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Within the Cabinet of Enamels and Miniatures.

The virgin and child, in miniature, round; by old Lens,
from the original by Annibal Caracci, at Kensington.

Head of Chrift; by Carlo Dolce; in a rich frame of filver
gilt and filver cherubim.

Venus, Cupid, and other figures in enamel; by Boit, from
the original by Luca Giordano, at Devonshire-houſe.

Ethelreda Harrifon, wife of Charles viſcount Townſhend;
a capital piece of enamel, by Zincke, after Vanloo; fet in
a frame of enamel flowers in relief: on the back, her arms
supported by Cupids, enamelled by Groth.

A fine old enamelled watch-caſe, after Raphael and Do-
minichino.

Emperor Joſeph iſt. ſmall.

Colonel Horatio Walpole, uncle of ſir Robert Walpole;
ſmall.

The ducheffes of Cleveland and Portsmouth; very ſmall.

Sir Edward Walpole, father of Maria duchefs of Glou-
ceſter, in enamel; by Zincke.

Galfridus Walpole, youngeſt brother of ſir Robert Wal-
pole; in water-colours.

Byzas,

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Byzas, imaginary founder of Byzantium; large intaglia
on onyx. M.*

A valuable jewel of lord Burleigh's head on onyx, by Valerio Vicentino, cut on the reverse of an antique of Caracalla; appendent is the head of queen Elizabeth, cut like-wife on fardonyx, by the fame Vicentino; the whole set with 53 brilliants: given to Mr. Walpole by his father, who bought it of fir Andrew Fountaine, who had it set on purpose, with allusion to queen Caroline and fir Robert Walpole.

Sir Robert Walpole, earl of Orford; very like; painted in enamel by Zincke, two years before fir Robert's death: set in a frame of enamelled oak-leaves.

Catharine Shorter, first wife of fir Robert Walpole; ditto, after fir Godfrey Kneller: set with enamel flowers. The two heads are in Zincke's best manner, and were engraved for the Ædes Walpolianæ.

Mary Walpole, second daughter of fir Robert Walpole and Catharine Shorter, and wife of George Cholmondeley viccount Malpas, afterwards earl of Cholmondeley; in water-colours; by Groth, after Jarvis.

Lady Maria Walpole, only child of fir Robert Walpole and Maria Skerret his second wife, married to Charles Churchill, esq; in enamel; by Zincke.

Horace

* All the curiosities marked M. belonged to Dr. Conyers Middleton, whose
whole collection Mr. Walpole bought. See an account of them in the doctor's
Germana quædam Antiquitatis Monumenta.

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Horace Walpole, [who made the collection] youngest son of Sir R. Walpole and Catharine Shorter; ditto.

Horatio Walpole, lord Walpole, brother of Sir Robert; in enamel; by Groth, after Vanloo.

Two lockets in shape of hearts, with hair of Sir Robert Walpole and Catharine Shorter, fet with diamonds.

An Egyptian duck; antique cameo, on agate. M.

A sleeping hermaphrodite with two fatyrs; ditto; very fine. M.

Sir Anthony Shirley, embassador from the fophy of Perfia to king James 1st. dresſs, half English half Perſian; by Isaac Oliver.

The queen of Bohemia; by Isaac Oliver: bought out of the collection of lady Isabella Scott, daughter of the duchefs of Monmouth.

Serjeant Maynard; by Hofkins: given to Sir R. Walpole by Sir Everard Falkener.

Sir Kenelm Digby; by Peter Oliver: it was in doctor Mea de's collection.

James the 1st. by Isaac Oliver.

Charles 1st. by Petitot: fine.

Charles 2d. ditto; in a cafe enamelled blue; done abroad: bought of an old gentlewoman, to whom he gave it when he ſtood godfather to her in Holland.

James 2d. when duke of York; fine, by Petitot: bought at

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at the sale of Mrs. Dunch, daughter of his mistrels, Mrs. Godfrey.

Robert Cecil earl of Salisbury; by Isaac Oliver.

A lady's head, in enamel; by Petitot.

Nicholas Burwell, brother of sir Jeffery Burwell, grand-father of sir Robert Walpole; by Hoskins: set in a cafe with small diamonds, and enamelled with the judgment of Paris in relief, very neat.

Mrs. Godfrey, mistrels of king James, in enamel; by Petitot: was Mrs. Dunch's.

Robert Devereux earl of Effex; by Isaac Oliver: it belonged to Frances lady Worfeley, who was defcended from him. It was engraved for the Illustrious Heads.

