DESCRIPTION O F T H E CURIOSITIES I N WIL ro N-HO USE. 7-^ A DESCRIPTION O F T H E Pictures, Statues, Bust o's Bas so-Relie vo's, AND OTHER CURIOSITIES A T T H E Earl of Pembroke's House A T WILTON. The Antiques of this Colleftion contain the whole of Cardinal R i c h l i e u's and Cardinal Mazarine's, and the greateft Part of the Earl of Arundel*s ; befides feveral parti- cular Pieces purchafed at different Times. By Richard Cowdry. The Second Edition, Corre /«' f-ij€ Front of the Houfi m each Side-a^the \ ; ..... Entrame.} ' Two Stktfe in black Marble, otu: of Ruins^ifjf tfi0 Palaipe irt'^E)g)^ in which the "V^icetoys ''ol^ .P^?^ liv^ii many Years after CambyJeSy having GOriiq[Her^d j%^/>/, return^ cd to Pf^;^/^.^^ ^Ther^ i^y on their Shoulders of diff^eiir. coloi^^^^ arid rdfify fcttseir ir()eS'4j)piear at Bbt- tomi - ^TWfe^ fe* the ^]old^ 'Bihda:ge Diaden^ ■■ - on ' r.5\5^vWl]uT^ipN-H0USE, 'K 3 ^1^- one of > tfeem ; fingle Statues without Ar«is j^jere in ufe long after they could make them ^ith Arms, not only in Egypt but in Greece* 3iich Terniini were fiet at their Doors. The Pecjleftals being placed on Plinths, high eriough for a proper Entrance when their He^d^ came to the Bottom of the Architrave. 3fhey Ihew'd a Pride (as fomc think) to rie- prefent their Captives in this fervilc Pofture bearing and Ibpporting. ; ^7^^' Great Gate- way, A Statue of ShakespeAR, (by Scbeefm- kerp) in the fame Manner as in Wejiminjier- Abbey^ only the Lines on the Scrole are dif- /gg^igtt, ; thele are out of his Macbeth, hut a walking Shadow, woiq >--v,:::/^ 'mpoor Player, 30=5 ^hai ftruts and frets his Hotify hsqqimi..^; upon the AG^y jMd thWis heard no more I - This Gate- way and Tower were begun by William Earl of Femhroke^ in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth^ and finiflied by his Son Henry Earl of P^'w^roM The fgid Earl William received, from King Henry^.^^^^ ^.i^^^nt oi Wilton .4^bey, r-'S^^^-r. '^y^^^ihe^Middle of the Inner Court. la four Niches of a Pedeftal (whereon ilandeth a Horfe as large as the Life) are four B 2 Statues J 4 A Defa iftion of :the Curiofities -Statues ; the firft of Jupiter Ammon from Tbrace^ not only with Ram's Horns, but with a whole Ram on his Shoulders j it came out of the Temple, faid to be !)uilt there by Sefojlris. On the right Hand, is the Father of Julius Gafar when Governor in Egypt. The next is Plautilla, the Wife of paracalla^ drefl like Diana the Huntrefs. . The Fourth is Clio the Mufe. In two painted Niches are two Statues ; the firft is Attis, Cykk's high Prieft, cloathed as a Woman, on which Statue there is a fine DifTertation jn Montfaucon^ Vol.1. In the other Niche is a Statue of Autum- Nus, with Autumn Fruits. On pne Side of j^e QsiXevv^y, The Bufto of Pan. . On the otker^Bide, ■ The 'Buflo of OtViVI^'Mter''^ Alexander iht Qvt2iU In in WiL TON-Hou$E. 5 In the Vovch. (built Haris Holben) hading ^ • into the Veftibule, - The Bufto of Hannibal, Fescenniu^ Niger, Albinus, Miltiades. Bujio's in the Veftibule,, i': ^ ^ : _ _ ^\fiij, ;9d) .%lO i Begin with that next to a Pillar by the Door. Pindar, Theophrastus, Sophocles, Philemon, Tryphena, Vibius Varus, Lucius Verus, when Emperor, Didius Julianus, Agrippina Major, Aristo- phanes, Caligula. Here are two Columns of the Paionet (or Peacock) Marble, each nine Feet, fcveri Inches high, made ufe of for Urns. There are Holes at the Top to put the . Afhes in $ they were in the Columbarium of a Noble- man and his Wife, and the Infcription over them, which was in the Wall fignified, iba$ they had made that Columbarium. In the Mid&\Gf the Vt&ih^\Q, The Statue of Apollo, ou.t of the Jus- ^jniani Gallery, tie appears with a moft graceful Air in a refting PofLiwe, having hu ng^ his Qui ver m th^ Lau rel • with rr^aoy ^ne ufriaments ot very fipe Sculpture, PIC- M G T U R E'S '•Mil bof^ ,3S ,K'i-: D I N I N G-R O O M.^'^'^ Over th Doo^i565 i?^ ^ STILL Life of Plate and Earthen ^■;5^1|e^J^^^ JBSi^ £ ^^4, By Labrador e. Off ^tff ^ S/V^* o/* the Door, A Capital Picture ; one by Tintoretto re- prefents our Saviour wafliing St Peter's Feet, the other Difciples being prefent, fome reading, one of them pulling off another's Stockiag, in ortier to be, the next wafhed. The othtihy Andrea^chiavone^ reprcfents our Sj^.viouji riding into yerufalem upon an Afs, the Anions of the Multitude attending him, aafwcring to the D^fcription giyeij in St ^ig//^^^ vcr. 8, 9. Cupid in Wilt Q n-H o u s ev 7 Cupid giving a Boy fome* Frtiit and 2. By G?/-/? ^ Ftori,. A Landfcape with Ferry-Boats and feve- O 51 J^i By. -4. Harman Sacd'tleven^ The Virgin ,with our Saviour in her Lap, alfo Joseph, St Peter, and the Painter ; 2. Andrew Squazzelia, A Boy gathering of Fruit. 2. By Michael Angela Pact di Cam0. .at---' ■{ / ddl^S'li ' ^A Winter- Piece, a great rnany#i^rcirj 4. By Fehet BrugeL A Landfcape with Figures and Buildings. ' 1-4. By Stephc^n miar Bella. * -^w IV ^; ^ KarU VerWnder. 25niSRiS>r ■ taken f¥d«i^he Crofsr ^'^>5^aS«m^l^^a^!kukitude 6f Figures! ' A Bat- -S A Defcriptmt of the Curiofities A Battle. 4. By Leandro, Five Men groping in the Dark, the 7th Plague of Egypt, 4. By Gentile da Fahrimio* A Winter-Piece, a Multitude of Figures, 4. By Mumper and Brugel. A Battle. 4. By Leandro, The three Angels coming to Abraham. 4. By Pafqualmi. People playing at Cards. 4. By Lucas Van hey den. Lot and his two Daughters going from Sodom. 3: By Pellegrini da Bologna, The Virgin with our Saviour and St Joi^N. 4. By T^ravifano, pour Views of the Houfe, which the late Henry ^ Earl of Pembroke^ built upon Black-Heath, 2* By G. Lambert. Mag- , Magdalen contemplating, witkJ^ Cru- 4. By EIi;^aktb, Daughter of aS;>^7«/. Christ with a Multitude, and the Wo- i^AN praying for >the Dog's Crumbs. 4. By Vinckeboons, TwQ Boys playing with a Bird, which is tied with a String. 4. By Foujjin, Over the T)oor leading info the Drawing- Room. Daphne and Apollo. 4. By Abraham Johnfon, Two black Porphyry Pillars, which were bronght by Lord Arundel from Mom^, md iiipport the Arch of the Beaufet. v On the Chimney-Piece (which, as alfo that in the Drawing- Room, are both by Inigo Jones) are the Bufto's of the Emperor Pert IN AX, and of Solon. Going into the prg.wii>g-Room is. An antique Pavement, four Sorts, of . Marbles of gradual Lights and Shadows, as if Cubes flood upon a Plane, This, in C . the aO:^i,ji^^Pej£ription cf the Curiofities . t\i&A?tindel Catalogue, was faid to be foqnd under fome Ruins at Luna, a Ro?7ian City, about fixty Miles Eafl: of Genoa, PICTURES -iisnAi film ^ I N T H E D R A W I N G-R O O M. Begin with that over the Chimney, then ivith tbofe on your Right-Band, the upper jirft, then thoje under it, and jo on. FOUR Children, reprefenting our Sa- viour, an Angel, St John, and a little Girl. The Ansel is lifting a Lamb to St John, who has his Left-Hand upon it, and is in Difcourfe with our Saviour, as they are dl fitting clofe together. Behind our Saviour is a Tree, and a Vine growing up it, with Grapes thereon. The Girl . (reprefenting perhaps, fymbolically, the Chriftian Church) has hold of the Vine with. ;one Hand, and in the other, has a JBunch^ of Grapes,, which (he js off^ to : our Saviour. - . *^ , This in Wilton-House. ii This is allowed to be the beft Picture ia En^iand oi z^ M^uh^n^ A whole length of Democritus laugh- ing, a Book in his Handj very much efteemed. i. By Spagnolet. ■ ■■■ Old Joseph at work, our Saviour hold- ing a lighted Lamp to him. 5. By Luca Congiag\o, Christ dead, furrounded with Angels. 5. By Bufalmaco, St Jerome. 5. By Giulio Ca?ni>i Feronefc. 'V^^EBi^i and the Swan. 3. By Leonardo da Vinci, The V1I61N, Christ, St John, and ° §t pAifHERiNE. 3» % Farmegiano. ' Harmony between Hiftory and IfH^y' very fine. .^aiffDb 2. ^y Romanelli, 'f ^'^o^ and his three Friends. ' II , By Andrea Sacchi, ^ ''S^^^jety of Fruits, Vines growing up a .PBinegTanate-Trecj and two Vintage People, C 2 as A B^efcription of the CUriofitUi . as big ; as V the Life ; the young Man looks down on the young Woman whilft he is gathering fome Fruit for her ; and as he reaches up to the Twig, his Shirt llips down from one Shoulder, and naturally fhews his Skin there not to be tanned. Michael Angelo, the Painter of this Pi A Bufto of Portia, Wife of Brutus. The Pidure of Brutus on her Breaft, a Necklace about her Neck, and a Diaden?i on her Head ; being the only one known with a Pidtare. A Sarcophagus (or Tomb) adorned in the Front in Alto Relievo, two Cupids holding two Feftoons of Fruits ; over each Feftoon are two Heads of the Heathen Deities ; un- der one of the Feftoons is a Lion and an Ox, under the other Feftoon a Goat and a Cock. This is defcribed by SahmJ^^ vide Tab. 7. Upon the foregoing Tomb, is Euterpe the Mufe, fitting with a Flute. She is faid to be the Inventor of Wind-Mufick, very fine Sculpture. By Cleomenes, A Bufto of -D-iDi-A Clara, Daughter; Oi Didius Julianus, Her Right-Hand is 4 Q holding holding up part of her Cloatliing • two little Cupids at the Bottom of the Bufto. -The Bafto upon the Chimney-Piece, is of Thomas Earl of Pembroke, who Col- ledled the antique Marbles. A Bufto of Nero. The Shape of his left Ann and Hand feen through his Robe, two little Cupids at the Bottom of the Bufto! A Sarcophagus. In the Middle of the Front is a Circle, wherein is reprefented the half Lengths of a Man and a Woman, for whom it may be fuppofed the Tomb was made ; the other Part of the Front is fluted Work ; at one End is a Lion with a Unicorn under him, at the other End a Lion, with a wild Boar under hini ; at the Bottom un- der the Circle are two Malks, one of them with Hair, the other having a Veil upon the upper Part. This is defcribed by Sahi?ii, Tab. 8. up- on the foregoing Tomb. A Queen ihc jhiazons, beautiful, tho' in a warlike Adion, being on one Knee, as under a Horfe, defending herfelf in Buttle. To illuftrate the Aftion, the Sculptor has carved a Horfe's Foot. Her Bufl^in plainly fliews the antient Shape and Manner of fixing; it. By C/£o?7ie?2es -•"^ D 2 'a Bufto 20 A Defcrif tion of the Curiojities A Bufto of LuciLLA, the W\k oiElius, very fine Sculpture. In a Niche, Mercury. A Bufto of Apollo. Hercules, not long before he died. He leans ready to fall, and looks very fick, and P^^^J, his Friend, looks up at him very much concerned. The Exprcffion of the Mufcles Anatomifts greatly admire. SiLENusand Bacchus, a Group, very fine. Flora. This, and the foregoing one (both of the Parian Marble) v^rere a Prefent to the firft Philip Earl of Pembroke, by the Duke of Tufcany, who, in King Charles the Firft's Time, was in England, and refided at fP^ton, w\± the faid Earl, three Weeks. - The Bufto of Lysimachus, the Bufto of Lepidus, the Bufto of Phocion. A Sarcophagus adorned with a fine Co- lumn of the Corinthian Order at each End, and in the Middle is graved a double Door, partly open, which corifirms what antient Authors have faid, that fome were fo made 'that the Soul might go out to the Elyfian Fields. At each End of the Tomb is a Griffin. ' ■ ' ■ Sahini, Tab. io. /// WiLTON-HoUSE; 21 The Bufto of Marcia, the fip^ Wife of Sept, Severus, ♦ The Bufto of Cato Major. The Bufto of Labienus Parthicus. A Sarcophagus. In the Middle are repre-» fented three Figures, Meleager religi- oufly turrting fomething off from a Patera into the Fire on an Altar; at his Feet lies the Head of the Calydonian Boar ; by him is At AL ant A' with a Quiver hanging from her Shoulders. The third is Theseus. The Antients often devoted themfelves, when they died, to fome Divinities, as here to thefe. The whole Bodies of two Per- fons, perhaps a Man and his Wife, feem to be buried here, becaufe there is a little rifing at each End for their Heads. This Sepulchre is alio adorned with two whole Length Figures of Castor and Pollux at the two Ends. Salvini^ Tab. 9.