The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-02-14
WARWICK CASTLE.

WARWICK CASTLE.
a Peep Into the Famous English Palace OF
the 'tkingmaker."
One could spend days looking at the
pictures at Warwick and at the sculp-
ture and curios. There is table, the
slab Of which is made of fine marble
mosaic, lapis lazuH, and precious stones
which belonged to Marie Antoinette. In
the red drawing room are rare speci-
mems of Limousin enanaels, also Bohe-
mian glass and Venetian crystals. This
room 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
Proserpine, by our American sculptor
Power.
The living rooms" of the castle ex-
Aend $50 feet in length, and each win
dow gives charming views of the
grounds. In one Of these rooms, the
gilt drawing room, is Florentine mo-
sale table, enriched with precious stones,
brought from the Grimani palace In
Venice. It's value is e10, 600, 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 cardinal s
hat are illustrated in jasper, onyx, am
ethyst, malachite and cornelian on its
surface.
Amoment 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 d1eary 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
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 .stoo large an or
der'' to destroy. George IH presented
this, bedstead, with its faded crimson
curtains and its Is feet high posts Over
the fireplace hangs a fine portrait of the
queen herself painted by Sir Godfrey
Kneller. It is in this state bedroom
that Queen Victoria slept when she
visited Warwick castle with the late
prince consort. don't know whether
she occupied Anne's bed, but if SO 1
hope it was more comfortable than it
looks.
From the bedroom is boudoir, lit
eralIy crammed with paintings. Here
is Holbein s Henry VII" "A Boar
Hunt, . by Rubens; A Dead Christ, y
on copper, by follower of Correggio;
Charles l's Beauties" by Lely; a
..San Sebastian by Vandyke; Gard
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 liz es and is truly
royal apartment. On either side Of the
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 dron portrait of George III In
the arms of his mother.
The castle boasts 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' n's-or Bulwer's, as you
please The Last of the Barons, y
whose text of composition is furnished
by the annals of this wonderful castle
and its wonderful earl, Richard Nevil.
Boston Herald.