From the library op- Frank Simpson THE USH CONN, EUR.: CONTAINING AN A C C O U N T OF WHATEVER IS CURIOUS IN" PAIN-TIN ' UH2, 8ck In the P 4 \ a it.iT'S' A N DPR] •( N D, bos ray. Volume I, fL O N D O N: PhUntsd for L. Davis an© C. Rn OV2X-ACMKST Gsp's I\ -< - TX, -r kg. Psi2fXffcR*3 to T#r. MDCCL2VI, THE J. PAUL EUM LIBRARY PREFACE. HE -great progrefs which the polite arts have lately made in England, and the attention which is now paid them by almoft all ranks of men ; feem to render an apology for a work of this nature wholly imnecefiary. The only way, by which we can ever hope to arrive at any fkill in difiinguifhing the ftiles of the different mailers in Painting, is the fludy of their works : any affiftance therefore in this point cannot but be grateful to the rifing Con- noifTeur. It is well known at how few of thofe houfes into which, by the indulgence of their illuftrious owners, the curious are admitted, any catalogues of the paintings and other curiofities which adorn them can be obtained ; and without fuch catalogues it ii PREFACE. it muft be confefTed little ufe can be made, by the yet uninforrPied obferver of thefe va~ 1 Liable c'cllefHons, befides that general one ©fpleafing the eye and the imagination, by- viewing a variety of delightful objects. The edito- of the following trifle, aware* of the neceffity of fuch afiittance, when he firft defigned to travel about his native country, in order among other views to be- come acquainted with the manner of the principal mailers in painting, looked out for books giving an account of the curiofi- ties which the feats of the nobility and gen- try, in various parts of th^ kingdom, con- tain. From the few that fell into his hands, he abitracted what he thought was to his purpofe ; and in hrs progrefTes, corrected in them whatever he thought amifs, and made additions when he found them de- ficient. Where no catalogue had been be- fore* printed he endeavoured to obtain one, or to make out fuch an one as he was able to do, from a furvey of the houfe and information. If this work, which the editor here offers the you ( ng ftudent in the PREFACE. iff r :the polite arts, fhould at all contribute to promote or facilitate the ftudv of theni among his countrymen, he will have gained all the end which he aims at. The curious obferver will find ample and infPfucTive leflons on the Italian fchocls in the houfes of our nobility and gentry. Mr. Walpole (a) fcruples not to aflert that * there are not a great many collections left" c in Italy more worth feeing than that at ■* Houghton. In the prefervation of the 6 pictures it certainly excells moft of them/ It fhouid be obferved in commendation of the tail e which our illuftrious countrymen in general have fhcwed, that they have pre- ferred the greatnefs of defign and cqmpofi- tion in which the Italian mafters are fo well known to excell, before the gaudy Fiemifh colouring, c or the drudging mi- * mickryof nature's moil uncomely coarfer'- ' neifes (J)" upon wliichthe Dutch fomueh value themfeives. To deny thefe their pro- sper fh-are of merit, or to refufe them a place (a) yEdes Walpolians, Introduction. (b) Ibid. iy P R E F A C E. in a collection, would be ridiculous ; but finely to fet theng in competition with Ita- lian fublimity is much more fo. When the editor was in Holland, the sreat predilection of the Dutch for their own painters could not efcape his obferva- tion ; fcarce any thing being feen in their cabinets but the laboured productions of their own mafters. In France, where he bad the pleafure of furveying abundance of Italian pictures, and where the Orleans Collection alone would compenfate the pains of any traveller ; he could not but often fmile to fee the tawdry productions of their own artifts fet upon a level, nay fometimes, with true French vanity, even loftlihg or thrufting afide the divine pro- ductions of the Italian Pencils. At* this time he could fcarcely help felicitating his own countrymen, upon their not having produced artitts of fufficient eminence, to give them a pretence of burying a tafle for real merit and greatnefs under national pre- judice. When PREFACE. r When this, however, is faid in commen- dation of the predominant tafte of the Eng- lish, it is not to be underftood, as if there were wanting anions: us fufHcient foeci- mens of either Dutch or Flemiih fchools ; we only have them not in fo great number or perfection as in Holland and Flanders. Two articles which this book contains, may appear to many, as if they were out of the courfe of the work the defcription of the Leafowes (c), and of Hagley Park. But whoever confiders how much both thefe delightful foots are the objecis of true tafte, and how defervedly they are admired by every perfon of judgement, he cannot won- der that they mould find a place in a work of this nature. Nor indeed can it be laid with juftice, that thefe fcenes bear no rela- tion to thofe works which are the principal fubjecr of the following fleets there is at lead as much room for exercising the great arts of defigh and compofuion in laying out a garden as in executing a good (c.) £ee Mr. S.enftone's Werfefs, Vcl. IT. painting v!' PREFACE. painting; Mr. Shenftone (d) tells us c he has fometimes thought that there was * room for it to refemble an epick or drama- c tick poem.' It is to be lamented that the grounds which this gentleman laid out with Co much genuine tafte, have been much neglected, and in particular that the fine water has been well nigh ruined* flnce the death of Mr. Shenftone: but at the fame time the public will be glad to be informed, that the pre- sent pofTefTor is leuoring all things to their former beauty $ and it is hoped will not violate that chafte fimplicity which renders the Leafowes a place fo deiightfui to all pferfons of true tafte. No one can dp more fenfible of the im- perfections of the following work than the editor himfelf : nor is he amamed, or -afraid of making this confefnon -, fince he (d) Works, Vol. II. p. 12S. Where are to be ibuud fome pretty loofe thoughts on laying out of grounds. is P R E F A C E. vii js very fenfible, that no candid perfon will expesfb perfection from one man alone, in a work which could be coffipjeate nly by the united efforts of many : and had he called On the curious for their aiHItance, he fears that few would have been found, who had leifure, knowledge, and benevolence enough to lend a helping hand. However, if any fuch there be, who will condescend t& commu- nicate their collections to the editor by his bcokfelier; the favour fhall be gratefully acknowledged, and they may contribute; either to form another volume, or a new and more c'ompieat edition, as fhall be judged mod expedient. The editor cannot help concluding with a wifil that the nobility and gentry would condefcend to make their cabinets and col- lections as accefiible to the curious as is confident with their fafety- The polite arts are rifing in Britain, and call for the fofter- ing hand of the rich and powerful: one certain way of advancing them, is to give all viK PREFACE. all poffible opportunities to thofe who rri3ke them their ftudy, to contemplate the works of the befl mailers, that they may not form a bad tafle and a poor manner upon fuch productions as chance throws in their way. If- ought to be acknowledged with gratitude, that many of the collections of the great, are ever open to the infpeclion of the cu- rious ; who have been even permitted by fome in the mofl liberal manner to take copies of their paintings, and to make drawings from them; but at the fame time it muft be lamented that fome cabinets are notacccffibie without difficulty and interefL It xhould be mentioned to the honour of the French nation, that their collections ai j come at, even by foreigners with great fac ility: in particular the royal pictures are not locked up in private apartments from the eyr of the people, but are the pictures of the public. To any one who is defirous of becoming aci inted with the principles of Painting without much labour, the editor would re- commend P R E F A C E. IX commend Count Algarotti's elegant little trea- tife or EJfay on Paintings written in the Ita- lian Language, and lately tranflated into Englifh. CON. CONTENTS O F Volume I. JOHN BARNARD, Efq. — - BELVEDERE HOUSE — BLENHEIM CHATS WORTH _ CHISWICK DEVONSHIRE HOUSE — DITCHLE Y , FOOT'S-CRAY PLACE HAGLEY-PARK HAMPTON -COURT . HOUGHTON -HALL CHARLES JENNENS, Efq. KENSINGTON PALACE THE LEASOWES . LONDON — - _ Pager 12 I 4 23 30 5 r 57 62 74 81 117 144 *7S DE SCRIP: [ I ] DESCRIPTION O F PAINTINGS, Sec. JOHN BARNARD Efq* AH O L Y Family, by Parmegiano, well pre- ferred, and the characters very fine. A Crucifixion, by Paul Veronefe, about 3 feet high : there is a fine group of figures at bottom, and the figures on the crofs are remarkably- well drawn. Chriit calling Zaccheus, and the angel ap- pearing to St. John in the wildernefs ; both by Paul Veronefe, in his fineft manner, and higheft colouring. * la Berkley Square. Vol, I. B A Praefepe, 2 BARNARD. A Praefepe, or Nati/ity, by Jacomo Bqfan, the light comes from the child, and has a fur- prizing effect, being in his higheft colouring. Thefe three laft are upright, narrow pictures, oval at top, and were originally defigned for forae elegant little chapel. Chrift led to be crucified, by the fame mafter. The colouring is the richeft, and the expreffion is much finer than is often feen otBaJfan. Adam ploughing, and Eve fpinning, by Domenico Feti. This picture is finely coloared, and the character of Eve is prettier than can well be expreffed. It was in the collection of Monfieur Biberon, at ParL. ; and Monfieur Cro- zat mentions it in his work, with two others of the fame fubjecl ; one of which belongs to the king of France, and is in the Luxembourg palace. A Holy Family, with a Httle St. John pre- fenting a Crofs, by Guido. This picture, which is but 15 inches high, may be truly faid to be in his very fineft manner. The characters of the Viroin and St. John are inexpreffibly fine, and it is in the beft preservation. The Martyrdom of a Female Saint, by Ccrreggio. This picture is much of the fame fize with the laft; it is in his firfl manner, but vifibly of his hand ; the colouring and fome of the BARNARD. 3 the characters are fine. The duke of Tallard had it out of the collection of Monfieur Crozat where it was always efleemed a true picture of Qorreggio* A Holy Family, with a little St. John pre- fenting a Dim of Fruit, by Simone da Pefaro, commonly called Cantarini, who was the belt difciple of Guido. The figures are half length as big as life. True pictures of this mailer are very fcarce in England, and this is one of his bell, and in the higheft prefervation. The Virgin, with the child in her lap, half length, as big as life, by Vandyck. The cha- racter of the Virgin is as fvveet, and the colour- ing as fine as any thing of this mailer's paint- ing. A Holy Family, by the fame mailer. This is the fmall picture, but the characters of the Virgin and child, and the fweetnefs and mellow- iiefs cf the colouring are at leafl equal to the large one. A Head of St. Peter, with a Fifh in his hand, by Spagnoletti. The exprefiion and force in this picture are extremely great. Pharoah and his Hofl drowned in the Red Sea. About 5 feet wide, by Valerio Cajielli. The character of Mofes is very great, and the colouring throughout is remarkably fine. B 2 The 4 BARNARD. The converfion of St. Paul, by Luca Giordano, with many figures and horfemen, about 6 feet wide, f This is one of his belt in the free and fpirited flyle, for which he was moil famous. A battle by the fame matter. Not quite fo large. The compofition in this piclure is better, and the figures feem more alive and in motion, than in almofl any battle pieces to be met with. Tobit burying the dead, by Benedetto Cajlig- lione y in the flyle of Nicola PoufTin, which mailer (in his latter time) he particularly ftudied and imitated ; and he fucceeded therein fo well, in this piclure, both in the coiripoiition and drawing, that was not his name upon it, feveral of the bell judges have declared, they mould not only have taken it for a true picture of that mailer, but a'fo for a very fine one of him. A Land flap, by Claude Lorraine, near 4 feet wide, the fubjeel: is a warm evening ; it is in the higheft prefervation, and in his very fineft taile and manner of painting ; the keeping, and that harmony and tendernefs of tints, for which that mailer was fo famous, are remarkably confpicu- ous in this pidlure, and the figures which are but few, are much better than one generally fees in his works. A Praefepe, by Pietro da Cortona : the com- pofition and the harmony of colours in thiv picture are very fine. The- BARNARD. 5 The entombing of Chri-t, by Frederico Barroc- cio ; the dead body is rather difagreeable, but ibme of the characters are very fine. The adoration of the Magi, by Ruhens ; this is only a fKetch for a large picture, yet it is fe finiihed, that, at a proper diftanoe, the charac- ters are as expreiHve, and the colouring as rich as in a finiihed picture. St. Thomas putting his finger in the wound in ChrirVs fide, by Michael Angelo Caravaggzo. This is alfo a fketcb, but the dignity in the characters, and the fine large folds of drapery, ihew it to be the work of a great mailer. Mr. Barnard has a print of this picture etched by the mailer him felf, which is extremely fcarce. The Honing of St. Stephen, by Filippo Lauri. Though the figures in this picture are rather larger than thofe which are in his very left manner, yet they are finely drawn, and the gaiety and beauty of the colouring, together with the fine keeping obferved in the diilant figures, make it a very pleafing and fine pic- ture. ChrirVs Agony in the Garden, by the fame mafter. The figures in this are fmaller than m the preceding; and the fine characters, and correctnefs of drawing of the figures, joined to •the beautiful colouring, k have always made this B 3 picture, 6 B A R N A R D/ pi&ure, though a very fmall one, efteemed by the gr-ateft judges as one of hL belt. The fame fubjecl in a round about a foot diameter, by Carlo Maratti. The angels heads are fine, and the colouring pleafmg. A Holy Family, by the fame matter, about i foot 7 inches high. This is painted in his beit manner, and finefl; colouring. A Silence, by Nicola Poufftn. The fubjecl; a Landfkip, the evening, in which a little boy is running away with a Satyr's mufical inftru- mentas he lies afleep ; other figures are lying and leaning in an expofed manner. Though this picture is only about 17 inches wide, and the figures but fmall, yet they are 25 ger and as ccneclly drawn as in any of his fiaeft pictures. The Woman taken in Adultery, by SebaftUn Rkci, The greatnefs of the defign, the dignity and propriety of the characters, pai ticuhrly the woman, and the harmony of the colours, fhew him to be (though a modern mailer) equal to moll: of the greater that went before him. • Two Mifcrs counting r.nd fetting down their money ; the fame fubjecl, but with fome varia- tions, as that at Windfor, by Quintin Matfys, of Antwerp, who repeated this picture feveral times. An old man's head with a ruff, by Rembrandt. It is thought to be the portrait of Ephraim Bonos BARNARD. 