent comedian, in the cha- 
 racter of the fine lady in Lethe; in water-colours by Wor- 
 lidge. 
 
 Henry Howard earl of Northampton ; copied in water- 
 colours by Harding, from the original at the earl's college 
 at Greenwich. 
 
 In the BLUE BEDCHAMBER. 
 
 Two blue and white fquare candlefticks of the old Delft 
 ware. 
 
 The Hercules Famefe, fmall bronze. 
 
 An ancient lock to the door, richly wrought of brafs and 
 ileel. 
 
 In the RED BEDCHAMBER. 
 
 A fmall half-length of a young man, octagon on copper, 
 by Fr. Hals ; from Mr. Jennings's collection. 
 
 A 
 
APPENDIX. 131 
 
 A head of the duke d'Epernon, favourite of Henry 3d. 
 painted on oriental alabafler ; a prefent from colonel St. 
 Paul, charge d'affaires at Paris. 
 
 Madame de Prie, miflrefs of the due of Bourbon, prime 
 minirter in the minority of Louis 15. in crayons; fhe died 
 of vexation at the difgrace of the duke : a prefent from ma- 
 dame du Deffand, who was intimate with her. 
 
 A young lady reading the Caftle of Otranto to her compa- 
 nion ; a graceful and expremve drawing, done for a prefent 
 to Mr. W. by Lavinia Bingham, eldeft daughter of lady 
 Lucan, the celebrated copyift, and fince married to lord Al- 
 thorp. 
 
 On the STAIRCASE. 
 
 ■ 
 
 Two fhields of leather, for tournaments, painted by Poli- 
 dore ; one has the head of Medufa, the other of Perfeus : 
 on the infide are battles in gold. They came out of the col- 
 lection of commendatore Vittoria at Naples, and were fent to 
 Mr. W. by fir W. Hamilton, with a third of iron, repre- 
 fenting the flory of Curtius, but certainly not antique, as 
 there is a cannon and an embattled tower at a diflance. 
 
 Over the middle arcade is a curious ancient head of Henry 
 3d. carved in alto-relievo on oak, from the church of Barn- 
 well near Oundle, which he endowed. 
 
 In 
 
132 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 In the ARMOURY. 
 
 Two halberds, from the old houfe at Houghton. 
 
 An American calumet; a warrior's wreath; and a neck 
 ornament : prefents from governal Pownall. 
 
 An ancient mufket, richly carved; a prefent from Mofes 
 Franks, efq; 
 
 In the LIBRARY. 
 
 An ancient curfeu, or couvre-feu; from Mr. GoiHing's 
 collection. 
 
 A book of French portraits in the time of Francis i ft. It 
 belonged to Brantome, who has infcribed the names of feve- 
 ral of the perfons. From the collection of Monf. Mariette 
 at Paris. 
 
 A large volume bound in red morocco and gold, contain- 
 ing etchings of various perfons of quality. 
 
 A large book of mifcellaneous drawings by various matters, 
 ancient and modern. 
 
 Bathoe's catalogues of the collections of Charles ift. James 
 2d. and the duke of Buckingham ; with their portraits, and 
 large additions and notes. 
 
 Catalogue of the pictures belonging to the crown, temp. 
 Annas, MS. A prefent from Mr. Topham Beauclerc. 
 
 Two 
 
APPENDIX. 133 
 
 Two large volumes of catalogues of all the exhibitions 
 from the nrft, to the end of the year 1780, with MS. notes. 
 
 In Mr. WALPOLE's BEDCHAMBER. 
 
 George Cholmondeley 4th. earl of Cholmondeley, grand- 
 fon of Mary Walpole lady Malpas ; by Pompeio Battoni. 
 
 Colonel Edward Walpole, only fon of fir Edward Wal- 
 pole, knight of the Bath ; by Hudfon. 
 
 Six portraits in miniature, by Charles Beale ; a head of 
 Rubens in chalk, by Lens -, and a print of madame de Se- 
 vignc. 
 
 A drawing in black chalk of Jacob Hall the rope-dancer, 
 favourite of the duchefs of Cleveland ; copied by Dean from 
 an unique print in the collection of Dr. Fothergill. 
 
 In the STAR CHAMBER. 
 
 Two fmall Welch armed chairs, painted blue and white, 
 with cufhions of point-lace, and on one the arms of Mr. 
 Richard Bateman, at whofe fale they were purchafed. 
 
 A mahogany cabinet, containing a collection of Englifh. 
 and foreign coins and medals. Under it a vafe of falfe por- 
 phyry ; from the collection of the comte de Caylus. 
 