Frances, his wife, daughter of sir Francis Walfingham, widow of sir Philip Sydney, and lastly wife of the earl of Clanrickard and Saint Albans.

Robert Walpole, second earl of Orford; painted in water-colours by Rosalba with all the force of oil.

An elderly lady's head; by Cooper: fine.

Robert Carr earl of Somerset, in his latter time, favourite of king James; by Hoskins: bought at the sale of the curious collection of T. Barrett of Lees in Kent, 1758.

Richard Cromwell, protector, in armour; by Cooper: from the same collection.

Marivaux, author of Marianne; by Liotard, in water-colours.

George

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George Walpole, third earl of Orford; ditto.

John Chute, esq; of the Vine in Hampshire; finely paint-
ed in water-colours, by Pompeio Battoni, at Rome.

A watch enamelled with histories, after Pietro Cortona.

Another enamelled watch.

Admiral Churchill, brother of John duke of Marlborough;
very finely enamelled by Boit: it belonged to his neice,
Mrs. Dunch.

A curious antique miniature in gold, of a Roman lady and
her son; the boy has a bulla at his neck. M.

Lady Arabella Stuart; by Hilliard: it was lord Wil-
mington's.

Queen Elizabeth; ditto: ditto.

George the 2d. by Mr. Deacon.

Cowley, the poet, after fir Peter Lely; by Zincke; his
mafter-piece, and perhaps the fineſt piece of enamel in the
world. It was engraved for Mr. Hurd's edition of Cowley.

A lady, said to be Henrietta duchefs of Orleans, but pro-
bably Martinozzi, princeſs of Conti: one of the fineſt works
of Petitot. A looking-glaſs behind it: bought of Zincke.

Bianca Capello, great duchefs of Tuscany; a small head
in oil, by Bronzino.

Louis 14th: Mary of Auftria, his queen: Anne of Auf-
tria, his mother, very delicate: madame de Montespan, his
miftrels, beautiful. These four are ſmall heads in enamel,
by Petitot.

Mrs.

miftrels, Mrs.

er.

rwell, grand-
ſet in a cafe
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in enamel; by

Oliver: it be-
defended from
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of the earl of
painted in water-

r time, favourite
ſale of the cu-
nt, 1758.

ur; by Cooper:
iotard, in water-

George

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Mrs. Middleton, a beauty in the reign of Charles 2d. ditto.
Duchess of Mazarin, in water-colours.

Constant Hayes, wife of Galfridus Walpole, and after-
wards of Mr. Kerwood; very small.

Katharine duchess of Buckingham, daughter of James 2d.
in enamel; by Zincke: given to Mr. Walpole by her neice
madame de Bouzols, daughter of marshal Berwick.

A silver gilt heart; within, the arms of Sir Robert and
Catharine lady Walpole, his first present to her on their
marriage.

Anne Boleyn; copied by Wale from a portrait of her by
Hofkins, which he did from an ancient picture of her for
king Charles 1st. and which is mentioned in his catalogue
with other royal miniatures in the same frame; all which
are now in the possession of the duke of Richmond.

Catharine Parr; by Holbein: a most scarce head, and
exactly like the picture of her at the earl of Denbigh's at
Nuneham Padox, Warwickshire.

A girl with flowers, in water-colours; by Rosalba.

Oliver Cromwell; by Boit, after Cooper: given to Mr.
Walpole by his brother lord Orford.

John Dodd, of Swallowfield, Bucks. by Rouquet.

Catharine Clopton, wife of Henry Talbot, and cousin of
Catharine lady Walpole; by Zincke.

Jane Seymour; by Holbein, in water-colours: was lady
Worfeley's.

Peter

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Peter Oliver, profile in black lead, from a leaf of his own
pocket-book, and his wife, full-faced, on the other side;
both fine: it belonged to Vertue the engraver.

Lucius Carey, the famous lord Falkland; by Hofkins;
fine: it was doctor Meade's.

Doctor Bragge, a dealer in pictures; by Mr. J. Deacon.

A Calcedonian stone, antique, used as an ornament to a
horse of a triumphal chariot. M.

Another stone; described in Germana quædam. M.

On the infides of the doors:

Thomas Howard duke of Norfolk, beheaded temp. Eliza-
beth; by Antonio More: belonged to Richardson the paint-
er, and engraved amongst the Illustrious Heads.