7 Bonus the phyfician, as it bears a great refem- biance to the print of him engraved by Rembrandt himfelf; but in the picture he is much elder. The light and made in this picture is extremely fine. A fine Landfkip, with Tobit and the Angel, near 3 feet wide ; by the fame mailer. The effect of colours in this picture is furprinug. A Magdalen's head, by Guido. An hiflcricai fubject, a Woman and three Children, &c. by Solimene. This is better colour- ed, and more finiihed, than one generally fees of this mailer. Angels holding a mitre over St. Ambrofe. A finiihed {ketch for a large picture, by the fame mailer. The character of St. Ambrofe is very fine, and the draperies are in a great fiyle of painting. Sufannat and the Elder, by Le Maine. The colouring of the woman who is near naked, is very fine, and the compoftion and the landlkip are very agreeable. A little Bey and Girl naked in a landikip cf a garden, by Jlba?.o, in his richeil colouring. A battle by Bourgngno?ie y about 2 feet wide; this is clearer and better coloured than moll of his pictures ave. B 4 Two V 8 BARNARD. Two Landfkips, by Go/par Poujjm, about ,2 feet 2 inches wide each. They are in his finefl green manner, and extremely well preferved. Another Landfkip, by the fame mailer. A little larger, but upright, and alfo in his licheft and befl manner. A Landfkip with rocks, and a man lying reading, by Salvator Rcfa ; about 2 feet 2 inches wide. A Landfkip, with its companion, by Bartolo- meo, a difciple of the above mafter. The figures and water in this picture are remarkably fine. A Landfkip, a warm evening, about the fame fize, by Jean JjJeJen, commonly called Crabacci, with cattle in the water, by Bercbem, in his fineft manner. A Landfkip, with cattle and figures, by Cuyp. Its companion, the fun-mine, for which this mafter is fo famous, is particularly fine in this picture. Venus and Adcnir, with Cupids; by Van Baelen, in a landikip about the fame fize as the above, by Velvet Brueghel, who has intro- duced dogs, Sec. painted with the utmoft life and fpirit. This is as fine a coloured picture as can poffibly be met with. A Land- BARNARD. 9 A Landfkip, about the fame fize, with a flock of Sheep, &c. by Francefco Milk. The eompofition is fine, and this is one of his richeft pice ares. A Piece of Ruins, by Viviano ; about the fame fize. A Piece of Ruins by Ghifolfi, with a man fitting by the iid'e of the Tiber. A Sea Calm, with Englifh Yatchs, by Vande Veld:. The keeping, the figures, and the water are uncommonly fine in this picture. A Canal with Boats on it, and a Bridge at the end, with buildings on each fide, by Canaletti. This picture for the finenefs of the water, and the juftnefs of the perfpeclive, is allowed to be one of the very fineft of this mailer. A Landlkip with Figures Fifhing, &c. by ? LuKelct^ Zuccharelli ; about 2 feet 9 inches wide. This „y ' picture, from the finenefs of the figures, and the •}„ ''.. uncommon richnefs of the colouring, has been always deemed at leaft equal to any thing this i*** "■ - (.**/ great matter ever painted. &ct ' ?* %'^X^C - fc . * A Holy Family, with a little St. John fitting ^ on a Lamb, by Scarcellini de Ferrara, after a de- fign of Augufline Caracci ; it is a fmall picture, but the characters and colouring are remarkably fweet in it. A v^ry 3o BARNARD. A very mafterly Sketch of the Miraculous Crofs of St. Antonio de Padua, by Seb. Rica. This, at a little diftance, has all the effect of a finifhed picture. Chrift and the two Difciples at Emaus, by Eljbeimer. The ftory is finely told, and there is gxett exprcflion in the figures. This picture is a curiofity not only from the fcarcenefs of the works of this matter, but there are in it two different candle-lights, and a moon light, which have an uncommon and yet pleafmg effect. The Virgin iupporting a Bead Chrift, by "Lubin Beugizt called in France Le Petit Guide, from his happy manner of imitating the ftrle of that great mailer of which this little picture, among others, is a proof. A Sea monfier fwimmitig away with a woman, by Albert Durer, who has engraved a print of the fame fubject. This is extremely well preferv,. ed, and there is a much better keeping obferved in it than is ufua! in pictures of that age. A Camelion with a thiflle and flics. molt exemi- fitely painted after the life, by Van Adjl. A Group of various Flowers, with infects in a glafs of water, by a matter who has marked the Picture with ig| 1 his in point of finifhing is perhaps carried as high as art, colours, and the fmeft pointed pencils can pofiibly arrive. A man BARNARD. n A man fitting fmoaking, and other back figures, by David Teniers. This is in his fineft (Hie, both for colouring and exprefilon. Two men with a little dog going to enter a cottage, a fmaller pi&ure. by the fame matter. There are other fmaller pictures good in their kind, fuch as the Virgin and child, by Rotten- &ammer,highly finifhed and coloured. The fame fubjecl, the fchool of Carracci, if not of him. The Virgin and Child with a Bird and a little -St. John, by Sebajlian Bourdon, richer loured than common of this matter. A Holy Family and St. Catherine, by Schi- dell. An Angel drawing an arrow from the fide of St. Sebatfian, finely coloured, by Gerard Segbers. Alpheus and Arethufa, Glaucus and Scylla, by Tii fipo Later i, in his bell manner. A Ship on fire, by VandeveUe, the effed fur- prifingly fine. A Landfkip, by Wjnants, highly finifhed. The fame gentleman has alfo a collection of about 1 2,000 prints by the molt celebrated matters, in the higheft prefervation, and of the fmeft impreffioRs : they are contairied in about 50 volumes, befides above 60 volumes in fculp- tirc and architecture. BELVEDERE, ( 12) BELVEDERE HOUSE, Belonging to Sir Samfon Gideon^ is fituated on che brow of a hill near Erith in Kent. 7 he colle&ion of pictures in this houfe, though not numerous, is very valuable; the pieces being originals by the greateft mailers, andfome of them very capital. In the Long Parlour. kV>H) Vulcan, Venus, Cupid, and fundry Figures, an emblematic Subject Tintoret. Mars and Venus P. Vercnefu Chrift among the Doftors L. Giordano. ./U&.Scxnwe^ ^itj Duke of Buckingham's three Children, and a *'"l£W*$Sz of Rubens Himfelf. A Landikip Claude. Leopold's Gallery - Teniin. Tenier's own Gallery, its Companion Ditto. BLENHEIM, The Seat of his Grace the Duke of Marl- borough^ is fituated a little to the Weft of Woodftock, about (even, miles and a half from Oxford. From the town we enter the park, througk a fpacious portal of the Corinthian order ; from whence a noble profpe& is opened to the palace, the BLENHEIM. 15 the bridge, the lake with its valley, and other beautiful fcenes of the park. The houfe in par- ticular, which we furvey from this point oblique- ly, i no whe e viewed to greater advantage. The front of the palace, which is extended to the length of 348 feet from wing to wing, was built by Sir John Vanbrugh. On the pediment of the South front is a noble buflo, larger than life, of Louis XIV. taken from the citadel of Tournay. We enter the palace on the Eaft, through a portal built in the ftile of Martial Architecture, which le2ds us into a quadrangle chiefly confut- ing of arcades and offices. From hence we pafs into the grand area. In the center of the front, a fepsrb portico, elevated on mafTy columns, admits us to The Hall This magnificent room runs the height of the houfe, and is of a proportionable breadth. It is fupported by Corinthian pillars. The ceiling is adorned with 2n allegorical piece, printed by Sir James Tbornbiii, reprefenting the Duke of Marlborough crowned by Victory, who points to a plan of the Battle of Blenheim. In the receiTes between the pillars, are placed feme admirable caffs 16 BLENH'EI M. cafts from the antique ftatues, of the Roman Slave, the Venus of Medicis, the Athlets, and Saltator. Over thefe is a feries of paintings called the Loves of the Gods, a prefent to the old duke from the king of Sardinia. Thefe pieces are, perhaps, falfly afcribed to Titian : However, they contain fome maiterly itrokes, both of defign and expreffion, and were probably from (ketches of T'/tiax ; at leaft they came from the Venetian School. In the arcades, on the right and left, is a fine arrangement of marble termini. Over the door that leads into the faloon, is a bull of the Great Duke of Mailborcugh, with a Latin infcription. But as (hangers are ufually conducted from the Hall into the apartments on the left, we fhall purfue the fame method. \fi Apartment. The Hangings begin a fuit of tapeftry, repre- fenting the Victories and Atchievements of A- lexander. The particular Subjects are, i Alexander entering Darius's Tent. 2 His convention with the Magi and Dio- genes The BLENHEIM. The Pi&ures are, 1 . St. Auftin when young ; by Titian. 2. Pope Gregory, by Ditto. 3. The Woman taken in adultery, by Rem- brandt. 4. Mary of Medicis, by Rubens. 2d Apartment. Here are fome pieces of beautiful Tapeftry : The fubje&s from claflical Allegory, The Pictures are, 1 The Holy Family, by Rubens. 2 St. Jerom, by Tintoret. 3 The late Duke at full length, by Vardoo. 2,d Apartment. Alexander's Hiftory is here refumed in the Tapeftry. The fubje&s are the Battle of Arbela, and the defeat of Porus. The Pi&ures. Rubens's Family, by himfelf. Vol. I. C The i8 BLENHEIM. The Dutc 1 fs of Portfmouth, and Mrs. Ellej, Gv.yn, by Vandyke, Lord Strafford dictating to his Secretary, by Ditto This laft is perhaps one of Vandyke's principal Portrait-pieces. The earneftnefs of the aker, and the attention of his Amanuenfis, heighten each other in the molt exprefTive man- ner. The Marquift of Rockingham has another greatly fuperior to this. \th Apcrlment. The Suite of Alexander's Battles, all wl are from Le Brun, is here clofed with, 1 Alexander's Pafiage of the Grasicus. 2 His entry into Babylon. The Pictures. 1 Rubens's Wife, by Rubens. 2 Catherine de Medicis, by the fame. 3 Mary Queen of Scots, by Vandyke. Some fuppofe the laft to be a Copy. It has not much of Vandyke's ftrong manner. Proba- bly it has been damaged by being unfkilfully cleaned. $th ApartrrtiNh BLENHEIM. i* $th Apartment. The particular and moil remarkable Pieces are, i A Hcly Family. 2 The Offering of the Magi. 3 Angel directing Lot out of So- dom. 4 The Flight into Egypt. 5 An unfinifted Piece. 6 A Madona, by Carlo Maratti. 7 Mary Magdalen, by Carlo Dolci. 8 Two Madona's, in different attitudes, by Titian. '^Rubens, 9 Herod's Cruelties, by Paul Ver 6 tteft , io Queen Either, by Ditto. 1 1 A Head, by Rubens. 1 2 Ditto, by Hans Holbein. 1 3 Paffage of the Red Sea, by eld Franks* 14 Dtiiruction of Troy, by Brubl. 15 A Holy Family, by Caracci. To which we may add, four fmall Pieces, and a Dutch Piece, by Tenters; and two fmall Piece^, by Philippe Lauri. With feveral other C 7, fcnall 20 BLENHEIM. fmall Pieces ; in particular, a Portrait of Para- celfus ; a Piece of Architecture ; a Battle Piece ; an AfTembly of the Gods, &c. 6th Apartment. The Tapcflry of the Duke's Battles is here begun, which are introduced by a moft lively reprefentation of a Sualing Booth, Foragers, a Battle, and a Siege. The Pictures. i Chriil receiving the Children, by a Scholar of Rubens, z Lord Sunderland, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 3 Dobfon, an Knglrfh Painter, in the Reign of King James I. wiih his Family, by himfdf. This laft is an admirable Piece, in the old correft Manner. jtb Apartment. The Tapeftry reprefents the Battles of Wynen- dale, Bouchain, and Oudenarde, with the Siege of Donawert. The BLENHEIM. 21 The Piaures. 1 Jupiter and Europa, by Paul Veronefi. 2 Lady Sunderland, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 3 Beads, &c. by Bajfan. $tb Apartment. 1 The Three Graces cloathed, by Rubens. 2 Venus and Adonis, Ditto. 3 Silenus sgle, and Satyrs, Sec. Ditto. 4 The Roman Charity, Ditto. 5 The Egyptian* Fortune-Tellers, by M* Ar.gelo Carra-uaggio. 6 A Battle Piece, by Bourgognone. 7 Another, by Ditto. With fix Landfkips, by Wootton. • 'The Saloon, The Walls are adorned with Paintings of the different Habits, and Modes of Drefs of all Nations. In one of the compartments the Painter, La Guerre, has taken an opportunity of introducing himfelf. The Ceiling, which is executed by the fame hand, is an Allegorical Piece, reprefenting C 3 Peac# 22 BLENHEIM. Peace Hopping the Duke in his Career, and Time admonifhing him of the rapidity of his own Flight. gtb Apartment. The Tapeftry of the Dukes Battles is here continued with the Battles of Blenheim, Malpla- cjuet, and the Siege of Lifle. Paintings. i A Hunting Piece, by Schneider. 2 Another Hunting Piece, Ditto. 3 A Dutch Piece, Painter's name unknown. ioth Apartment. The March to, and the Siege cf, Bouchain, in the Tapeftry here, compleat the fuite of the Dukes Battles. The Pictures. I Ifaac bleffing Jacob, by Rembrandt. 1 The Old Duke, by Sir Godfrey Knelkr. 3 A Fruit Piece, by Michael Angek. jith Apartment BLENHEIM. 23 nth Apartment. 1 A Piece of Still Life, by Maltefe. 2 A Ditto, by Ditto. 3 The late Dutchefs, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, The Apartments hitherto defcribed, compleat the Eaft and South Fronts of the Palace, and we now turn on the right Hand* The Library: From a feries of fmaller, though magni- ficent Apartments, we are fuddenly flruck at entering this Superb Room, which is 180 feet in length, and proportionabiy broad and lofty. The Doiic Pilafters of Marble, with the com~ plete columns of the fame, which fupport a rich Entablature, the Window-Frames, the fur- rounding Bafement of Black Marble, and the Stuccoed compartments of the Vaulted Cieling, are in the higheft talte, both in defign and.finifh- ing. It was originally intended as a Gallery for Paintings ; but the late juftly lamented Duke has added utility to elegance, having furniihed it with the noble collection of Books, made by Lord Sunderland his Graces Father. Their number is faid to amount to 24000 C 4 Volumes, 24 BLENHEIM. Volumes, which have been allowed to be worth 30,000 1. and we may venture to pronounce them, the beft private collection in England. They are kept under gilt-wire lattices. On the tops of the Cafes is a feries of Bronzes. That no affiftance to learning might be wanting, the late Duke placed here a fine Orrery and Plane- tarium. At the upper end of the Room is a highly finifhed Statue of Queen Anne, by Rjfirack 9 with this Infcription. To the Memory of Queen Anne, Under whofe Aufpices John Duke of Marlborough Conquered; And to whofe Munificence He and his Poflerity, With Gratitude, Owe the Poifefficn of Blenheim A. D 1726. Over the book-cafes are the following Paint- ings. 1 Cartoons, copied by he Blond. 