 Another like cabinet, with gold, filver, and brafs Greek 
 and Roman coins, and a compleat fet of Roman weights 
 
 M m from 
 
i 3 4 APPENDIX. 
 
 from Dr. Middleton's collection. Beneath, a vafe, compa- 
 nion to the former. 
 
 A Tufcan vafe of Wedgwood's ware. 
 
 A porringer, cover and plate, white, with different golds, 
 of Seve china; a prefent from Mrs. Damer. 
 
 In the HOLBEIN CHAMBER. 
 
 The red hat of cardinal Wolfey, found in the great ward- 
 robe by bilhop Burnet when clerk of the clofet. From his 
 fon the judge it came to the countefs dowager of Albemarle, 
 who gave it to Mr. Walpole. 
 
 A chair covered with purple ; made after one in a pane of 
 painted glafs. 
 
 Head of fir Thomas Wyat the younger, beheaded in the 
 reign of queen Mary, in a round on board ; copied by Mil- 
 bourn, from the original in the pofTeffion of lord Romney. 
 
 A man in black, by Holbein, in a rich gold frame; from 
 the collection of H. Conftantine Jennings, efq; of Shiplake. 
 
 A drawing of a clock, by Holbein ; defigned for fir An- 
 tony Denny as a new year's gift to Henry 8th. Bought at 
 the fale of monf. Mariette. 
 
 A drawing of a Romifh. epifcopal faint; whole length, 
 by Holbein. 
 
 In 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 In the GALLERY. 
 
 135 
 
 A buft of Tiberius, from Mr. Jennings's collection'. 
 
 Two tubs of old blue and white porcelaine ; a prefent from 
 Mr. Goftling. 
 
 In the cheft, three flafh'd doublets, a cloak ditto, and a 
 pair of black embroidered breeches, which belonged to F o- 
 bert Walpole, great grandfather of fir Robert Walpole firft 
 earl of Orford, and had been preferved in the old houfe at 
 Houghton : given by George lord Orford. 
 
 In a CLOSET, 
 
 With glafs doors, between the gallery and round chamber, 
 is a large collection of ancient porcelaine of China, which 
 belonged to Catherine lady Walpole. Under the window, a 
 fmall altar, part of the fhrine in the chapel, and on it a filver 
 ladle with an ivory handle carved and gilt, ufed by Indian la- 
 dies for incenfe ; a prefent from Charles duke of Richmond.. 
 
 In the ROUND DRAWING-ROOM. 
 
 A large vafe of Florentine fayence, with the arms of the- 
 great duke.. 
 
 Two 
 
j 3 6 APPENDIX. 
 
 Two large bottles, ditto, with the arms of duke Ferdi- 
 nand of Medici and his wife Chriftina of Lorrain. 
 
 A bottle of Roman fayence. 
 
 A green and gold table and two high flands, with the 
 arms of fir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter, his nrffc 
 wife. 
 
 In the TRIBUN E. 
 
 In the cabinet of enamels : A beautiful enamel by Petitot, 
 of Catherine Henriette d'Angennes comtcfle d'Olonne, as a 
 Diana, a character very different from that given of her in 
 Bully's Hiftoire amoureufe des Gaules. It is let in a frame 
 of flowers enamelled in relief by Giles Legare de Chaumont 
 en Baffigni, who was famous for that fort of works : from 
 the collection of monf. Mariette. 
 
 A young man in black; copied by lady Lucan from a 
 portrait by Titian, in the collection of the duke of Devon- 
 shire. 
 
 A lady's head by Rofalba; fet in tortoiihell. 
 
 James Brydges, rirfl duke of Chandos, in enamel, by 
 Zincke ; a prelent from G. S. earl of Harcourt. 
 
 Lord Loudon, chancellor of Scotland ; by Samuel Cooper. 
 
 A filver Turkifh ornament, taken by a Ruffian officer in 
 
 the laft war ; brought over by Charles lord Cathcart, and 
 
 given 
 
A P P E N D I X, 137 
 
 given by him to Mai-geret lady Brown, and by her to Mr. 
 'Walpole. 
 
 A feal of the head of fir Robert Walpole on white corne- 
 lian, by Natter ; a prefent from ditto. 
 
 A toothpick-cafe of gold, enamelled with cameos ; a pre- 
 fent from lady Diana Beauclerc. 
 
 A gold fnuff-box, with the image in wax of mad. du Def- 
 fand's dog, Tonton, whom me bequeathed with this fnuff- 
 box and her MSS. to Mr. Walpole. 
 
 Vandyck's head by himfelf, a fketch for the duke of Graf- 
 ton's picture. 
 
 Soldiers at cards; a curious picture, being painted in the 
 manner of Teniers, by Vandyck: from lord Oxford's collec- 
 tion. 
 
