(L / Ulrich Middeldorf i fc- . . '-iJ ^ r G JF E: DESCRIPTION Of the Magnificent HOUSE and GARDENS: Of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl TEMPLE, Vifcount and Baron C 0 B H A My One of his Majesty’s Mod Honourable Privy Council, and Knight of the moft Noble Order of the Garter. Embellifhed with a General Plan of the Gardens, and alfo a feparate Plan of each Building, with Perspective Views of the fame. A NEW EDITION, With all the Alterations and Improvements that have been made therein, to the prefent Time* With the Defeription of the Infide of the Houfe. Where Order in Variety we fee. And where, tho’ all Things differ all agree.'-— Nature (hall join you. Time (hall make it grow, A Work to wonder at — jjerhaps a Stowe. Pope. LONDON: Printed for J. and F. R i v i n g t o n in St. PauVs Church-yard', B. S E E L E Y in Buckingham j and T. Hodgkinson at the Wray /«« at Sfoixie. 1768. *Phe Defeription of the Houfe and Gardens y ^without the Plans andVienss* of the Temples y may be had alone. Price Six -pence. // A L I S T of the P R I N T s, Drawn in Perfpedive by B. Seeley. A Plan of Earl Temple’s Houfe and Gardens. The Corinthian Gate-way. One of the Pavilions at the En- trance. . ’ The Shepherd’s Cove. An artificial Piece of Ruins. TheTemple dedicated to Venus. One of the Lodges. One of the Pavilions at the En- trance to the Park. An Egyptian Pyramid. St. Auguftine’s Cave. The Temple of Bacchus. Nelfon’s Seat. The South Front of the Houfe. Dido’s Cave. The Roiundo. King George II. 7 Queen Caroline, 3 A Gate-way, by Rent. A Doric Arch. A Ruiri. TheTemple of ancient Virtue. The Shell Bridge. The Temple of Britilh Wor- thies. A Gate-way, by Leoni. The Cold Bath. The Grotto. The Temple of Concord and Vidlory. Capt. Grenville’s Monument. The Lady’s Temple. The Fane of Paftoral Poetry, The Caftic. An Obelilk to the Memory of General Wolfe. Lord Cobham’s Pillar. The Gothic Temple. The Palladian Bridge. The Temple of Frier.dfliip. The Pebble Alcove. Congreve’s Monument. An Equellrian Statue of Geo. L Alfo a Plan of the principal Floor of the Houfe, and Plans of the Buildings in the Gardens. All accurately drawn by Mr. Fairchild, Surveyor and Architect. ' The Defeription of the Houfe and Gardens without tile Plans and Views of the Temples, Price Ditto with the Plan of the Gardens — - — Ditto with all the Plans and Views ditched in blue Paper Ditto half bound — Ditto — — bound ■ ■ ^ Ditto gilt and lettered — — r. d, 0 6 I o 3 o 3 6 4 5 o o T- O The Right HoNouSAStE The Earl Te MPLE This Description O f his lordship’s H OUSE and Gardens A T S T 0 W E, Is mofi: humbly Dedicated, by his Lordship’s Obliged and moft obedient humble Servant, B. Set: LEY. i r 3 i On Gardening. B y Commerce, Albion^ and by Arms refin’d. Sought for the Charms of Art and Nature join’d \ Along the Banks of her own Thames fhe ftray’d. Where the gay Sifters of the Waters play’d ; In many a foft Meander wildly rov’d. And grac’d the Meadows which their Stream im- prov’d. She mark’d romantic Windfor\ warlike Pride, To Learning’s peaceful Seat fo near ally’d ; Where Temple's Bofom early figh’d for Praife, Struck with th’ infpiring Fame of ancient Days ; She came where ^\\vtvThames and Ifis bright. Their friendly Treafures in one Stream unite *, Where Princes, Prelates, fir’d with Patriot Views, By generous Gifts invited every Mufe ; Where every Mufe her grateful Tribute brought, And Virtue practis’d what found Learning taught ; At length her longing Eyes and hallow’d Feet, Reach verdant Stowe’s magnificent Retreat, Where Fame and Truth had promis’d fhe fhould find Scenes to improve and pleafe her curious Mind. Each Step Invention, Elegance difplay’d, Such, as when Churchill woes the Aonian Maid, And joins in eafy graceful Negligence, Th* harmonious Pow’rs of Verfe, v^ith Sterling Senfe | Such, as when P cuffin' s or Albano's Hand On glowing Canvas the rich Landfthape plann’d. And clafTic Genius ftrove, by mimic Art, Thro’ the admiring Eye to reach the Heart. Amidft the Wonders of each ftriking Scene, High on the Summit of a flopipg Green A folemn [ 4 ] A folemn Temple, in Proportion true. Magnificently fimpie, courts the View Concord and Vi5fory with Pride proclaim This Manfion facred to Britannia^s Fame, WhofeForm* rpajeftic, from all Hands, receives The various Produ(5l ev’ry Region gives. Pleas’d at her Feet their choicell Gifts to lay. And Homage to her Pow’r fuperior pay ; The fculptur’d Walls her Glories paft declare. In proud Memorials'!" of fuceefsful War. No' fadiious Sacrifice to France and Spain Thefe confecrated Trophies can profane ^ For public t Liberty her awful Seat Here fixing, here protedfs her laft Retreat *, Whereto the Great and Good in every Shade, The fragrant Tribute of juft Praifeis paid: Where the prime Beauties form’d by Nature’s Hand Throughout her Works in every diftant Land, Tranfplanted, flourifti in their native Eafe, And, as by magic Charm collected, pleale Here the fair Queen of this heroic Ifle imperial Albion y with a gracious Smile Confefs’d, fhe lovely Nature faw at laft Unite with Art, and both improve by Tafte. * The Alto Relievo in the Pediment. t The Medallions of the Vi£lories, X The Statue of public Liberty placed in the middle Njche of :he Temple. » A DE- ^ V-'<* - 4.i - tX 'ii^-^w::;'.' -vA- :-' irt ■ -4/-:? ■ ' - >f^l- - 4;>'' ■ '■■; v'- ' K'.f' ■ V '• ■ 4- h / ■ ;' yv ' ■■■ ’■' '* ■ ^ ’■-4-. : di ii;. f -i T:- .-V^R 1 \y, .-t '? 