A
DESCRIPTION
OF THE
VILLA
OF
HORACE WALPOLE,

Youngest Son of Sir ROBERT WALPOLE Earl of ORFORD,
AT
Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham.

With an INVENTORY of the
FURNITURE, PICTURES, CURIOSITIES, &c.

STRAWBERRY-HILL:
PRINTED BY THOMAS KIRGATE, M.DCC.LXXIV.

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A
DESCRIPTION
OF THE
VILLA
OF

Mr. HORACE WALPOLE,
At Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham.

WHERE the Gothic Castle now stands, was originally a small tenement,* built in 1698, and let as a lodging-house: Cibber once took it, and wrote one of his plays here, *The Refusal, or the Lady's Philosophy*. After him, Talbot bishop of Durham had it for eight years:† then, Henry Bridges marquis of Carnarvon, son of James B duke

* It was built by the earl of Bradford's coachman, and was called by the common people, *Chopped-straw-hall*, they fuppoſing, that by feeding his lord's horſes with chopped ſtraw, he had ſaved money enough to build his houſe: but the piece of ground on which it ſtands is called in all the old leaſes, *Strawberry-hill-ſbot*, from whence it takes it name.

† The bishop kept a large table here, which is ſcarce conceivable, as he had no kitchen but that little place which is now the china-room.

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duke of Chandos, and since duke himself. It was next
hired by Mrs. Chenevix,* the noted toy-woman, who, on
the death of her husband, let it to lord John Philip Sack-
ville, second son of Lionel duke of Dorset: he kept it about
two years, and then Mr. Walpole took the remainder of
Mrs. Chenevix's lease in May 1747, and the next year bought
it by act of parliament, it being the property of three minors
of the name of Mortimer. Along with this house and some
other tenements was another small one,† then occupied by
Richard Francklin, printer of the Craftsman, who had been
taken up for printing that paper during the administration of
fir Robert Walpole. ‡ When Mr. Walpole bought Straw-
berry-hill, there were but five acres belonging to the house:
the rest have been purchased since. The Castle now existing
was not entirely built from the ground, but formed at dif-
ferent times, by alterations of and additions to the old small
house. The library, and refectory or great parlour, were
entirely new built in 1753; the gallery, round tower, great
cloyster,

* Pere Courayer lodged here with her for some time.

† It has since been pulled down, and a cottage built on the same spot. The garden too has been newly laid out by Mr. Walpole, since it came into his hands by Francklin's death.

‡ It is remarkable, that the printer of the Craftsman was Mr. Walpole's ten-ant; and that the writer of the Craftsman, W. Pultney, earl of Bath, wrote a ballad in praise of Strawberry-hill.

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cloyster, and cabinet, in 1760 and 1761; and the great north bedchamber in 1770. The Beaulere Tower with the Hexagon Closet was built in 1776.

The embattled wall to the road is taken from a print of Afton-house in Warwickshire, in Dugdale's history of that county.

Entering by the great north gate, the first object that presents itself is a small oratory enclosed with iron rails; in front, an altar, on which stands a faint in bronze; open niches, and stone basons for holy water; designed by John Chute, esq; of the Vine in Hampshire. On the right hand, is a small garden called the abbot's garden, parted off by an open screen, taken from the tomb of Roger Niger bishop of London, in old St. Paul's. Paffing on the left, by a small cloyster,* is the entrance to the house, the narrow front of which was designed by Richard Bentley, only son of Dr. Bentley, the learned master of Trinity-college, Cambridge. Over the door are three shields of Walpole, Shorter, and Robart.

You

* In this cloyster are three blue and white delft flower-pots; and a bas-relief head in marble, inscribed Dia Helianora; it is the portrait of the prince's Elea-nora d'Este, with whom Taffo was in love, and who was the cause of his mis-fortunes. It was sent to Mr. Walpole from Italy by Sir W. Hamilton, minifter at Naples.

In the winding cloysters on the right hand are some ancient bas-reliefs; and a brafs plate with the effigies of Simon Walpole, bishop of Norwich and Ely, engraven by Muntz, and a chinese earthorn with seaped oyster shells, a swift painter who lived sometime with Mr Walpole.

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You first enter a small gloomy hall, paved with hexagon
tyles, and lighted by two narrow windows of painted glafs,
representing faint John and Saint Francis. This hall is united
with the staircase, and both are hung with a gothic paper,
painted by one Tudor, from the screen of prince Arthur's
tomb in the cathedral of Worcester. The ballustrade was
designed by Mr. Bentley; at every corner is an antelope [one
of lord Orford's supporters] holding a shield. In the well of
the staircase, by a cord of black and yellow, hangs a gothic
lanthorn of tin japanned, designed by Mr. Bentley, and filled
with painted glafs; the door of it has an old pane with the
arms of Vere, earl of Oxford.

