Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-01-20
WARWICK CASTLE.
0 Peep Into the Famous English Palace OF
tho "Kingmnker."

tho "Kingmnker."
One could spend days looking at the
pictures ut Warwick and Mt tho sculp-
.ure and curios. There is table, the
slab of which is made of fine marble
iaosaic, lapis lazuli, and precious stones
which belonged to Marie Antoinette. In
the red drawing room are rare spcci-
inens of Limousin cnamels, also Bohc-
p,im glass and Venetian crystals. This
room leads to the cedar drawing room,
whose walls are 10 feet III thickness.
Ono of tho many valuable and beautiful
ornaments in this room is n bust of
Proscrpino. by our American sculptor
Power.
The Giving rooms" of the castle ex-
tend $50 feet in length, and each win
dow gives charming views of the
grounds. In ono of these rooms, the
gilt drawing room, is Florentine mo-
sale table, enriched with precious stones,
brought from the Grimani palace in
Venice. Its value is $40, 600, which,
please remember, is $50, 600 of Yankee
money. The Grimani arms, the popes s
triple crown, lion of st. Mark dogc's S
hat are illustrated in jasper, onyx, am
ethyst, malachite and cornelian OH its
surface
A moment after leaving the gilt draw
ing room and we are i'll the state bed
room, where good Queen Anne slept,
and i'll which her big dreary looking
bed still stands. We don 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 malesty's clothes. They are
sensible, 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
DER to destroy. George III presented
this bedstead. with its faded crimson
curtains and its 10 feet high posts. Over
the fireplace hangs fine portrait of the
queen herself painted by Sir Godfrey
Kneller. 1t is i'll this state bedroom
that Queen Victoria slept when she
visited Warwick castle with the late
prince consort. don't know whether
she occupied Annes bed, but if so
hope it was more comfortable than it
looks.
From tho bedroom is boudoir, lit
orally crammed with paintings. Here
is Holbein's Henry VIII" "A Boar
Hunt" by Rubens; "a Dead Christ"
ON copper, by follower of Correggio;
Charles Il's Beauties" by Lely; a
"San Sebastian" by Vandyke; card
Players, by Teni .rs, and Salvador
Rosa landscape.
The castles state dining room was
burned out in 1871, but it has been re-
produced ON the old lires and is truly
massive fireplace, where many Yule
log has slowly burned itself out to white
ashes, there are gilt Venetian figures.
Above the fireplace hangs Ruben's
sketch of lions. There is also in this
room droll portrait of George III in
the arms of his mother.
The castle boasts a Shakespeare room,
designed and added by the late earl,
and to which the county of Warwick
presented the Kenilworth buffet in an
cient oak. Into this room have been col
lected all procurable Shakespeare rel
les, and resting on an old claw footed
oak table are all the works, with the
admirable edition of Shakespeare of
the late Halliwell Phillips.
The place has been called the castle
of the kingmaker. Who can visit this
historic house and not desire to reread
Lord Lytton's-or Bulwer's, as you
please-"The Last of the Barons, 4"
whose text of composition is furnished
by the annals of this wonderful castle
and its wonderful earl, Richard Nevil.
Boston Herald.