2 Lot and his Daughters, by Rubens. 3 A Crucifixion, by Vandyke. 4 A Dutch Piece, by Baffan. * 5 A Landfeip, by Claude Lorraine. 6 A View BLENHEIM. 25 6 A View of Antwerp, by Vanderhoot. Before we leave this attic Gallery, I cannot but direcl the Spectator to it's Bow-windows, from whence we have a delightful Profpecl: of the declivity defcending to the river, and the gradual afcent of the venerable groves which cover the correfponding hills. We have now gone through the whole body of the Houfe, The Chapel. This is one of the Wings, in which is a fuperb Monument to the memory of the old Duke and Dutchefs, by Ryferack. They are re- prefented with their two Sons who died young^ as fupported by Fame and Hiflory. Beneath. in a Baflb-relievo, is the taking of Marlhal Tallard. In the Paik originally flood a royal Palace, where King Etheldred called a Parliament. Alfred is reported to have translated Boetius de Confolatione Philofophia? while refident here. Hi-nry I. enclcled the Paik with a wall, the greater pait of which is now remaining. His fucceflbr Henry II. principally reiided at this Seat, and erected in the Park a Houfe, en- compafle4 with a labyrinth of an extraordinary contrivance, for the habitation of his Concu- bine i§ BLENHEIM* bine Fair Rofamond. This romantic retreat , commonly filled Fair Rofamond's Bower, was iituated in the Valley, to the north- well of the bridge, near a remarkable Bath, or Spring, called at prefent Rofamond's Well. The Park and manner of Woodflock, with other appertenances, were granted with con- currence of Parliament, by Queen Anne, in the 4th year of her reign, to John D. of Marlbo- rough, and his heirs, in recompence of the many illuilrious Victories obtained under his command againit. the French and Bavarian Armies, particularly at Blenheim. The grant of the Crown, and the Services of the Duke are fully fpecified on the pedeftal of a ftately column, 130 feet in height, on the top of which is a flatue of the Duke, fituated in the grand avenue. On one fide is the following Infcription, fuppofcd to be written by the late Lord Boling- broke. The Cattle of Blenheim was founded by Q^ Anne, In the Fourth Year of her Reign, In the Year of the Chriftian y£ra 1705. A Monument defigned to perpetuate the Memory of the Signal Vi£tory Obtained over the French and Bavarians, Near the Village of Blenheim, On the Banks of the Danube, By JOHN, Duke of MARLBOROUGH, T'he BLENHEIM. 27 The Hero, not only of this Nati n, but of this Age ; Whofe Glory was equal in the Counci' and in the /ield 5 Who by Wifdom, Juftice, Cand^ er, and Addvefs, Reconciled various, and even oppofite, Interefts j Acquired an Influence Which no Rank, no Authority cm give, Nor any Force, but that of fuperior Virtue : Became the fix-: important Ceatre, Which united ir one com < <-n Caufe, The principal Mates < 1 Eur e j Whobymilitar Kn< - "re?, and irrefifi ble '"alour^ In a long Series of uninterrupted Triumphs^ Broke the Power of Franca, When raifed the hkheft, v. hen exerted th« moft ; Refcued the Empire m Defo atic fi ; AiTerted and con^rm'd the Liberties of Europe. The Houfe itfelfwas fiaiftied at the public expence, but the Endgc 3 the Column jufl mentioned, and the Portal contiguous to the Town, were erected at the charge of the late Dutchefs Dowager of Marlborough. It will net be impertinr to obferve, that Geoffrey Chaucer, the fathei of Engliih Pcetry, was born and lived in a r e, the ruins '>f which were lately remain g ju(: without the park wall towards the town. The [ 28 1 The Noble Palace of C HATS WORTH, Belonging to his Grace the Duke of Devon* jhire, Has very little in it that can attrad the eye of the ConnoifTeur. The grandeur however with which it is fitted up, the magnificence of the marble portals, and the great quantity of rich carving, by the famous Gibbons, are all very linking. The Pi&ures are few in number and indiffe- rent, Some of them are, Chrift. in the Garden, by Gennari* Judith, by Guido. Much damaged. Cupid, by Correggia. Venus and Cupids, by Gennari. Several Portraits, by Vandyke^ &c. Arri«!tg CHATSWORTH. 29 Among the reft, The fir ft Earl of Devonfhire in his robes, afcribed to Mytens, Mr. Walpole thinks it to be of Paul Vanfomer\ and fays it is equal to the pencil of Vandyke, and one of the fineft fingle figures he has feen. A fleeping Cupid, by Gennari. The Flight into Egpyt, from the School of Caracci. A Salvator Rofa. An original drawing, by Hans Holbein, of the two Kings Henry VII, and VIII. as large as life; it is in black Ciialk and heio\i.ened. The architecture is rich, and parts of the picture are in a good Itile. A particular Picture, faid to be General Monke, his Child, and his Miftrefs. The man in armour undoubtedly refembles Monke,- but the whole piece has the air of a Holy Family, by Dob/on, CHISWICK [30] CHISWICK IS remarkable for an elegant houfe built by the late Farl o£ Burlington, and now belong- ing to his Grace tne Duke of Dc-vonjhire. The afcent to the horfe is by a noble flight of fteps, ,©n one fide of which is the Statue of Palladia, and on the other that of Inigo Jones. The Por- tico is iupported by fix fluted columns of the Corinthian order, with an elegant pediment, and a rk ?:nice, frize, and architrave. The o&ogonal Saloon fini/hicg at top in a dome through which it is enlightened, is very elegant. Though Me other front towards the garijn is plain is in a very bold, noble, and ma- fte v ftik, nd has at the fame time a pie fiiaplicity \ hath alfo the fide f;ont cowards the S is different from the two others. In the infide the ceilings are richly gilt and painted, and ^he rooms adorned witk fome of the ben* pictures in Europe. From the back of the houfe you enter a lawn planted w ; th clumps of Everg.eens, bet wen which are two rows of kige ft: ae Vafes. At the ends next the hot fe arc olves in ilone, by Sckewaker ; at the farther end are two large lions, C H I S W I C K. 31 lions, and the view is terminated by three fine antique ftatues dug up in Adrian's garden at Rome, with ilone feats between them. On the right of the Serpentine Pviver is a building that is the exact model of the Portico of the Church in Ccvent Garden. Pictures, &c. in the Houfe. In the Portico, Auguilus, a builo. Saloon. Lord Burlington and three of his fitters, Eii- kabeth, Juliana, and Jane ; by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Rape of Proferpine — Scomans. Anneof Auftria — — Frederick Elde. Morocco AmbaiTador in the reign of Char. II. Figure by Sir Godfrey Kneller ; back ground and horfe by Wyke. King Charles, his Queen, and two children. Vandyke. Judgment of Paris Cav. Daniele, Lewis XIII. Fred. Elde. Apollo and Daphie Cav, Daniele. Bufos, 3* C H I S W I C K, Buftos. Antinous. — Lucius Antinous. — A Bacchana- lian. — Socrates. — Fauflina.-— — Britannicus. — Plautilla. Antoninus. — Apollo. Buft un- known. — Domitian. — Adrian. Red Velvet Room. Madonna della Rofa Noah iacrifking Painting and Defigning The Holy Family King Charles I. Pope Innocent IX. St. Gregorio • Pope C'ement IX. The Holy Family The Holy Family Duchek of Somerfet Bate! ... <-.rd Ariadne A Wo Three Statues, Chiaro ofcuro Domenicbino. Carlo Maratti. Guido Rheni. Carlo Maratti. Cornelius Jonfon. Diego Velafques. Ca 2 The 35 C H I S The Holy Family Crucifixion of a Saint A Landfkip The Holy Family The Samaritan Woman Boy's head Cleopatra Landfkip The Holy Family Earl of EfTex Portrait Infide of a Church Landfkip Man and Vafes Landfkip WICK. Schidonu Stb. Bourdon, Ryfdal. Denis Cabert. Paolo Veronefe. Hclbein. Leonardo da Vinci. $v<*ow Bob/on. Arthur Godwin (*) ^ A Vandyck. A Lady, its companion Ditto* . Diana W^«^(r ic-'fc&v^uw^ A- <^ ^ -, w*U- 1£mw*JI Kv^u bv^t , CAam, ' > i.t DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. Diana and A&ecn, figures C. Marat, L .ndfcape G. PouJJin. d his Miftrefs Carlo Cignani. Solomon and the Queen of Sheba Le Sueur. Land fcaps, St. John i. . \ rnefs Titian. Sine Baccho & Cererefriget Venus Albano. Two Poi traits — Ld Falkland and Col. Cavendifti \ AI. Angelo Caravaggio. Safannah and the Elders Jacob's Ladder Salvato. A Holy family In the fecond Drawing-Room. A Holy Family, witii Boys N. Poujpn. man of Samaria F. II An old Man in aTurkifh Diefs RhSramtf. A R N. Voi'Jjin. An emblematic Fiftare Andrea Saccbi. Venu- md Cupid L. Giordano. A Porn Tinioret. * Portrait of an Abbefs, over the Door Vandyke. DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. 43 Angel md Tobit C. Marat. Holy Family A. del Sarto. Death of St. Feter, over the chimney Donato Cre/i, A Piece of Ruins Fiviano. A Portrait Titian. Two round Landfcapes G. Vov.jjin. A Woman and Child, Portraits Vandyke. Head of a Saint Z. Giordano. Adam and Eve Dominicbino. A Woman Saint taken up to Heaven Lanfranc. Two circular Landfcapes G. Poujfin. Andromeda Guido. Head of a Saint M. Angelo Caravaggio. Et in Arcadio Ego N. PouJJin. In the third Drawing- Room. A Beggar Boy with a Bird's Neft Amorofo. Two Portraits, one of Titian, the other Carlo Cignani, by himfelf. Samfon and Dalilah Tintoret. Two Landfcapes F. Mo/a. Holy 44 DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. C. Marat. G. VouJJin. Viviane* Guercino. Titian, Tintoret. Rubens, Holy Family Landfcape Perfpe&ive View Holy Family Whole Length of PhiKp of Spain Whjle Length Holy Family, ovei the chimney Two Battle Piece* Virgin and Child Jacob wreftling with the Angel David and Goliah, its companion Landfcape Mofcs refcues the Prieft of Midian's Daughters from the fury of the Shepherds Giro Ferri, An AfTumption £. Giordano. Girl feeding Chickens Amorofo* St Jerome 'Dominickino* Sleeping Boy C. Marat. In the Library. Sevcial Portraits, and two hiftorical Pictures, Ma:s r.nd Venus, and Venus and Cupid, both by Vanloo. In Bourgogmnei Cantarini* S. Rofa. Ditto. P. da Cortona. DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. 45 In Tfc link Drejfing Room. The Transfiguration, over the chimney Camilla Procccini. Landfcape Holy Family Hiftory, from a Romance Jupiter and Juno Horizonti. Barccbe. Romcnelli. A 9 Caracc'u Temptation of St. Anthony, a Landfcape Teniers. Cincinnatus Landfcape St. Veronica Angel and Child St. Jerome Crucifix Landfcape Holy Family Lot entertaining the Angels Charity Chrifl bearing his Crofs Duke of Braganza Magdalen. P. da Cortona. Tcnurs. Rov:^::dIi 9 S. Rrfa. Titian. A. Cifcci* Jean Franafco. oc(Wy£tC Scbs&voni* C\ gnasi. L 01 -:<;ic/J : rc : L. da n . lexaadei 4.6 DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. Alexander and Campafpe Solinti Aptlles and the Grecian Virgins Ditto, J Cup) J and Pfyche Alejfandro Veronefe. Gepualus and Procris VouJJtn. Peter denying Chrift Qara e vaggio. Women fewing Ditto. Ditto making a Lace Ditto. Landfcape Dominichino. Adoration Ditto Old Woman's Head Guido. Woman of Samaria M. Ang. Buonarotli. Landfcape. Paul Brill Figures Eljbeitmr. Marriage of a Virgin Albert Durcr. Mars and Venus T'intoret. Two Heads Ifaac bleffing Jacob Rebecca St. Jofeph Mignard Carlo Maratti. Holy Family Nic. Berettoni. Two Landfcapes Bourgognone. ^AliKC h*V W<^- \*Al>^ iA^O^Ji l°V W>uW Tw DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. 47 Brugheh Two Landscapes Water-Fall Flight into Egypt Holy Family Death of Dido Pantheon Pope and Cardinals Landfcape Plague at Athens Holy Family Ruins Portrait of a Sculptor Aladona Portrait Ditto Jupiter and Europa Saint and Angel Woman and Child Holy Family Soldier, Woman and Child Murder of the Innocents Polenburgh. Albano. Paris Bourdon* John Van Eyck* Bourdon-, Varmegicino. Both. Sir Peter Lelj, Titian. A. Carracci. Bra. Hals. Sir Peter Lely. Ph. I C. C/V . C. Marat. S. Rofa. Rcttenhammer. Two 48 DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. Two People counting Money Teniers, Raphael* Holbein, Schidoni, Pbill. Lanrt. Head Ditto Madona Holy Family St. Jerome "The great Dining Room. The Royal Yatch, over the Door Fandevelde. Sophonifba L. Gicrdanc. Trophy, with the Head of Lewis XIV. Fruit Piece Country Wake Piece of Still Life Fruit Piece, with a Carpet u.HcJ£ ; Duke of Albemarle Fruit Piece Ship Piece Landfcape Battle of Lewis XIV. A Chapel M. Angela, Bamboccic, . Maltefe, Sir Peter Lelj. M. Angela. Bourgognone. Ditto. Vandermeulen. Sufanna DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. 