New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-27
A LEyEE AT AGNEW'S.
Beauties and Worthies of Many
Ragns from the Windsor Portfolios.
London. May l6.

The portfolios at Windsor Castle have been
emitted for the sake OF filling the library
shelves About twelve hundred engraved por-
traits have been sold by the King to the Az
news. This would make too large company
for q levee III a gallery OF moderate size, and
.onsacuently the attendance has been limited 10
900 and il is a splendid parade Of princes,
suchesses court beauties great ladies. prime
ministers dipl0matists. statesmen, orators. pio-
reers IN empire making heroic soldiers. admirals,
,,,o-s uainrers and men of letters. Three CEN
,rries 81 English history look down from the
walls upon the bewildered spectator; and while
the cold masses of light and dark are relieved
only by chiaroscuro and there is no warmth Of
oo,or. faces and figures do not lack vitality It
Is only single Eight OF stairs from the outer
bub7uh Of Bond street, yet with this cloud OF
witnesses summoned by craftsmen who knew
the poetry Of their trade. stored London is
t-anshgured and the humblest visitor is brought
into touch with the celebrities Of bygone gen.
erations The faces are aglow with light and
the costumes and draperies are artistically ar
ranged for these are reproductions OF portrait
ure which distinctly decorative; and since
nearly all are mezzotints OF the eighteenth CEN
my. II is a collection OF classics IN a most
beautiful class OF engravings. Consequently
when the visitor has made the tour OF the four
walls he returns 70 the street with a conscious
ness u having attended court not for a single
reign. but for several centuries. and passes into
PlccadiIy with a regretful feeling that he can
never expect 10 get into equally good company
again.
In the course of a journey around the room
the spectator has seen half g dozen prime min
listers and a brilliant retinue OF statesmen, and
unless he lacks sensitiveness he has taken of
hts har more than once. The great Earl Of
Chatham. IN gloomy majesty. has frowned upon
him and William Pitt, laboring industriously
sronE state papers, has given him a searching
glanca. He has caught the youthful Charles
James Fox al an open window OF Holland House
smiling upon Lady Susan Strangways and hand
ing dove 70 Lady Sarah Bunbury: and he has
net the statesman later in life as Sir Joshua
saw him in Parliament. Sheridan he has passed
and Warren Hastings Of the famous inpeach-
ment trial; and Give has held him with gilt
tering eve. Sir Robert Peel as Sir Thomas Law
renee painted him and Mr Canning brilliantly
reproduced from Hoppner's canvas. are rivals In
stateliness; and Sir Robert walpole. the Mar
quis Of Rockingham and the Duke Of Newcastle
are among the other prime ministers States
men and soldiers alternately command attention:
Tiscount Castlereagh. as he was seen at the
Congress of Vienna. without a suggestion Of his
ultimate fate by suicide: Lord Chancellor Eldon
a. .,,o--- 800 - -
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as famous historical figure and Lord Corn
wallis. stoHd, portly and well fed who surren-
oered TorktFvn; General Amherst who COM
nanded the British forces in America during
he French 'War. and the first Marquis of
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