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N the Road from London to ^towe are the Towns of Chalfont^ Amer^ jham^ Great Mijfenden^ Wendover^ Ailjbury^ Winjlow^ and Buckingham^ which laft is diftant from London 57, from Oxford 26 Miles. —^Here are four capital Inns, ihtCobham Arms^ the Crofs Keys, the George^ and JVhite Hart ; a Gravel Road leads to the New Inn at Stowe^ diftant from Buckingham about a Mile and a half, where are good Accommodations: On the left Hand a large ihian Arch or Gate-way prefents itfelf, from whence appears the Garden Front of his Lordfhip’s Houfc, proudly ftanding on the Summit of a verdant Hill, and encompafled by the Garden and Park. Froni the New Inn you defeend to the Garden Entrance j but the Road to the Houfe leads by, or through the Corinthian Arch, and is beautifully diverftfied with Hill> Valley, Lawn, River, and a perpetual Change of [ 6 ] of Scene anfing fram the numerous Buildings inter-* mixt vvith Wood, and “ bofom’d high in tufted “ Trees,’* which ftrike the Eye with a moft pidurefque and ever-varying Magnificence. At the South Entrance of the Gardens are .two Pa- vilions fupported by Doric Pillars. Here you have a View, very ftriking at firft En- trance, the Houfe', the two Rivers On the Right-hand meeting in onfe Stream, run into a Kind of Bay, (which was formerly an Odagon, and in the Centre ftood an Obelifk, now removed into the Park.) The beautiful Difpofition of the Lawns, Trees, and Build- ings at a Diftance, gives us a Kind of Earned of what our Expectation is raifed to. Turning to the Left-hand you defcend to An artificial Piece of Ruins, of a Temple, of ' two River-Gods, Covered with Evergreens, and adorned with the Sta- tues of Fauns, Satyrs, and River- Gods •, a beautiful Cafcade of three Sheets of Water falls from a River above into a large Lake of ten Acres. The Shepherd’s Cove ; Defigned by Mr. Kent, is feated in a rifing Wood, on the Banks of the Lake. The Temple dedicated to Venus, With this infeription, VeNERI HoRTExVSI. It is a fquare Building with circular Arches and Wings, defigned by Mr. Kent ; the Infide adorned with Paintings by Mr. Sleler^ taken from Spenfer'*s Fairy ^een . — The Lady is the fair Hellinore^ who having left a difagreable Hufband, and wandering in the O //f' o/'^/n^2^a The S/jrjj/)erd^ Cf oue . 7 ^ 1 / 1 ^ Th(^ Ter/ipl e t 7 erf r cer teef te TcTtic^, ▲ tf . X . lyh/t/A lYr^/^i [ 7 ] the Woods, was met by the polite Set of Gentry fhe is dancing with : She likes their Manner of Life, and refolves to enjoy it with them. Her old Spoufe hecco is inconfolable for his Lofs ; he wanders many Days in Search of her, and at length finds her (you fee him at a Diftance peeping from behind a Tree) revelling with a beaftly Herd of Satyrs. When the Evening comes on, he follows the Company to their Retirement, takes a commodious Stand, and to his great Torment fees every Thing that palTes among them. After they were all laid afleep, he creeps gently to his Lady, and you fee him in the other Painting offering to be reconciled to her again, if fhe will re- turn back with him. But // I’hat rh’one from t’other fcarce you’d know, j This done, the good Man Side by Side Lay down t’ enjoy his new-form’d Bride. But if a learned Dodor can Fall, as might any other Man, It may be alk’d, with Reafon good, Whether a Girl of Flefh and Blood, More certain far than one of Snow, 1 Would not controul, fubdue, overthrow, > The fwelling, Rebel -flefh below ; J Of Paflion cool the Rage and Boiling, And hinder Nature from recoiling? For Fire and Fire, two mortal Foes, Expel themfelves, the Proverb goes. But I, unmarried, for Decree, O married Man, appeal to thee. On the Left, Apparuit mihi^ nuper in fomnio cum nudis (A anhelan- tibus molliter Papillis & hianti fuaviter vultu — Eheu / benedicite ! Cur gaudes, Scitana muliehrem fumere for mam Pi on facies voti cafti me rumpere normam. Hens fugite in cellam •, pulcbram vitate puellam ^ Nam radix mortis fuit dim f^emina in hortis. Vis fieri fortis? Noli concumbere fcortis. In fandiim Originern Eunuchum^ Filias Ecclefta Origines fortaffe probetur : Effe patrem nunquam fe fine tefte probet, Virtus diaholi eft in lumbis, Satan^ why, deck’d in female Charms, Doft thou attack my Heart ? My Vow is Proof againfl; thy Arms, ’Gainft all thy Wiles and Art. Ah! Flermits, flee* into your Cells, Nor Beauty’s Poifon feed on, — The Root of Death (as Story tells) Was Woman firfl in Eden, Would’ft [ 'I ] Would’fl: thou thyfeif a dauntlefs Hero prove, Detefl th’ Enjoyments vile of lawlefs Love. That Origin's true Son of Church, agreed, But could not for a Father be decreed. In what we call the Loins, they fay, The Devil bears the greated Sway. Fronting the Door. Mente fie elatd^ feragro dum dulcia prata^ Dormiit abfque dolo pulchra fuella folo Mult a oflendebati dum femifupina jacebaty Pulchrum oSy divinum pebfuSy aperta finum, Ut vidi mammaSy concept extempore flammaSy Et didiurus ave dicoy Maria, cave : Elam magno totus violenter turbine motus Poene illam invadoy pcene Cf in ora cado. Ilia fed baud lente furgity curritque repentiy Currit Cf, invito mey fugit ilia citby Fugit caufa mali tamen effedius Jatanaliy Interncque meum cor vorat igne reum ; 0 in feme canisy cur quotidie eft tihi paniSy Per vifus miros follicitare vires ? Cur monachos velles fieri tarn came rehelleSy Nec caft^ legi turbida membra regi F Jam tihi jam bellum dicOy jam trifle flagellum Efuriemque paray queis fubigenda cano. ^in ahfeindatury ne pars fincera trahatury Radix, qua folus nafeitur ufe\u*e. dolus. As lofl: in Thought, and Contemplation deep, 1 wander o’er the verdant Meads — in Sleep , Sleep undefigning, lo ! repos’d a Maid, Frefli as the Verdure of her grafiy Bed, Reclin’d in Poflure half fupine fhe lay, A World of Beauties did her Form difplay : Her Face, her Neck divine, her Bofom too. With all their Charms were open to my View. Her heaving Globes no fooner ftruck my Eye, But ftrait the Flames thro’ all my Vitals By. B 2 I would [ 12 ] I would have faid my Ave-MaryTray*r^ But, (lead of that, I cry’d out. Maid beware^ For in the Whirh^-ind of ffrong PafTion toft, And Reafon in the vi’lent Tranfport loft I