- The Bufto of Pompey the Great. :'JS!i^ jgil^^ Senior. In the Gallery of this Hall are five Suits of Armour ; that in the Middle was j^illmn Earl of Pembroke' the other foUr -.'IT 'and 22 A Defcription of the Curiofities and the Parts of five more Suits in the Ibi^er Part of the Hall were taken from the fol- lowing noble Perfons, on the following Oc- cafion. This Earl, in the Reign of Queen Mary, was Captain- General of the Englijh Forces at the Siege of St ^tntifty at which Siege were taken Prifoners the Conftable JAontmorency^ Mont heron , his Son, with the I):ukes of Montpenjier and Longueville, Lew- is of Gonzaga, (afterwards Duke of A^f- vers) the Marfhal of St Andre y Admiral Colignyy (who was afterwards murdered in the Maflacre at Paris) and his Brother, i;iot to mention John de Bourbon, Duke of An- guiefi, who was found dead among the Slain. Here are alfo fome of the Weapons which were taken at the fame Time. A Picture of the above .mentioned Earl of Pembroke. By Ham Holbein. A Pidure of the lafl: Supper. .,|^ j,,, 1. By Giorgione, At the Bottom of the Brown Stair-Cafe. A Colofs Statue of ^HERctJLEs. His Ac- tion is to (hew one of his Labours ; he looks with an Air of Satisfadion that he has com- pafled the taking of the Golden Apples, three of which he {hews in one Hand, -.ji;:^. This in Wilton-House. 23 This is not in a refting Pofture as that of Farnefe it was judged to be very curious, by one of the beft Sculptors of the oldeft Time. The Tonib of Aurelius Epaphro- DITUS. rl fhall here tranfcribe the Account given* of it by Father Montfaucon, when it was in the Poffeflion of M. Foucault. The Monument that follows, is one of the fineft and moft inftructive that hath been ever feen. The Excellence of the Work, and Corrednefs of the Defign would eafily in- form us it muft be a Piece of fome Greek Artift, even tho' the Place where it was firft difcover'd did not. It is a Tomb near Athens^ which was difcovered by fome Travellers, who brought it over into France to prefent it to Cardinal Richlieu but the Cardinal dy- ing in the mean Time, it came into the Hands of one of the Family of Rofiaing ; and from that into M. Foucault*^. The Tomb is of white Marble, fix Feet four Inches long, and two Feet broad, and about the fame Heighth, taking in the Co- ver which is about two Inches and a half thick J the Cover is fa is 'd about one Foot higher before, and is adorn'd with fome Fi- gures in Bafs-Relief, which relate to the Hiftory reprefented below, as we {hall take ^HT Notice 24 ^ Defcriftion of the Curiofities Notice hereafter. The inner Superficids of the Tomb is plain, with a Rifing of about one Inch in the Place where the Head of the Deccafed ftiould reft. . i '-'^ This Is the Epitaph, ^ , ■ ATPHAIXl EnA^POAEITa SYI^ilBm ANTnNIA BAAEPIA E0HKE. ' That is, To the Gods the Manes. Anto- Ni A Valeria hath made this Tomb for Au- RELius Epaphroditus her Hnjband, I'i M. de Bozey Secretary of the Academy of Melles Lettres^ a fkilful Antiquary, hath given a very ingenious and learned Explication of this Mon anient, which we fhall give an Ab- ftradtof here. vAin-ji^ CereSy angry for the Rape of her. Daugh- ter, efpecially becaufe the Gods had con- fented to it, refolved to lead a wandering Life among Men, and for this Purpofe af- fumed a human Shape. She came to the Haven Eleufis, and fate herfelf down on a Stone. CeleuSy King of the Ekufinians, per- fuades her to come and lodge in his Houfe, His Son Tripolemus, then an Infant, was fick, -a-ftd for want of Sleep, v^ras reduced to t^he laft Extremity. Ceres, at her Arrival, kiffed him, and by the Virtue of that Kifs -in -W--I L t o N-H-ou SE. . 25 only, reftored him to his Health; and not content with doing this, fhe takes care of his Education, and defigns to make him im- mortal ; to this end (he nouriflies him by Day with her own divine Milk, and by Night puts him under hot Embers, in order to burn away all that was terreddal in his Body. The Infant grew fo faft, that Father and Mother Metanira were curious to fee what was- done to the Child. Metanira feeing C hut his Daughter nearer 5 Metanira is there too; they both have Ears of Com in their Hands, becaufe they were the liril acquaintq4 4he was a Goddefs. , %riptolemu^ is mo^n?tedr ia his Charriot, with a Opak or P^///z/^!?vovef his ShoLilder, rather to -hold the CoFn Jbe^is goiqg to fow, than to cover him felf. Th& Chariot is drav/n by two Dragons a-br^^fe Beyond Triptolemus's Chariot, two Wocaeri: arc pidu.red with Torches in, their Ha^nds-,; was iif^al for Women to bear at the Ge-i remonies of this Goddefs. The Man between- thefe tvvo Women is Eumulpusy one of tihe^ Perfons appointed by Ceres< to prefide at her Myfteries, and in whofe i^amily the Prieftr hood continued for tvy^elve hundred Year$t The Hierophantce, , of this Family of the JS«^ molpidfe, wer^. obliged tp CeHbacy. KumoU piis leans one Hand.on orje of the Women/j^ Shoulders, and the other Hand on the other Woman's Shoulder. The Child hoJdipg Ears of Corn in hie ;Hpn(J, , dpnote^^ that Ceres*s in Wi tT6N-HousB. 27 corn's Gifts are fof dvery Age, aiid'ttet eveii ebildren were iniiiated Into her Myfteries. I^lie Woman in this Piece, holds ^ ^ Sickle in her Hand,ari Inftrument ihe Pagans believed they owed to Ceres, as alio ' all other| ufeful in Agricultuie. ■ '^'m 'vd ■) • 'f hi^ is all theGoddefb's Company on one Side, but behind her there are other F.gti res. Bacchus, the firft of them, leans negligenriy on Om's Shoulder, and touches a Vine fu]f ofGra pes with his other Hand • the CrOWn of Vine-leaves which he wears, leaves us xio, room to doubt that it is Bacchus. Ceres an(i Bacchus are fo frequently joined together ia the Myileries, as well among the Romans as \\\^*Greeks and Sicilians, that it is not at all ft^^aligeio rheet them together in this Mo- nument. On the Side BaccBui fl^arids, with his Hair in a KnoFViponhis P6rehead, and his Habit ty'd up twice with his' Girdie, an# 'holding' a Whip in one Hand, and with'his other feizing the Reins of'Horles in a Chariot, in order to flop th^m^.'^ It is probable this is Diodes, one of thefonr thdt C^-m 'had appointed" to pre fide at her Feads^ arid what further flipports this Gor^jeaure is, /7^/;;76'r, when he names thefe four Peffdns'^ih- a Hymn, calls Diodes tbe Guider of the Horfes. Belides, llnce we • havefeen Cefeus, EumQ!pus\ -And Ti-iptd emus, ttee of thefe four Pcrions in the Company E 2 can 2$ A Defcript'wn of the Curiofitie$ catl- we think Diodes alone would he^lDiiftit- ted ? The Figure that drives the Chariot is Proferpiite^ov Diana, the Moon, according to MythologiftSj and who is called fre- quently by the Poets Triple Hecate, with Reference to the different Offices (be- per-r forms under different Names in Heaven, in Hell, and on the Earth. It may be proved by lufficient Authorities, that Proferpine partook of the Myfteries of her Mother Ce- res^ l^ vc Bacchanalian under the Chariot oi Projerpinj, hath laid her felf there, tired with long Dancing, as was ufual in thefe Sort of Myfleries. This ' tlie^ ilxplanation of the principal Face of the Tomb; we' c^me now to that of the Cov6ror Lid, which exhibits the four Seafons of the Year, reprefented by a like Number of Women j the Diverfity of their QFoWns and Habits, and the different Fruits they holdi together with the Children of Geniufes with them, do accurately expfefs the Variety of the Seafons. The Artift hath not placed the Figures in the ordinary Situation, but in an Order that makes a fine Contraft in the whole, and gives more Force and Spirit to the Compofition . Sum^ jiii^>^ , F The The Statue of Andromeda chalnM the Rock. The Statue of Mercury with all his three Symbols, Wings, Caduceus, and a Purfe in his Hand held up j he has Wings alfo at his Heels as well as at his Head. A Statue of a Boy ; he is dancing and playing- on Mufic. The Bufto of Heraclitus, In the Window. A fquare Urn of the Emperor Probus and his Sifter Claudia ; their Names are in a Square in the Centre of the Front ; there are Feftoons at the Sides of the Infcription ; over it is an Eagle ftanding upon a Feftoon of Fruits, from out of whofe Wings come two Serpents j they are folded up in Ring- lets, with their Heads directed towards the Head of the Eagle j at the Bottom is a Tri- pod with a Griffin on each Side of it 5 at each Angle of the Front is a wreathed Co- lumn ; the Angles next to the back Part are fluted Pilafters, between which and the Co- jumns is a Laurel Tree ; in the Pediment of the Cover are two Birds, that hold in their Bills the Ends of a String which tyes a Wreath in w I L T 0 N-H dtt St. 3 ^ Wreath of Laurel j on the Top . of the Cover are- in Alto Relievo, the ^^mperor and his Sifter. On the Right-Hand of. //6^. Window are the Bujio's of ' ''IsocRATEs, SuLPiTtA it'oETA in Por- phyry^ Pe r si us the Poet, Se?jeca> and . PYTHAGORAS. ' On the other Side. CoLLATiN us^Fellow-ConfuI with Brutus. Its nB'- T HE 36 A Defer iftion of the Curiofities T H E BILLIARD ROOM. T HE Left- Hand, on a white Marble Table, three Statues. Pomona fitting, the Gufhion of her Seat has the Appearance of heing foft. A Figure recumbent, leaning on a Sea Pog, and reprefenting the River Meander, The Infant Hercules killing the Ser- pents. In the Jirft Window, The Statue of Mark Anthony, the Orator, very much admired. BusT0*j between the firfi Window md the fecond, TuLLiA, Daughter of Cicero, Julia Domina, Wife of Septimus Se^ verus^ Alexandei^ in WiLTaN-HousE. 