49 Sufanna and the Elders Guercino. Lane fcape^ unil flLv*ua •? &*&Ia»\U. . Till mans. A Perfpective view. In the Hall Several portraits of Vandyke, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey Kneller, &C. Two pictures Watteau. Roman amphitheatre. A converfation, candle light. Shoeing a Horfe Wowvermans. Landfcape Rowland Savory. The beafts going into the Ark BaJJan. Chymiil's Laboratory Teniers. View of Newmarket Tillemans. Eoar hunting M. de Fos. Two fmall Pictures Teniers. Landfcape Dominichino. Apollo and Marfyas Titian. Apollo and Midas Ditto, Landfcape Bergbam. A Converfation, candle-light Bamboccio* Vol. I. In So DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. In a DreJJing Room. Several portraits, among which are hiflorical and other fubjects. viz. An hiflorical fubject P. da Cortona. Achilles and the Centaur S. Rofa. A Battle piece M. Angelo Battaglio. Death of St. Peter Guido. In the Lower Room. Among many others are the following : Confecration of Thomas a Becket J. Van EyckST Pope with his cardinals in Proceflion, The prefentation of Chrift in the Temple Hans Holbein, bircHLEr, ■(5' ) D I TC H L E T, The Seat of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Litchfield, IS fituated about 3 miles from Blenheim, on the North- Weft. It is built of hewn ftone, and has a beautiful Southern Front, with two correfpondent wings, commanding a moil agreea- ble and extenfive profpecl: ; in which the magni- ficent Palace of Blenheim, has the principal effect. In the centre of the front is k>, Salvator Rofa. / Hx %£ Landfcape Gafpar PovJpn. Dutchmen Le Duck. Boors 62 FOOT's CRAY PLACE. Boors Drinking OJlade. Landfcape Qafpar. Pouffin, Boys at Cards MoreUio. Faith, Hope, and Charity Lorbettodi Verona, Infide of a Church at Antwerp, DeNeef, figures Old Franks. Portrait Wk <• l*> 9 tl ^ ■ Rembrandt. lVIagdalen Francifco Mola. Democritus, in the pofture Hippocrates found j him in near Abdera - Salvator Rofa Admittance to fee the houfe is by tickets from Mr. Cleeve, every Thurfday during the fummer. HAGLEY P ARK, The Seat of Lord Lyttelton y THE grounds are perhaps difpofed in the greateit tafte of any fpot in the world. The ftranger is fir ft conducted among the mrubs, of which there is a very great variety, ia a moil flouriuhing ftatc. The EAGLEY PARK, 63 The Church ftands in the Park retired, and ; covered by trees. It is chiefly remarkable for the elegantly fimple Monument erected by hit Lordfhip for his beloved Lucy ; on which is this infcription in Latin and Englifh: Luciae Lyttelton. Ex antiquifiimo Fortefeutorum genere ortas Qus annos nata viginti novem. Forma; eximiae, indolis optimae j ingenii maximij Omnibus bonis artibus, literifque humanioribus* Supra aetatem et fexum exeulti. Sine fuperbia, laude florens. Morte immature Vitam pie, pudice, fantte actam* In tertio puerperio claufit» Decimo nono die Januarii Anno Domini 1746 — 7. FJeta ctiam ab ignotis. Uxori diledlimmae Quinquennio feliciflimi conjugii nondum abfoluto. Immenii amoris ac defiderii hoc qualecunqus monumentua( Pofuit Georgius Lyttelton. Adhuc eheu fuperftes. At in eodem fe, uichro ipfe olim fepeliendus, Et per Jeium Chriftum Salvatorem fuum. Ad vitae melioris diuturnum gaudium Lachrymis in jeternum abflerfis Se cum illa'refurretturum confidens. From the Church you enter a winding path «p a hill to a Column fupporting a Statue of Frederic Prince of Wales, looking on the houfe,, with a view of the country over it: the black mountains. H A G L E Y PARK. itains, and the Malvern hills to the left. Front hence the winding walk is continued through a grove (from whence is a view of Lord Stafford's grouuds) to a Pavilion dedicated to Thomfon with this infcription : Ingenio immortali Jacobi Thomfon. Poeta? fublimis. Viri boni. „3idiculam hanc in feceffu quern vivus dilexit. Poll mortem ejus conilruclam. Dica.t Dedicatque Georgius Lyttelton. From Thomfon's Seat, you pafs by a ruin, a Pavilion, and a feat in an amphitheatre of wood ; thence by a pit of hard red Hone to Jacob's Well, which brings you to a ftrait walk by the park pales, on the outfidc of which Hands the parfonage houfe : white cottages and the country are feen at adiftance: the hanging wood on the left. Now you enter a walk winding to the right, with a view of Clee Hills : this leads into a , grove, whence a view of the Tower breaks in. Hence you arrive at a rotunda of the Ionic or- der ; from which you look down acrofs water and a lawn to the Palladian Bridge. Hence ycu wind down the hill into a wood ; where, in a deep HAGLEY PARK. $ s t, deep recefs, by a purling rill, is a retired bench ; :i from this you wind to the left up hill, and rind an Urn infcribed to Mr. Pope with this infcrip- tion: Alexandro Pope Poetarum Anglicanorum Elegantiilimo Dul- ciinmoque. Vitiorum Caftigatori acerrimo, Sapientias Doctori fuavifumo. Sacra eilo. 1744. Hence you come to a gentle fall of water, and to a lawn incircled with wood, from which is a fteep afcent to the ruined tower. From the top of this is an immenfe extended view of the country: Dudley, Worcefter, the Clee Hills, the Wrekin at Forty, and Radnor-tump at eighty miles diftance* From hence you defcend to a triangular water, where there is a good view of the tower. You now wind through the hanging wood to the feat of Contemplation ; which is a fine clofe fcene, well contrafted with that vaft expanfe of profpeft which the Tower afforded: and admirably fitted to relieve the eye, tired with the \ ery great and diftant objects which it has been viewing. Hence you foon arrive at the Root- Vol. I. F Houfe 66 HAGLEY PARK. Houfe or Hermitage, in which are the follow- ing lines from II Penferofo of Milton. " And may at laft my weary age, " Find out the peaceful Hermitage, •• The hairy gown, and mofTy cell, " Where I may fit, and rightly fpell, " Of every liar that Heaven doth fhew " And every herb that fips the dew, " Till old experience do attain, " To fomething like prophetic ftrain, * c Thefe pleafures melancholy give, *< And I with thee will choofe to live." Here are two views of the country, and the water below. Hence you return on the left by the water, to a cave of roots looking on it, and to an alcove of pebbles looking on another water. Here the path winds to the right up hill to a fine view of the country, and of the Houfe in the bottom j hence you come to a feat, where there is a noble view, and the following lines from Milton's Paradife Loft, Book V. are with a happy propriety inferibed upon it ; " Thefe are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! " Almighty! thine this everlafting frame " Thus wondrous fair ! thyfelf how wondrous " then " Unfpeakable ! who fits above thefe heavens m T* HAGLEY PARK. 67 *< To-nsinvifible, or dimly Teen *« In thefe thy lew eft works; yet thefe declare *' Thy goodnefs beyond thought, and power " divine." From this glcrious view you turn into a thicket, and have a leck at the Doric Pavilion, Thomfon's feat, and the Obeliik : hence you come to a feat where there is a view over a heath to the Wrekin ; and then to another which was Mr. Pope's favourite, inferibed, Quieti & Mufis. Here you have a lawn defcending to a piece of water backed with a rifmg wood, and a view of Thomfon's feat and the Obelifk. Hence winding ilill through the wood you come to an open lawn with fheep-waiks and a clump on the top, which fcene Lord Anfcn ufed to fay- much refembled fome parts of the Ifland Tiniart — it is truly rural and pifturefque. Defcending to a hollow of irregular wood, with water breaking out varioufly, is a bench with this infeription from Virgil. «' Hie gelidi fontes, hie mollia prata, Lycori; *•* Hie nemus : hie ipfo tecum confumerer asvo." Hence you furpentine by a fine trout ftream, with a delightful irregular thicket, and fine F 2 rifmg 68 HAGLEY PARK. riling lawn ; Pope's feat backed with a theatre of wood, and the rotunda feen over water one way ; and the Palladian Bridge over another water backed with trees over which the diftant hiils are feen, another way. Hence through a gate you enter the Fairy- ground^ where one would willingly indulge the mind in a pleafing fancy it will be apt to take up, that every thing here is inchantment — a noifeof fulling water is heard; a trickling ri>I is feen ; then a maiTy cave in front of a cafcade, with this infcription from Horace : " Ego lauda ruris amoeni " Rivos, & mufco circumlita faxa, nemufque,'' This is a fcene that beggars all defcription. Hence you come to a fmall vale encompafTed with laurels and flowers ; here is a long gentle fall of water among the laurels.— A gloomy fceae where we hear the diftant fall of waters ; and thence to a look over a fwelling lawn to Thomfon's feat. Here you wind down the hill to the Palladian. Bridge, hearing all the way the found of cafcades. The Infcription— " Viridantia Tempe, M Tempe,qus fylvsecingunt fuperimpendentes. ,, The HAGLEY PARK. 69 The opening is narrow with gloomy wood on both fides. It is impoffible for words to convey to the mind an adequate idea of thefe delightful fcenes ; the editor therefore does not flatter himfelf that the reader can be fenfible of the beau- ties of this paradife, from the foregoing flight ketch which was made in a walk through it the lafl fummer. With what con- tempt mull every one, who has furveyed it, look, not only on the cockle-fheJl gardens of Holland, but even on the boailed defigns of Le Notre. And who that has feen nature thus attired by Lord Lyttelton, can bear with pati- ence the diftorting and torturing her beauteous form, or the tricking her out in tinfel and mere- tricious ornaments. Thefe grounds, and its rival Elyfium in the neighbourhood, to an atten- tive obferver, will have all the merit of a line compofition in Poetry or Painting. But let us leave fpeaking of beauties upon which the eye alone is able to determine ; and come to the Houfe, which is faid to have been planned by the great friend of its illuftrious inhabitant, ajid of his country — Mr. Pitt. t » In the fecond Prefence Chamber, over the chimney is a whole length of Chriiliern IV. K. of Denmark, by Van Somer. Over the three doors are pieces of ruins and iandfeapes, by Rojfo. In the fourth room the t3peftry repre Tents part of the flory of Abraham. Over the chim- ney HAMPTON COURT. 77 ney Is a whole length picture of Elizabeth Q. of Bohemia, daughter of K. James I. and over each of the two doors is a Madona by Dome- nico Feti- In the fifth ?oom the tapeftry is ancient and richly wove with gold ; the fubject Abraham fending his fervant to get a wife for Ifaac. Over the chimney is an admirable whole length of K. Charles I. by Van Djck ; and over the doors two capital pictures ; David with Goliah's head by Feti; and the Holy Family, by Correggio. In the King's flate Bed-chamber, the deling is painted by Verrio. Over the doors are two flower pieces, by Baptijie ; and over the chim- ney is a whole length of the Dutchefs of York, by Van Seiner, The King's Drefling Room has the cieling painted, by Verrio. Over the doors are flower pieces, by Baptijie, In the King's writing elofet, over each door is a flower-piece, by Baptijie, and over the chimney a Picture of a great variety of Birds, by Bougdane, Q^ Mary's elofet is hung with needle-work, foid to be wrought by her own hand ; the chairs $ HAMPTONCOURt and fereen are alfo faid to be her work* Over t!ie chimney-piece is an old painting laid to be Raphael's, reprefenting Jupitei's throne, by which i* the thunder, and his eagle in the i !ouds. The Queen's Gallery is 70 feet long and 25 wide, and is hung with 7 pieces of Tapeftry, reprefenting the hiitory of Alexander the Great, from Le Brun's paintings. The cieling of the Queen's itate Bed-chamber is painted by Sir James Thornbill. King James I. whole length, by Van Somer, Queen Anne his Confort, by Ditto. Princefs Elizabeth their Daughter, by Ditto. Henry Prince of Wales; whole length, by Van Dyck. George I. — George II. — Qoeen Caroline — Frederic Prince of Wales. The Queen's drawing-room has the cieling painted by Verrio. It is hung with green Damafk, on which are placed nine pictures, reprefenting the triumph of Julius Csefar, painted in water colours upon canvas, by Andrea Manlpgna. Thefe were formerly all in one piece. In the Queen's Hate sudience room are, the Duke, Dutchefs, and Marchionefs of Brunlwick their HAMPTON COURT. 79 their Daughter; the Dutchefs of Lenox, and Margaret Queen of Scots, all at full length, by Holbei;:. In the Prince of Wales's prefence chamber over the doors is Guzman and Gundamor two Spanifh AmbafTadors, and Madame Chacillon the French Admiral's Lady ; over the chimney Lewis XIII. with a walking itick in v \ and a dog by his fide ; all by Holbei. In the Prince's Drawing rcom, over the chim- ! ncy is the Duke of Wirtemburg; over the \ doors the Wife of Philip II. King of Spain, and \ Count Mansfield General of the Spaniards in the Low Countries, whole lengths, all by Holbein. The Prince's Bed-chamber has four piclurea J alfo, by Holbein ; viz. over the chimney a v. length of the Duke of Lunenburg grandfather ; to K. George I. over the doors Philip U. K. of Spain, the Confort of Chriiliern IV. K. of | Denmark, and a whole length of the Prince of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. - In the private dining-room are four pictures of the defeat of the Spanifh Armada, by Vande- \ *velde ; and over the chimney a fine one by Vandyck of the Lord Effingham Howard, Lord High Admiral of England, In 8o HAMPTON COURT. In the Admiral's Gallery are pictures of the following celebrated Admirals ; Sir George Rooke — Sir Clcudefley Shovel — Sir John Leake — Lord Torrington — Admiral Churchill — Sir Stafford Fairborne — Sir John Jennings — Sir Thomas Hopfon — Admiral Beaumont — Sir Tho- mas Dilks — Admiral Bembo — Admiral Whet- Hone — Admiral Wifhart — Admiral Graydon — Admiral Munden. All painted by Dabl, and Sir Godfrey Kneller. In the room of Beauties nine Ladies are placed in the following order. Lady Peterborough — Lady Ranelagh — Lady Middleton — Mifs Pitt— The Dutchefs of St. Albans — Lady ElTex — Lady Dorfet — Queen Mary — The Dutchefs of Grafton. Q^ Mary was painted by Wiping, and all the re it by S^r Godfrey Kneller. In the Carton Gallery the celebrated Carton?. of Raphael were placed ; but they are now re- moved to the Queen's Palace ; for an account of them fee that article under the head London. We come next to the Queen's Stair-cafe, where the cieling is painted, by Vick. By this we defcend into a new quadrangle, where on the right over the windows arc the twelve labours of Hercules in Frefco. The HAMPTON COURT. 81 The whole Palace confifls of three quadrangles. The firil and fecond are Goihu^ bus. in the latter is a moil: beautiful colonade of the Ionic order, the columns in CGuples, built by Sir Chriitopher Wren, in the third court are the Royal Apartments, magnificently built of brick and Hone by K. William III. HOUGHTON HALL. THE common approach to the houfe, is by the South- end Door, over which is Engraved this Infcription : Robertus Walpole Has iEdes Anno S. — 1722. Inchoavit Anno 1735, Perfecit. On the right-hand you enter a fmall Breakfaft Room. Over the Chimney, is a very good Picture of Hounds, by Wootton* Vol. I. G A Concert S2 HOUGHTON HALL. A Concert of Birds, by Mario di Fiori ; a very uncommon Ti&ure, for he feldom painted any thing but Flowers; it belonged to Gibbins the Carver, and is 4 foot 7 inches high, by 7 foot 9 and i wide. The Prodigal Son returning to his Father ; a very dark Picture, by Pordenone, the Architects e and Landfcape very good. It is 5 f. 5 inch, high, by 8 f. 1 1 I wide. This Pidure belonged to George Villiers the great Duke of Bucking- ham. A Horfe's Head, a fine Sketch, by Vandyke. A Grey-hound's Head, by Old Wyck> who was Wootton's mailer. Sir Edward Walpole, Grand-father to Sir Robert Walpole. Robert Walpole, Son to Sir Edward and Father to Sir Robert Walpole. Horatio Lord Townfhend, Father to Charles Lord Vifcount Townfhend. Mr. Harold, Gardener to Sir Robert Walpole, a Head, by Ellis. The Supping Parlour. The Battle of Conftantine and Maxentius, a copy, by Julio Romano, of the famous Piflure in HOUGHTON HALL. 83 In the Vatican, which he executed after a de« fign of Raphael. It is 4 f. 8 inch, and * high, by 9 f. 7 ^ wide. Over the Chimney, Horace Walpole, Brother to Sir Robert Walpole. 