almoft feize the fair, inviting Prey, And to her Lips impatient urge my Way*, She fudden ftarts, and with a rapid Flight, Shoots from my Touch, and leaves my ravilh’d Sight. The Caufe of Evil’s fled — th’ Effed remains, And ftill too furious revels in my Veins : Has kindled an infernal, fatal Flame, Which inward burns thro’ all my guilty Frame. Why is’t thy daily Food, O hellifh Cur! Man up to Vice by wond’rous Sights to fpur ? Why is’t thy Pleafure, Monks fhould thus rebel. Their fiefhlyMembers’gainft their Laws fliould fwell? ^Gainft thee I now eternal War declare. The Lalli fevere, and ITunger I prepare ; With thefe to mortify my carnal Luft, To thefe my Virtue, Chaftity to truft. But left the Part that’s whole, fhould be infeded. That Modefty may better be protedcd, Beft, once for all, to cut away the Root, From whence alone our guilty f^aflions (hoot. Near this holy Father’s Cell, -upon a Stone, is engraved the following monumental Infcription. To the Memory of SiGNIOR FiDO, an Italian of good Extradion ; who came into England^ not to bite us, like moft of his Countrymen, but to gain an honeft Livelioood. He hunted not’after Fame, yet acquired it ; regard lefs of the Praife of his Friends, but moft fenfible of their Love. Tho’ [ 13 ] Tho’ he liv’d amongft the Great, he neither iearn’d nor flatter’d any .Vice. He was no Bigot, Tho’ he doubted of none of the 39 Articles. And, if to follow Nature, and to refped the Laws of Society, be Philofophy, he was a perfe6l Philofopher *, a faithful Friend, an agreeable Companion, a loving Huflband, diftinguifh’d by a numerous Offspring, all which he lived to fee take good Courfes. In his old Age he retir’d to the Houfe of a Clergyman in the Country, where he finifli’d his earthly Race, And died an Honour and an Example to the whole Species. Reader, This Stone is guiltlefs of Flattery, for he to whom it is infcrib’d was not a Man, but a Grey-hound, The Temple of Bacchus is a ftucco’d Building ; the Infide adorned with the Revels of Bacchus^ painted by NoUikins. This Building commands great Part of the Gardens, and •a beautiful Profpedl over the Country. •N E L s o n’s Seat is an airy Building to the North-weft of the Houfe, from whence there is an open Profpecl ; and in it are the following Infcriptions, deferibing the Paintings. On the Right Hand. Ultra Euphratem Cf Eigrim tifque ad oceanum propagatd ditione Orhis t err arum imperium Rom^e adfignat optimus princeps^ cut [Hi ciii ftiper advolat Vidfcria laurigerum fertum hinc inde ' utrcique manu ex tendons comitantihus Pietate ^ Ahundanttd, • In arcu Conflantini. Having extended his Power beyond the Euphrates and Tigris^ as far as the Ocean, ' this mofi: potent Prince afiigns the Empire of the World to Roms : over whom Vidory flies, waving a Laurel Crown, accompanied with Piety and Plenty:, Upon Conflantine\ Arch. On the Left. Pojl ohitum L, Veri^ in imperio cum Marco confortiSy Roma integram orbis terrarum potejlatem ei in eo contulit. " In CapitoUo^ After the Death of Lucius Verus Partner in the Empire with Marcus^ Rome conferred on him the Empire of the World. In the Capitol. Oppofite the North Front of the Houfe, at the Head of the Canal, is the Equeftrian Statue of King George I. in Armour with this Infcription : In medio mihi Ceefar erit^ Et viridi in campo ftgnum de marmore ponam, COBHAM. Imperial C^faPs Statue I will place. Full in the Centre on the verdant Grafs. To this Front there is a Wall ornamented with Niches, and t\wp Gate-ways into the Courts, by Kent ^ two Gate ways into the Gardens, by Leoni, Oppofite 9 [ r5 ] Oppofite the South Front is a grand Parterre, where you have a diftant View of many beautiful Objedts in the Garden, and a fine Frofpe^l over the Country. The Statue of his kte Majefiy, eredled on a Corinthian Pillar, with this Infcription : Georgio August o. On her Royal Highnefs the Princefs Amelia*s Arrival at Stowe, Apollo * and his tuneful Maids. "Who range their lov’d Aonian Glades, Forfook the Heliconian Spring, To hail the Daughter of a King. Fond Echo fhew’d them where to try. The fweeteft Pow’rs of Melody. . Clofe by the Image of her Sire, Apollo touch’d the founding Lyre. I faw the awful Statue f fmile, The Guardian of this happy Ifle, When regal State with Freedom drove, Which mod Ihould gain the others Love ! Mild he furvey’d the pleafing Scene, And thus addrefs’d his much-iov’d Queen, Whofe fculptur’d J Form majedic ftood. The Glory of the neighb’ring Wood j Soft Partner of my happied Days, Grac’d with a grateful People’s Fraife, The joyful Hour approaches near, Which brings our fav’rite Daughter here. She will revere the hallow’d Ground, Where ancient H Virtue’s Dome is found, * Statue of j^pollo and the Mufes. •f Statue of King George II. I The Statue of Queen Caroline. H The Temple of 4ncknt Virtue*. And I J [ ] And view the Shrine with Heart-felt tride^ Where Englijh Worthies ftill prefide ; Where every Virtue (lands confefl. Juft Emblem of her generous Bread. Nor will her Recollection fail, In Victory’s * confecrated Vale, To glory in the Brunfwick Name, For there the Trophies f of my Fame Remain unfullied yet. — The reft 'A Sigh and rifing Tear fupprefs’d. Apollo footh’d the mournful King *, Fie tun’d to Joy the golden String ; Then fung of Royal Emily ^ MTen Light’ning darts from either Eye* And Spirit in her meaning Face Adds Dignity and Senfe to Grace *, Or, when Compaflion melts her Mind, In Tendernefs to human Kind, And her rich Bounty copious flows, In Streams as various as their Woes ; Or, when amidft the circling Great, She graceful moves in royal State, Difpenfing round with Judgment true. Honour to all where Honour’s due : Or, when fhe condefcends to ftand. The firft in Friendfhip’s fpotlefs Band, Preferring to the Courtiers Art Truth and Simplicity of Heart ! In