37 Albxander S EV£ ru s. v.. Window^ The Status, of Bacjchxjs, very fine anci- ent Sculpture, adorn'd in a particular Man* ner wi|h Poppies, the Poppies hang as ai Belt from both Shoulders as low as the Knees. ^ usTP*J5 ) ffefween this Window ' und ...^ -r fT:;: next. GAiiBA^ Geta, Lucius Vitellius Pater. ; In the third Window. The Statue of Venus^, (landing in a very genteel eafy Pofture, holding a Vafe, which file has emptied, refting her Elbow of that 4rin on a PiUaj-. On the other Side of the third Window. The Bufto's of l^EitvAi Arsinoe the Mother, and C-ffiLms CAjLDus. On 38 A Defcriptiln 'of the CiirUjuies On a white Marble Tuble afthrpm Length of that on the other Side of the Room, are three Stataes. Hercules wreftling with Ant^u^ he only gripes him high from the Ground, ggreeable to the Story, that if he- touch'd his Mother EARTH..he regain'd Strength* * A very fine Greek Statue of a River, re- prefented by a beautiful NAiAD (or River Nymph) fleeping on the Bank, with a gen- teel Turn of her Bodj, the Linen covering her very decently • 'tisf a Ri(rer in run- ning into the Nile, becaufe in the Fr^int an Ibis appears about the running Water, which has fcized a young Crocodile. A young Bacchus fmiling, Gfa-pes grow- ing up a Tree. : 'i^ - ■ : 0« /i^^ Chimney Side, T^-w;/ Busto'ss they are, Horace the Confular, Drusilla, Pto- LOMY Brother of Cleopatra, Pallas, ^no- barbus, a Prieft of Cybele, Lysias the Orator. Over in Wilton-House. Over the Doors two Bufto's, A Greek C\5viD with Agate Eyes. 39 Gr yphina, Daughter of Ptolomy Ever- P I C T U R E S. Hers, 1 . By Guercino. '^SifJBiflA^'^^fetwb Elders !fbwls, 2. By Hundecouter, The Virgin, our Saviour, St John, a Lamb, and a Dove, 3. By Gennari. Country People, and feveral Sorts of Birds, 3. By Griejier, P I C T U R E 40 A I>efcription of the Quriofities P I C T U R E S IN THE White M^rble-Table Room. Begin on pur Left-Hand. HERE are four Pidares in Crayons (by Mr Hoare of Bath), The iirft is of the Reverend Mr Woodroffe of chejler ; the next is of Mrs Wrettle, Go- vernante to the Countefs of Pembroke j the tliird is of Philip, B^xX oi Pembroke^ from Vandyke ; the fourth is Sir Andrew Fountain. Over Mr Woodroffe, a Nativity, i ^ ^WiBy Gzr/(? Cignani, Over the laft a half Length of St John. 3. By Giacinto Brandt, St , John, preaching in the Wildernefs^ containing twenty Figures as big as the Life. /^Wilton-House. '4^ Life. In it are the Faces of Tinforef and Titian ; it cod Earl Philip fix hundred Pfll6les, . ^^^^pgl;.. I. By Pa lma» Over Mrs IFrettk, the Virgin, our Sa- viour, St John, andSt Gatherine, 4 3. By Procacini, Over the laft, the Virgin and our Sa- viour, 3. By IlFram In the Window is the aaov, , '^ ^^HTT ^ Statue of Is is. She has the Flower of the Lotus on her Head. She is in a Pofition bending, and her whole Legs and Arms appear round, not as commonly in Egyptian Statues, which were ftrait and formal, fhew- ing only the Feet. This was reckoned the oldeft, and (by the Mazarine Catalogue) the only one known with that Improvement. It is a Group, for flae holds, betwixt her Knees,. Osiris, her Hufband, in a Coffin open, in one of whofe Hands is a Paftoral Scaft crooked at the End as a Shepherd's, to draw his Sheep put of Danger. This was the antient fatherly Sceptre, (though fince Sigeptres . are yery.muph otherway^ adprned) 42 A Defcnptton of the Uunofttes lisid anfwers to the CroOer of the Clergy^ the other Hand he has an Inftruinent of * Difcipline like a Whip, the Syrnbpli of ]^Qwet to prote(fl and punifli. On his Head is the antienteft Diadem or Mitre, being triple, yet not as the Pope's Crown, bat rather Jike the Mitre of Bi(hops, only with three Points inftead of two at the Top ; j.Qrus, her Son, is about her Neck. Thefe vwere of their antienteft Divinities. There jfMf^a great Multitude of Hieroglyphicks quite round the Bottom, and behind the Statue. V; : Over PH//>, Earl of P^w^ro^^, the Mo- ney Changers and People with the Doves ^ 3. By Fetti, Over the laft, Wvt Mrnan Charity. 1. By Petro Dandeni. Views of Covent-Garden and Lin- ; colnVInN'Fields, aS^'lfhey %s^ere originally defigned by Jfrn^p^nes. ^ ^ ' Over Sir Andrew Fountain y a Landfcape with the AmEL, HagaRj and IshmAel, Over V Over the laft/^fie Virgin, St Ann, odl JoSjEP.H, and our Saviour, who is putting ■a Ring jon 3t Catherine's Finger. "'^^ATpRiAR and a Nun. ^'''^The Salutation '^^rfie Jn^el to the Firkin 'i^siasaui; ijaoT. ia at-r^^v^/ ''T'- * ^^1^ 5. By P>v//, Djw. A Piece of Still Life, of Fowls, and a Boar. , * RiAR ana a inun. riJiw ifao io 2. By Aldegraef. pjr.ff'- V By GSriele Sakf, . .^,;St Je ROME. 5. By B^tgiam. *i « V .it- y Over -th£ Doors, The Burto*s of Hesiod and Ph^dra. vWmi^n^Pnan Englifli JUabaJler Table, The Statue of Cupid afleep. white' Marble Table, ten Feet and ^ight Inches long, four Feet and lix Inches wide, four Inches thick. ^ G 2 THE 44 BefcriptUn of the CuriofHiei THE CHAPEL ROOM. Begin the Bujid's on the Right-Hand, H Omer/ PlAto^ Anach arsis (over a Marble Chimney-piece of luigo yones) Mary Fitz-William, Countefs ^i^J^^embrokey Socrates, Aristotle. On the Window-^ide^ begin with the farthejl on the Right-Hand^ the other i will be m the Left-Band, .^^^ix} jsilsiil Bid bak; Dido, Terence, ViBiiis VomsiAN us, a Biftons of Cecrops and his Wife, in Me- mory of inftituting Marriage j Leaves of Sea-weed on his Beard, in Memory of his coming by Sea horn Egypt, " q M. Junius Brutus, Tiberius, Titus * » *■ • ^ - Bifrons, two- ybifn^ Women, their Countenances different, and fo are their ^yirlpd Locks 5 one has a Piadem, the other a triple in Wiltqn-Hquse. 4j[ a triple Contexture of her Hair elegantly tied. PlAUTILLA, SEXTUfr POMPEY, ThE- MisTocLEs, Lucius Antonius, Annius Verus. , J Over the jirfi Door^ CuRius Dentatus. Ofuir the DjQor leading into the Chape|^ GoRDIANUS. On the Window in the Chapel is painted * WiLLiAM, Earl of Pembroke, and his two Sons 5 HrNRY, the eldeft, who fuc- ceeded his Father, (married Mary^ Sifter to Sir Philip Sidney, by- whom ^e fead ^wo Sons, William and Philip ; William, in the Reign of King Charles I, was Lord Steward, Philip, fuceeeded him in the Earldom, was Lord Chamberlain to King Charles L) and Edward. This Edward was Anceftor of the Powis Family. In another Pannel is the Countefs of Pembroke, who was Ann Parr, Sifter to Queen Catherine, the lafl: Wife to King ^enry VIIL There is with her their Daughter, whofeName was Ann^ married to Fr mis, Earl oi Shrewjhury,. Over A DefcriptiQn.Qf theCurioJities ii'isit nob'^ rr]i-\t Ki^ignrbfeff :dCT^i'^?0 cm^X> Over the Door leadmg into the Cube-Rqopa, The Bufto of Domitia. Begin the Fidiures with thofe over th^e BuJIo o/' Homer. A Nativity. 3. By Giaco T^riga. Thirty of the chief Reformers. 3. By a Difciple of Carlo Maratti, The Flight into £^;^/. 4. By Ventura Sakmbeni, ■ . , ^ /rifiaO)? The Virgin, our Saviour, St John, and an Angel, ' ■' " 3, By Benardino Gatti, The Head of an old Man. 4. By Auguflino Carrach, The Devil tempting our Saviour, li-^^ 5. By Barii Alfano Perugia. Christ in the Manger. ; n; >rfw By CalanJruccp, LoTv^ his tWOr 0AUGHTERS.ST - JVv.'S ^ :t ifirf t 2U By Francefcp Chini, Two in Wilton-House. 47 Two Cupids holding a third upon their Hands as carrying him, another Boy lying down by them. 5. By Si ram. The Virgin, old Joseph, our Saviour, and Elizabeth. " . . 3. By Girolamo di Sermoneta, On the Window-Jide begin on the Left-Hand, Five Soldieps, two exprefling great Fury to tear Christ's Coat, another is gravely interpofing, as if he were perfuading them to caft Lots for it. ;t^ho( 2, By ^nnibal Caracci, Noah with his Family and Animals go- ing into the Ark. ^ io g^-By Bafano, The Virgin with our Saviour in her Arms, old Joseph is looking on them. ^j^a-AVK tv^xfi - 2. By Guercino, "^hen you enter the South Front towards ' the Garden (which whole Front is a beauti- ful Building of Inigo Jones) pafs thro' the Cube Room inxd" \W Hunting Room, the laft ' Robiii at the Weftttn End of that Front. THE 48 A Defcripfiojz of the Curjofities THE HUNTING ROOM. Begin the Bufto's on your heft-Hand. JULIA, incomparibly fine Greek Sculp- ture, and (as feveral others in this Col- ledion) of Parian Marble. She was Wife to Agrippa^ Daughter of Scribonia, third Wife to Augufius, An TON I A, Wife of Drufm the Elder. The Linen of this Buft is very natural. Berenice the Mother ; her Hair in a particular Manner. Balbinus. The next are two Statues, then proceed on with the Bufts. Faunus, finely twifting his Body, by looking down over his Shoulder at his Leo- pard. By Cleomenes, Cupid, when a Man, breaking his Bow after he had married Pfyche, By Cleomenes. Plot IN A, W I L T o N-HoMfe> Plotina, Wife of Trajan, Berenice the Daughter, Annia Faustina, third Wife of Helio-^ gabaks ; very line like that of Antonia. Mago, the famous Carthaginian j Scipio would not hKxrn Carthage 'iiW hQ had fecur'd the Book which he had writ of Agriculture, the. which, tho* loft, we have the Subftance of it in CatOy Varrp^ Pliny ^ Columella^ 5cc^ Titus, Faunus, Jupiter, ''^JuriA^ Daughter of Titus. On a Tellow Antique Marble Table. A Group, Cupid and Ganymede ; Ga- nymede is fitting and refting again ft the Sturnp of a Laurel, the Leaves fliow that it is an Alexandrian Laurel, the fame as we fee on antient Medals, not the ftiff, large-leaved Laurel, which adorns modern Kings in their Coin, from a Miftake of what the Ahtients ufed. It is rare to fee the diftind Form of the feven Pipes, as here exprefs'd. Cupid is very attentively looking on and reaching his Hand out toward the Pip^5, m. if to inftrut^t Ganymede how to play, . On the Pannels of the Wainfcot are painted eighteen different Sorts of Hun inq;. TBy Tempfiay Juo's H BUST O'S, '^o A Defcription of the Cur iof ties BUST O S, IN THE CUBE ROOM. Begin on the Left -Hand coming out of the Hunting Room^ [as here are but three StU- tuesy I Jhall mention the Word Statue as J come to them) ■ ' MASSINISSA King o£ Numidia, with the African Bonnet on his Head, the upper Parts of two Dragons, and the Head of Medufa on his Breaft-plate. AvENTiNUS Son of Hercules, the Head of a Lion's Skin, making the covering for his Head, and the two Fore-paws tied in a Knot upon his right Shoulder 5 an elegant Performance. loTAPE, Wife to Antiochus Comagena, On in Wilton-House. 