3 qrs. length — by Rich- ard/on. Sir Robert Walpole, when Secretary at War to Queen Anne. 3 qrs. by Jer-vafe. Catherine Lady Walpole, his firft Wife, Ditto. Sir Charles Turner, one of the Lords of the Treafury, 3 qrs. by Richard/on. Charles Lord Vifcount Townihend, Secretary of State to King George I. and II. 3 qrs. by * Sir Godfrey Kneller. Dorothy, his fecond Wife, and fecond Siller to Sir Robert Walpole, 3 qrs. by Jervafe. Anne Walpole, Aunt to Sir Robert Walpole, (a Head.) Dorothy Walpole, Ditto. Mary Walpole, Ditto. Eli zabeth Walpole, Ditto. g 2 rfo 84 HOUGHTON HALL. The Hunting Hall. "mnah and the two Elders, by Rubens ; 5 fV 1 1 inch, and § high, by 7 f. 8 inch, and | wide. A Hunting Piece. Sir Robt. W. is in Green; Col. C. Churchill in the middle. Mr. T. Tur- ner on one fide, by Woottcn. "The Coffee-Room. Over the Chimney a Landfcape with figures dancing, by Sivanivelt, 2 f. 3 inch, high, by 3 f. 3 wide. Jupiter and Europa. after Guide, by Pietro da Pietrzs; 41". 10 inch, high, by &f. 2 wide. Galatea, by Zimeni; 4 f . 10 inch, high, by 6 f. 2 wide. Horatio Walpole, Uncle to Sir Robert Wal- pole, 3 qrs. Galfridus Walpole, younger Brother to Sir Robert. Returning through the Arcade, you afcend the great Stair, cafe, which is painted in Chiaro Ofcuro, by Kent. In the middle, four Doric Pillars rife and fupport a fine Call in Bronze of the HOUGHTON HALL. 85 the Gladiator, by John of Boulogne, which was a prefent to Sir Robert, from Thomas Earl of Pembroke. The Common Parlour. This Room is 30 f. long by 21 broad. Over the Chimney is feme fine pear-tree carving, by Gibbins, and in the middle of it hangs a Portrait of him, by Sir Godfrey Knslkr. It is a Mailer- piece, and equal to any of Vandyke. Three Quarters. King William, an exceeding fine Sketch, by Sir Godfrey — for the large Equeftrian Piclure which he afterwards executed very ill at Hamp- ton Court, and with feveral alterations, 4 f. 3 inch, high, by 3 f . 6 wide. King George I. a Companion to the Former, but finished. The figure is by Sir Godfrey, which he took from the King at Guilford Horfe-Race. The Horfe is new painted, by Wootton, A Stud of Horfes, by Wou by Atigufiine Caracci. 3 f. 6 inch, high, by 2 o| wide. An old Woman giving a Boy Cherries, by Titian. It is his own Son and Nurfe, 4-f. 10 in. &gh, by 3 f. 6f wide, The 94 HOUGHTON HALL. The Holy Family, by Andrea dclSario. This and tke laft were from the Collection of the Marq. Mari, at Genoa. 3 f . 1 inch and £ high, by 2 f. j± wide. The AfTumption of the Virgin, a beautiful figure fupported by Boy-Angels, in a very bright manner, by Morellio. 6 f. 4 inch. £ high, by 4 f. 9* wide. The Adoration of the Shepherds, its compa- nion : all the light comes from the child. The Cyclops at their Forge, by Luca Jor- dano* This belonged to Gibbins. 6 f. 4 inches high, by 4 f. 11 wide. Daedalus and Icarus, by LeBrun. In a diffe- rent manner from what he generally painted. 6 f. 4 inch, high, by 4 f. 3 wide. Tbe Carlo MareAt Room Is 30 f. by 21. The Hangings are Green Velvet, the Table of Lapis Lazuli j at each end are two fconces of maflive filver. Over the chimney is Clement the Ninth, of the Rofpigliofi family ; 3 qrs. fitting, a moft admira- ble Portrait, by Carlo Maratti. It was bought by Jervafe the painter out of the Arnaldi Palace at Florence, where are the remains of the great Palavicini HOUGHTON HALL. 95 •allavicini Collection, from whence Sir Robert sought feveral of his pictures. Nothing can be inerthan this, the boidnefs of the Penciling is as emarkable as his deiicacy in his general pictures, and it was fo much admired, that he did feverai of them. The Judgment of Paris, drawn by Carlo Ma- atti, when he was 83 years old, yet has none of rhe rawnefs of his latter pieces; the drawing of the Juno is very faulty, k being impofiible to give fo great a turn to the perfon as he has given to this figure ; it came out of the Pallaviciri Collection. 5 f. 9 inch. | high, by 7 f. 7^ wide. Galatea fitting with Acis, Tritons, and Cu- pids ; its companion. 5 f . 8 inch, f-high, by 7 7 § wide. The Holy Family, an unfinimed picture, large as life, by Carlo Maraiti, in his lail manner. 3 f„ 2 inch, f high, by 2 f . 8 £ wide. The Virgin teaching Jefus to read, by Carlo Marattiy 2 f . 3 \ by 1 f. 10 |. St Cceciiia with four Angels playing on mufi- cal inftruments, companion to the former. Thefe two la'i are moft perfect and beautiful pictures in his belt, and moft finifhed manner, and were in the Pallavicini Collection. The 96 HOUGHTON HALL The Affumption of the Virgin, by Carlo Ma- ratti. ihe has a deep blue veil all over her, 2 f 3 inch, a high, by 1 f. 10 \ wide. The Virgin and Jofeph with a young Jefusi a fine piclure by Carlo Maratti, in the manner oi his mailer Andrea Sacchi, 2 f. 5 inch. £ high, by 2 f. wide. The Marriage of St. Catharine, by Carlo Ma- ratti, 2 f. 7 inch, high by if. io^ wide. Two Saints worfhipping the Virgin in the Clouds, by Carlo Maratti, 2 f . 3 inch. * I by .1 f. 9I wide. St. John the Evangelift, its companion. A Naked Venus and Cupid, by Carlo Ma* ratti, in a very particular ftile, 3 f. 1 inch \ high by 4. f. 4?- wide. The Holy Family, by Nicholo Beretoni, Carlo's beft fcholar. This picture is equal to any of his mailer's. The grace and fweetnefs of the Vir- gin, and the beauty and drawing of the young Jefus, are incomparable. 3 f. 1 inch | high, by 4 f. 4I wide. The AfTumption of the Virgin, by Ditto. 2 i\ 2 inch. £ high, by 1 f. 8£ wide. Th( HOUGHTON HALL. 97 • The Pool of Bethefda, by Gio/eppe Chlari, another of Carlo's fchoiars. 3^3 inch, high, by 4 f. 5 wide. Chriil's Sermon on the Mount Ditto. Apollo and Daphne Ditto. Bacchus and Ariadne, the bed of the four, Ditto — the Bacchus feems to be taken from the Apollo Belvedere, as the ideas of the Ariadne and the Venus, evidently are from the figures of Liberality and Modeity, in the famous picture [of Guido, in the collection of the Marquis del Monte at Bologna. Apollo in Crayons, by Rofalba, 2 f . 2 inch, high, by 1 f. 8 wide. Diana, its Companion. A Profile Head of a Man, a capital Drawing in a great ftile, by Raphael. A Profile Head of St. Catherine, by Guido. The Birth of the Virgin, by Luca Jordanc, 2 f. 1 inch high, by 1 f. \ inch. The Prefentation of the Virgin in the Temple, its companion. Thefe two are finifhed defigns for two large pictures, which he painted for the fine Church of the Madonna della Salute at Venice. Voi . I. II The 98 HOUGHTON HALL. The Flight into Egypt, by Morelllo, in the' manner of Vandyke, 3 f . 2 inch. | high, by 1 f. 1 1 | wide. The Crucifixion, its Companion. Hercules and Omphale, by Romatielli, 3 f". 1 inch. * high, by^f. 3 wide. "J be Velvet Bed Chamber !s 2 1 f. and | by 22 §-. The Bed is of Green Velvet, richly embroidered, and laced with Gold; the Ornament defigned by Kent ; the Hangings are Tspeftry, reprefenting the Loves of Venus and Adonis, after Albano. Alexander adorning the Tomb of Achilles, by Le Mer. The Head of Alexander is taken from his Medals, the figures are in the true Antique tafte, and the Buildings fine, 8 f. 2 inch. f high, by 5 f. 2 | wide. .Qver one of the Doors, a Sea-Port, by Oil Grijjler, 3 f . 2 inch.- and \ high, by 4 f. 1 inch wide. A Landfeape over the other Door, by Ditto. Tbr HOUGHTON HALL. The Br 'effing- Room 99 Is hang with very fine Gold Tapeflry, after Pictures of Vandyke. There are whole length Portraits of James I. Queen Anne his Wife, Daughter to Frederick the fecond King of Denmark, brother to Queen Anne ; they haze fine borders of Boys, with Feftoons, and Oval Pictures of the Children of the Royal Family. At the upper end of the room is a Glafs Cafe fillet! with a la ge quantity of Silver Fhilegree Vvhich belonged to Catherine Lady Walpole. Over the Chimney the confulting the Sibyl- line Oracles, a fine Picture, by Le Mer\ Com- panion to that in the Bed-chamber, the archi- tecture of this, is rather the better. 'The Embroidered Bed-Chamber. The Bed is of the fineft Indian Needle Work. Over the Chimney, the Holy Family, large as life, by Kicolo PouJJin. It is one of the moll capital pictures in this collection, the airs of the Heads, and the Draperies are in the fine tafte of Raphael, and the Antique. Elizabeth's Head is taken from a Statue of an old Woman in the Villa Borghefe at Rome, the colouring H 2 is *oo HOUGHTON HALL. is much higher than his ufaal manner; the Virgin's Head, and the young Jefus are particu- larly delicate, 5 f . 7 inch, by 4 f . 3 £ wide. Over the Doors, two pieces of Cattle, by Rofa di Tfatoli* The Cabinet Is 21 f. \ by 22 §, hung with Green Velvet. Over the Chimney is a celebrated piclare of Rubens's Wife, by Vandyke; it was fitted for a pannel in her own Clofet in Rubens's houfe. She is in black fattin with a hat on, a whole length; the Hands-, and the Drapery are re- markably good. Rubens's Fam'ily, by Jordaens of Antwerp; Rubens is playing on a Lute, his firfi: Wife is fitting with one of her Children on her lap, and two others before her. There are feverai other figures and Genii in the air, 5^9 inch, high, by 4 f. 5 i wide. This picture belonged to the Duke of Portland. 1 A Winter-piece, by Giacomo Bajan, 3 f. 8 inch. § high, by 5 f. 11 f. A Summer piece, by Leonardo Bqffan, 3 f. 8 inch. \ high, by 5 f. 11 {. Thefe two were in the colle&ion of M. de la Vrillierc. Boors HOUGHTON HALL. ioi Boors at Cards, by Tenters, I f.^inch. high, by i f. 10 inch. wide. Chriit appearing to Mary in the Garden, an exceeding fine picture, by Pietro da Cortena, I f. 9 inch. | high, by I f. 3 ir.ch. wide. The Judgment of Paris, by Andrea Schia^vone. {Note* that all the pictures in this Room, except the Portraits, that have not the fizes fet down, are very final!:) Midas judging between Pan and Apollo, by Date. Chrift laid in the Sepulchre, one of the finefl pictures that Parmegiano ever painted, and for which there is a Tradition, that he was knighted by a Duke of Parma; there are 1 1 figures ; the Exprefiion, the Drawing and the Colouring, the Perfpe&ive, and Chiarofcuro, are as fine as pofTible. The figure of Jofephof Arimathea, is Parmegiano' 's own Portrait. The Adoration of the Magi, by Velvet Brug- bell there are a multitude of little figures, all finilhed with the greateft, Dutch exactnefs ; the Ideas too are a little Dutch, for the- Ethiopian King is drefl in a Surplice with Boots and Spurs, and brings for a prefent a Gold Model of a Modern Ship. H 3 The ic2 HOUGHTON HALL. The Virgin and Child, a very pleating picture, by Barocao, but the drawing is full of faults. A naked Venus fleeping, a moft perfect figure, by Annibal Caracci ; the Contcurs and the colouring exceffive fine. Head of Vanderdort, by Dob/on, St. John, a Head, by Carlo Dolci. Head of Innocent the 10th, by Vclafco. A Boy's Head with a Lute, by Cavalier JLuti. Friers giving meat to the Poor, by John Mid, l f . 7 | high, by 2 f. 2 inch. wide. Its Companion. Boors at Cards, by Tenters. Boers drinking; its Companion, by OJtade. A dying Officer at Confeflion, by Bourgognone ; very bright Colouring and fine Expreflion, i f. 7 inch. § high, by z f. i inch. } wide. Its Companion. Chrift laid in the Sepulchre, by Giacomo Bo/fan* a very particular picture, the lights are laid on fo thick, that it feems quite Baflb-Re- lievo. It is a fine defign for a great Altar-piece which he has painted at Padua. This picture was a prefent to Lord Oiford, from James Earl of HOUGHTON HALL. 103 ©f Wa'degrave, Knight of the Garter, and Em- bafTador at Paris. Holy Family, by "Roitenbamer. Holy Family, with St. John on a Lamb, by Williberts a Scholar of Rubens, who has made a large pidlare, from whence this is taken, now in the Palace Pitti, at Florence : This is finely Finifhed, and the colouring neater than Ru- hens. The Virgin and Child, by Alexandre* Veronefi ; painted on black Marble. Three Soldiers ; a fine little picture, by Sal-jatcr Rc/a, in his brighter! manner. *' The Virgin with the Child in her arms, by (jJ-Mcrelho, on black Marble. A prefent from Sir Benjamin Keene, EmbafTador at Madrid. The Virgin with the Child in her arms a- fleep, by Sebajlian Concha. Edward the VI. an original frnall whole length, by Holbein ; Edwardus Dei Gratia Sextus Rex Angiia Sc Francia & Hibernia. Laban fearching for his Images, by Sebaftian Bourdon, 3 f . 1 inch \ 7 by 4 f. 4. inch, § wide. The Banquetting Houfe Cieling ; it is "the original defign of Rubens for the middle com- partment of that Cieling, and reprefents the .H 4 afiumption iC4 HOUGHTON HALL; afTumption of King James I. into Heaven ; it belonged to Sir Godfrey Kneller, who fludied it much, as is plain from his lketch for King William's picture in the parlour, 2 f . 1 1 inch, high, by i f. 9 inch. § wide. Six Sketches of Rubens for triumphal arches, &c. On the entry of the Infant Ferdinand of Auilria into Antwerp; they are painted with adefcription of the Feftival. They are z f. and i fquare. Bathfheba bringing Abithng to David; aa exceeding high-finiflied picture in varnifh, by Vatideryoerff; a prefent to Lord Orford, from the Duke of Chandos, z f . io inch, high, by z f . 3 wide. Two Flower-pieces, mod highly finimed, by Van Uuyjum y z f. 7 inch, high, by 2 f. 2 wide. Chrift and Mary in the Garden, by Philippo Laura. The Holy Family, by John Bellinc; it be-- longed to Mr. Laws. Landfcape with figures, by Bourgognone, in the manner of Salvator Rofa. Its Companion with Soldiers. TwofmallLandfcapes, by Go/par VcnJJin. Over HOUGHTON HALL. 105 Cver the door into the Bed-chamber, the Holy Family, by Matteo Pcnzoni, a moll un- common hand, and a very fine picture. 3 f. 7 inch. \ high, by 5^2 £ wide. Cver the Parlour Door, the Murder of the Innocents, by Sebaffian Bourdon. 4 f . \ inch, high, by 5 f. 8 wide. Over the other Door, the death of Jofeph, by Velafco. 3 f . 