Air th’ inchanring Mufic floats ; The Zephyrs catch the varied Notes, And bear to Heav’n th’ enraptur’d Lays, FVaught v^^ith Amelia^s, flowing Praife. The Mother heard th’ applauding Choir, Her Bread extatic Tranfports fire; As on the Day her martial Son, CuJlodenh glorious Triumph won. * The Temple of Concord and ViBoty. t Medallions of the Victories gained in the late War, placed round the Temple. When L 'f' 'v ' ■1 ■il 'V [ 17 ] When lo ! upon the flow’ry Green Her darling Emily is feen ; What Hand can paint the glowing Cheek, The beating Heart, the Looks that fpeak ? What but ApoM^ Lyre exprefs The full maternal Tendernefs. Thus flurh’d with Pride and ardent Love Latona views her Twins from Jove^ Confeious, (he on the Delian Earth To two Divinities gave Birth. ' D I D o’s Cave, with this Infcription : Speluncam Dido^ dm & TroJanuSy eandem Deveniunt Virg. Repairing to the fame dark Cave are feen, The trojan Hero and the Tyrian Queen. The Rotundo is raifed upon Ionic Pillars, and is ornamented with a Statue of the Venus of Medicis . — The Building by Sir John Vanhurgh^ altered by Borra. From hence you pafs into the great Avenue, where on the Right -hand, you have the Profpedl of the Co- rinthian Gate- way, and Entrance to the Gardens (men- tioned before) ; and on the Left, the Houfe, near which A Doric Arch prefents itfelf, and forms the Entrance into the Ely- flan Fields. In a green Glade, clofe to this Arch, are the Sta- tues of Apollo and the Nine Muses. A R u I N. C Th •X ■ C >8 3 , The Temple of Ancient Virtue, in a very flourifhing Condition ; the Building is a Ro* tundo of the Ionic Order by Mr. Kent \ on the Outr fide, over each Door, is this Motto : Prifca Virtiitu To Ancient Virtue. And in four Niches within, ftandingat full Length, are the Statues of Lycurgus^ Socrates^ Horner^ and Epa-^ ininondas: Under which are the following Inlcriptions: Under Lycurgus. • fummo cum confdio, invent is legihus^ Omnemque contra corruptelam munitis optime. Pater Patrice Lihertatem firmijfmam , Et mores fan^Hffimos, E^pulfa cum divitiis avaritid, luxurid, lihidine, In multa fecula Civibus fuis injiituit. Who having planned, with confummate Wifdom, a ^ Syftem of Laws firmly fecured againft every Incroach- ment of Corruption, and having by the Expulfionof Riches, banilhed Luxury, Avarice, and Intemperance, eftablifhed in the State for many Ages, perfet^ Li- berty and inviolable Purity of Manners — The Father of his Country. Under Socrates. S^ui corruptifftma in civil ate innocent, Bonorum hortator^ unici cultor D E 1, Ab inutili olio, (A vanis difputationihiis. Ad officia vita, ^ focietatis commode , Pbilofophiam avocavit, Hominum fapientijfimus. Who f C 19 .] Who Innocent in the Midft of a moft corrupted People, the Encourager of the Good, a Worfhipper of the one God , recalled Philofophy from ufelefs Spe- culations and vain Difputes, to the Duties of Life and the Benefit of Society. — The wifeft of Men ! Under Homer. poet arum princeps^ idem maximuSy Virtutis pr^cOy {ff immortalitatis largitor^ Divino carmine Ad pulchre audendum, patiendum for tit er^ Omnibus not us gen ti bus, omnes incitat. The firft and the greatefl: of the Poets, The He- rald of Virtue, The Giver of Immortality ; who by his divine Genius, known to all Nations, incites all, nobly to dare, and to fuffer firmly. Under Epaminondas. Cujus a virtutey prudentiay verecundia^ Thebanorum refpublica Libertatem fimul (A imperium, Difclplinam bellicamy civilem Cff* domejlicam Accepit \ Eoque amijfoy perdidit. By whofe Valour, Prudence, Modefiy, the Theban Commonwealth gained Liberty and Empire, Military Difcipline, Civil and Domeftic Policy, all which, by lofing him, file loft. Over one Door. Charum ejfe civewy bene de republica mereriy laudari^, coliy diligiy gloriofum eft : metui veroy in odia eJfe invi- diofuniy detejlabiky imbecillumy caducum, C 2 To [ 20 ] To be dear to our Country, to defervc w^ell of the Public, to be honoured, reverenced, loved, is glori- ous *, but to be dreaded and hated is odious, detefta*- bie, weak, ruinous. Over the other. Jujtitlam cole pietatemy qua cum fit magna in pu>~ rentibus & fropinquiSy turn in pairia maxima eft, Ea vita via eft in ccelumy £5? in hunc ccetum eorum qui jam vixerunt. Cultivate Juftice and Benevolence, which in an eminent Manner is due to Relations and to Friends, but in the higheft Degree to our Country ; this Path leads to the Manfions of the Blefied, and to the Aft femhly of tho'fe who are now no more. From the Doors of this Temple, and from the Pe- riftilium, the Views are charming : From one Door you fee the Statue of the late Queen, and the Caflle, being a Farm-Houfe, (landing at the End of a Line in the Park three Miles long: From the other Door you fee the Temple of Britijh Worthies, and the Pal- ladian Bridge at a Diflance 5 as alfo Captain Grenville’s Monument, being a Naval Column erefled by the late Lord Cob- ham in honour of Captain GrenvillCy upon the Top of which Heroic Poetry, fuppofed to light, holds in her Hand a Scroll with Non nifi Grandia Canto, Heroic Deeds alone my Theme. Upon the Plinth and on the Pedeftal arc the fol- lowing inferiptions : DIGNUM LAVDE VIRVM MVSA VETAT MORI. The Mufe forbids Heroic Worth to die. Sororis TbeTe?