51 On a Porphyry Table. Apollonius Tyan^us, the Head and Buft of one Piece of Marhie. It is fo very lively in the Attitude, v^^ith his Ar m tucking his Garment about him, that when it was firfi fold at Valetta's Sale, a Gentleman gave more than 270 /. for it : There were then feveral Antiques fold for above 200 /. each, as the Homer y which the Emperor Conjian- tine got from Smyrna ; Horace the Poer of Porphyry ; Cicero of Touchftone 3 and yu- lius Ccefar in oriental Alabalter. This Sale was in the South-Sea Time, when many gave very great Prices for what they liked 5 but my Lord then bought none, though he afterwards purchafed thofe above-mention'd, and others of lefs Price. On a Porphyry Table. Popp^ A, Nero'i, fecond Wife, her Right- Hand is holding up part of her Garment. Semiramis, at the Bottorn of the Bufl are two little Cupids, LucANus, the Head and Buft of Parian Marble^ fine Sculpture. CiESONlA^ 1^21 A Defiriptim of the CuriojHiei C:^^6N&^ the Bufto all of tranfparent Alabafter, fourth Wife of Caligula, iVuQUSTUS, of the Farian Marble. On a Jafper Marble Table are the follomng thre^ I'hingSy A Nuptial VASEjTeprefenting the whole Ceremony of a Greek Wedding, from the Beginning of the Sacrifice to the wafliihg of the Bride's Feet it is very fine Work. The Statue of Diana of Ephefus j the Head, Hands, and Feet black, the reft white Marble, as defcribed by Pliny, and likely to be in the fame Form as that in St Paul's Time, which they quarrelled a- bout, becaufe.St Paul and Pliny weie within an Age of one another. You find her grav'd in MontJaucon\ firft Volume. A Roman Urn, variety of very fine Work all round it, of Figures, Foliages, Birds, ^c. Prusias King of Bithynia, excellent Sculpture, pairs with that of Angujius. Metellus no Beard, by a very fine Greek Sculptor, all of a Piece down to the Navel ; the only one which ihom the Or- II anient in Wilt^n-Hquse. 53 nament of a Chain, which is of very rich Work J on his Breaft-plate is an Elephant, a Laurel quite round the Outfide of it, the Confular Medal with an Elephant on the Re- verfe, the Head of that is bearded^ fuppos'd to be a Divinity, with the Name only of Mefellus J the Elephant is in Memory of the Vidtory he gained over Jugurtha King of Numidia, upon which he obliged him to deliver up all his Elephants to the Romans, Messalina, fifth Wife of Claudius, of hard faline Marble ; {he has a confident Air agreeable to her Charader ; the Marble of her Cloathing very naturally reprefents a fine ftriped Silk. OcTAviA, the firft Wife of Nero, of fine coloured Marble, her Head-drefs alfo very fine, with Leaves and Ears of Corn bound round upon her Hair. This Buft, and that of Poppaa, are both very curious. On a Marble Table [the Produce cf Mount Edgcomb) are the Jive following 'Things, , An antient Greek triangular Altar to BaC' chus ; on one Side Silenus holds a Torch in-- verted in his Right-Hand, in his left a Ca- nifter full of Fruit j on another Side is an Attendant of Bacchus dancing with one Foot up, and a Thyr/us in his Right-Hand ; in 54 ^ Defcription of the Curiofities in his Left-Hand a Bowl, and the Skin of a Beaft on his Arm j on the other Side is a Bacchus dancing in a long thin Garment, > Upon this Altar ftands a little Statue of Bacchus y with. Grapes and with the Snake, the peculiar Symbol of the Egyptian Bac- chiiSj who invented Medicine^ and was laid to be the San and Apollo, An Alto Relievo of Pyrrhus, the Son of Achilles ; it is an Oval, and has a fplendid Afpedl as of a very large Gem, the Face is Porphyry, which the Cardinal Mazarine fo much valued as to finifh his Drefs with a Helmet of different coloured Maible. A four-fquare Altar, each of the four Sides has a Divinity, yupiter^ Mars, Diana^ and yuno 3 this was one of thofe Altars for a private Room, which Altars they ufed to have in their Houfes, to worfhip fuch Dei^ ties as they made their Lares and Penates. Upon this Altar (lands a little Statue of an antient Pried with a Phrygian Cap, fa- crificing a Hog to IJis, Vespasian, Trajan, Head, Buft-, and Plinth of Parian Marble, the Face and Neck only polifhcd. Tmolus an antient Lavvgiver, and Founder of a Colony in th^ • Time in WiLTON-Houss. 55 Time of Apollo^ fine Sculpture and much adorned j this ftands upon a grey Granite Table which belong'd to a Temple, and was for the facrificing of leffer Animals, as Birds, &c. that the Blood might not run over the Edges ; it has a remarkable Chan- nel as big as to lay one's: Finger in, round the utmoft Edge of the four Sides of the Flat next the Moulding, and in the Middle of one of the Channels is a Hole for the Blood to run through. . Claudius, the Buft is the Jafper Mar- ble ; Pyr RHUS King of Epirus, with a noble Air ; it has a Dragon on the Helmet, and on his Brcaft-plate there is a Head with Wings J it is like the Head of a Bat. Begin the PiBures with the two double half Lengths, 'which are between the two iaft Bujio's, then the two double half Lengths on the other Side of the. Door, Mrs KiLLEGREw and Mrs Morton ; they were celebrated Beauties. By Vandyke. Mr James Herbert and his Wife. By Sir Peter Lely, The Earl and Countefs of Bedford. By Vandyke, The 56 A Defcription of the Curiofities The Countefs of Pembroke (Mother of Earl Thomas) and her Sifter. By Sir Peter Lely^ Hen-ry Earl of Pembroke (Father of the prefent Earl) when about feventeen Years old, William Earl of Pembroke , elder firo-^ ther to Earl Thomas, By Sir Peter Lelyt Lady Catherine, eldeft Daughter to E^rl Thomas (was married to Sir Nicholas Morice) and her Brother Mr Robert Herberts Thomas Earl of Pembroke, when Lord High- Admiral. By Mr WtJJtng. Our Saviour, and the Woman of Sa- maria. I. By Giofeppe Chi art. The Countefs of Pembroke, firft Wife of Earl Thomas, By Mr WiJJing. The Virgin, our Saviour, and Jo- seph reading ; there are alfo feveral Boys in different Adtions. i. By Gennari, In in WiLTON-Hous^,'. 57 In the Cieling. t)^DALtJS arid Icarus. I. By Jofeph Ar-pinOi On the bottom Pannels of this Room is paint- ed the Hijiory of the Countefs of Pem- broke'i Arcadia^ written by Sir Philip Sidney. By the Brother of Signior Tommafo, 58 A Defcription of the Curiofities PICTURES, BUSTO'S and TABLES IN THE GREAT ROOM. Begiji the PiBures with the celebrated Family Piece. THIS confifts of ten whole Lengths, the two principal Figures (and thefe are fitting) are Philip Earl of Pembroke and his Lady j on the Right-Hand ftand their five Sons, Charles Lord Herbert, Philip (afterwards Lord Herbert) Willi- am, James, and John ; on the left, their Daughter Ann Sophia, and her Hufband Robert Earl of Carnarvon', before them Lady Mary, Daughter of George Duke of Buckingham, and Wife toCharles Lord Her- bert ; and above in the Clouds are two Sons and in Wilton-House. 5^ and a Daughter who died young : This, and all the other Pidlures in this Room are By Vandyke, On the Right- Hand of the great Pidure, over a Door, is an half Length of King Charles I J and on the Left-Hand, over a Door, an half Length of his Qaeen. On the Chimney Side. A whole Length of William Earl of Pembroke^ Lord Steward. A whole Length of the firfl Lady of the fecond Earl Philip. Three Children of King Charles the Firft. Whole Lengths of the Duchefs of Rich- mond (firft married to Charles Lord Her- bert) and Mrs Gibson the Dwarf. A whole Length of Earl Philip, who is in the great Picture. Over a Door. A half Length of the Countefa of Cas- TLEHAVEN. I ^d? Over^ 6o A Defcription of the Curiojities Over a Door. A half Length of the fecond Earl Phi- lip. On the Garden Side. A whole Length of a Daughter of the Earl of Holland, A whole Length of the Duke of Rich- mond. The Paintings in the Cieling reprefent it- yeral Stories of Perseus. By Signior Tommafo, Begin the Bujio's on the Left-Hand the Chimney Side. Marcellus, the famous Conful. Drusus the Elder, Brother of T^iberm. Lucius Verus Caesar. Marcus Brutus, of the beft Greek Sculpture. Caius in Wilton-House. 6i Caius C^sar, upon a green antique Marble Table. Hadrian. Upon the Chimney Piece, two in Copper^ One CoMMODUS, the other Polemon. Constant IN E the Great, of better Work than was common in that Age, as are alfo a few of his Medals. Lucius Cjesar, Brother to Caius Cafar, upon an Agate Table. Julius C^sAR, oriental Alabafter, noted as may be feen by what is faid of it in Fa- ktta's Colledion. The Marble of the Breaft-plate is of the Colour of Steel. Antinous 5 Sept. Severus ; Horace, in Porphyry, mention'd alfo in Valetta's Colledion ; Fabretti, in his Comment, gives good Reafons for it's being Horace. Marcus Aurelius, Antoninus Pius, on this Baft, as alfo on feveral others in this Room, may be feen the true Habit that the Emperors wore when they appear 'd in vari- ous 62 A Defcription of the Curiofities - ous Colours, different coloured Marbles, being chofen for that Purpofe. Cicero, of Touchftone, with the Ciccr. The following Bufto's on the Garden Side are all of white Marble, and the Terms <.upon which they Jland are of coloured Marbles Artemis or Diana ; her Hair tied be- hind her, not to hinder her (hooting j the Air of the whole Buft is like the upper Part of the celebrated Statue of this Goddefs, and thought to be by the fame Sculptor. This (as feveral others) has in Greek Letters, the Greek Name on it. Marcellus the younger ; Cassandra, Daughter of Priamus, fhe was a Prophetefs, and had a Temple, and therefore wears a peculiar Head-drefs with feveral Ban- dages. Buft of Martin Folkes, Efq; upon a Red Egyptian Granite Table. Ammonius, with a Greek Infcription up- on it. Arsinoe the Daughter, German icus, CORIOLANUS. Bufto in Wilton-House. 63 Bafto of Sir Andrew Fountain, upon a Lapis Lazuli Table 5 this and that of Mr Folkes intended for the Library when finiflied. SciPio AsiATicus, Caraccala, Vi- TELLius, and Alcibiades, PIC- 64 A Defcripfion of the Curiofities PICTURES BUST O'S I N T H E Lobby between the Great Room and the King's Bed-Chamber. Begin the PiSiures with that over the Door, next /y^^- Bed-Chamber. AN old Man with fome Sort of Sweet- meat in a Pot, which he fells to the Children j there are fix about him ; an ex- traordinary Pleafure appears in all their Countenances. ^ ^tuji^ J >o ?3^ija3e Fran. Halls. I'here in Wilton-House. 