Turning to the left, through a small passage, on one side
of which is a window entirely of painted glafs, you enter

THE REFECTORY, OR GREAT PARLOUR.

IT is thirty feet long, twenty wide, and twelve high; hung
with paper in imitation of...acco. The chimney-piece
was designed by Mr. Bentley: upon it stands a fine Etruscan
vase, between two bottles of black and gold porcelaine.

Over the chimney, a conversation, by Reynolds, a small
life: Richard, second lord Edgcumbe, is drawing at a table
in the library at Strawberry-hill; George James Williams is
looking over him; George Augustus Selwyn stands on the
other side, with a book in his hand. Lord Edgcumbe, Mr.
Selwyn and Mr. Williams used to be with Mr Walpole at
Christmas and Easter at Strawberry-hill.

On

Over this passage an
ancient teahing in,
wood of the arms of
Queen Elizabeth 1566.

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On one side of this picture, a head of fir Horace Mann,
resident at Florence; painted there by Aftley, and highly
coloured: he is dreft in red velvet.

Opposite to it, his brother Galfridus Mann, in brown;
by the fame.

Over againſt the chimney, a bureau of black japan; on it,
a clock, ſupported by a bronze figure of a woman reading:
beneath, an Etruscan vafe, between two white old china
beakers.

The chairs are black, of a gothic pattern, deſigned by
Mr. Bentley and Mr. Walpole. The table of Sicilian jaſper,
on a black frame deſigned by Mr. Bentley: upon it, a large
punch-bowl and pail of Seve china; two beakers of old grey
porcelaine, veined; two ice-pails of Chelsea china; three fil-
ver owls, as ancient caſtors; and a filver filligree bread-baſ-
ket. Under it, two Etruscan vafes, and a jar of Roman
fayence. Over the table hangs a hunting-horn, finely en-
amelled on one side in colours, on the other in chiaro ſcuro,
with the hiftory of Saint Hubert. By the table an old white china bottle ornamented without moult.
on a mahogany pedestal

On each side of the window, the top of which has ſome
fine painted glaſs, and one ridiculous Dutch piece repreſent-
ing the triumph of Fame, who is accompani'd by Cato, Ci-
cero, and other great men in ſquare caps and gowns of maſ-
ters of arts, are card-tables of roſe-wood, carved in China;
and over each, a looking-glaſs in a gothic frame of black and

C gold,

There is another Dutch emblematic pane on which is Charles
riding uppermost on the wheel of fortune, a rebellion thrown down.
an other pane is painted with a cobler whistling to a bird in a cage,
by Mr. Carson, scholar of Price. This window was altered and en-
larged in 1794.

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gold, designed by Mr. Walpole. Inclosed in the tops of the
frames, with their arms and coronets, are the portraits of
George Walpole third earl of Orford, and of George Chol-
mondeley viscount Malpas, eldest son of George earl of Chol-
mondely and of Mary second daughter of sir Robert Wal-
pole. The former is copied by Eckardt, from a miniature
by Liotard, in the cabinet above ftairs: the latter is original
by Eckardt.

At the end of the room, over againſt the window, fir Ro-
bert Walpole, knight of the garter, afterwards earl of Or-
ford. On one ſide of him,

Catherine, eldest daughter of John Shorter, of Bybrook in
Kent, firſt wife of fir Robert Walpole; in white: a copy
from fir Godfrey Kneller, by Jarvis. On the other ſide,

Maria Skerret, (in the drefs of a ſhepherdeſs) ſecond wife
of fir Robert; by Jarvis.

On one ſide of the chimney, Robert Walpole ſecond earl
of Orford, auditor of the exchequer, maſter of the fox-
hounds, and knight of the bath, eldest ſon of fir Robert
Walpole, by his firſt wife; in red velvet, with a globe by
him: by Richardson.

Margaret, only child of Samuel Rolle of Heynton in De-
vonshire, firſt married to Robert ſecond earl of Orford, and
mother of George the third earl, and ſecondly to Sewallis
Shirley, a younger ſon of earl Ferrers; in a white riding-ha-
bit with a ſtick: by Jarvis.