/ 2 jjle of Concopd and Idcdo/y T/oeJjgdfsTcmjjle. ^a/d. Gro //miles 3£o?zu7r2 e?tl~. TbeTh/ie offqftoraTToetri), S. (///if G^Xj. Sm/t/i SruZ^i 3 ; . . ,' ;• -t 4J ^ * - Sororis fus Filio, Thomas Gnsiiville, Qui navis prasfe^lus regise, Ducente claiTem Britaniv’cam Georgio Anfon, Dnm contra Gallos fortiffime pugnaret, Dihceratas navis ingenti tragmine, Femore graviter perculTo, Perlre, dixit moribundus, omnino fatius efle, Quam in^rt’as reurn in judicio fifti ^ Columiidin haiic iofl;ratani Laudans & mcerens pofuic Cobham. Infigne virtu t is, eheu ! iFariflun^ Exemplum babes ; Ex quo difcas Quid virum prsefedura militari ornatum Deceat. M DCC XLVIL To his Nephew Thomas Grenville, Who Captain of a Ship of War, In the Britijh Fleet, Commanded by Admiral Anfon^ . In an Engagement with the Frenchy Being wounded mortally in the Thigh, By a Fragment of his (batter’d Ship, Expiring, faid. How much better is it thus to die “ Than to Hand arraigned “ Before a Court Martial.” This Naval Column was eredted By Richard Vifcount Cobham ^ As a Monument of his Applaufe and Griefs ^ 747 - f 22 ] From this animating Example Learn When honour’d with Command, What becomes An Officer. Ye weeping Mufes, Graces, Virtues, tell - If fince your all-accomplilh’d Sidney fell, You, or afflided Britain^ e’er deplor’d A Lofs like that thefe plaintive Lays record ; Such fpotlefs Honour, fuch ingenuous Truth, Such ripen’d Wifdom in the Bloom of Youth \ So mild, fo gentle, fo compos’d a Mind, To fuch heroic Warmth and Courage join’d ! He too, like Sidney^ nurs’d in Learning’s Arms, For nobler War forfook her peaceful Charms ; Like him pofiefs’d of every pleafing Art, The fecret Wifh of every Virgin’s Heart ; Like him, cut off in youthful Glory’s Pride, He, unrepining, for his Country dy’d. Here you crofs the Serpentine River, which brings you into the Elyfian Fields. The Shell-Bridge, by Kent. The Temple of Britijh Worthies, by Kent^ a Building cut into Niches, wherein are placed the following Buftos : Alexander Pope, Who uniting the Correftnefs of Judgment to the Fire of Genius, by the Melody and Power of his Numbers, gave Sweetnefs to Senfe, and Grace to Philofophy. He employ’d the pointed Brilliancy of Wit to cbaftife the Vices, and the Eloquence of Poetry to exalt the Virtues of human Nature 3 and being without a Rival in his own Age, imitated and tranflated, with a Spirit equal to the Originals, the beft Poets of Antiquity. Sir I ^//le Mm {/i?'M(j/e G.Z , IfT—, JE 3 r [ 23 ] Sir Thomas Gresham, I I I i jwho by the honourable Profeflion of a Merchant hav- I ing enriched himfelf and his Country, for carrying on !the Commerce of the World, built the Rc^ya/ Ex- I change. I Ignatius Jones, who to adorn his Country, introduced and rivalled the Greek and Roman Architecture. John Milton, ^ • whofe fublime and unbounded Genius equalTd a Sub- ject that carried him beyond the Limits of the World. William Shakespear, whofe excellent Genius opened to him the whole Heart of Man, all the Mines of Fancy, all the Stores of Na- ture ; and gave him Power, beyond all other Writers, to move, altonifh, and delight Mankind. John Locke, who, bell of all Philofophers, underdood the Powers of the human Mind, the Nature, End, and Bounds of Civil Government ; and with equal Courage and Sagacity, refuted the Havifh Syftems of ufurped Au- thority over the Rights, the Confciences, or the Rea- fon ol Mankind. Sir Isaac Newton, whom the God of Nature made to* comprehend his Works ; and from fimple Principles to difeover the Laws never known before, and to explain the Ap- pearances never underftood, of this dupendous Uni- verfe. Sir 1 [ 24 ] Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, who, by the Strength and Light of fuperior Genius* reje(5ling vain Speculation and fallacious Theory, taught to purfue Truth, and improve Philofophy by the certain Method of Experiment. In the Niche of a Pyramid is placed a Mercury^ with thefc Words fubfcribed : Campos ducit ad Elyftos^ Leads to iht Elyftan Fields. And below this Figure is fixed a Square of black Marble with the following Lines : Hie mams oh patriam pugnando vulnera pajfi^ ^ique pit vates^ Cs? Phasbo digna locutiy Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per arteSy ^ique fui memores alios fecere merendo, , Here are the Bands, who for their Country bled, And Bards, whofe pure and facred Verfe is read : Thofe who, by Arts invented, Life improv’d. And by their Merits, made their Mem’ries lov’d. King Alfred, the mildeff, juftefl, moft beneficent of Kings ; who drove out the Danes, fecured the Seas, proteded Learning, eftablifhed Juries, crufh’d Corruption, guarded Liberty, and was the Founder of the Eng- lijh Conflitution. Edward Prince of W a l e s, the Terror of Europe, the Delight of England 5 who preferved unaltered, in the Height of Glory and For- tune, his natural Gentlenefs and Modefty. Queen f JP/a/e^ 7^. T/?e (jrofto . f .See^ . ^ I Tr.Zi Queen Elizabeth, who confounded the Proje(5ls,and deftroyed the Power that threatened to opprefs the Liberties of Europe:, /hook off the Yoke of Ecclefiaftical Tyranny ; re- ftored Religion from the Corruptions of Popery ; and by a wife, a moderate, and a popular Government, gave Wealth, Security, and Refpe6t to England, King William III. who, by his Virtue and Conftancy, having faved his Country from a foreign Matter, by a bold and ge- nerous Enterprize, preferved the Liberty and Reli- gion of Great-Britain, Sir Walter Raleigh, a valiant Soldier, and an able Statefman ; who en- deavouring to roufe the Spirit of his Matter, for the Honour of his Country, againft the Ambition of Spain^ fell a Sacrifice to the Influence of that Court, whofe Arms he had vanquiftied, and whofe Defigns he oppofed. Sir Francis Drake, who, through many Perils, was the firtt of Britons that ventured to fail round the Globe ; and carried into unknown Seas and Nations the Knowledge and Glory of the Englifh Name> John Hampden, who, with great Spirit and confummate Abilities,’ began a noble Oppofition to an arbitrary Court, ih Defence of the Liberties of his Country ; fupported them in Parliament, and died for them in the Field. [ 26 ] Sir J o H N Barnard, who diftingiilflied himfelf in Parliament by an adlive and firm Oppofition to the pernicious and iniquitous Pradice of Stock-jobbing : At the fame time exert- ing his utmoft Abilities to increafe