65 I'here are four more PiBures on the fame Side^ begin at the lowejl. Some Dutch People playing at Draughts, a Woman by them cutting Bread and But- ter for a Boy who is faying Grace. 4. By Egbert Hemjkirk, A young Woman with a Shock Dog. 3. By Correggio, A Piper. 3. By Georgione. A Madona. 3. By Carlo Dula\ The Side over againji the Window, Neptune and Amphitrite, with ie- veral other Figures. I. By Luc a Giordano, Under the loft are four Figures ^ begin on the Right -Hand. Bacchus with a Bowl in his Left- Hand, his right Arm refting on a Velfei, an old Man emptying a Bafket of Grapes into a Fat, a Woman and Boys with two Bafkets of Fruit. 5. By a Scholar of Raphael, K Two 66 A Defcript'iGn cf the Quriofities ^ "Two Pi(fiure5^ of different Sorts of Marble, out of the Dake of Flo- rence's CoUedion. Christ in the Virgin's Arms, St John is kiffing him, Joseph is looking on ibemi; 5. By ScUone. Over the Door, next to the Great Room. Christ raifing Lazarus from the Dead. 3. By Sab. Ricci. '0^'the fame Side are four Pi5iures, begin 'with the low eft. ' 'King Richard II, i^c. I here tranfcribe Hollar'?, Account of it. An elegant Repre- fentation of King Richard the Ild (in his -Youth) at his Devotion, painted on two Tables. In one he is reprefented kneeling by his three Patron Saints, St John Bap- tift. King Edmund, and King Edward the Confeffor, having a Crown on his Head, clad in a Robe adorned with white Harts and Broom-Cods, in Allufion to his Mo- ther's Arms, and his own Name of Plan- tagenifta. Thus he is praying to the Virgin Mary with the Infant in her Arms (on the 'Other Table) furrounded with Chriftian Vir- tues, in the Shape of Angels, with Collars in Wilton-House. 67 of Broom'- Cods aboiit their Necks, ancl white Harts OQ their Bofoms j one holding up a' dinner of the Crofs before them, iind on the Ground are LiUes and Rofes. St "John Baptift holds a Lamb in his left 4rrn ; King Edward the ConfelTor holds a , Ring between the Thumb and Fore-finger qf Ms Lefe-Hand ; King Edmund holds an Arrow in his Lefc-Hand j all their Right- Hands are di reded to King Richard, mi^it- fenting him to oar Saviour, who inclines himfelf in a very kind Manner towards them. There are eleven Angels reprefented, each of them hath a Wreath of white Rofes round their Heads. The Difpolition of their Countenances, and Adion of their Hands, is deiigned to ihcw that their Attention is '^employed about King Richard. On the Qlory roun^ 'Oup Saviour's Head you.may fee the Crofs reprefented in it, and round the Ex- tremicy . of the Qrb aie fmall Brandies ^ of ^^Thorn§. Qn utwot . Brafs Plates on the Bottom^ >pf the ^^i^ure is engraved as fol^ ■]ows, visii ufu/i ['Ufc, Jnvejition of Painting in Oil, 14 10. ^4^His Was^ painted Before, in the Begin - *' ning of Richard II, 1377. Hollar engraved s^i^nd dedicated it to King Charles I, and calls ^°4t Tabula Antiaua of King Richard II, with 8 ; . ^ K 2 his 68 A Defcriptim of the Curiojities bis three Saints and Patrons, St John Bap- %]^, and two Kings, St Edmund Siud . Ed- ^rd the Confeffor. This Pidiire was given out of the Crown by King James II, to the Lord Cafikmainy when he went Am- baffador to Rome ; and bought, firice he died, by Thomas Earl of Pembroke^ 4. A half Length of Titian, by himfelf. 3, A Pair of kuihs, Ijaiidfcapes, kni Figures. . . ^i^si^$.^.- 4. By Fiviano, sIdsjjM htsiOn the Garden- Side. Buildings Perfpedive, and Figures 3 4 tc : X^, By Sab. and Marco Ricci. l^ndef tM l&ft dfr 'thre^ PiSiures, begin on the Right-Hand. St^SsBASTiAN fhot vteitJi Arrows. ^ 5. By Benedetto. Luti. A Nativity. 4. By Jan Van Eycky 141 o. Ruins and Figures. 5. By Paolo Panini, BUSTO'S. Wilton-House* ' 6^, ,?tjs''tj S T o^s . : Begin at the Door next the Gre^JRoom, 'SB: ■ " ■ '^nsd Marcus Modius; a very fine Buft with a Gr^£^^ Infcription upon it. ' ' ^VT?^' ^ ^r/^ AJinius Follio, On a black and yellow coloured Mai;ble- Table, an Alto Relievo of the prefent Earl of Pembroke when ten Years old. mi5i ' ^ m MsL vl. By Scbeemakers, Seneca, Sappho, with the Bandage as deified, of the finefl Marble-like Ivory, the laft Perfedion of Greek Sculpture ; white as at firft making, becaufe (with, fe- veral here) found in a Vault. THE yo A T>efcription of the Cmiofiiies T H E T "'CI King's Bed-Chamber. Over the Chimney. f j ^ ^ E half Length of a Gentleman, ' J[^:- fuppofed to be Prince Rupert. ' By'' -Vandyke. ' Oii an antique Marble-Table. Marcus Aurelius on Horfe back, made Athens^ and fo efteemed, that the Sculp- tor Was fent for to Rome, to make that which is there in Copper as big as the Life. The Perfon is in the fame Poflure, but this a Macedonian Horfe, fmall, and of Marble; to prevent the breaking, Cardinal Maza- rine had one Side cemented to a Marble, which comes out at the Bottom, fquared as a Pavement, on which the Horfe is as walking. PICTURES % Wl L T O M - ft 6 U S E . PICTURES • I N T H E ' i CORNER ROOM. Begin with that over the Door next to the King's Bed-Chamber, | Arcissus feeing himfelf in the Wa- ter. There are feven Cupids in va- rious Aaions. ^ 3. By Foujfin, ■"-''^:fn :■ ' no ^;Ti ^ :> rj/^ so : ■ (!)tt the fame Sidt '~^re'fii)}n^^J&re'"^^^ Andromache fainting on her hearing of the Death of her Huiband HeSlor. Here twenty- five Figures; ,;)ld)i^lvi . By Primaticcio, Three Pi /^ures tinder the la ft ^ and three at the End J begin with that next to the Door. A Man forcing a Boy to take Phyfic. 5. By Bambocci. The f2 A Deftripf ion of the Curivfities The Head of Mieris., ^^^'•^'^ ^. By himfdf. MiDAs*s Judgment. 5. By Philippo Lauro, A young Woman holding a Candle. 4. By Schalken, Mars and Ven0s. 4. By Vanderuuarfe, St ilN.THONY. 4. By Correggio, On the Chitmey-Side. An Herdfman with Cattle, as big as the Life. 2^ By Rofa di TtvoIL A Carpet and a large Boar's Head;^- ^ ^ 2. By Maltefe. The Countefs of Pembroke and Lord Herbert, now Earl of Pembroke, when very young. 3 . By Mr Hoare of Bath, ^fii4 3ii3i§ 6 siism billow 5d bii. The Virgin, old JbsEPH, Elizabeth, and Christ, who is putting a Ring on St Ca.t her I N e's Finger. 5. By Anguifciola, Pyrrhus »l^>PyRRHUs brought dead out of the Temple. They are putting him into his Chariot. Several Figures appear in great Surprize. 3. By Pietro Tejla» }%^^iM^^ pz^^ next to the outer XJotirt, Begin with the tipper one betwixt the WindoiQ .V^^«^^. . ^nd the Door. . The pifcovery of Achiljles. 2. By Sahiati^ An Affumption of the Virgin. In the Arundel Catalogue it is faid, that bia Lordfliip defired i^^^^fej to paint for him a fine finifhed Clofet-Pidure, which is this Pidlure, being on an oXdi Flemifi Board, mofl beautifully coloured. There is a Group at Bottom of nine Angels, all in different Poftures, as raifing the Clqud under the Virgin Mary, There are feveral pretty Cherubims Heads at the Side and at the Top. It fo much, pleafed Reubens^ that he faid he would make a great Pidture after it, which he did at a Church in a Convent at Antwerp, where he has added Apoftles, ^ big the Life. ve ? ^ 5- Reubens. jAf. ^ Defcription of the Curiojtties Belshazzar*s Feaft. A Multitude of Figures. A great ARoniQiment appears in all the Company at the Table, &c, 4. By Old Franks JuDlTH putting Holofernes'^ Head into a Scrip, which is held open by her Maid. 5. By Mantegna, On the other Side of the Window ^ begin at the lo%veJl. , Our Saviour about two Y^ars old, fitting on a Stone, a Lamb is ftanding by him and licking his Hand, in which he holds a String \yhich is tied to the Leg of a Dove, which lits in a little open- worked Baiket. There ar:0>fwo other Figures. The Rays from the Glory round our Saviour's Head ftrikes a fine Light upon them. One of them has her Hand upon the Dove. 3. By Paola Matthei. Christ ¥focft the 'Grofs, two Boys hold- ing up the Arms, and the Virgin devoutly llretching out her Hands, At a Diftance appear the three CrolTes, and a Group of little Figures with a Horfe. It was made for Jlenfy II, King France, which he gave to hi^ Miftfefs, Diana Valentinois, andj on the painted iatiFr^me, in ope Corn^i^, arc the Arms of Fran(^^ %x\ another a Mo- ' ^ nogram in Wilton-House. 7^ nogram of the firft Letters of their Names ; the dther two Corners the Emblems of Dia- na^ three half Moons in one,- a Quiver and' Bow in the other. '^'^3 3. By Michael Angela, A Madona, very fine, with feven Stars round her Head. 3. By Carlo Maratti, ^he Garden- Side y begin on the heft-Hand of the Window. Bacchus on an Altar in the Wood, many Figures about it celebrating his Myfteries, and fhewing a great Spirit, in different Po- flures. The Light darts through the Wood in a moft agreeable Manner. I. By Salvator Rofa, On the other Side of the Window, begin with Ceres ftanding with a moft genteel Air, holding up Wheat. Given by the Duke of Parma to the Earl of Peterborough^ when he conduced James the Second's Queen to England. 2. By Parmegiano, iCttRisT taken from the Crofs, ten other Figures with ftrong Expreffions of the So- lemnity. The Virgin has her Right-Hand L 2 under yS A Dejcripfion of the Curiojitiei under our Saviour's Head, as lifting hin^ up, "Whi'le Jofeph of Arimathea, (wKq is ricMy dreffed) is wrapping the Linen-Cloth round him. Behind ^ofeph are two Men, one of them has the Superfcription in his Hands, and the Crown of Thorns upon his Arm ; the other is as talking to him, point- ing with one Hand to the Virgin, and the other towards Jofeph, On the other Side is St John with his Hands folded together, and ihews great Concern. Mary Magdalen is wiping off the Blood, and wrapping the Li- nen round our Saviour^s Feet. Mary, the Wife of CleophaSy is as fpeaking to Nicod^- nus, who is as giving Directions about the Snices. Behind ihtm are two Men, one iSlds the N^il^ taken from the Crofs, the other holds the Hammer and Pinchers. Here is ' alfo the Tomb ftiown, and the People rplling the Stone from the Entrance of it, ¥i)d '^^o^Jfit^ C^^^ Bones and Skulls fckttered about where the Croffes ftand, with the" View of the Multitude returning ipto Jltilfalm 5 at a Diftance a Landfcape, with Rocks, (ifr, 3* By Albert Durer. &bree by the Door, begin at the loweji, irt^i^rV^i^us and the three Graces. -Qci S'ByA$drea(^a^q/fef, The Defcent of the Holy Gnosf? c. By Salembeni, - ' The in Wilton-House, The Virgin with Christ in her Lap. ajo4 J 5. By Dojfo da Ferrara^ : ^^bree by the Window, begin at the lonoeft. Day reprefented by Apollo riding upoii a Cloud, drawn by four Horfes ; Night re- prefented by a Figure with dark Wings and Poppies round her Head, By her are two Pwls flying. 