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On the other side, first Edward Walpole, second son of Sir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter, knight of the bath and clerk of the pells; in the robes of the bath: by Slaughter.

Horace Walpole, third son of Sir Robert and Catherine Shorter; in blue velvet: by Richardson.

Over againſt the chimney, a large piece of ſtill life, by
Adrian Van Utrecht. On one ſide of it,

X Lady Anne Otborn, daughter of the first duke of Leeds;
by first Godfrey Kneller. She was first married to Thomas
Coke of Holkam, by whom she was grandmother of Tho-
mas Coke lord Lovel and earl of Leicester; and fecondly to
Horatio Walpole, second son of Sir Edward Walpole, and
uncle of first Robert Walpole. On the other ſide,

Dorothy, fifth of Sir Robert, and second wife of Charles
lord viccount Townſhend, knight of the garter and secretary
of state; in a Turkish habit: by Jarvis.

Over one of the doors, Mary lady Malpas, second daugh-
ter of first Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter; married to
George lord Malpas, afterwards earl of Cholmondeley: by
Eckardt, after Jarvis. Over the other door,

Lady Maria Walpole, only child of first Robert Walpole
and Maria Skerret, and wife of Charles Churchill, only son
of general Churchill; in a veil, with a muſic-book before
her: by Eckardt.

X This is a whole length picture, but is turned in. A fire
A two-litled firescreen, composed of part of a map of England
in tapestry, being a piece of the first manufacture of that kind
made in this country. It came from Mr.HELTON at Weston in
Warwickshire, whose ancestor imported the Art. The rest of the
Original hangings were purchased by Mr. W. H. & given by him to the
second Earl of Harcourt, who is now at Nuneham in Oxfordshire.

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A fire-screen of admirable needle-work, representing a vase of flowers, by lady Caroline Campbell, daughter of John duke of Argyll, countess of Ailesbury; married fe- condly to general Henry Seymour Conway, only brother of Francis first earl of Hertford of that line, knight of the gar- ter, embassador in France, and lord chamberlain: it is mount- ed in mahogany, carved and inlaid with ivory.

A Turkey carpet, and a fire-screen embroidered with knotting. ✶

IN THE WAITING-ROOM;

A Head in artificial stone of John Dryden the poet, great uncle of Catherine Shorter, lady Walpole: a large altar candlestick of metal, inlaid with gothic inscriptions, very ancient: and a pair of ancient bellows.

THE CHINA-ROOM.

PAINTED glafs in the windows, and crefts of Shorter and Geftinthorpe: the cieling painted with convolvulus's on poles, by Müntz, from a cieling in the little Borghefe villa at Frescati: the fides, white Dutch tyles, with borders of blue and white.

In the floor fome very ancient tyles with arms, from the cathedral at Gloucefter. The upper part of the chimney-piece

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piece is taken from a window of an ancient farm-house,
formerly Bradfield-hall, belonging to lord Grimston in Ef-
sex; the lower part from a chimney at Hurst Monceaux in
Suffex: it is adorned with the arms of Talbot, Bridges,
Sackville, and Walpole, the principal persons who have in-
habited Strawberry-hill.

In a niche, supported by two columns of oriental alabaster,
over the chimney, is a fine ewer of fayence, designed by
Julio Romano; and two green glafs tumblers, with golden
edges; and two round faltfellers of old blue and gold Vene-
tian glafs, with flowers.

Over the niche, four chocolate-cups of fayence, by Pietro
Cortona; and a bronze medallion of Pandulfo Malatefta.

On the the fides, George 2d. and Frederic prince of
Wales, in Batterlea enamel.

In the chimney, a large jar of old blue and white china;
and two tyles from Byfham-Abbey.

On the shelves and floor is a collection of porcelaine, earth-
enware, glafs, and enamel on copper, of various ages and
countries, as follow :

Two dozen plates of Venetian glafs; each plate has a dif-
ferent view of Venice, drawn in red.

A japaned tray with a vafe for cream, and eight chocolate-
cups and faucers with landscapes in brown, of the fame ware.

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Two bowls of Worcester porcelaine, the pattern from old
china.

Two mustard-pots and plates, of Seve china; given by
lord Hertford.

Five trays, in shapes of fans, of old Japan china.

An old blue and white plate with a rib in the middle.

A coloured handle cup, saucer and square plate, à la
Grecque, of Seve china.

Two old blue and white plates, artichoak pattern.

Thirteen ditto, with peacock feathers.

Sixteen coloured old Japan plates.

Four ditto, blue and white, with figures.

Three ditto, with figures.