the Strength of his Country, by reducing the Intereft of the National Debt ; which he propofed to the Houfe of Commons in the Year 1737, and, with the Afliftance of Go- vernment, carried into Effect, in the Year 1750, on Terms of equal Juftice to Particulars and to the State ; notwithftanding all the Impediments which private Intereft could oppofe to public Spirit, The Cold Bath, The Grotto Hands at the Head of the Serpentine River, and on each Side a Pavilion, the^one ornamented with Shells, the other with Pebbles and Flints broke to Pieces. The Grotto is furniftied with a great Number of - Lcoking'glaffes both on the Walls and Cieling, all in Frames of Plaifter-work, fet with Shells %nd Flints. A Marble Statue of Venus ^ on a Pedeftai ftuck with the lame. The Temple of Concord and Vidtory, is a large beautiful Building of the Ionic Order in the antique Tafte, and one of the principal Ornaments in the Garden. — It has fix Statues on the Top, as big. as Life, and the front Pediment is adorned with a Piece of Alt-Relief, by Mr. Scheemaker ^ reprefenting the four Quarters of the World bringing their various . Prodiids to Britannia , — In the Prize of the Portic® is this infeription, Concordice Vidloria. To Concord and Viftory. [ 27 J In the Anti-Temple there are two Medallions de- feribing Concordia Fi^deratorum : Concordia Civium : Concord of the Allies : National Concord. Over the Door this Infcription from Valerius Maximus : . Quo T empore SaJus eorum in ultimas Anguflias deduSla nullum Ambitioni Locum relinqu eh at. The Times with fuch alarming Dangers fraught. Left not a Hope for any fadlious Thought. In a Niche of the Temple is placed the Statue of Lihertas Publica^ Public Liberty ; over which, in a Tablet from the fame Author, Candidis autem Animis Voluptatem pr^huerint in ccn-. fpicuo pofita q^ute cuiqiie magnifica merito conligerunt. A fweet Senfation touches ev’ry Bread Of Candour’s gen’rous Sentiment poffed. When public Services with PJonourdue, Are gratefully mark’d out to public View. Orr the Walls are fourteen Medallions to reprefent the taking of Quebec^ Mar tint co^ &c. Loiiijkourg., Guadeloupe., &c. Montreal., Pondicherry., &c. naval Victory off Belleijle., naval Victory off Lagos., Crevelt and Minden., Felingbaufen., Goree and Senegal., Crown Pointy Niagara and Fort du Quefney Llavannah at)d Manilla y Beau Sejour., Cher burgh and Belleijle — exe- cuted from feveral of the Medals. Here is a large and delight&il Vale adorned with Statues of various Kinds, intermixed with Clumps of Trees beautiliilly difpofed. D 2 From t 28 ] From this Portico you fee in a diagonal Line, an Obelifk in the Park above an hundred Feet high, in^ fcribed to M^or General IVolfe. OJiendunt T erris hunc tanium Fata The Fates but fliew him to the World. ^ 759 - This Obelifk (lands upon a Hill in the Approach from North amp onfhire^ which is very magnificent : At the Entrance there are two Lodges, from whence a very broad and long Line condudling you through Woods, is terminated by the Temple of Concord and Vidlory. — In the other diagonal Line from the Temple, flands a lofty fluted Column eredled to the Memory of the late Lord Vifeount Cohham. A Gravel Path now leads by the Statue of Hercules znd Antaus^ fkirting the Valley, to the Circle of the dancing Faun, furrounded with the Statues of Shep- herds and Shepherdefles^ And every Shepherd tells his Tale Under a Hawthorn in the Dale.” Winding through a Wood, not far diflant, rife The Fane and Statue of Paftoral Poetry, Holding in her Hand a Scroll with thefe Words, Pajiorum Carmina Canto, \ I tune the Shepherd’s Lay. The Fane is adorned with Terms, Here a mod pleafing Foreft-feene prefents itfelf, formed by exten- five Lawns of the Park, bounded with old Oaks ; You next crofs over the Valley and foon come to Lord Cobham% Pillar. Rounri f \ Ji .S fe/^' . Snudi -^jM^ [ 29 ] Round the Bafe of the Column is written W L» Lucidli fummi Viri Virtutem quis ? At quam multi Villarum Magnificentiam imitati junt ? As in rhe Inftance of L. Lucullus, a truly great Man ! who hath imitated his Virtues ? But how many his Example, in magnificently adorning their Country- ^ feats ? On the Pedeftal are the following Infcriptions : On one Side, To preferve the Memory of her Hufband, Anne Vifcountefs Cohham Caufed this Pillar to be eredled In the Year 1747. On the oppofite Side, ^atenus nobis denegatur diu vhere^ relinquamus aliquid^ quo nos vixijfe tejlemur. Inafmuch as the Portion of Life allotted to us is fhort, let us leave fomething behind us, to Ihew that we have lived. The Lady’s Temple, is built upon Groin Arches, with Venetian Windows ; a neat Stair-cafe leads you up to a Hall, the Walls of which are adorned with the following Paintings by Mr. Sleter. On [30 1 On the Right-hand are Ladies, employing them- felves in Needle and Shejlrwork. — On the oppofite Side, are Ladies diverting themfelves with Painting and Muiic. . . The Gothic Temple, IS a large Building of red Stone, 70 Feet high, upon a rifing Ground, adorned in’ the Gothic Way* with carved VVQrk and .painted Glafs. The Dirpofition within is very beautiful. You enter a circular Room, the Dome of which is ornamented with the Defcents • of the Temple Family. On the fecond Story, is a Gallery : The Tower affords a very extenfive View : round the Country. I'he Fiill round the Temple Is adorned with very good Statues, by Ryjhrack^ of the feven ^axon Deities, who gave Names to the Days of the Week. — The Portico of the Temple of Concord and Victory has a beautiful Effed from this Place. The Palladian Bridge, The Roof of which is fupported hy Ionic Pillars. From hence you pafs into the great Terras-walk, which is 3000 Feet long, , , . i The Temple of Friendfhip, is a large Strudure of the Boric Order. On the Out- fide is this Motto : ^ > Amicitia S , — — Sacred to Friendlhip. The Infide is furnifhed with the Buds of the late ' Vifcount Cohham and his Friends, Frederick Prince of Wales'^ the Earls of Chefter fields Weftmor elands and Marchmoni ; the Lords Cohham^ Gower ^ and Bathurft ; Richard Grenville^ now Earl Temple ; William Piit^ . now Earl of Chatham^ and George Lyttleton^ now Lord Lyttleton, The Georo*el . O /?7 ^ ^ . S cte/i/i- T'f\S\ If7?