The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-01-19
WARWICK CASTLE.
A Peep Into the Famous English Palace OF
the "~Kingnaker."

the ~hingnakeT."
One could spend DAYS looking at tn
pictures at Warwick and at the sculp
ture and curios. There is a table, tn
slab of which is made of fine marble
mosaic, lapis lazuli, and precious stone.
which belonged TO Marie Antoinette. Il
the red drawing room are rare speci.
mems Of Limousin enamels, also Bohe-
milan glass and Venetian crystals. This
roo leads to the cedar drawing room,
whose walls are 10 feet in thickness.
One Of the many valuable and beautiful
ornaments in this room is a bust Of
P~roserpine, by our American sculptor
Power.
The Living rooms Of the castle ex-
tend $50 feet in length, and each win
dow gives charming views of the
grounds. In one of these rooms, the
gilt drawing room. is a Florentine mo-
sale table, enriched with precious stones,
brought from the Grimani palace in
Venice. Its value is $40. 900, which,
please remember, is $50, 900 of Yankee
money. The Grimani arms, the pope's
triple crown, lion of st. Mark, doge's
cap, keys of St. Peter and cardinals
hat are illustrated in jasper, onyx, am
ethyst, malachite and comedian on its
surface.
moment after leaving the gilt draw
ing room and we are in the state bed
room, where good Queen Anne slept,
and in which her big dreary looking
bed still stands. We don't seem to know
much about Queen Anne's belongings.
thus her bed and travelling trunks at its
foot arouse our interest. In these trunks
were her maJesty's clothes. They are
enslbIe, ponderOus trunks, covered with
brown leather and studded with brass
nails. Even an American baggage
smashing porter would have found
Queen Anne's trunks too large an or
to destroy. George III presented
bedstead, with its faded crimson |
and its IS feet high posts. Over
fireplace hangs a fine portrait Of the
queen herself painted by Sir Godfrey
1t is in this state bedroom
that Queen Victoria slept when she
visited Warwick castle with the late
prince consort. l don't know whether
she occupied Anne's bed, but if so
nope it was more comfortable than it
looks.
From the bedroom is a boudoir, lit
'rally crammed with paintings. Here
S Holbein's Henry VIII;''''A Boar
by Rubens; "a Dead Christ"
n copper, by a follower Of Correggio;
Charles lis Beauties" by Lely; a
San Sebastian by Vandyke; Gard
by Ten rs, and a Salvador {
Rosa landscape. !
The castles state dining room was
urned out in 1871, but it has been re-
reduced on the old Iires and is a truly
oval apartment. On either side of the
1asslve fireplace, where many a Yule
% has slowly burned itself out to white T
shes, there are gilt Venetian figures.
.bove the fireplace hangs Ruben's
Hetch Of lions. There is also in this
a droll portrait Of George III in
le arms Of his mother.
The castle boasts a Shakespeare room,
esigned and added by the late earl.
nd to which the county of Warwick
resented the Kenilworth buffet in an
ent oak. Into this room have been col Z
cted all procurable Shakespeare rel
S, and resting on an old claw footed
TX table are all the works, with the
imlrable edition of Shakespeare of
g late Halliwell Phillips.
place has been called the castle th
the klnglnaker. Who can visit this ill
stor1c house and not desire to reread til
ord Lytton's-or Bulwer's, as You p'
Last of the Barons," 81
nose text of composition is furnished t."
the annals Of this wonderful castle -
d its wonderful earl, Richard Nevil. on
Herald.