3 inch, high, by d. f. 10 wide. St. Chriftopher; a very fmall picture, by TLlJbeimer* The Marble Parlour. One intire fide of this room is marble, with alcoves for fide boards, fupported with columns of Plymouth marble. Over the chimney is a fine piece of alto-relievo in ftatuary marble, after the antique, by Ryfirack, and before one of the tables, a large granite ciftern. Henry Danvers EarlofDanby, a fine whole length in Garter Robes, by Vandyke. Sir Thomas Wharton, brother to Philip Lord Wharton, and Knight of the Bath, whole length, by Vandyke, (from the Wharton Col- lection.) Tw@ io6 HOUGHTON HALL. Two Fruit-pieces over the door, by Michael Angela Campictoglio, from Mr. Scawen's Col- lection. The Afcenfion, by PatdVeronefe, over a door. The Apoftles after the Afcenfion, Ditto. The Hall Is a cube of 40, with a (lone gallery round three fides. The cieling and the frieze of boys are by Altari. The bas-reliefs over the chim- ney and doors are from the antique. The Figures over the great door, and the Boys over the leffer doors, are by Kxjbrack. In the Frieze are bas-reliefs of Sir Robert Walpole and Catherine his firft lady, and of Robert Lord Walpole their elder fon, and Margaret Rolle his wife N Over the Chimney is a buft. of Sir Robert 'Walpole, Earl of Orford, by Ryfbrack. Before a Nich, over agaioft the chimney, ;s the Laocoon, a fine cafl in bronze, by Girardon> bought by Ld Walpole at Paris. On the Tables, the Tiber and the Nile in bronze, from the antiques in the Capitol at Rome. Two HOUGHTON HALL. 107 Tivo Vafes in bronze, from the antiques in the Villas of Medici and.Borghefe at Rome. The Buft of a Woman, a moft beautiful antique. The Bull of a Roman Emprefs, antique. On Terms and Confoles round the Hall are the following Bufcs and Heads : Marcus Aurelius, antique. Trnjan, Ditto. Septimus Severus, Ditto. Commodus, Ditto. A young Kercules, Ditto. Baccio Bandinelli, by Himfelf. Fauflina Senior, antique. A young Commodus, Ditto. Heads. Homer, Modern. Hefiod, Ditto. Jupiter, antique. A Philofoprier, Ditto. Hadrian, Ditto. Pollux, Ditto. Going 108 HOUGHTON HALL. Going Train the Salon, dcvvn the great fteps, through the Garden, you enter a porch adorned with Bufls of Rome, by Camilla Rufcom. Minefva, Ditto. Antinous, Ditto. Apollo Belvedere, Ditto. A Philosopher's Head, antique. Julia Pia Severi, Ditto. Out of this you go into a Veftibule, round which in the Niches are fix Vafes of Vol terra alabafter. This leads into The Gallery i Which is 73 f. long, by 21 f. high, the m'd* «ll€ rifes 3 f. higher, with windows all round ; the eieling is a dcfign of Serlio's in the inner library of St. Mark's at Venice, and was brought from thence by Mr. Horace Walpole, jun. ; the frieze is taken from the Sybils Temple at.Ti- vcri. There are two chimnies, and the whole 1 com is hung with Norwich damafk. It was intended originally for a green houfe ; but on Sir Robert Walpole's refigning his employments Feb. 9, 1742, it was fitted up for his pictures, which HOUGHTON HALL, 109 which had. hung in the houfe at Downing- ftreet. Over the farther! chimney is that capital pi- cture, and the full in this collection, the Doctors of the Church : they are confultingon the Imma- culatenefs of the Virgin, who is above in the- clouds. In this picture, which is by Guido in his brighter! manner, and perfectly preferved ? there are fix old men as large as life. The ex- predion, drawing, defign, and colouring, won- derfully fine. In the clouds is a beautiful Vir- gin all in White, and before ner a fweet little angel flying. 8 f. n inch, high, by 6 f. wide — It was in the collection of the Marquis Angeli. Over the other chimney, the Prodigal Son, by Sahator Rofa, 8 f . 3 inch, high, by 6 f. 5 £ wide. - Meleager and Atalanta, a Cartoon, by Ru- be?is, larger than life j brought out of Flanders by General Wade : it being defigned for ta- peftry, all the weapons are in the left hand of the figures. 10 f. 7 inch, high, by 20 feet 9 and half wide. Four Markets, by Snyders, one of Fowl, and another ofFifti, another of Fruit, and the fourth of Herbs. There are two more of them at Mu- nich, a Horfe and a Fkfh Market ; each fix feet, no HOUGHTON HALL. feet, nine inches and half high, by n f. i and half wide. Marcus Curtius leaping into the Gulph, an exceeding fine picture by Mola* There are mul- titudes of figures, fine attitudes, and great ex- preffions of paffion. This picture is 6 f. 4 inc. £ high, by 11 f. 4 inch, wide; and, with the next, belonged to Gibbins the Carver. Horatius Codes defending the Bridge. Its companion. A Lionefs and two Lions, by Rubens. No- thing can be livelier, or in a greater ityle than the attitude of the Lionefs. 5 f . 6 inch, high, by S f. wide. Architecture; it is a kind of a ftreet with various Marble Palaces in perfpective, like the Strada Nuova at Genoa; the buildings and Bas- reliefs are extreamly fine, the latter efpecially are fo like the hand of Polydorc, that I ihould rather think that this picture is by this mailer, than by Julio Romano, whofe it is called. There are fome figures, but very poor ones, and undoubtedly not by the fame hand as the reft of the pictures ; there is an Officer kneeling by a Woman, who fhews the Virgin and Child in the Cloud* fitting under a Rainbow. This pic- ture was a prefent to Lord Orford, from General Charles HOUGHTON HALL. m Charles Churchill, 5 f. 6 inch. £ high, by 6 L 11 inch, wide. An old Woman fitting in a chair, a Portrait three quarters, by Rubens, bought at Mr. Scaw- en's fale. An old Woman reading, an extream fine Portrait, by Boll, bought at the Duke of Port- land's fale, when he went Governor to Jamaica. Cupid burning armour, by Elifabetta Sirani, Guido's favourite Scholar, 2 f. 1 inch § high, by 2 f. 7 I wide. An Ufurer and his Wife, by Quintin Matfis, the Blackfmith of Antwerp: This picture is finiihed with the greateft labour and exaclnefs imaginable, and was painted for a family in France ; it differs \ T ery little from one at Wind- for, which he did for Charles I. 2 f . 8 inch. § high, by 1 f. 10 f wide. Job's friends bringing him prefents ; a fine piduie, by Guido, which he has executed in large, and in his brighteft manner, in the Church of the Mendicants at Bologna; this is dark, . bun there is moft ms&erlyfkiii in the naked, and in the difpofition of the Egureb, 3 £ . 1 inch high, by 2 f. 4 i wide. Europa ? ii2 HOUGHTON HALL, Europa, a fine Landfcape, by Paul Brill, the figures by Dominichini, z f. 5 inch, high, by 3 f. 5 i wide. Africa, its Companion. Dives and Lazarus, by Paul Veronefc. There are few of him better than this, the building is particularly good, 2 f . 7 inch. § high, by 3 f. 5 wide. It belonged to Monfieur de Morviile Secretary of date in France. The Expofition of Cyrus, by CaJIigUcne, a very capital picture of this matter, 2^4 inch. i high, by 3 f. 6 i wide. Its Companion. The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Old Palma, from the collection of Monfieur de la Vrilliere, Secretary of ftate in France, 2 f . 6 inch, high, by 3 f. 10 wide. The Holy Family, by Ditto. 2 f . 7 inch, i high, by 4 f. 5 wide, from Monfieur Flinck's collection. A fme Moon-light Landfcape, with a Cart overturning, by Rubens, 2 f. 10 inch, high, by 4 f . 1 wide. (It was Lord Cadogan's.) Nymph and Shepherd, by Carlo Cignani, 3 f. 4 inch, high, by 4 f. 1 \ wide. Two HOUGHTON HALL. 113 Two Women, an Emblematical pi&ure, by Paris Bourse;?, 5 f. 6 inch, high, by 4 f. 2 wide, from Mr. Flinck's collection. Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar, by Pietro Ccr- tona. The Great Duke has a fmall fketch of this, but reverfed, and with the* Sarah and other figures at a difiance, the Hagar is much fairer than in this, 6 f. 10 inch, high, by 6 f. 1 wide. Abraham's Sacrifice, by Remhrandt. Abraham's Head, and the naked body of ifaac, are very fine ; the painter has avoided much of the horror of the {lory, by making Abraham cover the Boy's face, to hide the horror from himfelf, 6 f. 3 inch, high, by 4 f. 3 j- wide. The Old Man and his Sons with the Bundle of Sticks, by Safoatar Rofa, in his fineft tafte, 6 f . high, by 4 f. 2 \ wide. The Adoration or' the Shepherds, Oftagon, a moll perfect and capital picture of Guido, not inferior to the Doctors : The beauty of the Virgin, the delicacy of her and the Child, (which is the fame as in the Simeon's arms in the Salon) the awe of the Shepherds, and the Chiaro Ofcuroofthe whole picture, which is in the fineft Prefervation, are ail incomparable. This belonged to Monfieur de la Vrilliere, 3 f. 3 inch. 1 every way. Vol. I. I The ii4 HOUGHTON HALL. The Continence of Scipio, by Nicolo Voujfin ; painted with all the purity and propriety of an ancient Bas-relief. This picture belonged to 'Monfieur de Morville, and is 3 f . 8 inch. £ high, by 5 f. 2 wide. Mofes ftriking the Rock, by Nitclo PouJJitt. There is a great fault in it; Mofes is by no means the principal figure, nor is he drilling the Rock angrily, and with a great a"r, but ieems rather fcraping out the Water: The thirit in all the figures, the piety in the young Man lifting his Father to the Stream, and the devotion in others are extremely fine, 3 f. 11 inch. \ high, by 6 f. 3 \ wide. The Placing Chrift in the Sepulchre, over the doer, by hudo the Sky and Trees by Wot ton. A Man with a Straw Hat eating Porridge, Annibal Caracci. A View of the Caftle of St. Angelo Marco Ricci. A Mfracle Sebajiian Concha. A young Head Guldo. The Crucifixion Vandyke. St. John baptizing Ghrift Rottenbamer. Three Boys, viz. Chrift, John the Baptift, and an Angel, of the fchoolof Rubens. A Holy Family. St. Paul before King Agrippa, after Le Sueur. . A Philofophcr mending a Pen A. le Vape. St. Cecilia in a circle of Flowers, by Filippo Laura, in .the manner of Domenicbino, trrs Flowers by Maria di Fiori. Landfcape JENNENS, Efq. 119 Landfcape Both. Butler the Poet Zouft. Holy Family Sebajfia» Bourdon. A Storm Vandevelde. ' An oval of Flowers with the Wife men offering Segkers. I A Piece of Architecture, with the Landing of iEfculapius at Rome Vaulo Panini. A Madona, &c.' Carlo Marat ti. Landfcape, Moucheron, with figures, by Berg- bam. The two Maries at the Sepulchre Pietro da Cartona. Bilhop Ken Rihy. David and Saul Jordaem or Kan Har{. A Sun-fet Vanderneer % Abraham and Melchifedeck Cajiiglione. A Nativity, after Giufeppe Chiari. Landfcape Vandiefi. A Carpet, &c. MaUeJe. Landfcape, Claude, in his firfl manner. I 4 Landfcape, 120 J EN N ENS, Efq; Landfcape, with Cain and .Abel Rowland Savory. Two Pieces of Fifh and Fowl Ryfirack. A Nativity Aibani. An old Man's Head Rembrandt * Landfcape, Rctork in the manner of "Eljbtimer. Chrifi going to be crucified, a fketch, by Annl- bal Car Tobias and the An*el Mich. Angela da Car a- *vaggio. Celebration of Twelfth-night David Rykart. Moon-rlight Vandieft. Figures and Cattle Van Bloom. Landfcape and a Sea View Vandicft . A Sleeping Boy Simon Vouct. The Wife Men offering Augujlin Caracci. A Nativity Le Sueur. Landfcape with the Flight into Egypt, by Antonio (called Gobbc) Caracci ; figures, by Domew- chine. A Converfafion Teniers, A Sea Piece f^andevelde. The Infide of a Church De Nee/. Landfcape J E N N E-N S, Efq. 121 ".ape with Balaam and the Angel. rape and Ruins Go/far F. Shakefpeare in Cr?ycns, by Vandergucht, from the only original picture, which is in the p -.-.flexion of Lady Carnar/on. Chrift praying in the Garden, Ludcvico Caracci, a Queen Sir Godfrey Kneller. The Burning of Troy Van HieU A View in Holland Van Goen. Landfcape, in Van Goe?'i manner. Landfcape and figures ran Goen. The J E N N E N S, Efq; 125 The Marquis of Hamilton ; aftep- Vandyke, A fmall round Landfcape. A large Landfcape Lucas Van Uden. Salvator Mundi Vandyke* A Sea Piece and Landfcape Vander Cabel. Lord Clarendon; Dohfon. A fmall round Landfcape; in Bourgognone. the manner of A Sea Piece De Man. King James I. half length My tens. Two Landfcapes ■ Ruyfdale. The Converfion of St. Paul P. Snayer* A fmall head on filver, fuppofed Montrofe the Marquis of Ferd. Laitbe. J. Miel the painter, Him/elf. Two fmall Piaure KcrizoutL Two ditto Juucatelli. Prince Henry Peter Oliver. Ruins of the Temple of Minerva Viviano, or Sal-vim. Landfcape- Rubem* Landfcape 126 ' JENSENS, Efq. Landfcape PbUquit/r; Froft Piece Ojidde. Landfcape, Gafpar de Wit, figures by Ferg. Ruins and figures Marco and Sebajiiano Ricci. Sea Piece Vandcvelde. Landfcape ; manner of Van Vden. Filippo Laura Two fmall Views A Sea Calm David and Abigail A Se$ View Landfcape Two fmall Landfcapes The finding of Mofes Dead Birds Two Landfcapes St. John led by his Difciples Landfcape Landfcape, Ruyfdale\ the figures by Wouvermans. A Lady's Head Cornelius J 'on/on. Lord Carnarvon Lely. A Dutch Watchmaker Fr. Hals. Landfcape Him/elf. Cocorant'u Woodcock. Br ugh eh Bona-venture Peters'. Martin Rykaert Artois, Romanelli. Fergufon. Ruyfdale. Blanchet % Rembrandt. JENNENS, Efq: 327 Landfcape Van Huyfum Landfcape J, AJfeljn- Landfcape S--zvane'::':. ::::.": 3 { . :■ t;. A ".-sitKfflDC ;; 11; : . . . :;. . ;. _-... -.--.-..• T -._'.:.;_: :: ... ^A M- . . . r . i . : I ::.>_■:.:: ,.::..': i ::' : ::L..r: izz ^ :r ]' c: '":. T " - .:. : .*. i : ;? 1 :.. : i_::.t : : .- .rz.i:.; :..; . _: :' _- - . s~: -.:,:.. I I."... ':::•.: ?:::-.: ::" rLiz.it] ::■<.: ..: ■ T-5 ?;:^:e :? ::; JA: if* . ApKocrcafJIIaic H"i:: 136 J EN N ENS, Efq; Hero and Leander EJfJmmer. Two Heads of Ludcv. and Aug. Caracci. A Sea Port Storck. A Pieta 1'rei Chrift, Simon the Pharifee, and Mary Magdalen A View of Scheveliug, a Storm comir RuyJ \ , A Battle Mich. Angela dellc . St. Sebaflian Gucu ■ ,o. Bened. Calliglione Him/elf, Landfcape with Cattle Cuyp, The Infide of the Jefuits Church at Antwerp De Net/. Landfcape with Cattle Rofa di Thvbli iWt ^eiic ^ JEgIus and the four Winds Carta Waratti. Two Heads of St. Peter and St. Paul Guercitio. Chrifl afleep, with two Angels looking on Murillo. A Wounded Stag fwimming acrofs a Brook. St. Jerom and the Angel with a Trumpet Guercinot A View JENNENS, Efq: 137 A View of Solfatara Bercherii and Both. A Battle of the Bridge Bourgognone. L^ndfcape with a Magdalen in it, by Albania or Rartohm. Breenburg in imitation of him. A Sketch of a Martyrdom Vandyke. A Hoj/e Watering Wowvermans. Lai . .cape Adr. Vandevclde. A Copy of Raphael's Heliodorus. The Binding of Samfon, a fketch, by Rubens. A Sea Port Landfcape Lan.cfcape A Sea Piece A ClUk Kiln Landfcape A Moon-light cape J. MieL Paul Brill. ^illcmans or Houfemans. Dubbels. Ruyfdale. Hobbima. Vanderneer. Wynantz. Hector and Achilles, Nic. Pouffin, or 'Peter ' Tejia. Two Landfcapes Claude Lorraine. St. 13& JENNENS, Efq. St. Peter -di&ating the Gofpe! to St. Mark Piiiro da Cor ton*. A Landfcape by Verhocm, the Pigures, &c. by Decollation c. r St. John the Baptift, by Mich. . r gto 9 or i\.