/ff/ ?/ 7 f?ff ’ [, 3 ' ] The Roof is painted emblematically, and orna^ merited in a very gay Manner. The Pebble Alcove, is a little Grot neatly adorned with Pebbles •, his Lord- fhip’s Arms are curioufly wrought upon the back Wall with the fanie Materials. . ' , . C o N G R E V e’s Monument, by Kent. i The Embellifhments round it are defign?d.‘ to" ex- Iprefs the Poet’s Genius in the dramatic Way •, upon I the Top fits a Monkey viewing himfelf in a Mirror, with this Infcription : Vitte imitatio^ Confuetudinis fpeculum^ ! Com^edia, i Comedy is the Imitation of Life, and the Mirror of Fafhion. I The Poet’s Effigies lies in a carelefs Pofture on one Side, and on the other is placed this Epitaph : ' Ingenio Acri^ facet 0^ expoUto^ Moribufque UrbaniSy candidis, facilUmis^ Gulielmi Congreve, Hoc ^alecunque defiderli fui Solamen fimul as !: Monumentum Pofuit C o B H A M. * . 1736- ■ . > To C 32 1 _ To the fprightly, entertaining, elegant Wit and the poliflied, candid, eafy . Manners Of William CoM'GREVE. ■ This in fome Sort a Confolation ; and a Memorial of his affedlionate Regret was eredted by 'Cobh AM. N. B. The Gardens contain between three and four hundred Acres. EXPJ.A-- / -3 . i/r/in . off/jeJ^/’t/icijl>t7/J^7oor,andf](feJS/t''r/afio/i o/"Se (rardefil^/vnf of Sfowe Hoi^e . r T r Y ^'r d "r ~ff ^aa e/u/if ^/ui . r r r t -r Explanation of the PLANS. \ A The principal Floor of Stowe Houje, c The State Bed-Chamber. h The State Dreffirg Room. c The State Gallery. d The Corridore. e TheServantsBed-Chamber. f An open Gallery. j'-The Drawing-Room. h The Stucco Gallery. i The Dining Room. k The Bed-Chamber, and Drefling-Room. /The Hall. m A Dreffing-Room. n A Bed-Chamber. 0 The great Stair- Cafe. f The Corridore. y The Gallery, r The Grennjille Room. s The Drelhng Room. / The Bed-Chamber. *i) An open Gallery, and Chine/e Clofet. w A Bed-Chamber, X The Chapel. Fig. I . The Temple of Concord and Vi^lory. Fig. 2. The Gothic Temple. Fig. 3. The Lady’s Temple. Fig. 4. The Temple of Friend- Ihip. 5. The Temple of Antient Virtue. Fig. 6. The Temple of Venus. Fig. 7. The Rotundo, Fig. 8. The Temple of Bacchus. Fig. 9. The Fane of P,aftoral Poetry. Fig. 10. The Egyptian Pyramid. Fig. II. One of the Pavilions at the Entrance to the Garden. Fig. 12. One of the Pavilions at the Entrance to the 1 Park. Fig. 13. Dido's Cave. Fig. 14. The Temple of Britijh Worthies. Fig. 15. The Hermitage. Fig. 16. Nelfon's Seat. Fig. 17. The Grotto. Fig. 18. The Cold Bath. Fig. 19. The Faltadian Bridge. Fig. 20. The Shell-Bridge, by the fame Scale. Fig. 21. The New Bridge, lead- ing to the Lodges. ' Note, Where there is but one Scale in a Plate, it is applicable to all the Plans in that Plate. The Scales are of Feet. r t £ r- .a : s s'va , ... , XA..i I r .; Ai V: v ■. .UiUl (. ::lr, \ ■ - ( i •!■■ ■ A i ■ I v-r.v>'/:js I A T'cVi Ir-A v - I . A '•■- » 3 -.A ' AX. \.i I e.i '.' p .X • ? -j-.H j 'a ’; j.ll .Oi ... • :^;0 .1 : !. *?.*:!, a j.ll c: -o ! '•iNtiij y ■' 3i’ ci'ioin, I f- X „.f ■; 'Jr; a * ."■. on; Qt to .. .’.i'i 0;'? I .'f/ .-•• \ '. .'1 IP r> u •■ *’ '•‘'•'i' . f V. . .^:.o \7 A'-, -rii'-.'j’rl 'j.' ? p f .'• • ' 'v-x •' •'•av. > ’’ ' ' > .ii7 ) ;!T .X 'J .Tiji. . ' ■ “i'« <■ ? . , b rp — ,1 ■ f . I . .. ■• •! >:.li til'':* p» . . . -Cf ■.. 'T 7 ") 21 * I A" ’ ^ .xti';' . i ; . , , ' . :T «> . '‘i P -■ ; 7 ‘ '» ■ , . r ( , -f.k 1 ) ’X'l V 'k I ■•; •S' ,c) -■ • ».. V' V.) 4 ■ u ■ A'. * f .= ; •« ,'1 / li ■ ‘ h Vv? T - ^ - A Dreffing-Room, A Piece of ftill Life over the Chimney* t The grand Stair-Cafe, ornamented with Iron Work. Three Cieling-Pieces, painted by SclateVy viz, 1. Juftice and Peace. 2. Fame and Vidory. 3. Plenty and Conftancy. The Walls are adorned with warlike Pieces. . The Stone Stair-Cafe, with Iron Ballufters, the Walls ornamented with Medallions.- Leading into a private Apartment below Stairs, A Billiard Room. A Parlour. / A Breakfifting-Room, and A Waiting-Room. Second and third P^ir of Stairs, a Number of Bed- Chambers, and two Drelfing- Rooms -to each Bed- Chamber. The Chapel, 37 Feet by 20 Feet 10 Inches, and 26 Feet high, wainfeotred with Cedar, * with a Gallery of the lame, hung witn crimfon Velvet, under which are Seats for the'Servarts. Over the Communion' Table is a fine Painting^of the Refurredion, by Tintoretto^ a -d over that is the King^s Arms finely carved and ornamented. . ‘ ^ Above the Cedar Wainfeot, are the following Paintings at full Length: Mojes and Aaron, Two [ 38 J Two of the Apoftles, 6*/. and 6*/. PauL The four Evangelifts. There.a,re three other. Paintings, vlz^ 1. The Afcenfion. 2. The Baptifm. 3. The Salutation of the Virgin Mary, The Cieling is the fame as at the Chapel Royal at iS/. Jameshy and the Cedar Wainfcot enriched with elegant Carving, by Gybbons, Her Ladyihip's Dreffing-Room, with Hangings, Chairs, and Window-Curtains of fine printed Cotton. A fine old Japan Cabinet, ornamented with China Jirs. A fine View of Ptkm^ over the Chimney-Piece, by JqIU, The Bed-Chamber, with Hangings, Chairs, and Window-Curtains of the fame. A Pidure of a Chinefe Temple over the Chimney, by Join, ‘ A Chinefe Clofet, '• : ' ■ .r '3! The Right. Honourable James GrenvUk^ Vice Treafurer of Ireland^ jind^pne oF his Majefty’s mofi: honourable Privy Council.., > 4. His. Excellency ^mry ArnbalTador to the OttomdM ‘Porte,. ^ 't. ' 5. The Honourable Thomas Gren^oiUe,^ who was killed in the Defence of his Country, ^ on board the Defiance,^ of which he was Captain. 