5. By Solimene^ pHRisT taken fron^ the Crofs, a; . 5' ByFigtno^ 300 Christ in the Virgin's Lap, beholds j^bri by the Hand. 5 3y Lorenzo Garbieri^ In the Cieling the Cpnverfion of St Paul. St Paul is ft ruck from, his Horfe, be and his Company appear in great Sur- prize. I, By Luca Giordano^ On ^ I'able whereon Cards, &c. are repre- .,s j^-^fQ^^ is the Statue of Morpheus, the God of Sleep, in black Touchftone, his Head wreathed with Pop- pies, and a Poppy in one liand, THE ^8 A Defer iption of the Curiofities THE C L O S E T. Begin the PiBures with that over the Door- . Cafe, leading into the inner Part of the Room, THE Virgin with Christ about four Years old, as big as the Life, /landing by her, a Figure as graceful as Raphael Urbin, The Virgin is as talking to St fohn. More backward, at her Right- Side is a Woman with a Child in her Arms, both with graceful Countenances. 2. By Andrea del Sarto, ^here are two Pi6lurH%. each Side of the lafi " mentioned, begin with the two on your Right' Hand, afterward on the Left. The Virgin; our Saviour is refling his Head and Right-Hand on her Bofom. 4. By Bloemart, jun\ A Land (cape, Cattle, and Travellers, Morfes with Packs. 4. By Berchem. A Shep- Wilton-House* 79 A Shepherdefs in a Straw- Hat, rcprefent- ;|ng ,Prii>cels Sophia. By Gerard Huntorfi, A Landfcape with Figures. 4. By Orizonfe, On the Corner Room Side, begin with the middle one, then with that over the middle of ity then that which is under it j then there are four on the Right-Hand and four on the Left. A Flemijh School. The Painter commonly ciMtd. the little Van Dyke, 2. By Gonfales, St Sebastian fhot with Arrows. 4. By Paolo Veronefe, Christ lying on Straw in a Manger, 4. By Van Dyke. The Prodigal Son going abroad. 4. By Wovermdn. GjiRisT aftride'upon a Lamb, is held by the Virgin, old Jofeph is looking on and leaning on a Staff. *-5. By Prancifco Penni^- The jJo A Defcription of the Cunqfifies The Virgin with Chrift in her Lap. 5. By Raphael, A Landfcape with kocks, Water, and three Travellers* 4. By BartolomeOo The Prodigal Son returning home. 4. By Wtytjefman, Maodalene, as a Penitent, overlooking the Vanities of the World. Below her are fix Boys as Cupids j they are handling of Jewels, &c. 5. By a Scholar of Guidoi The Virgin reading, with Chrift in her Lap. 5. By AlbanOi A Landfcape, with a Man carrying a Fiftiing Net. nof v 4. By Francesco Bolognefe^ Over the Door, Mary Magdalene. 2. By Titian^ On the Bow-Window and Chimney Sides, as you go round, begin with the loweft Pictures, The Virgin holding Christ in her Lap, St John has led a Lamb to him* Christ is looking at an Angsl below on the WlLTON-HoUSE> theiGt^oujid gathe^dg Flowers ; old Joseph i^bighenup, with an A(s by him. 4. By Cantarini, Our Saviour afcending, with the fotir Emblems of the Evangelifts at the Bottom of the Clouds, two Angels are fupporting his Arms. 3 . By GitiUo Romano, ■H & gJS • , SHI ,t AO 0A M Apollo fleaing of MARSYA?. > •/ ^d* By Piomh. Two whole Lengths of two Kings of France^ Francis II. and Charles IX. 4. By Fred. Zucchero. King Edward VI. 4. By Hans Holben, Christ kilTing St John. 4. By A'fidrea Saldino^ Scholar of Leonardo da Vinci, The Women bringing the little Children to Christ. Three Children of King Henry VII. Arthur, Prince of JF^/^-j ; HENRY^bout three Years old (was afterwards King - i- M , - ■ Henry A Lhfcription of the CiiriG/ities Henry "^YIV: and Margaret, who m'drfi^d the King of Wmmz^ 'MW&^a&L^ 4. By Ham Holben, the Father. The Virgin and old Joseph teaching Christ to read. 4. By Benardino Gatti. The Virgin, with Christ in her Lap. St John has hold of his right Foot with his Right- Hand. » ' The Nativity. 4. By Pontormo. : : 1S5^? of JiCo^' ' 4. By Lazarini. The Virgin with Christ, leaning the back Part of his Head againft her Breaft. He has a Bird in his Right-Hand. 3. By Crefpi. Christ in the Virgin's Arms, the Straw below, three Angels are looking on. 3. By Carlo Maratti. The Virgin exceedingly line, the Veil painted with Ultra Marine, Maria di Fieri painted the Flowers with which the Virgin is fiirrounded. 3. By Carlo Duki, Our . W I L T O N - H O U S 83 Our Saviour taken fr6m the Crofs, the Virgin ihevveth great Concern ; there are three Qtlieir Figures by them, and Angels in the Clouds. ,r,|f[3g. 4. Vaierio Cajielli. The Marriage of Joseph with the Vir- gin. 3. By Augujl. Taffo. The Holy Family, Saints reprefente^ praying at the Bottom of the Picture. 4. By Pietro Pietri, In the Cleling, Venus's "feth,^ftie is fifing out of the Sea, the three Graces are attending her ; there are alfo five Cupids in difi^erent Actions. , , - ^ . I . Xffrenzhio d^^^ Bologna. 0« a -Table of black and yellow Marble, whereon Cards^ &c. are reprefented^ lies^ A Statue of Cupid afleep. 'ool m hi the inner part of the Clofet, begin cn the Left -Hand. The 'FY\nr; M 2 The 84; A Dejcriftion of the Curiofities The Nativity. ;.?i.hD 4. By 'Tbeodoro, The Circumcifion of Christ. 5. By Paolo Fiorentino. Abraham's Steward putting the Brace- lets on Rebecca's Hand at the Well. 5. By Pietro Bambini. A Landfcape. 4. By Claudia Lorraiji, The Virgin holding our Saviour by his Arms, St John embraciii^ him, old Jo- seph is reading. t^^^^^^- 5. By Lodovi CO Carracci. The Judgment of P^ris. - dw 3d. By Rotenhamer, Eight fmall Buflo's upon gilded maik TrulTes ; begiii with that on your Right-Hand of the, loft PiBure,: , . , ..^^ TiTHONus, Divinity pf the Mormng^^l^ Venus of Medici,^^ laisV/ 1:.. „ Bacchus, very beautiiul Work. Cris- V-:: in W I L T 0 N*-H O U S E. 8s Crispin A Wife of Commodns. Fauna (the female Divinity of Faunus is very rare). A Pantheon of a peculiar Marble, and ill the old Tennini Way, it has the Symbols of AmmoTiy Mavors, and Ti^o/i?, three of their Dii Major es, from whom they after made 'Jupiter^ MarSy and Mercury, Epicurus, valued by Cardinal Mazarine, there being no other of him. Achilles, adorn'd at the Breaft, having Rams on his Helmet, a young Face, fmall and very neat Work. This Room is the Eaft End of Inigo 'Jones's Building, the whole of which is elleem'd a very compleat Piece of Archi- tedure. From the Windows of thefe Apartments is the following View. The Garden, or rather a beautiful Lawn, planted with various Trees. The River which the late Earl Henry much enlarged. The Bridge which the faid Earl built from Palladia's De- fign. Between fome fine large Cedar Trees, a fall of Water by the Stable Bridge. A Piazza (the Front of the Stables) by hiigo Jones, A Wood in the Park upon a Hill, on 8 ^ AD efcriptim of Curio/ities on which {lands in one Part, a thatch'd' Koufe, in unother, an equeiirian Stat;j3e of Marcus Aurelius upon an Arch ; the Prof- ped; on that Sids being terminated with the Plain or Downs, on which are the Florfe- Races. The Engine Houfe, with tv/o or- namented Fronts, one Front towards the Houfe, the other towards the Park. The cold Bath, and upon it a compleat Caft of the fine Statue of Antinous at Rome. An Arcade, the Front of which was originally the Front of a Grotto, by Inigo Jones. Not only the Spire, but the whole Weft Front of Salijbury Cathedral. Clarendon Park and Places adjacent. At the Bottom of /fe^peometrical Stair-cafe. The Urn of Horace, on one Side of which is this Infcription, Ife DM . HOR. FLACC. PIIS MAR P A M PH. M I N F A FECIT. Diis Manibus Horatii Flacci, the other Letters to Fecit probably relate to the Per- fon who had the Urn made, but they were defaced, and fince mended, as they thought they faw the Traces of former Letters j the other Part is the Apotheofis of a Lyric Poet. There is a Woman in a loofe Gar- ment riiftit^%lding a'bdfningTorch, ^ itie^^dfes ; another holds a Lyre in here L?n-Hahd, and a' Volume in her Right, which fhe offers to a third Woman with large Wings, reprefenting Fame : Near ffipmj'ftands a great Altar adorn'd wit'ft-^^ Crown ; in an obfcure Corner fits a Figure with his Head reclin'd, which forrie think may be Momus or ZoihiSi they are genteel Figures, and elegantly cloath'd, it is BafTo Reijevo. 3 noil f) 3"-' "ifiO sloc' ;:fnoW £ »73dT 88 A Defcripticn of the Cur iof ties IN THE STONE HALL. Begin on the Right-Hand from the Stair- cafe. A Little Statue of a Boy, as darting himfelf to catch fomething on the Ground, A Sarcophagus ; in a Round in the Front is the Buiio of a Man ; it is remaricable, I ft, That the Phyfiogtiomy by the Sculp- tor is unfiniOi'd, as they purpofely did to fhow that Man could not hit the Likenefs o£ the Splendor they appear'd in after they were defcended to the Elyfium. adly. This has the Ornaments of two Cornucopia's to {how the Plenty of Fruits, ^c. which they enjoy in the Elyfian Fields. 3dly, The Right-Hand appears with the two Fingers fartheft from the Thumb deprefs'd or de- bas'd, holding up the Thumb and the other two Fi;3ger§j^ as was the ancient Cuftom Mb n* 3"!i?r. when in WiL ton-House, 89 when they faluted others, and wifh'd them Happinefs, as he is here fuppos'd to do at his dying. 