^.:tini. A M Sir Jfctf, M*>v. A V c Doge's Palace; zSx.vcCana.ktti. A Landscape J. M>/. A Calm Vanclefi. A Battle Tillemans. A Coir ie Girde I* Z>/*#. The Holy Child Jefus in the arms of Jofeph, by Giufeppt del Solo, a diiciple of Carlo Cignani. A Landfcape Solomon Ruy/dale. An Afcenfion ; the finifhed Sketch for the King's Chapel at Verfailies Jowvenet, A Holy Family Erafmus Quilincus. A Landfcape Crocfe. A Bagpiper Albert Duter. Two Sketches, after Tintoret ; ore the Trial of Curift, the other leading him away. A Sea Piece Van Cappel. A Landfcape J E N N E N S, Efq. 1^9 A Landfcape Sol. Ruyfdak* Dead Game, with a Dog and Cat Fyts. Two Landscapes Mola. A Landfcs-s Pjnas, A Landfcape and Architecture, by Le Mairz, with Figures by Filippo Laura. A Landfcape Fauquier. A Village Carnival P. Wou-vermans. A Holy Family Carlo Marattz. Two L-r.dfcapes Beflin. Chiifc healing the Sick, a Sketch Tintorst. Fowls Graihck, A Landfcape JV*W« Ptuff.iu Repcfo #*. Vanni. A Carsocn Head Raphael. Chrif: -ciiputing with the Debtors, a Sketch ^itiam. A Holy Family Scbidcni. A Battle Sal vat or JRo/a. Two Views of the Clitumnus and AverniK Wttfon. A Storm i 4 o JENNENS, Efq. A Storm Annibal Caracci. A Landfcape, with the Baptifm of Chrift Nicola PouJJin. Samfon flaying the Philiftines wi:h the Jaw-bone of an Afs Valeria Caftelli. Portrait of Fred. Zuccharo Him/elf. Hercules and Antaeus Rubens. Hagar and lftimaei Le Sutur. A Woman making Lace Scbalken. The Fall of Simon Magus, a Sketch Pompeio. A Shepherd and Shepherdefs with Cattlo C. du Jardin. A Landfcape Dekker A Girl fewing OJlade. An Ox, by Pottery the Landfcape by Vanderhyde. The Flight into Egypt Dominic. Antolini. Hercules and Cerberus, a Sketch Rubens. A Landfcape and Cattle Carree. A Landfcape, Bntgbel, the Figures Rottenhamer. Mofes on the Mount Jac» Bajfan. Landfcape Dekker. A Copy JEN N ENS, Efq. i 4 r A Copy of Guido's Aurora, Carlo Maratti or Gius. Cbiari, Landfcape Wotton, Lot and his Daughters Eljbeimer. Chi ill in the Garden Paul Veronefe. A Moon-light OldGriffier^ Landfcape Berkbeyde. Landfcape De Heufcb. Landfcape, Wynantz; the Figures Wouvermans. Chrift's Agony in the Garden Ant. Bahftra. JohnBaptift pointing out Cfcrift to two Difciples Ditto, Landfcape Vanderneer. Landfcape Fauquier, Figures Teniers. A Witch and Devil-s BrugbeL A Battle Wotton. An old Man's Head Rembrandt. Landfcape Borfam. Venus corning to Vulcan, to beg Armour for iEneas Goltzius. Landfcape Gafpar Poufftn. Landfcape i42» J 1 *i N E N S, Efq. Ls^idf^pe Nicola Pout/in* Two Heads of an old Man and an old Woman Denier* Kin£ Ahafuerus and Q^Efther GabianL. The Sick Man healed at the Pro! of Bethefda Erafmus Quilinem. The Laft Supper Jowvcmt. Head of a Madona, with a Book Elizabetta Si rani. Landfcape Studio* Buftos, Statues, Bas-reliefs, &c. A Girl's Head, Marble, after the antique Sckeemaker. A Model of St. John Baptift in the Wildernefs, by Bernini, in terra cotta. The Judgement of Midas, a bas relief in ivory. Orpheus playing to the Beads, a bas relief in bronze. Erato, bronze, antique. The Statue of Fides Chrifliana, by Rouhiliac, in marble. * A Model JENNENS, Efq. 143 A Model of St. Andrew, by Flamingo ; terra cotta. A Madona and Child, in- imitation of Ruhenfs manner of painting, terra cotta. Ceres, after that in the Capitol, by Scheemaker, in terra cotta* St, Jerom, by Michael Angelc, in terra cotta. A Bacchanalian Boy, after Camillo Rufconi. JFLzy-zvard. A Burl of Aratus, 'after the antique, in marble, Dino. A Model of Mr. Roubiliac's Statue of Fides Chriftiana, in terra cotta. A Model of Mofes, by Mich. Angelo, terracotta. A Model of Flora, by Rou&Hiac ; terra cotta. A Veftal, after the antique, in marble, Hayward* A fmall Antique Buft of ^Efclepiades the Greek Phyiician, in marble. KENSINGTON [ 144 ] KENSINGTON PALACE. ON palling the bafe court, you enter thro* a large portico into a ftone gallery, that leads to the great ftaircafe which is a very fine one, and confifts of feveral flights of black marble fteps adorned with iron balafters finely wrought. The painting here affords the view of feveral balconies with groups of figures re- prefenting Yeomen of the Guards and fpeclators ; among whom are drawn Mr. Ulrick, commonly called the young Turk, in the Polonefe drefs in which he waited on K. George I. Peter the wild youth, &c. The ftaircafe is richly deco- rated and painted, by Mr. Kent. The firft room is hung with fine tapeftry, reprefenting Diana hunting and killing tl Wild Boar. Over the Chimney is a picture in a grand tafte reprefenting one of the Graces in the character of Painting receiving inftruAions from Cupid. This pieee is faid to be by Guido. In one corner is a marble ftatue of Venus with an apple in her hand, and in another the itatue of Bacchus. The KENSINGTON. .145 The fecond roam has its cieling painted with Minerva, furrounded with the Arts and Sciences, .by Kent. Over the Chimney is a very fine p ; ?ce, repre- senting Cupid admiring Pfyche, while fhe is aileep, by Vandyke. On each Tide of the Room are hung feveral P01 trait;, as • King Henry VI IT. and the Comptroller of his Houfhold, Holbein. King Charles I. and his Queen, 3 quarters, Duke and Dutchefs of York, Sir Peter Lefy. Over the Doors, King William and Queen Mary, when Prince and Princefs of Orange, Ditto. ,• The third Room, which was Qseen Caroline's apartment, is adorned with beautiful Tapeftry* jeprefenting a Dutch Winter-piece, and the Various diversions peculiar to the natives of Holland, by Vanderbank* Over the Chimney is an admiraBle picture of K. Charles U. K. James II. and their Sifter the Princefs of Orange when Children, by Vandyke. Vol. h L M 146 KENSING T O BR, In the Fourth Room: A Battle between the Germans and Italians* by Holbein. Jupiter defcending in a Shower of Gold. The Widow Eliot, both by Riley, In the Fifth Room. The Crucifixion Titian. Our Saviour laid on the Crofs Dim. Our Saviour calling St. Matthew Annibal Caracci* Chrift healing the Sick in the Temple Verrie m Henry IV. of France Titian. Q^Mary U and Q. Elizabeth, when Children Holbein. Q. Anne, when an Infant Sir Ptter Lely. Several Heads RaphcuU In the Sixth Rvom, or rather Gallery* K. Henry VIII. and Q^ Katharine of Arragan, both by Holbein. K., Philip of Spain, and Q^ Mary Ditt» K. James KENSINGTON. 147 K. James I. Vandyke. K. Charles II. The Face, by Sir Peter Lely* Q. Elizabeth in a Chinefe Drefs, drawn when flie was a prifoner at Woodftock. K. James II. when Duke of York, and his Queen, boih by Sir Peter Lely. K . William and Queen Mary in their Coronation Robes, by Sir Godfrey Kmller, who wa$ knighted upon painting thefe pi&urea. Queen Anne, after Sir Godfrey Kneller. Queen Caroline, poorly executed. The feventh, or Cupola Room, has a Star in the centre, and the deling all round is adorned with paintings in Mofaic j round the room are placed at proper diftances eight Bufts of ancient Poets, and fix Statues of Heathen Gods and ^oddenes at full length, gilt. Over the Chimney- pie fcripticn : DIVINI GLORIA RURIS! This is by far the moil magnificent fcene here. It would be idle to mention the C lee- hills, the Wrekin, the Wc'ch mountains, or CaerCaia.loc, at a prodigious difuuice ; which though they finely terminate the feene fnoulJ not bz mention- ed at the Leafowes, the beauty of which turns chiefly upon diilingu liable fcenec. The val- ley upon the light is equally enriched, and the ©ppofite fide is well fringed with woods; and the high hills on one fide this long winding vale rolling agreeably into the hollows on the other. Hence returning back into the wood, and crof- £ir>£ Pan's temple, we go direcUy down the flope, into another part of Mr^ Shen tone's grounds, till we come at a feat under a noble beech pre- fentino; a rich variety of foreground, and at perhaps half a mile diilance the gothic alcove on THE LEAS OWES. 171 on a hill well covered with woods, a pretty cot- tage under trees in the more diflant part of the concave, and a farm-houfe upon the right, all pi&urefque obje&s. The next and the fubfequent feat afford pretty much the fame fcenes a little enlarged ; with the addition of that remarkable clump of trees called Frankly Beeches, adjoining to the old family feat of the Lytteltons, and from whence the prefent Lord Lyttelton derives his title. We now come to a handfome gothic fcreen, backed with a clump of iirs, which throws the eye in front full upon a cafcade in the valley, ifTuing from beneath a dark fliade of poplars. The houfe appears in the centre of a large fwel- Hnglawn, bufhed with trees and thicket. The pleafmg variety of eafy fwells and hollows bound- ed by fcenes lefs fmooth and cultivated, affords the moil delightful picture of domeftic retire- ment and tranquillity. We now defcend to a f#at enclofed with hand- fome pales, and backed with iirs infcribed to Lord Lyttelton. It prefents a beautiful view up a valley contracted gradually, and ending in a group of moll magnificent oakes and beeches. The right hand fide is enlivened with two ftrik- ingcafcades, and a winding dream feen at in- tervals between tufts of trees and woodland. To the left appears the hanging wood already men- tioned, 172 THE LEASOWES. tioned, with the gothic fcreen on the flope in the centre. Winding flill downwards we come to a fmal 1 feat, where one of the offices of the hoiife, and a view of a cottage on very high ground is feen over the tops of the trees of the gro/e in the ad- jacent valley. The next feat fcews another face of the fame valley, the water gliding calmly a- long betwixt two feeming groves without any cafcade. The fcene very iigniiicantly alluded to by the moito from ViMi. Rura mini, ct rigui placeant in vallibus omnes, Alumina aureur, i . itloriu* ! We defcend now to a beautiful gloomy fcene called Virgil's Grove, which it is not eafy to paint or defcribe. On the entrance we pafs by a fmall obcliik on the right hand with this in- scription : P. VlRGILlO MARONI Lapis iste « um luco saeer esto. "Before this is a flight bench, where f me of the fame objecls are i i, but in a different point oT light. The wru^e icene U cpake and gloomy, confifting o; a fmall deep valley, the fides of which are incloftd with irregulai tufts of hazel and other underwood; and the whole overfltadoweu wi.h lofty trets riling out of the bottom THE LEASOWES. 173. bottom of the valley, through which a copious ftream makes its waybymohy banks, enamelled with primrofes, and variety of wild wood flow- ers. The firft we approach is thus infcribed: CELEBERRIMO POET^ J A CO BO THOMSON PROFE FONTES ILLI NON FASTIDITOS G. S. SEDEM HANC 0RNAV1T. Qua? tibi, qus tali reddam pro carmine dona? 'Nam neque me tantum venientis fibilus auftri, Nee percuffajuvant fluctutam litora, nee quas Saxcfas inter decurrunt Piuminavalles. This feat is placed upon a fleep bank on the edge of the valley, from which the eye is here drawn down into the flat below, by the light that glimmers in front, and by the found of various cafcades, by which the winding Hresm is agreeably broken. Gppofite to this feat the ground rites again to a kind of dripping fountain, where a fmall rill trickles down a rude nich of rock- work, through fern, liverwort, and aquatic weeds. After falling down thefe cafcades, it winds under a bridge of one arch, and then empties itfelf into a fmall lake which catches it a little below. On the left is feen one of the molt beautiful caicades imaginable, through a kind 174' THE LEASOWES. a kind of vifta or glade, falling down a precipice overarched with trees. We now proceed to a feat, at the bottom of a large root, on the fide of a flope with this in- fcription. O let me haunt this peaceful fhade ; Nor let ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bower Thatfhun her Paths, and flight her power. Hither the peaceful Halcyon flies From fecial meads, and open fkies ; Pleas'd by this rill her courfe to fleer, And hide her fapphire plumage here. The trout bedropt with crimfon flains, Forfakes the river's proud domains, Forfakes the fun's unwelcome gleam, To lurk within this humble flream. And fure I hear the Naiad fay, « Flow, flow, my ftream, this devious way, " Tho' lovely foft thy murmurs are, " Thy waters lovely, cool and fair. " Flow THE LEAS OWES. 17! « Flow, gentle ftream, nor let the vain « Thy fmall unfully'd ftores difdain; " Nor let the penfive fage repine, « Whofe latent couife refcmbles thine.'' The view from it is a tranquil fcene of water, gliding through Hoping ground, with a ikecch through the trees of the fmall pond below. Farther on we lofe all fight of water, and only hear the noife. We now turn all on a fudden upon the high cafcade which we admired before in villa. The fcene around is quite a grotto of native flone, roots of trees overchanging it, and the whole ftiaded over head. However, we firfl: approach upon the left a chalybeat Ipring, with an iron bowl chained to it, and this inscrip- tion upon a ft one: FONS FERRUGINEUS DIV^E QUiE SECESSU ISTO FRUI CONCEDIT. Then turning to the right, we find a Hone feat making part of the aforefaid cave, with this well- applied inferjption : IUTUS AQU^E DULCES, VIVOQTJE SEDILIA S AXO, NYMPHARUM DGMUS. We now wind up a fhady path on the left jhand, and crofnng the head of this cafcade, pafs befide the river that fupplies it, in our way up to the houfe. One t;& THE LEASOWES, One feat firfl occurs under a fhady oak as we afcend the hill; foon after, we enter the fhrubbery which half iurrounds the houfe where we find two feats thus infcribed, to two of Mr. Shen- ftone's moil particular friends. The firft thus, AMICITI^ ET MERITIS RICHARDJ GRAVES: IPS^ TE TI TYRE PINUS, IPSI TE FONTES, Ii J SA HJEC ARRUSTA VOCA- BANT. And a little farther the other with the follow- ing infcription : AMICITI^ET MERITIS RiCHARDI JAGO. From this lad is an opening down the valley over a lawn, well edged with oaks to a piece of water croiied by a confiderable bridge in the flat — the fieeple of Hales, a village amidft trees, making on the whole a very pleafing piclure. Thus winding through flowering fhrubs befides a menagerie for doves, we are conducted to the flables. But let it not be forgot, that on the entrance into this fhrubbery the firil object that flrikes us is a Venus de Medicis, befide a bafon of gold fifh, encompafled with fhrubs, and illuflrated with the following infcrip- tion: " Semi THE LEASOWES. 177 " Semi — redufta Venus." To Venus, Venus here retired, My fober vows I pay ; Not her on Paphian plains admir'd The bold, the pert, the gay. Not her, whcfe amorous leer prevail'd To bribe the Phrygian boy ; Not her who, clad in armour fail'd, To fave difaft'rous Troy. Frelh rifing from the foamy tide, She every bofom warms ; While half withdrawn fhe feems to hide, And half reveals, her charms. Learn hence, ye boaftful fons of tafte, Who plan the rural ihade ; Learn hence to Ihun the vicious wafte Of pomp, at large difplay'd. Let fweet concealment's magic art Your mazy bounds invert. ; And while the fight unveils a part, Let fancy paint the reft. Let coy referve with coft unite To grace your wood or field ; No ray obtrufive pall the fight, In aught you paint, or build. Vol. I. N And 178 THE LEASOWES. And far be driven the fumptaous glare Of gold from Britifh groves ; And far the meretricious air Of China's vain alcoves. 