6. Lady Cobham, , r ► 7. Sir Thoma's Templ^et'^ ' 8. Lady Heft er Temple, lived to fee 700 de- fended from her' ’ own body. Vide Fuller^ IVor^ ihksr .. ; " Three Book' Cafes. • rin: A Dining-Room, O ^ ‘ y'* -0. .nc. t r ^ Ornamented with.rtwelve -.Marble. Busfls*of the Raman . lOcC ' ' The Paintings are, I, The prefent hy Ramfey. 2. The" f 40 ] 2. The prefent Countefs Temple^ by Hoare^ both at fail Length. 3. A Fidure, by Pinani^ over the Chimney. The following Marble' Statues of ■ ‘ i, Venus and Adonis^ by Scheemaker, 2. Vertumnus and Pomona^ by Delvot, ^ 3. A Narcijfus. Two Tables of Oriental Alabafter. Two Marble Cifterns. A Drawing-Room, hung with three fine Pieces of Tapefiry, as. follows : 1. A Butch Fifhery, from Teniers, 2. A Wake, from . - ^3. A beautiful Reprefentation of a Farm, Tapeftry Chairs. ' ' A Pidure, by Pinani^ over the Chimney, Two Tables of Marble of Sienna, Two Pier Glafifes. ^ * . r Two Bufts, one over each Door. A Waiting-Room. “ ; , Paintings are, 1. Joan of Arc over the Chimney, be Albert Burer. 2. Cymon zr\d Iphigenia, 3. Orodes ordering melted Gold to be poured into the Mouth of Crajfus, 4. Two Landfchapes, by Salvator Rofa, 5. A Head, by Cornelius Johnfon, t. Two Landfchapes, one over each Door. A PrL [41 ] A Private Breakfafting-Room. Tiie Paintings are, 1. A Portrait of Colonel Stanyan^ by Bohfon. 2. The Reprefentation of the Holy Lamb, by Rubens, 3. Four Landfehapes, by Poujfin, 4. Two Ditto, by Coten. 5. A large Picture of young Bacchanals, Two Pier-»Iafles. O ,A Tortoife-fhell Commode. A Drawing Robmi hung with yellow Silk Damafk, trimmed with Silver Lace, Chairs and Window-curtains the fame. The Paintings are, 1. Over the Chimney, a Picture of Sanifon in the Prifon at Gaza^ by Rembrant. The King of Prujfta has one of the fame in his Collebtion. 2. Two Saints, a St. Laurence and St. ^tephen^ One over each Door. 3. Two large Landfehapes, by Horizonti, 4. Mofes burying the Egyptian^ by PouJfin. • 5. A Sea-port; by a Flemijh M after. 6. A Landfchape.vvith dancing Satyrs, by Patll Brill 7. A Landfehape, by Claude Lorain, 8. A fm all Landfehape of and Galatea^ by MiUe, A curious inlaid Cabinet, with Chimney and Pier- -glafs in gilt Frames. A Private Dining Room> blue filk Damafk Furniture, with Chimney and pier glaffes. F The [ 42 ] The Paintings are, 1. A Portrait of Rubenses Wife, by Rubens, 2. A Knight of the Bath, by Randyke. 3. The Rape of Helen^ by Thefeus, 1 Both by 4. The Return of Chryjeis to her Father. 3 Primaticio, 5. The Duke of SuUy^ or Marquis de Vieuvilky by' ' Vandyke, 6 . The Dutchefs of Richmond^ by Sir Peter Lely, 7. The Marriage of by Bnjfan, " ^ 8. 7 ' wo Pieces of Ruins, by Canaletti, 9. Vulcan and Venus,, by PrimaticiQ, ' A Waiting-Room, hung with yellow Silk Damafk, trimmed with Silver Lace. ■ ' The Paintings are, I. A Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, by old Rich- ardfon, ' 2. A Dancing at the Marriage of the Duke of Mantua, by Lintoretto, ‘ ’ ^ "'3. Sarnfen and Dalilah, by Guercino, 4. A Silenus, by Rubens, 5. A Landfehape, with Figures and Cattle, by BaJJan, 6 . A Piece of Ruins, by Viviano, A Chininey-glafs. The State Apartment. I. The State Gallery, 70 Feet 9 Inches by 25 Feet, and 22 Feet high. Two Marble Chimney-pieces of Sienna, &cc, by Mr. hovel, 7'he Ciding finely ornsmented with Paintings *nd Gilding, by Sclater, Two [ 43 ] Two fine Marble Tables of Nero Antico^ with two large Pier-glaflTes. The Walls are adorned with curious Pieces of Tapeftry, 1. The Triumph pf Ceres. 2. The Triutuph of Bacchus, 3. The Triumph of Venus.^ 4. The Triumph of Mars, > 5. The Triumph of Diana, The Piers adorned with Trophies. Two Chimnies, the upper Part of which ar^ adorued with Gilding and Carving. 1. A Goddefs conducing Learning to Truth. 2. Reprefcnting Mercury conducting tragic and comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnajfus, Four erhblematical Paintings in Clare-Obfcure. The Chairs, Settees, and Window-curtains of blue Silk Damaflc. 2. The State Dreffing-Room, 24 Feet 8 Inches by 30 Feet — and 19 Feet 4 Inches high, hung with blue Damalk, Chairs and Window- curtains of the fame. The Doors and Cieling are finely ornamented with Carving and Gilding. The Chimney-piece, by Mr. Loveh The Paintings are, A fine Portrait of the late Lord Cohham^ hy Godfrey Knetler.' Four Converfatlon Pieces, by Francefco Cippo, Venus binding the Eyes of a Cupid, and the Graces offering Tribute, by Titian, Two fine whole Lengths of King George III. and Queen Charlotte^ by Ramfay, A Marble Table, with a fine Pier-glafs. 3. The ' [ 44 j 3. The State Bed-Chamber; *> 50 Feet 8 Inches, by 25 Feet 10 Inches and 18 Feet 8 Inches high. The Bed and Cieling by Signior Borra, The Chairs and Hangings of Crimfon Damaflc. The Pillars of the Corinthian Order, the whole finely carved and gilt. A Madona from the School of Rubens, A large Glafs over the Chimney. A very curious Chimney-piece of white Marble, ^efigned by Signior Borrd^ and executed by Mr. Lovel, Two Cupids, with Branches for Candles in their Hands, by Mr. Lovel, Two Marble Tables of Giallo Antico, Two fine large Pier-glafifes. The Cieling ornamented with the Inflgnia of the Garter. 4. The State Clofet, hung with Crimfon Damafk, finely ornamented with Carving and Gilding. Out of which you go into a Colonade, where ydu have a beautiful View of the Garden? and Country. A Paffage,^ ornamented with Marble Bufts. A Grand Stair-Cafe> adorned with Paintings of the Four Seafons* The Cieling reprefents the Rifing Sun, by Phoebus in his Car. ; ; The whole Length of the Houfe, including the Offices, is 900 Feet. FINIS, W: /! i 4 r\ ('•' / >. V.- ' ■ ' v' I m •> y V 1 lFLj [ Jf € / '/./I /-t i/c ’/(// . I * I- A. 1 • • i i i V s *'«■ i » ? 'S' 'V