4thly, This is alio diftinguifh'd by a little Rifing in the Bottom at the Head, to jQiovv that it was to lay in the Body whole. Defcrib'd by Sahini in Table 9. Upon this Tomb is a Janus fixed on a Term. ' As I am now gohig to begin with one of the Relievo's, is to be noted that 1 jhall di- Jiinguijh thofe, when all or mojl of the Fi- gures are in Alto Relievo, with the Letter A. before them. An A. Relievo, fix Figures, Nereides and Tritons, and an Horfe. A Baffo Relievo, having dh Infcriptio Boujiropha, the Writing in the fucceffive Lines going forward and backward : Firft, from left to right, then from right to leff, as they turn or guide Oxen in the plowing of Lands. This was efteemed the moll an- tient Way of Writing, and proves the great Antiquity of thk Mathk* '^ C t The Statue o4 'AiioLLd, of' fin eft Greek Sculpture; he ftands in a very genteel Pofture, with the middle of the Bow in his Left*Hand : It was found entire in the Earth N near go A Defiription of the CurioJIties near Ephefus, in which were mixed fome Minerals, which have given it a Stain that iiialt^s:*lt4ook like old Ivory j his Sandal is a fine Reprefentation of the antient Shape and Manner of fixing it. An A. Relievo, four Boys gathering and eating Grapes. The Statue of Urania the Mufe, with her Symbol cut on the Plinth, with fo re- verend an Air of old Age, that Cardinal Mazarine would not fuffer any Part of it to be mended. A very large A. Relievo, weighing abotit a Tun and an half, that was a Freeze in a Greek Temple of Diana and Apollo j It re- prefents the Story of Niobe and her Chil- dren, &c. Here are feven Sons and feven Daughters fuppos'd to be hunting in the Heat J and being ill, the Father, Mother, come out of the Shade, in which they are, and fave two of them ; all the Figures and Trees, efpecially the Horfes on which the Sons ride, are fo high, as that the Heads and Necks fland off without touching the Marble behind. The Foreft Cithceron in Bceotia^ \vi which they are hunting, is linely reprefented, and at a Diflance, by fome of the Trees, Syhanus, the Divinity of the Woods, fits looking on with a grave Con- cern. , WitTONr.HoUSE. 9 1 cef^% fjj^ tihis, njeitber.f^r^ nor Diana appear, ,by which probably it was intended to reprefent their Deaths, as proceeding from the Heat of the Sun, the Rays of which are as y^^?//(9*s Arrows; he is indeed ofcen in Medals fo reprefented, either by the Sun alone, or with the Rays round his Head. Thus by the Heat of the Sun, which was Apollo^ and from the Fatigue of Hunting, over which Diana prefided, they got fome mortal Fever. An Arrow flicks in one only, as a Symbol, it being invifible whence it comes. Here are twenty Figures j Bylvanus and three old Men, (the Father and two Uncles or Tutors) and two old Women, (the Mother and a Nurfe or Aunt) feven Sons, feven Daughters ; alfo five Horfes ; two of the youngeft Sons are a- foot, as arc t|ie.J)aughters. The Statue of Sabina Wife of Hadrian^ fine Drapery. An A. Relievo, Faunus playing on two Pipes. The Front of Meleager's Tomb cut off from the refi:, jof iipe Greek Marble with thirteen Figures, befides a Dog and the Boar's Head j the whole Hiilory is repre- fented from the firft Quarrel about the Boar's head, till the Burning of the fatal N 2 Brand, 92 A Dejcription of the Curiofitiei Brand, and the carrying of him away to be entomb'd. That which Montfaucon copy'd from Maffei has three Perfons lefs than this has, and wants the Quarrel at the beginning with the Boar's Head. Upon this Tomb an antique Malk. An A. Relievo, the Srory of the Child dealing the Meat from off the Altar, thro' the Idol's Mouth. A fmall Statue of Meleager, very fine Sculpture. A large A. Relievo, of a veftal Virgin, grav'd in Father Montfaucon. An A. Relievo, fliewing the antient Man- ner of eating ; here Jupiter attended by Pallas is ferv'd by Hebe-, Mr Cajlel h&s grav'd this in his Book of the Villa's of Pliny, it being much older than any Print that was before made of that Cuftom. A fmall Statue of iEscuLAPius. In the Paffage between this Room and the Breakfafl Room fome Pidtures, but not of any Confequence. Over /k WiLtON-HoUSE. 93 Over the Firft Door, , I N T H E 01 If! BREAKFAST ROOM. H E Port of Leghorn. 5. By PerfpeBive, On the Right-Hand of the Window. A Boy with a Bird's Neft. 3» % Anto. Amoroji, Christ with three of his Difciples, and Martha who is upon her Knees weeping upon the Account of her Brother Lazarus being dead. 2. By Pietro Faccino, On the other Side of the Window. A Lady Rockingham. By Sir Peter Lely, On 94 Defcription of the Curiofities On the Left-Hand within the Screen. The late Sir Charles Hotham. The late Duke of Montague. Barbara Countefs Pembroke (fecond Wife to Earl Thomas) with her Daughter Lady Bab. Herbert, now Lady Bab North, Mary Countefs of Pembroke^ laft Wife to Earl Thomas. Two naked Figures, one in the River, the other on the Bank. 4. By Cervelli. Cupid, in an angry Manner wrenching his Bow from a Boy who has hold of it. 5. By Taruffi of Bolonia. St John baptizing our Saviour. By Cafalafco. A Triumph of Rome. By Carto Caldari. A Story in Wilton-House. 95 A Story oat of Ovid, the End of his IXth Book, T^elethuja with her Daughter Iphis, 6cc. 5. By Antonio Loti, Cephalus and Procris. 4. By Waterloe. Cher the Door leading into the Corner Room. Seven Boys playing at Blindman's BufF. 5. By Girolamo Donini^ 40 IN g6 A Dejcription of the Curiojities I N T H E CORNER ROOM. Begin over the Jirji Door, then on your Righf~ Hand. H E Siege of Pavia. 5. By Hans Holben. Our Saviour carrying his Crofs. 3. By Luca Congiagio, The Virgin, with our Saviour in her Lap; Old Joseph is leaning on an Altar, an Angel undrawing of a Curtain. 3. By Timet, d'Urbino, A Nativity 5 at a Diftance the Shepherds with the Sheep, an Angel in the Clouds. 3. By Dionigo Cahart. An in Wilton-House. 97 An Antique Picture from the Temple of yuno ; Juno is fitting by a Teftiple, thfefe are coming to her, Pallas, Hercules, Dia- na, Apollo, Ceres, and Vertumnus, all with their Symbols in their Hands. 4, Two Sea-pieces, one a Storm the other a Calm. 4. By Vander Velder, The PiAzzo Navona in Rome. 3. By Cajjfano, Two Battle Pieces. 3. By Borgogmne, Herodias dancing before Herod. 3. By Alejfandro Varofari, In Crayon, a Copy of the Princefs So- phia. 4. By Lady Diana Spencer, Daughter to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough. The Offering after the Flood. 3. By Tommafo Luini. Tobias taking leave of his Father and Mother, the Angel is with him. 3. By Guercino, O In gS A D ef crip t ion of the Curiojities In the Front of the Chimney-Piece is An A. Relievo of eight Figures, befides a Dog and a Goat. THE in WlLTON-HoUSE.- 99 THE Basso Relievo ROOM. T^here is a double Row round the Roontj ex- cept over the Doors j begin with that over the jirjl Door j then with the low- eji next to the Door j then with that over the laji, and Jo on throughout the Room. AN old Greek Mofaick teflellated Work, the Pieces of Marble of various Co- lours, not only flat, but ^riling as the Fi- gures ; it reprefents the Garden of the Hef- perides ; in the Middle is the Tree bearing the Golden Apples, and the Dragon to preferve them ; by it is a Rock, and Hercules with his Head and Garment girt with Golden Fafces ; at his Feet is his Quiver, &c. On the other Side lies his Club, -^gle. Daughter of Hefperus, is in view J her Head adorned with green, cloath- ed with a double Garment, the inward green, and the outward red, folded and O 2 loofs I CO A Defcription of the Ctiriojities loofe to her Feet ; in her Left-Hand fhe holds a Branch with Golden Apples on it. She {iiews Beauty and Modefty, and he the Majefly of a Hero, and Comelinefs of Youth. An A. Relievo, Silenus drunk upon an Afs, held on by a Man and a Woman, a Man leading the Afs. There are thirteen Figures befides the Afs and a Goat. An A. Relievo, a Prieftefs bringing a Sheep for a Sacrifice. There are tvs^o Akats, upon one there is a Fire, on the other an Idol. ^ '^^^ An A. Relievo^^ihe^ Story of Cl^lia. The River Tyber reprefented by Romulus and Remus playing with the Wolf on it's Banks. There are thirteen Women and four Horfes. An A. Relievo ; a P^ape of Neptune. Twelve Figures befides two Horfes. An A. Relievo, Silenus drunk, the Boys binding his Arms and Legs with Vine-Twift. Mgk is painting his Face with a Mulberry. Sixteen Figures befides an Afs. This Relievo being long there are three over it. - ^V* - A Greek in Wilton-House. lOI A Greek Relievo of the very fineft Work, an oriem-al Alabafter, Eleven Figures be- fides a Dog. Thofe on the foremoft Ground Alto RelievG : It is of Vlyps, who is gone into the Cave to CaI)ffo^ vi'here they are kneeling round a Fire. The Cave is v^ith- in, a moft beautiful Ruin of Architedure, which has a fine Freeze of Figures, feve- ral of which are on Horfes. The other Figures are of Ulyjfes'^ Attendants, and Spedtators, feme of which are got upon the Ruins. An A. Relievo, Curtius on Horfeback, leaping into the Earth which opens with a Flame of Fire. It is of the fineft Work by a Greek Sculptor. An A. Relievo, two Cupids, one looks angry at the other, whofe Bow he has broke, which makes the other whimper. An A. Relievo, Europa on the BuH. There are four other Figures. An A. Relievo, a Rape of the Centaurs. Eight Figures. An A. Relievo, Galatea riding on the Sea in a Shell drawn by two Dolphins. There are three other Figures, A Greek 102 A JDefcriptiOn of the Curiofities A Greek A. Relievo of very curious fine Work. It is a female ViBoria : She has a wreathed Corona in each Hand, which fhe holds over two Captives bound at her Feet. There are a great many Weapons of War, with Armour and Enfigns, and a particular Trumpet. An A. Relievo, a Boy on a Sea-Horfe, blowing on a Shell-Trumpet. An A. Relievo, Venus, and Cupid fucking. She is fitting under a large rich carved Canopy. Mars is fitting by in rich Accoutrements. An A. Relievo, Britannicus in Por- phyry. A very high Alto Relievo, of Marcus AuRELius and Faustina, as big as the Life. This is upon a grey Moor-ftone Table. An A. Relievo, two Cupids and four other Boys at Play. , An A. Relievo of B r i t a nnicus's JUNIA. An in Wilton-House. An A. Relievo, Ariadne and The- seus. There are two other Figures and two Horfes. An A. Relievo, Saturn crowning Arts and Sciences. Five Figures. An A. Relievo, Jupiter and Juno, Six other Figures bringing Offerings. An A. Relievo, the three Graces. .An At Relievo, Diana with her favou- rite Stag, and two Dogs afleep. An A. Relievo, Endymion afleep, and Diana coming down to him. An A. Relievo, two Figures, one repre- fenting Painting, the other Sculpture 5 very fine Drapery. A Baffo Relievo, Apollo and Diana deftroying of Niobe"^ Children, by (hooting Arrows at them. There are twelve Figures befides Apollo and DiaJta, and fix Horfes j very fmail neat Work. An A. Relievo, Venus riding on the Sea in a Shell drawn by two Dolphins, attended by 1 04 A Defer iption of the CUriofities • by two Cupids. Above in the Clouds is her Chariot with two Doves. An A. Relievo, Jupiter holding of Bacchus to fuck Juno, as flie lies afleep. An A. Relievo, a Greek Woman dancing a Child upon her Foot, in Porphyry. An A. Relievo, Saturn, a fmall one, but very old, and of mod beautiful Work. An A. Relievo from a Temple of Bacchm. By the Work it appears to have been in the Time of the beft Sculptors. What is remarkable is, that the Thyrfus or Sceptre of Bacchus^ has here the Addition of Bunches of Grapes. There is a Vine fhooting up from the Bottom, which is of the very fineft Sculpture. Here are four Statues as big as the Life^ and four fmall ones, Venus picking a Thorn out of her Foot. Cleopatra with C^sARioN, her Son by fulius Ccefar^ very naturally fucking on her Lap. Her Seat is an Egyptian Improve- ment for Softnefs, and fo as to fit higher or lower as they pleafed. The Bottom has a Layer in Wilton-House. 