A lady, painted by Holbein; engraved by Hollar when in
the Arundelian collection, and probably Mary Tudor queen
of France, first of Henry 8th. but amongst the Illustrious
Heads called Catharine Howard. This also was Richardson's.

Lucy Barlow, alias Waters, mother of the duke of Mon-
mouth; by Cooper.

Countefs of Dorfet; by Dixon.

Catharine of Arragon, first wife of Henry 8th. an admir-
able original; by Holbein. These three were bought at the
auction of lady Isabella Scott.

Isaac Oliver; by himself: perfectly fine.

Waller, the poet; by Cooper. And a lord Digby; ditto.
These three from the collection of Mr. Barrett of Lees.

Liotard

by Rofalba.
per: given to Mr.

y Rouquet.
bot, and cousin of
colours: was lady

Peter

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Liotard, the painter, in his Turkish dres, in enamel;
by himself: given to Mr. Walpole by his sister Mary
Churchill.

Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, a most beautiful miniature
by Clinkfted; given to Mr. Walpole by Mr. Chute: set in
a gold frame enamelled blue.

Maria Skerret lady Walpole, whole length, and very fine;
the attitude copied by Zincke from a picture of Annibal
Caracci in the collection at Houghton: set in a frame like
the former.
[End of the cabinet of enamels and miniatures.

In the Glafs-cafe near the Window:

A chalice of silver gilt, richly ornamented with figures,
jewels, and chryftal.

Model of the shrine of Thomas Becket, enamelled.

An amber jewel box.

Great fear of Theodore king of Corsica.

That very curious piece by which he took the benefit of
the act of insolvency: he is only stiled, Theodore Stephen
baron de Newhoff.

His capitulations made with the people of Corsica, on his
election, signed by his own hand.

An antique figure of the deity of gardens; fine.

Two phalli, a fibula, two sacrificing instruments, and a
small eagle; all of bronze. M.

Gold medal of Maximilian, with a chain enamelled.

A crofs

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of cedar inlaid with mother-of-pearl and of gold watch, given by Ge-
Catharine lady Walpole.
enamelled on all sides with
silk-cups, with flowers on go-
e.
box, with enamelled top and
by Francis earl of Hertford.
box of lapis lazuli, set in
box of ditto, set in gold en-
d of Velpafian in cornelian.
p and faucer.
dian faucer.
Roman ear-rings, one with a pe-
partments of old japan.
bone of Caligula, with silver
souvenirs of the finest things in the
t of the ancients. It is e-
ly and seems to represent that
of its madness. It was found wi-
the very first discovery of Her-
ing a well for the prince d'
his forwards at Florence, where
France, and being purchased
H

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A crofs of cedar inlaid with mother of pearl.

A small gold watch, given by George 2d. when prince of Wales to Catharine lady Walpole.

A coffer enamelled on all fides with battles, and fet in
silver gilt.

Two caudle-cups, with flowers on gold grounds, of Chelsea porcelaine.

A red snuff-box, with enamelled top and bottom; given
to Mr. W. by Francis earl of Hertford.

A square snuff-box of lapis lazuli, fet in gold.

A round snuff-box of ditto, fet in gold enamelled.

A small buſt of Vespasian in cornelian.

An agate cup and ſaucer.

A small cornelian ſaucer.

Two antique Roman ear-rings, one with a pearl, the other
of gold. M.

A box in compartments of old japan.

A small buſt in bronze of Caligula, with filver eyes. This
exquisite piece is one of the fineſt things in the collection,
and ſhews the great art of the ancients. It is evidently a
portrait, carefully done, and ſeems to reſpreſent that emperor
at the beginning of his madneſs. It was found with ſome
[other small buſts at the very firſt diſcovery of Herculaneum,
which happened by digging a well for the prince d'Elbœuf,
who reſided many years afterwards at Florence, where it was
fold on his return to France, and being purcſased by fir

Horace

in enamel;
lady Mary

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uments, and a

amelled.

A croſſ

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Horace Mann, was by him sent to Mr. Walpole.

A broken patera engraved. M.

A sacrificing instrument in the shape of a shell. M.

A Roman bulla of gold, very rare: bought at Rome of
Ficaroni, who wrote his book of La Bolla d'oro from this.

A lady's head, miniature, set in gold: given to Mr. Walpole by Isabella de Jonghe, countess of Denbigh.

A chrysalisceptre, set in gold enamelled, with pearls;
from lady E. Germayne's collection, and given to Mr. Wal-
pole by her neice lady Temple.

