Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-01-05
WARWICK cAs1n


y f00p Hnoo eoe fooO0s EugubeA Hn1ogo -
80, the ''ksagmaker."
Ono could spend days looking at the
pictures 1t Warwick and ut the scalp
turc and curios. There is q table. the
slab VI which In made of fine marble
mosaic. lapis luzuli. and precious stones
whics, belonged to Marie Anfoinette. In
the red drawing room are rare speci-
mems u Limousin enamels. also Bohe-
milan glass and Venetian crystals. This
room leads to the cedar drawing room,
whose walls arc 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-
tend $50 feet in length, and each win
dow gives charming views of the
grounds. In one of these rooms, the
g,lt drawing room. is a Florcntine mo-
sale table. enriched with precions stones,
brought from the Griman: palace in
Venice. Its value is cl0.000. which.
| please remember. is $4,000 of Yankee
money. The Grimani arms. the pope's
/ triple crowa. 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.
/ A 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 dIoary 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 malcsty'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 bctstead, with its faded crimson
curtains and its IL feet high posts. Over
the fireplace hangs fine portrait of the
queen herself painted 10y Sir Godfrey
Eaeller. IL is in this state bedroom
tina; Queen Victoria slept when she
visited Warwick castle with the late
; prince coilsor;. don't know whether
she occupied Anre's red. but if 30
hope il was more comfortable than il
looks.
, Front the bedroom is i,ouloir, lit
orally cramnod with paintings. Here
is Holboin's Henry Wiz "A Boa;
Hunt" by Eubcns: "a Dead Christ, -
ON copper, by follower Of Correggio
Charles rs Beauties by Lely: ;
"San Sebastian" by Nandyke: "Cart
= Players" by Teui rs. and Salvatol
Rosa landscape.
= The castles state dining room wa
, burncd GU. in 1871. hut il has been re
produced on the old lircs and is trul,
royal apartment. On either side of tn,
: massive fireplace. where many a Yul
|: log has slowly burned itself out to whit
= ashes. there are gilt Venetian figures
Above tho fireplace hangs Ruben
sketch of hors. There is also in thi
b. room n droli portrait o. George III il
r the arms of his mother.
Tho castle boasts Shakespeare room
designed and added by the late eail
and tc which the county Of Warwic
: presented Nh. EcIilworth buffet in al
cie,it oak. Into this room have been col
l-ctei all prccufabic Shakespeare re-
J. les. ana resting On an old claw toote
J. Oak table are all the works. with I'll
e admirable edition OF Shakespeare .
r. the late Hailiwell Phillips.
:, The place has been called the cast
: of the kingmaker. Who can visit TN
:. historic house and not desire TO rerea
I, Lord Lytton 's-or BIlwer's, as yo
- please-''Thc Last of the Barons,
whose text of composition is furnishe
~ 10y the annals of this wonderful cast
~ ard its wonderful earl, Richard Nevi
ic Boston Herald.
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