 The education of Cyrus, in water-colours, by Judith Boif- 
 fiere, a French woman, in 1725 : from Caftiglione, in the 
 collection at Houghton. 
 
 Rubens, his wife and child, in water-colours, by B. Lens, 
 from the original at Blenheim. 
 
 A battle, in black and gold, exquifitely touched by Cal- 
 lot : bought at Mrs. Stanley's fale. 
 
 In the PASSAGE: 
 
 An Indian bottle and pipe, ornamented with gold and 
 pearls; brought from Bengal by Henry Churchill, efq; in 1776. 
 
 Nn Head 
 
i 3 3 APPENDIX. 
 
 Head of Fiamingo the fculptor, holding an ivory groups 
 of boys. 
 
 Mary duchefs of Richmond, daughter of George Villiers, 
 duke of Bucks, fmall whole length from Vandyck. 
 
 In the GREAT BEDCHAMBER. 
 
 A fire-fcreen of the tapeftry of the Gobelins. 
 Two bas-reliefs of boys in wax on glafs, defigned and 
 modelled by lady Diana Beauclerc, lifter of George duke of 
 Marlborough. On the back are written thefe lines : 
 Tho tajle and grace thro all my limbs you fee, 
 And nature breathes her foft fimplicity, 
 Me nor Praxiteles nor Phidias form 'd ; 
 ,c twas Beauclerc s art the fweet creation loarmd, 
 From Marlbro' fprung. — We in one beavn-born race 
 Tb' attemper d rays ofthefamegenuis trace ; 
 As big with meteors from one cloud depart 
 Majejlic thunder and keen lightning's dart. H. W. 
 
 In the place of the Niobe, hangs the portrait of Frances 
 daughter of Richard Jennings, efq; [the mademoifelle Jen- 
 nings of Grammont] firft married to George Hamilton, and 
 afterwards to Richard Talbot duke of Tirconnel : copy by 
 Milbourn from the original at lord Spencer's. 
 
 In the place of the picture of Henry 8th. and Charles 5th. 
 which now hangs on the ftaircafe, is the original portrait of 
 
 Catherine 
 
APPENDIX. 139 
 
 Catherine of Braganza, that was fent from Portugal previous 
 to her marriage with Charles 2d. and from which Faithorne 
 fcraped his print : a prefent from Richard Bull, efq; 
 
 Sir Nicholas Carew, knight of the garter and mafter of 
 the horie to Henry 8th. in whofe reign he was beheaded : 
 copied by Milbourn from the original by Holbein, at Bed- 
 dington in Surrey. 
 
 In the glafs clofet : A fmall buff, in terra-cotta of Nicolo 
 Pouffin's wife, beautifully fimple and natural, by Fiamingo, 
 amicitas caufa : from monf. Mariette's collection. 
 
 Two fquare flower-tubs of Wedgwood's ware, painted 
 with antique cameos and mafks in blue, from defigns of 
 lady Diana Beauclerc. 
 
 The fpurs worn by king William at the battle of the 
 Boyne, preferved in an Irifh family, and given to the late 
 earl of Harcourt when lord-lieutenant, and by the prefent 
 earl to Mr. W. in a red leather box lined with green velvet. 
 
 A tortoifhell - cafe ftudded with filver, in which Van. 
 Tromp ufed to carry his pipes to fea : a prefent from Mr, 
 Hamilton. 
 
 Two ivory billiard-flicks, engraved ; they belonged to H. 
 Herbert earl of Pembroke, and have his creft a wyvern hold- 
 ing a bloody hand, and the bear and ragged ftafTfor his third 
 wife, the famous Mary, fifter of fir Philip Sidney; and an 
 ancient ivory bulk, engraved with French devices and mot- 
 toes. : 
 
i 4 o APPENDIX. 
 
 toes : all three from the collection of Mr. Goftling of Can- 
 terbury. 
 
 Twelve filver deffert-plates, engraved with the hiftory of 
 the prodigal fon. They belonged to lord chancellor Claren- 
 don, and defcended to his great grand-daughter the celebrat- 
 ed duchefs of Queenfberry, and were purchafed at the duke's 
 auction. 
 
 On the BACK STAIRS. 
 
 Lady Catharine Fitzalan marchionefs of Dorfet, daughter 
 of William earl of Arundel, and firft wife of Henry Grey, 
 afterwards duke of Suffolk, from whom (he was divorced to 
 make room for his marriage with lady Frances Brandon, 
 daughter of Mary queen of France and Charles duke of Suf- 
 folk. 
 