A cup and saucer of Seve china, blue ground with white heads and feetoons.

A dressing-box and tray of the finest old silver japan.

Two caudle-cups of Chelsea china, claret colour and gold.

A magnificent miffal, with miniatures by Raphael and his
scholars, set in gold enamelled, and adorned with rubies
and turquoises; the sides are of cornelian, engraved with
religious subjects; the clasp, a large garnet. This precious
prayer-book belonged to Claude queen of France, wife of
Francis I. ft. and seems to have belonged to the father of
Thuanus; *vide vol. i, p. 142, of the French edition.* It was
purchased by Mr. Walpole from the collection of doctor
Meade, 1755.

A round snuff-box, enamelled with the stories of Joseph
and Potiphar's wife, Susannah and the elders, Lot and his
daughters, and a landscape.

A gold

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A gold snuff-box, enamelled: at top, a miniature of James 1st. and within, of queen Elizabeth; an onyx at bottom.

A small snuff-box fet in gold, with a fragment of a fine antique cameo in grotesque foliage on fardonyx; from the Arundelian collection.

A needle-cafe, with monkies, of old japan.

Two boxes in compartments, ditto.

Two small ewers of bronze. M.

A tea-kettle of Chinese filver, richly chafed.

An agate oval caſket.

Henry 8th's. dagger, of Turkisſh work; the blade is of ſteel damaſked with gold, the caſe and handle of chalce-donyx, fet with diamonds and many rubies. From the collection of lady Elizabeth Germaine. The duchefs of Portland has ſuch another fet with jacinths.

Antique figure of a muſe caſt in filver; ſitting: given to Mr. Walpole by lord Frederic Campbell, from the collection of his father John duke of Argyll.

Four small japan boxes.

A boy's head modelled in wax on copper, by Abraham Simon.

A ditto with a bulla, in Roman glaſs.

A large amethyſt, fet coarsely in gold. It belonged to the ſecond bishoſp of Landaff, and was given by doctor John Ewer bishoſp of Landaff, in whose time * it was found, to

* Anno 1764.

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doctor Frederic Keppel bishop of Exeter, and by him to his
wife's uncle Mr. Walpole.

One of the only seven mourning rings given at the burial
of Charles 1st. It has the king's head in miniature; behind,
a death's head between the letters C. R. The motto, *Pre-
pared be to follow me*. A precent to Mr. Walpole from lady
Murray Elliot.

An urn, cameo on onyx, mourning ring for Henrietta
Hobart countefs of Suffolk.

An urn fet with diamonds, mourning ring for Arthur
Onflow, speaker of the house of commons.

A chimera, antique intaglia, a green stone in the ancient
brafs fetting.

A small antique ring with the head of Cybele, all of one
piece of gold.

A gold ring for a child with a phallus; ditto.

A boy with his head in a scenic mask, on a red stone;
antique, fet in gold.

An Egyptian pebble representing exactly the portrait of a
woman in profile, a rock behind her, sky before; fet in
gold.

Two pateras of bronze, engraved. M.

Ivory covers of a Roman pocket-book. M.

A fibula, a small votive foot, an agate ornament for a bri-
dle, and some other small bronzes. M.

In

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In the other Glafs-cafe :

A leaf of a water-plant, gracefully tied up into the shape
of a cup, with a saucer, of Chinese bronze.

Two vases of Chelfea porcelaine, claret colour, gold and
white, with cartouches of historic figures.

Two long japan boxes

Two Roman spears, a votive foot and toe.

A point cravat carved by Gibbons.

An old enamelled watch, given by Mr. Ch. Churchill,
junior.

A silver gilt reliquaire and chain; given to Mr. Walpole
by George lord Edgcumbe.

An Etruscan Mars; very barbarous.

A small Egyptian figure sitting, of bifaltes. M.

A naked man. M.

The seal of archbishop Dowdall, aft popish primate of
Ireland; in silver.

Two cups and a saucer of Milan stone.

Two caudle-cups of Chelfea porcelaine, blue with gold
figures.

A japan pomatum-pot.

A small bloodstone cup in gold enamelled.

A small cornelian box in gold.

A triangular cornelian seal, with the heads of the two
Faujas and Lucilla, intaglias; by Christian Reisin.

A silver

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A silver seal, extremely ancient, of Hugh Oneal, king of Ulster; brought out of Ireland by Mr. William Briftow.