'Tis bafiiful beauty ever twines The moll coercive chain ; 'Tis (he, that fov'reign rule declines, Who belt deferves to reign. LONDON. UNDER this article will be found accounts of feveral curiofities of the fmaller kind either in quantity or importance. The editor thought it would be acceptable to have a fhort account of the mod remarkable productions of thofe two great Architects Inigo Jones and Sir Cbrijiopher Wren, The ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY Have a fine collection of Prints and draw- ings at their houfe in Chancery Lane. BANQUETTING LONDON. 179 BANQU ETTING UOUSEJVbitebalL Part of the celebrated Inigo Jones's magnifi- cent plan for a royal palace. This auguft building has three flories. The loweft has a ruftie wall with fmall fquare windows, and by its ftrecgth happily ferves for a bafis to the orders. Upon this is raifed the Ionic, with columns and pilafters, and between the co- lumns are well-proportioned windows with arched and pointed pediments. Over thefe is placed the proper entablature; and on this is raifed a fecond feries of the Corinthian order confining of columns and pilafters like the other. From the capitals are carried feftoons which meet with maiks and other ornaments in the middle- This feries is alfo crowned with its proper entablature, on which is raifed the baluftrade with Attic pedeftals between, which crown the work. Every thing in this bu ; lding is finely proportioned, and as happily executed. The projection of the columns from the wall has a fine effect in the entablatures, which be- ing brought forward in the fame proportion, gives that happy diverfity of light and fhade fo effential to fine Architecture. The deling is finely pai ted, by Ruben?. The defign is the Apotheofis o. King James I, N 2 and 180 L O N D O N. and is efleemed one of Rulens's moll capital performances. It has been repaired by Kent. BARBER'S HALL, On the Weft fide of Monkwell Street, is another of the works cf that great Architect luigo Jones, and is a mafterpiece in its kind : that elegant iimplicity which characlerifes all his works giving the fpeclator the higheft fa ti$ fact ion. It confiiis of a fpacious Hall, a court-room, theatre, library, and other commodious offices. The court-room has a fretwork cieling, and is alfo adorned with a capital picture of K. Henry Vill. giving the charter to the company, by Hans Holbein. The character of his Majefty's bluff haughtinefs is well reprefented, and all the heads are finely executed. The Phyfician in the middle on the King's left hand is Dr. Butts, immortalized by Shakefpeare. The picture has been retouched. The theatre contains four rows of cedar feats one above another in an elliptical form, and the roof is an elliptical cupola; this room is adorned with a buft of K. Charles I. the figures of the feven liberal fciences, and the twelve figns of the zodiac, the fkins of a man and wo- man on wooden frames, the figure of a man flayed* LONDON. 181 £ayed, the fkeJeton of an oftrich, a human ikeleton with copper joints, and five other ikeletons of human bodies. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. The Stair-cafe was painted and given by- Mr. Hcgarth. It contains two pictures, the fubjefts of which are, the good Samaritan, and the Pool of JBethefda. The figures are as large as life. BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL. Cver the entrance are two figures in marble, one reprefenting Raving, the other Melancholy Madnefs. By the famous Cibber, BRIDEWELL. In the Hall Edward VI. giving the royal charter to the Lord Mayor of London, by which he gave up and erected his palace of Bridewell into an Hofpital and Work-houfe. This large piece it is thought was not compleated by Holbein ; both he and the King dying immediately after the donation. Holbein has placed his own head in one corner of the picture. Fertue has .engraved it. N 3 CHARING 182 LONDON. CHARING CROSS. The noble equcftrian figure of King Charles is by Hubert le Soeur. The commanding grace of the figure, and exqulfife form of the horfe, are linking to the mo;t unpraclifed eye. This piece was call in 1633. and not being erected before the commencement of the Civil War, it was fold by the Parliament to John Rivet a brazier, with ftricl: orders to break it in pieces. But the man concealed the flatue and hoife under ground 'till the Reiteration. The FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, In LamFs Conduit Fields, Was eftabliflied by Royal Charter, dated Oft. 17, 1739. The firft wing of the building was finifhed in 1745, and the firft (lone of the chapel was laid on the ift of May 1747. The buildings are neat and fubflantial, without any colli y decorations. In the Court Room are placed four capital picture's taken from (acred hiftory. j. The delivering of Mofes to his mother, Exod. ii. 8.9. By Mr. Hayman. 2. Mofes LONDON. 183 2. Mofes brought to Pharaoh's daughter. By Mr. Hogarth. 3. The Hiftory of Ifhmael, Gen. xxi. 17. By Mr. Highmore. 4. Chrift receiving the little children, Luke xviii. 16. By Mr. Wills. Over the chimney is a bas relief reprefenting Children employed in hufbandry and navigation. By Ryjhrack. In the other rooms of the Hofpital are the Portraits of Mr. Thomas Coram, by Mr. Hogarth. Mr. Milner and Mr. Jacobfon, by Mr. Hud/on. Dr. Mead, by Mr. Ramfey. Mr. Emerfon, by Mr. Highmore. In the Dining-room is a large and beautiful Sea Piece of the Englifh Fleet in the Downs, by Mr. Monamy. Over the Chimney, in another room, is Mr. Hogarttfs original painting of the March to Finchley. In the Chapel, the altar-piece painted by an Italian painter, reprefents the Wife Men mak- N 4 ing 1 84 LONDON. ing their Offerings. The fine organ was prefent- ed by Mr. Handel The Royal Palace of St. JAMES's. William Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamber- lain. Half Length. An admirable Portrait. Vanfomer. Jeifery Hudfon, the Dwarf, holding the dog by a firing, in a Lahdfcape. Coloured warmly and freely like Snyder or Rubens. Mji. The Queen of Scots, a Copy, by My tens. Edward IV. in his night-gown and flippers ; the face in profile. By John *van Bekamp. Over the Chimney in the anti- chamber. Adam and Eve, By Mabtffe, Over one of the doors in the King's anti-chamber. Lord Darnley, hufband of Mary Queen of Scots, and his brother James Stuart, a boy, after- wards father of the Lady Arabella. As large as life, In the room going into the King's clofet. By Lucas de Heere. Edward the Third and the Black Prince. By Bekamt. In an anti-room. HOUSE LONDON. 185 HOUSE of LORDS. The lubjeft of the tapeftry is the Defeat of the Spanifh Armada. The great E ar of Not- tingham, then Lord High Admiral of England, beiv iefirc is preferving the detail of that ill ;ou3 event, beipoke this fuit of tapeifry, defcribing the particulars of each day's engage- ment of Francis Sp. workman in Holland; he engaged Henry Cornelius Vroom, of Harlem, to drav. - : s. The excellence of the performance, oovious to the public eye, makes encomiums unRecelfary. Vroom received too pieces of gold for his la- bour; the arras itfelfcoft 1628 pound. The Church of St. MARY LE BOW, in Cb^gfedCi Was built by the great Sir Chri5;opher Wren, and finithed in 1673. It is a handfome flruclure, and is raucn admired for the elegance ofitsfteeplc. 1 ;- tower rifes fqu are from the ground to ace mt with more ornament as it incipal deco- ration of the lower part is the entrance, which is a noble, lofty, and well-propcnioned arch, on two of the fides faced with a bold ruilic, and 186 LONDON. and raifed on a plain folid courfe from the foundation. Within the arch is a portal of the Doric order; the frize ornamented with triglyphs, and with fculpture in the metopes ; over this arch is an opening with a fmali balcony which anfwers to a window on the other face. The firit ftage is terminated by an elegant cornice, over which again rifes a plain courfe, where a dial projecls. Above this in each face is a large arched window, with coupled Jonic pilafters at the fides, near the corners. The cornice over thefc windows fupports an elegant baluitrade with attic pillars over the Ionic co- lumns, fuppcrting turrets each compofed of four handiome fcroll 6 which join at the top, where are placed urns with flames. From this part the iteeple rifes circular. There is a plain courfe to the height of half the fcrolls, and upon this are raifed a circular range of Corinthian columns, while the body of the fteeple is continued round and plain within them. Thefe fupport a lecond baluilrade, with very large fcrolls extending from it to the body of the fteeple. Above thefe is placed a feries of Compofite columns, and from the entablature rifes another fet of fcrolls, fupporting the fpire which refts upon four balls, and is terminated "by a globe, whence rifes a fane in the form of a dragon. LONDON. 187 a dragon. The whole fpire It indeed a m after- piece in a peculiar il The MONUME N T Is a {lately fluted column of the Dor ; c order, erected by order of Parliament, in commemora- tion of the burning and rebuilding of the City on the Eaft £uc of Fifti Street Hill near London Bridge. Ic was begun by Sir Chriilopher Wren in 1671, and completed by him in 1677; the- coil of it amounted to Scoo £* It much ex- ceeds in height the pillars of the Emperors Trajan and Antoninus at Rome, or that of Theodofius at Ccnftantinople ; for the larger! of the Roman columns, which is that of Antoninus is only 172 | feet in height and 12 feet 3 inches Engliih meafure in diameter; but the diameter of this column at the bafe is 15 feet, and confequently it is 120 feet high. The heighth of the Pedefial is 40, and the heigh th of the Cippus or Meta with the urn on the top 42, making 202 feet- in the whole. The Well fide of the pedeftalis adorned with curious emblems by the mafterly hand of Mr. Cibber ; the eleven principal figures are in alto, and the && in baffo-relievo. The four dragons at i88 LONDON. at the angles were carved by Mr. Edward Pierce, who amited Sir Chriilopher in many of his de- signs, and built the Church of St. Clement under his direction. NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE, At Charing Crofs, The town refidence of the right honourable the Earl and Countefs of Northumberland, is one of the large!! and moil magnificent houfes in London. The fouth fide of the fquare appears to have been built by fwga Jones, the front towards the garden is very grand and flately. The four fides of the court were new faced with Portland Hone, and finifhed in the Roman ilile of architecture; two new wings were alfo added, above 100 feet in length, ex- tending from the garden front towards the Thames. The principal apartments are fitted up in the moft elegant manner. The cielings are em- belliihed with copies of antique paintings, or line ornaments of ftucco, richly gilt. The chimney pieces are carved and finifhed in the moil correct tafte. The rooms are hung with beautiful tapeilry or the richeft damafks, and magnificently furniftied. They alfo contain a great LONDON. 189 great variety of paintings by Titian, and the moft eminent maimers. The left wing forms a flate gallery or ball- room 106 feet long, the breadth being a fourth part of the length, and the height equal to the diagonal of the fquare of the breadth. The cieling is coved and ornamented with figures 2nd feftoons richly gilt. The flat part of it is divided into five compartments, ornamented with fine imitations cf feme antique figures, as a flying Fame blowing a trumpet, a Diana; a triumphal car drawn by two horfes, a Flora, and a Victory hclding out a laurel wreath. The entablature is Corinthian and of molt exquifite workmanfbip. The light is admitted through nine windows in the fide next the garden. Above thefe is another row of windows which though not vifible in the room are fo artfully placed as to throw a proper quantity of light over the cornice, (o that the higheft parts of the room are as much enlightened as the lowerl, and the pictures on the cppofite fide are free from a confufed glare. In the fpaces be- tween the window? there are tables cf antique marble, and ftools covered with crimfon damalfc placed alternately. The piers are alfo orna- mented with fquare and oval glafTes ranged alternately, the frames of which form a beauti- ful i 9 ° L O N D O N. ful variety of foliage to adorn the higher parts quite up to the entablature. The oppofite fide is divided into three large fpaces by two chimney pieces made ofihtuary marble, with cornices i'upported by figures of Phrygian captives, copied from thofeintne capi- tol at Rome, and executed in a very malterly manner, The finifhing above the chimney pieces confifls of terms, Iphinxes, feftoons &c. and with- in the fpaces formed by thefe ornaments are placed whole length portraits of the Earl and Countefs of Northumberland in their robes. That the three grand divifions might be furnifhed in an elegant manner, his lordfhip employed the moil eminent matters to copy five of the moil admired paintings in Italy, which are placed as follow: in the middle and largeft divifion is Raphael's celebrated ichool of Athens, copied from the original in the Vatican by Raphael Mengs. In the other two divifions on the right and left hand fide of the former are placed the feait and council of the Gods, which were alfo painted by Raphael, and co- pied by Pompeio Battoni from the originals in the Little Famefe. The two ends of the gallery are ornamented with the tri.imphal procemon of Bacchus LONDON. 191 Bacchus and Ariadne painted by Annihal Caracci in the Famefe Palace, and Guide? $ Aurora. The former was copied by Felice Cojlanfe, and the latter by Mafuccio a fcholar of Carle Maratti, from the original in the Villa Rofpigliofi. All thefe piilures are very large, being exactly of the fame dimenfions with the originals, and are copied in a very mafterly manner. Befides the apartments already mentioned there are above 140 rooms more in this honfe. Lady Northumberland's clofet is a repofitory of curiofities, and contains a fine collection of Pictures. The famous Cornaro family by the cele- brated Titian, in this houfe, is a picture well known. There is, befides, among many others, An Englifn knight fitting in a chair and a ta- ble by him. Lord Denny, comptroller, and his lady, 1527. Sir Henry Guldeford and his lady. All by Hans Holbein, A triple x*2 LONDON. A triple portrait of Sir Charles Cotterel embraced by Dobfon, a&d Sir Balthazar Gerbier in a white waiftcoat. By Dobfon, The greater part of the old houfe was built by Bernard J an/en, who alio railed the irnmente pile of Audley Inn. The frontifpiece which was of Hone was the work of Gerard Chriji mas, who gave the deiignof Alderfgate *. * Mr. Walpole's Anecdotes, Vol. II. pa^e 34 and 35. SQ^€ X 5j /2 '/ * \*0 ^ /• ** n / s*. A SP#/AU 5]HXit'B