 The BEAUCLERC CLOSET, 
 
 Is a hexagon, built in 1776, and defigned by Mr. EfTex, ar- 
 chitect, of Cambridge, who drew the cieling, door, win- 
 dow, and furbafe. In the window is a lion and two fleurs de 
 lys, royally crowned, ancient, but repaired and ornamented 
 by Price ; and being bearings in the royal arms, ferve for 
 Beauclerc. The clofet is hung with Indian blue damafk, 
 and was built on purpofe to receive feven incomparable 
 drawings of lady Diana Beauclerc for Mr. Walpole's tragedy 
 of the Myfterious Mother. The beauty and grace of the 
 
 figures 
 
APPENDIX, 141 
 
 figures and of the children are inimitable j the expreflion of 
 the paffions moil mailerly, particularly in the devotion of 
 the countefs with the porter, of Benedict in the fcene with 
 Martin, and the tenderneis, defpair, and refolution of the 
 countefs in the laffc fcene ; in which is a new ftroke of double 
 paffion in Edmund, whole right hand is clenched and ready to 
 ftrike with anger, the left hand relents. In the fcene of the 
 children, fome are evidently vulgar, the others children of 
 rank; and the firft. child, that pretends to look down and does 
 leer upwards, is charming. Only two fcenes are reprefented 
 in all the Cevcn, and yet all are varied ; and theground in the 
 firft, by a very uncommon effect, evidently defcends and rifes 
 again. Thefe fublime drawings, the firft hiilories fhe ever 
 attempted, were all conceived and executed in a fortnight. 
 Other pictures in this clofet are, 
 
 Lady Diana Beauclerc, by Powel, after fir J. Reynolds. 
 
 Charles Lenox 3d. duke of Richmond, profile, by Mil- 
 bourn after Romney. 
 
 Count Schouallow, favourite of the Czarina Elizabeth, 
 whofe image he holds. This worthy man, who enjoyed ab- 
 folute power for twelve years, never did an injury or made 
 an enemy. Painted at Paris in 1775. 
 
 Two young women and a boy, a drawing in a round, by 
 lady Diana Beauclerc. 
 
 Four fronts of a gothic houfe, defigned by Mr. John 
 
 O o Chute 
 
i 4 2 A P P E N D I X. 
 
 Chute for Mr. Andrews, and built at Spinehill near Don- 
 nington-caftle, Berkfhire. 
 
 Two capital drawings by Paulo Panini, bought at Mari- 
 ette's fale. 
 
 A view of the fictitious monument defigned and ere&ed by 
 general H. S. Conway, near the Thames, at his feat at 
 Park-place near Henley : and, 
 
 A view of the leffer arch, defigned and erected by the 
 fame, at ditto. Thefe two by Paul Sandby, in 1781. 
 
 All thefe pictures have black and gold frames. 
 
 Two arms for candles of or-molu, in the form of lillies, 
 from Paris. 
 
 Two black and gold triangular ftands. 
 
 A tea-fervice of old blue and white porcelaine. 
 
 A tea-chert of Clay's ware, painted with loofe feathers. 
 
 A head of Auguftus, from an antique cameo belonging to 
 fir William Hamilton, modelled in wax by Mrs. Darner, 
 daughter of general Conway, in 1777. 
 
 A head of Voltaire, ditto, its companion. 
 
 A writing-table of Clay's ware, highly varniihed : it is 
 black, with blue and white ornaments in a gothic pattern, 
 defigned by Paul Sandby. In one of the drawers the play of 
 the Myfterious Mother, to explain the drawings, bound in 
 
 blue leather and gilt. 
 
 In 
 
APPENDIX. 143 
 
 In the ROUND BEDCHAMBER, Two pair of Stairs. 
 
 Chriitian Reifin, feal-engraver, in an oval ; freely painted 
 by Dahl. 
 
 Enoch Zeeman, the painter, in his original prefbyterian 
 habit, and his daughter as a boy by him : well painted by 
 himfelf. 
 
 Pearce, kn. ftatuary, by Fuller; from Vertue's collection. 
 
 In the Plaid Bedchamber, in the South Tower, is the 
 portrait of Henry Walpole the jefuit, who was executed for 
 attempting to poifon queen Elizabeth. He is crowned with 
 glory and holds a palm-branch, the emblem of martyrdom ; 
 the arms of the family in one corner. This picture came 
 from Mr. Walpole's of Lincoln (hire, the 1 aft of the Roman 
 catholic branch of die family, who died about the year 1748. 
 
 In the GREAT CLOYSTER. 
 
 In the place of the cat's tub, which is removed to the 
 fmaller cloyfter at the entrance of the houfe, ftands a fine 
 antique marble vafe with a Greek infcription ; bought at the 
 fale of Chafe Price, efq; in 1778. 
 