A large ancient gold ring, with a caftle on it, and within,
*Un bon An*: found in the Thames.

A cornelian seal, with half figure of Omphale; antique intaglia. M.

Seal of Richard Clitherol, admiral for the west coasts in the reign of Henry 5th.

Seal for indulgences of pope Eugenius.

Seal of the corporation of Pool.

Seal of the fraternity of Saint Mary of Hitchin. These four are of bronze and ancient.

A spoon of English pebble, with gold handle of foliage.

A silver bottle for effences, that opens into several divisions.

A small buft of Omphale in bronze.

A round flat box of silver philigree.

A toothpick-cafe of Egyptian pebble, and a smelling-bottle of agate.

A fet of beads mounted in silver philigree, taken in Spain in queen Anne's war by captain Galfridus Walpole, brother of Sir Robert.

A silver popish medal mounted in philigree.

A cup and saucer of Seve porcelaine, blue with white heads.

A dresling-box and tray of fine old gold japan.

A tea-canifter of straw; on one side Meleager and Atlanta,

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lanta, on the other the arms of fir Robert Walpole and
Catharine Shorter.

A japan dresring-box and tray of irregular shape.

Ditto, octagon, with tray and fix round boxes within.

A Pollux, small fine antique bronze. M.

A small Terminus. M.

A round white snuff-box; on the top, miniature of madame de Sevigné; at bottom, the cypher of Rabutin and Sevigné in marcasfites. This box, with the letter in it from madame de Sevigné in the Elysian fields to Mr. Walpole, was sent to him by madame du Deffand.

A bloodstone feal fet in old enamel, given to Mr. Walpole
by Mrs. Henrietta Conway, daughter of Francis lord Conway.

A smelling-bottle of purple glafs with peacocks feathers
in gold.

Ditto of Chineſe filver.

A small amber crucifix.

A small bronze figure of a woman with a rudder and
cornucopia.

Model of the great duke's diamond.

In the box of antique rings :

Tiberius, cameo on onyx, of the firſt Greek workmanship.

Cupid driving a car with two butterflies; intaglia on cor-
nelian.

A man's

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A man's head; alto relievo on onyx.

An Egyptian goddeſſ's head on a green ſtone. M.

A cock and cornucopia; intaglia on cornelian.

A bacchante and goat; fine cameo on onyx: given to Mr. Walpole by the princeſs de Craon.

Germanicus; very fine intaglia on cornelian, with the workman's name Epitu, for Epitynchanes: from the collection of the marquis Riccardi at Florence.

Head of Jupiter; ditto: from ditto.

A ſcenic maſk; cameo on onyx.

Caius, nephew of Auguſtus; ditto.

A lion; intaglia on ſardonyx.

A caprice, on white cornelian; intaglia. M.

Apollo; intaglia on cornelian.

Ifis; Egyptian cameo on onyx. M.

A Cicada; fine intaglia on cornelian.

A Syrian king; ditto. M.

Fauſtina, ſenior; ditto.

Christian inſcription; Vitas Luxuriam, Homo bone: cameo on onyx.

Matidia; intaglia in a green paſte: a moſt rare head. M.

The Horatii; intaglia on cornelian: given by fir Robert Walpole to his ſon Horatio.

Mercury; intaglia in amethyſt: given to Mr. Walpole by general Conway.

Jupiter

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Jupiter Serapis; altissimo relievo in bloodstone.

A ram's head; intaglia on cornelian.

Old japan plate of different colours.

[End of the rings.]

Popish beads, bought at the church of Saint Anthony of Padua.

Turkish beads enamelled with blue and gold; probably for ornaments in a procession: bought at the sale of monsieur Julienne, at Paris.

A small wooden crofs, curiously carved.

A most beautiful silver bell, made for a pope by Benvenuto Cellini. It is covered all over in the highest relievo with antique marks, flies, grafshoppers, and other insects; the virgin and boy-angels at top, a wreathe of leaves at bottom. Nothing can exceed the taste of the whole design, or the delicate and natural representation of the insects: the wonderful execution makes almost every thing credible that He says of himself in his Life. It came out of the collection of the marquis Leonati at Parma, and was bought by the marquis of Rockingham, who exchanged it with Mr. Walpole for some very scarce Roman medals of great bronze, amongst which was an unique medaliuncino of Alexander Severus with the amphitheatre, in the highest preservation.

Two Cornish diamonds, one inclosed green, the other yellow mofs.

A bronze altar-pot and a tripod. M.

A large