105 Layer lik&fhort Bolfters, the next over them crofs the contrary Way, and fo on to the Height which they would fit. Her Pofture is very natural, and her Locks hang grace- fully on her Shoulders. Augujlus killed Ccefarion by the Advice of Arius the Philo- fopher, from too politick a Reafon, Non ejje prohandam multitudinem Ccejarum. Venus holding a Shell in her Right- Hand, her Left- Hand has hold of the Tail of a Dolphin. Venus and Cupid. He is begging for his Shaft of Arrows. The little ones are upon four Terms, Orpheus with his Symbol. Calliope, one of the Mufes, with a Roll in her Hand j fhe invented Epic or Heroic Poetry. Apollo with all his three Symbols, a Harp, a Quiver, a Serpent for Medicine. Venus with a Dolphin at her Foot. Upon three little carved TrulTes, three Heads, two in Bronze, young Faces, the other a 'Janus, P The ,io6 A Defer iption of the Curiojifies The black Marble-Table, F, L Long II g Wide 4 2 Thick o 3- Upon a Table ftained with Figures and Landfcape. The Statue of Venus afleep. It is about the Bignefs of the Hermaphrodite at Rome. It is a fine Greek Sculpture, and appears much older than that, as is obferved in the Cardinal's Catalogue. PICTURES in Wilton-House. 107 PICTURES t N T H E Green-Paper'd Room. Begin over the Door, then on your Left- Hand. ST Peter and the Angel coming out of the Prifon. 5. By SienwicL An old Woman reading with Spea:acles. 3. By Rembrdnt, A Concert of Mufic. 2. By Nicolo del Albdte, A Magdalen. 4. By Fietro Damini, A Landfcape. 4^ By S ah a for Rofa, P 2 Rape lo8 A Defcription of the Curiofittes Rape of De J AN IRA by Nejfus the Cen- taur. Hercules is {hooting at him. 5, By Carlo Crejli, A Nativity. 5. By 7'addio and Fred, Zuchero» • St Michael's Church at Antwerp. 4. By Vanderheyden, A Multitude of fmall Figures. 5. By Cajieels, Hercules killing the Bull. 5. By Paolo Farolino, A Battle. / 5* % Lucatelli, Hercules*s Labours. 4. By Fran. Floris. Fiih, and an old Woman giving a Cat fome Milk. The Fifli. 4. By Snyder, Achilles dragging Hector's Body round the Walls of T yoy. A Skirmifli be- tween the Trojans and Greeks, 2. By Poll dor 0 Caravaggio, Weeds /« WlLTON^HoUSE. T0() Weeds and Flowers, Butterflies and other Infedls, a Snake and a Lizard. 4. By Froomans. A Country Family, a Man and his Wife and two Children, one of which is afleep in a Cradle. 5. By Brawer, A ^iirkijh Seraglio, Women and Eu- nuchs. 3. By Otho' Venius. Three of Diana's Nymphs bathing, AcTEON looking at them. 5. By Giofep. del Sole. Seven of Diana's Nymphs bathing. 4. By Girolino Pefchi, Four of Diana's Nymphs bathing. Act EON looking at them. 5. By Sebajiian Concha, Two on the other Side of the Window, Hagar and Ishmael, an Angel in the Clouds. 5. By Fran. Buzi. Jupiter, Cupid, and Psyche. 5. By Giofep, Arigoni. IN no A Defcripiion of the CUriofities IN THE LITTLEROOM, Where there is a Model of a Seventy- Gun SHIP, VENUS, Cupid, and a Satyr. 4. By Luigi Garzi, A Group of Figures with very odd Faces. 2. By Miirillo, A Landfcape with Figures, and Seve- rus*s Arch. Over the Door next to the Ship. 4. By Claudi Ghifolfi, ■id Aim ib fi^l 3d R ELIE VO'S in Wilton-House. Ill R E L I E V OS I N T H E BUGLE ROOM. Begin with that over the Jirft Door. AN old Man like a Silenus, he is fil- ling a Bafket with Grapes. l^hen there are five between the Door and the Window, the three lower Ones relate all to one SubjeB, A Bull with his Head adorn*d with a Mi- tre and Fillets, the middle of his Belly bound round with a Ribband. He that facrifices is naked with his Head laureated, he leads the Bull with his Right-Hand ; the Popa, or Prieft, follows behind laureated likewife 112 A Defcription of the Curit^ties likewife, and cloath'd from the Navel to his Knees ; in his Right- Hand is a facrificing OUa or Pot, and in his Left-Hand is the Ax. Two Priefts, or Minifters of the Prieft as going before the Victim j one of them is playing upon two Pipes, the other ftands laureated prepar'd to do his Office, with an earthen Chalice or Simpulum in his Right- Hand, and a Patera in his left. Jupiter fits oft the Right-hand of Juno, on Mount Olympus ^ with a Thunder- bolt in his Right-Hand, and embracing her with his left, who embraces him with her Right- Hand, both naked to the Naval j before them is a Fire blazing upon an Altar, and a Prieft^ftanding fhod, with a very bng Robe and Bare-headed, cafting fomething into the Fire. Cleopatra with the Afp in a cover'd Vafe ; fhe is here reprefented as having it ready, but does not fhew it. The Ornament of a Pedeftar belonging to a Vidor, it reprefents very particularly fome of the ancient Gr^^-/^ Games. Here are feveral peculiar Circumftances : Neptune ^ as the Judge, is fhfe only Figure fitting ; Saturn Hands behind j at the End of the Relievo in Wilton-House. 113 Relievo is a handfome Piece of Architecture, fomething higher than the Heads of the Perfons, and is as a Portico to terminate the End of their running ; in it are Mars and Venus, minding each other only ; over them is a Cupid, who has in his Hand a peculiar Light, not long as a Torch, but as a Lamp in the Palm of his Hand j two yoang Men are running, fuppofed to have fet out from the End where Neptune is, and one is al- mofl: got to the End terminated by the Build- ing ; he has fuch a Light in his Hand as Cupid has. Antiquaries fpeak of the Exer- cife of running in this Manner with a Light ; the other young Man, who is running after him, has an Oar in his Hand of the antique Form ; in the middle Space of the Place lor the Exercifes, are two ftrong made Men with Beards ; they fhew another Sort of Tryal, not of Motion (as the young Men) but of Strength ; one of their Hands is tied to the other's two Hands, in this it is fup- pos'd they took turns to try which could pull the other farthefl: after them. Five an the other Side of the Window. Two of the lower Ones are of one Sub- jedl, and from what is legible from the old Greek which is on them, it is thought they reprefent the antient Manner of taking Leave of dying Friends. Q_ Two I J 4 ^ Defer iption of the Curiofities Tv/o Men, one of them flanding, the other fitting j their Right-Hands joined to- gether as bidding a happy Adieu to each other. A Man and a Woman in the fame Pofture as the two Men, the Woman fitting. SiLENUs drunk upon an Afs, held on by two Figures, a Boy is leading the Afs and blowing upon a Bull's Horn (likely the firft Trumpet), another Boy fitting againft a Tree playing on a Pipe ; another Boy has hold of the Afs's Tail ; at fome Diftance Venus is lay'd down afleep, Cupid has hold of fome Part of her Garment to cover her therewith higher up, a Boy is gathering Apples from a Tree ; on the back Ground is a Group of four Boys, one of them is fit- ting and playing on a Pipe, another is play- ing on a Timbrel, the other two are dan- cing. Venus wringing the Water out of her Hair. The Head of Remitacles, King of I'hj-acia^ as big as the Life, in Por- phyry. Over in Wilton-House. iij Over the other Door, a fmall Freeze from the Temple of Neptune, four Tritons anc| four Ncriedes. All thefe Relievo's are Alto. Two little Statues. Cupid with a Phrygian Bonnet on his Head, and his Hands ty'd behind him. A Boy holding up the Golden Apple in his Right-Hand. CL2 BUS- ii6 A Dejcription of the Curioftties B U S T O ' S, m- IN THE STONE ROOM. Jn going into the Room, begin on the Right- Hand with the Bujio of O M I T I A N. Sesostris, the Head is of Red Egyptian Granite ; the Buft Part is of the white Egyptian Granite ; the Head is adorn'd with a T iara, after the Egyptian Forno, and has a peculiar Livelinefs ; it was found amongfl the Pyramids. This ftands upon a very antient Ahar of Bacchus ; round it we may iee the whole Drefs of his Prieft, alfo the Thyrfus in one Hand ; he has a Panther after him, alfo two Priefteffes going in Pro- ceffion round the Altar ; the Thyrfus, in the Prieft's Hand, is a plain Pine Apple, pot adorn'd with Bunches of Grapes, as that before- mentioned in the BafTo Relievo Room, . in WiLTON-HousE. 117 Room, which therefore feems to be an adorn'd Sceptre for Bacchus himfelf, and the rather, becaufe in the triangular Altar, upon a Table in the Cube Room, the Prieft has alfo a Thyrfus, but plain as this here, only with this Addition, that it has Pine Apples, one at each End, the Stalks being join'd at the Middle where his Hand holds it. Here follows the Infer iption^ ending in a Cir-' cle round the Altar. Canamus, Dionyfum, A^W>l^0k(p0A:'MKXEy7Om Pulchri-Formem, Bacchatorem, TAN60KN>EN0N Flavi-Comum. The Epfilon for an Eta is fufficient to fhow that it was before the Addition of the four laft Letters, and therefore 'tis likely Omicron ftands for Omega, becaufe learned Men agree that fjie?\.7ra)juiv Canamus fuits the old Hymn to Bacchus^ better than f*gA7ro/^gj/ Ca- nimus. The 1 1 8 A Defer iption of the Curiojities The Bufto of Anacreon. The Bufto of Sabina Tranquillina, Wife of Gordian. The Bufto of Marcia Otacillia, Wife of Fhilip. The Bufto of Aspasia, fhe who taught Socrates Rhetoric. The Bufto of Julia Mammjea, Mother of Alexander Severus. The Bufto of Lucilla, Wife of Verus. A very antient Confular Chair, call'd Sella Curulis; the Back is in three Parts; the middle Part is in Shape of a Term ; on the Top is a Bifrons; the Faces are of a young Man and a young Woman, as the Genii of Rome-, there is an Iron goes thro' the Shoulder Part of the Term, which gradually flopes down about fix Inches, and is there faftned to the Tops of the other two Parts which are of Brafs (as is the Term alfo) ornamented with Silver j the two Fore-Legs are Iron V the Seat is thick old Board. The Wilton-House. ijg The Bufto of Dolabella. The Statue of Manlia Scantilla, Wife of Didius. The Bufto of Octavia the Elder. The Bufto of Julia M^esa, Mother of Heliogabalus, A Table of Red 'Egyptian Granite. f: 1. Long, 4 ii Wide, 3 7 FINIS.