 Eight very ancient Welch chairs, turned, and four ftands - T 
 bought at the fale of Mr. Richard Bateman of old Windfor. 
 
 In 
 
144 APPENDIX. 
 
 In the CHAPEL. 
 
 Before which ftand on pedeftals four rare Indian flower-tubs, 
 bought at Mr. Bateman's, 
 
 Four pannels that came out of the abbey of St. Edmund's- 
 bury, and were doors to an altar-piece, and were iince in 
 the pofTeflion of Peter Leneve, Norroy, and after him of 
 Mr. Martin and Mr. Ives, antiquaries; on whofe death Mr. 
 W. bought and had them fawed into four pictures. On the 
 outfide pannels are Henry Beaufort cardinal of Winchester, 
 and John Kemp archbifhop of Canterbury. On one of the 
 infides is Humphrey duke of Gloucefter praying, and behind 
 him a faint holding the duke's cap of eilate in one hand, and 
 a golden chalice in the other. On the other is a perfon in 
 the acl of adoration in a ftable, whence it is probable that 
 the virgin and child were reprefented on the middle piece 
 which is wanting. This perfon feems to be Jofeph, but 
 may be the donor of the altar-piece, as over him is a fhield 
 of arms of Tate, impaling B uleyn or Sanders, for the colour 
 of the chevron is turned black. Thefe perhaps might be at- 
 tached to the houfe of Lancafter, who were great benefactors 
 to the abbey, and two princes of which family, afterwards 
 fo memorable for their enmity, are here reprefented. The 
 three portraits agree remarkably with thofe of the fame per- 
 
 fons 
 
APPENDIX. 145 
 
 fons in the marriage of Henry 6th. in the library, efpecially 
 the archbifhop and the duke, who has the fame bald head 
 and furred mantle. The two prelates are hard and dry, but 
 the duke and Jofeph are painted in a ftyle very fuperior to 
 that age, and the folds of their garments loofe and large, 
 not unworthy of the Bolognefe fchool. 
 
 In the TEA-ROOM in the COTTAGE. 
 
 Mary Lepelle lady Hervey, by Ramfay, in a frame carved 
 by Gibbons. 
 
 A large green vafe of German ware, with a fpread eagle, 
 and lizards for handles. Both from Mr. Bateman's. 
 
 In the LITTLE LIBRARY. 
 
 Four more ancient Welch chairs. Alfo from Mr. Bate- 
 man's. 
 
 A bronze ink-ftand, in good tafte ; from count Caylus's 
 collection. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 Pp LIST 
 
LIST of the BOOKS 
 
 Printed at Strawberry-Hill. 
 
 A WO Odes by Mr. Gray; quarto, 1757. 1000 copies. 
 Tranflation of part of Hentzner's Travels; duodecimo, 1757. 
 
 220 copies. 
 Royal and Noble Authors; 2 vol. duod. 1758. 300 copies. 
 Walpole's Fugitive Pieces ; duod. 1758. 200 copies. 
 Whitworth's Account of Ruffia; duod. 1758. 700 copies. 
 Spence's Parallel of Magliabechi and Hill; duod. 1758. 
 
 700 copies. 
 Bentley's Lucan ; quarto, 1759. 500 copies. 
 Anecdotes of Painting; fmall quarto, 3 vol. and one of En- 
 
 gravers, 1761. 600 copies. 
 A fecond edition of the fame, 1765. , 
 Lord Herbert's Life; fmall quarto, 1764. 200 copies. ' 
 Lady Temple's Poems ; quarto, 1764. 100 copies. 
 Cornelie, Tragedie de Henaut; duod. 1768. 200 copies 5 
 
 150 went to Paris. 
 The Myfterious Mother, Tragedy; duod. 1768. 50 copies. 
 Hoyland's Poems ; duod. 1769. 300 copies, 
 
 Memoires 
 
BOOKS PRINTED at STRAWBERRY-HILL. 
 
 - Memoires de Grammont ; fmall quarto ; 1771. 100 copies; 
 
 30 went to Paris. 
 
 ■-'■'-■ f^i^.^ 
 
 Letters of Edward VI. fmall quarto, 1771. 200 copies. 
 
 Mifcellaneous Antiquities, 2 numbers ; fmall quarto, 1772. 
 
 coo copies. 
 ... : 
 
 Deicription of Strawberry-Hill; fmall quarto, 1774. 100 
 
 copies, 6 on large paper. 
 Mr. Fitzpatrick's Dorinda, and Mr. Charles Fox's Verfes to. 
 
 Mrs. Crewe; fmall quarto, 1775. 300 copies. 
 The Sleep- Walker, Comedy, by lady Craven, 1778. j$ 
 
 copies. 
 Letter to the Editor of Chatterton's Mifcellanies ; odlavo, 
 
 1779. 200 copies, y 
 Mr. Charles Miller's Verfes to lady Horatia Waldegravej 
 
 fmall quarto, 1780. 150 copies. 
 Fourth volume of the Anecdotes of Painting, printed in 
 
 1770, but not published till OcT:. 1780. 600 copies. 
 Mr. Jones's Ode on lord Althorp's Marriage; quarto, 1781. 
 
 250 copies. 
 Letter from the hon. Thomas Walpole ; fmall quarto, 1781. 
 
 120 copies. 
 N. B. Mr. Miller s, Mr. Fitzpatrick's and Mr. Fox's verfes* 
 
 Hoy land's poems, and Mr. Walpole's letter, were only loofe 
 Jheets or fmall tracls. 
 
ADDITIONS 
 
 SINCE THE APPENDIX. 
 
 TN the great Parlour. A large piece of the ladies 
 Laura, Maria, and Horatia Waldegrave, daughters of 
 James fecond earl of Waldegrave and Maria Walpole, after- 
 wards duchefs of Gloucester; by lir Jofliua Reynolds, 1781. 
 A two-leafed fcreen, containing part of a map of Surry 
 and Middlefex. It is a piece of the firfl tapeftry woven in 
 England, and came from Wefton in Warwickshire, the feat 
 of the Sheidons who introduced the manufacture. The com- 
 plete fuite of hangings were purchafed by Mr. Walpole, and 
 prefented by him to the earl of Harcourt. This fpecimen 
 had never been hung up. 
 
 In the little Parlour. Two ileeping dogs, the ori- 
 ginal model in terra-cotta, by the honorable Mrs. Darner, 
 which me afterwards executed in marble for the duke of 
 Richmond. 
 
 On the Staircase. View of Richmond-hill, the ori- 
 ginal drawing by Mr. Henry Bunbury; a prefent from himfelf. 
 
 A curious emblematic picture of a man {landing, fmall 
 whole length, with a buft of Charles 2d. feeraingly before 
 
 Qjj his 
 
150 ADDITIONS since the APPENDIX. 
 
 his reftoration, for a cupid is weighing the broken arms of 
 England (as a commonwealth) againft crowns and fceptres, 
 (but the fceptre is a French one, therefore probably painted 
 abroad) fragments of architecture, and the man holds a plan 
 like St. Paul's ; thence it has been fuppofed a portrait of fir 
 Chriftopher Wren, but does not refemble him, nor are the 
 arms his. 
 
 Monamy the painter, (hewing a fea-piece to Mr. Thomas 
 Walker, a collector of pictures ; fmall life : the figures by 
 Hogarth, the fea-piece by Monamy. A prefent from Rich- 
 ard Bull, efq. 
 
 In the Breakfast-Room. Vandervaart the painter, 
 by himfelf, in water-colours, finely done ; a prefent from 
 Richard Bull, efq. 
 
 A holy family, modelled in wax, by Mrs. Mary Slaughter, 
 filler of Stephen Slaughter, painter ; a prefent from mifs 
 Anne Clement. 
 
 In the red Bedchamber. Gypfies telling a country- 
 maiden her fortune at the entrance of a beech- wood ; a mofl 
 beautiful drawing in water-colours, defigned and executed by 
 lady Diana Beauclerc in 1781 ; the chef-d'oeuvre of her works. 
 
 A drawing in Indian-ink of a foreft, by Mary Danby, firfi: 
 married to Mr. Lockhart, and afterwards to colonel Har- 
 court, only brother of George Simon fecond earl of Harcourt. 
 
 In 
 
ADDITIONS since the APPENDIX. 151 
 
 In the Star-Chamber. A marble buft of Gibbs, the 
 architect ; by Ryfbrack. 
 
 In the Holbein Chamber. A large drawing of a 
 magnificent chimney-piece ; a defign by Holbein for one of 
 the palaces of Henry 8th. 
 
 Arthur prince of Wales ; a wafhed drawing, by E. Ed- 
 wards, from the only original of that prince when grown up, 
 which belonged to Mr. Sh-ldon of Wefton in Warwickshire, 
 and was purchafed by Mr. Child of Ofterley-park, Middle- 
 fex, 1 78 1. 
 
 A fire-fcreen embroidered by mifs Hotham, to whom 
 Mr. W. addreffed the fable of the magpie and her young. 
 
 Two blue china beakers. 
 
 In the Gallery. Two triangular cifterns of Roman 
 fayence, finely painted with figures, probably from defigns 
 of Julio Romano j prefents from the earl of Exeter. 
 
 In the round Room. A Japan cabinet. On it, two 
 double-branched filver candlefticks with figures of women, 
 bought at lady Vere's fale, in 1783. 
 
 In the Tribune. In the cabinet of enamels : A golden 
 heart, fet with jewels, and ornamented with emblematic 
 figures enamelled, and Scottifh mottoes; made by order of 
 
 the 
 
152 ADDITIONS since the APPENDIX. 
 
 the lady Margaret Douglas, mother of Henry lord Darnley, 
 in memory of her hufband Matthew Stuart earl of Lenox and 
 regent of Scotland, murdered by the papifts. 
 
 In one of the glafs cafes : An ancient fquare German 
 watch, curioufly chafed in lilver gilt. 
 
 In the Passage. A head in profile of Robert Vere earl 
 of Oxford and duke of Ireland, favourite of Richard 2d. 
 
 In the great Bedchamber. An ebony cabinet, or- 
 namented with or moulu, lapis-lazuli, agates, pieces of an- 
 cient enamel, bas-reliefs of Wedgwood, and nine capital 
 drawings of a gipfy girl and beautiful children by lady Diana 
 Beauclerc, with other drawings by herj and with flraw- 
 berries and Mr. Walpole's arms and creft. The defign of 
 the cabinet by Mr. E. Edwards, in 1783. 
 
 In the glafs clofet : a fnuff-box, beautifully painted in 
 brown and white with figures from Etrul'can vafes, befpoken 
 at Naples, and given by fir William Hamilton. 
 
 An ancient German wooden fpoon, curioufly carved with 
 religious figures and mottoes. 
 
 A vafe of rock chryfial, carved with battles, unfinished, 
 having been cracked in the workmanfhip, with a lilver gilt 
 foot ; bought out of the great duke's wardrobe by fir Horace 
 Mann, and fent to Mr. W. 
 
 THE END. 
 
MORE ADDITIONS. 
 
 TN the Waiting-Room. Buft of Colley Cibber, poet- 
 laureat, in a cap, when old, coloured from the life, and 
 extremely like. He gave it to Mrs. Clive, the celebrated 
 adtrefs, and her brother Mr. Raftor gave it, after her death, 
 to Mr. Walpole. 
 
 - In the China-Room. A white cup and faucer with 
 coloured flowers, made for the comte d'Artois, and called 
 Porcelaine d'Angouleme; a prefent from the vifcountefs 
 Mount-Edgcumbe. 
 
 Two cuftard cups of old crackled china, with flowers of 
 plated filver. 
 
 Afmalljar, white within and japanned without; a pre- 
 fent from Mr. Barrett of Lee. 
 
 A Delft beaker, and two blue and white bottles, ditto. 
 
 A large flattifh drinking glafs, one of the firfl: manufacture 
 at Venice, with the initials of an Englifli lady's name for 
 whom it was made, and the date 1580; a prefent from 
 lady Giorgiana Smythe. 
 
 R r Three 
 
i 5 4 MORE ADDITIONS. 
 
 Three pieces of Moorifh mofaic -, on one a fhield, with 
 the name or title of a Moorifh king ; bought at the auction 
 of Mr, Carter, who publifhed an account of Spain. 
 
 Two vafes of white porcelaine, ftriped with blue and gold, 
 and ornamented with red feftoons ; from the manufacture 
 of marquis Ginori at Florence : fent by fir Horace Mann. 
 
 In the Beauty-Room. Buft of the lady vifcountefs 
 Melbourne j a can: from the original by Mrs. Darner. , 
 
 In the Breakfast-Room. A mafquerade at Vaux- 
 hall, in bifter j by lady Diana Beauclerc. There is wonder- 
 ful expreffion in the faces, and attitudes, though fome of 
 the figures are quite mafked, and others have half mafks. 
 
 In the green Closet. Profile of lady Ailefbury, in 
 wax j by her daughter Mrs. Darner. 
 
 Thomas Seymour lord Sudley, brother of the protector 
 Somerfet, copied by lady Lucan from the original in the 
 poffemon of the marquis of Buckingham. 
 
 On the Staircase. A Perfian fhield, over the door 
 
 into the blue room. 
 
 An ancient difh of fayence, over the door of the red room." 
 Top of a warming-pan that belonged to Charles 2d. with 
 
 his arms and this motto, Sarve God and Hve for ever, As J 
 
 the 
 
MORE ADDITIONS. i 5S 
 
 the date on it is 1660, with C. R. it probably was ufed for; 
 his majefty and the duchefs of Cleveland. 
 
 Wootton the painter, his wife and children ; fmall life, 
 painted by Gav. Hamilton. 
 
 Armoury. Head of Ifis, fmall model in terra-cotta by 
 Mrs. Darner, which ihe executed in large in ftone for the 
 bridge at Henley. 
 
 An ancient battle-axe and a bandelier. 
 
 In Mr. Walpole's Bedchamber. A cat, in an ebony 
 frame. 
 
 In the Library. A print of king Staniflaus in his 
 old age, coloured and dreffed with filks after the cloaths he 
 wore : a prefent from Mrs. Darner. 
 
 In the Starchamber. Catherine Haftings, firftcountefs 
 of Chefterfield. 
 
 In the Holbein Chamber. A man in black, holding 
 a ring j fmall half-length, by Holbein. On the back is 
 written H. II. data excel. Pnpis Vallijiari avunculi munere. 
 
 A young lady, its companion ; feems to be painted by 
 Lionardo da Vinci. On the back, Coflanza Fregqfa, moglie 
 del Co. Manfredo Lando, madre d'Agoftino Landi Prin e . di 
 
 Vat 
 
j 5 6 MORE ADDITIONS. 
 
 Val di Taro. Tableau du palais di Monaco. Pnpis Vallijiari 
 munus. Thefe two pictures were prefents to Mr. W. from 
 his great nephew George earl of Cholmondeley. 
 
 In the China Closet, Three blue bafkets made like 
 rufhes, of old blue china; bought at the fale of the duchefs 
 dowager of Portland. 
 
 In the Cabinet of Enamels in the Tribune. A 
 fmall head of a foreign general, in buff with a black fafh. 
 It is painted with all the force of oil, though in enamel, 
 and in a grander flyle than Petitot's. From the Portland 
 collection. 
 
 In the Passage. Drawing of a concert, by captain 
 Laroon. 
 
 View of the cathedral of Gloucester, by Samuel Lyfons, 
 efq. 1785. 
 
 View of Windfor-caftle, by lady Diana Spencer, duchefs 
 of Bedford. 
 
 Print of monfieur le due de Nivernois. 
 
 In the small Closet. Venus and Cupid in ivory, 
 finely drawn and executed, but in the Flemiih ftyle ; a pre- 
 fent from Mr. Watfon the furgeon. 
 
 An ivory comb, fent by pope Gregory to queen Bertha ; 
 from the Portland collection. 
 
 In 
 
MORE ADDITIONS! \ 5 j 
 
 In the great Bedchamber. Henry 7th. a moft ca- 
 pital portrait on board, and incomparable for the truth of 
 nature, expreflion, and chiaro fcuro. The character and 
 thought in the countenance, and its exact conformity with 
 the bud by Torreggiani in the Star-chamber, make it un- 
 queftionably a portrait for which the king fat; and yet the 
 knowledge of light and made, not poffeifed even by Hol- 
 bein, makes it probable that this picture was retouched by 
 Rubens, of whofe colouring it is worthy and refembles. 
 
 ^In Lady Diana Beauclerc's Cabinet. The book of Pfalms, 
 with 21 inimitable illuminations by don Julio Clovio, fcholar 
 of Julio Romano. If any thing can excel the figures, it is 
 the execution of the borders, which are of the purefl antique 
 tafte, and unrivalled for the luftre and harmony of the co- 
 lours, as well as for the prefervation, which is allowed to be 
 more perfect than any of the few works of this extraor- 
 dinary matter. It was painted, as is faid on one of the illu- 
 minations, Principi Andegavenfi, 1537; was afterwards in 
 the Arundelian collection, on the difperfion of which it was 
 purchafed by the earl of Oxford in 1720, who bequeathed 
 it to his daughter the duchefs of Portland, at whofe file 
 Mr. Walpole bought it in 1786. 
 
 The head of Jupiter Serapis, in bafaltes. The divine 
 majefty and beauty of this precious fragment prove the great 
 ideas and confummate tafte of the ancient fculptors. This 
 
 Sf buft 
 
j 5 8 MORE ADDITIONS. 
 
 bull was purchafed, with the celebrated vafe, from the Bar- 
 berini colle&ion at Rome, by fir William Hamilton ; and 
 was fold with the vafe to the duchels of Portland, and on 
 her grace's death was bought by Mr. Walpole. 
 
 A locket with hair of Mary Tudor, queen of France ; 
 whofe tomb was opened in 1784; a prefent from mifs 
 Fauquier. 
 
 A very fmall cryftal watch ; a prefent from general Fitz- 
 william. 
 
 In the round Bedchamber. Portrait of Oliver Crom- 
 well's mother, copied from the original at Hinchinbrook ; 
 given by lord Sandwich. 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Clive, the adlrefs, with a munc-book; 
 painted by Davifon : a prefent from her brother Mr. James 
 Raftor. 
 
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