Twelve ditto, of coloured Japan china.

Four ditto, with birds.

Four water-plates with figures, of new china.

Twelve plates of Chelsea china, with small coloured birds.

Three dishescollopped and ribbed, with coloured flowers.

Two large coloured dishes of the fine old thick Japan china.

A large deep dish of Roman earth, with stories from
Ovid's Metamorphofis.

An earthen-ware dish, with the heads of Charles 2d. and
queen Catherine in blue and white; a present from Mr.
Ibbot.

An old blue and white dish, with landscapes.

Ditto,

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II

Ditto, larger, with figures.

Two dishes of very old French earthen-ware, with the
arms of France.

Two small dishes of fayence, with grotesques and the
arms of a bishop Contarini.

An octagon coloured plate of Saxon china, old pattern.

Ditto square, with a cock and hen.

A dish and twelve plates enamelled on copper.

Two round plates of Japan.

Thirteen old white chocolate-cups and tea-cups, with em-
boffed flowers.

A tea-pot, milk-pot, five coffee-cups, five tea-cups, and
ten faucers, of white quilted china of St. Cloud.

A tea-pot and milk-pot, fix cups and faucers, of modern
china, with grey landscapes.

Five white cups and faucers with gold borders.

Two coloured caudle-cups.

An earthen-ware tea-pot, with the head of lord Chatham.

A small tea-canister of Seve china, blue and gold, with
figures on white.

A pot pourri of Saxon china, with coloured flowers em-
boffed.

An old white china cup, with cupids painted in Europe.

A cup with a bullfinch, of modern china.

Thirteen small baskets of Saxon china for sugar-plumbs,
different patterns.

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An urn and stand of kennel coal, a present from Sir William Meredith.

Six coloured water-cups and plates of Chelsea china.

A blue and white caudle-cup.

Two ditto, coloured.

An old blue and white honeycomb tea-pot.

Two Roman glafs bottles, and two earthen lacrymatories. M.

An ewer enamelled with bacchanals on copper.

Two coffee-cups and faucers of white and gold Bohemian glafs.

A cup of Mr. Place's china. *Vide Walpole's Catalogue of English Engravers.*

A blue and white faucer with a landscape, of fine Nankin china.

A jar, with red and white landscapes and blue and gold borders, of Chelsea china.

Two coloured Saxon trays with squirrels.

A fcollopped faucer of Saxon china, the fecond fort, very rare: in it lies a medal of Louis quinze in Seve china.

A hand candlestick of coloured Seve china.

A blue and gold fugar-dish of old Venetian glafs, cover, and plate, with a silver gilt spoon.

An old blue and white faucer in the shape of a star.

Two trays, ditto.

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An ivory drinking-horn, with the arms of the earls of Exeter; ancient.

An old earthen mug of Arabian ware.

Two vases with handles, of red Portuguese earth.

Two plates like having-basons, of the same.

An earthen bottle; painted on it, Sack, 1647: it was thus fold by apothecaries. From the collection of Mrs. Kennon, the virtuosa midwife.

A blue and white eggshell cup.

Michael Angelo's Bacchus, made in the china of the comte de Lauragais, from the collection of the comte de Caylus.

Two Roman glasses, like water-glasses; and two lacrymatories, ditto. M.

Bust of Voltaire, in biscuit of Nancy.

Two blue and gold cups for eggs, of Seve china.

Seven old coloured octagon cups and faucers.

A tea-pot and bason, six handle cups and faucers, with battles in black, of Vienna china; a present to Catherine lady Walpole, from count Dehn, envoy from the duke of Wolfenbuttle.

A square brown china cup to measure tea.

An old white china tea-pot, with birds and flowers finely painted in Europe.

A bagpiping boy and a dancing girl, of Seve biscuit.

Six fine old cups, white within; without, japanned black and mother of pearl: very rare.

A small jar, ditto; a present from Mr. Barrett of Lees. An

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and which was only given as presents by the elector. Extremely rare.

Three pieces of rocks, made of rice; given by Mr. Raf-
tor, Mrs. Clive's brother.

Two Chinese basons enamelled with coloured flowers on
copper.

A red cup and faucer, glazed; the second fort of Saxon
china: rare.

Two blue and gold handle cups and faucers, with birds on
white cartouches of Seve china.

One ditto, green.

One ditto, blue and gold in zigzags, and garlands on
white; very beautiful.

Two white barrels with vines and grapes, of Chelfea china.

Two small basons with coloured flowers, of the best modern china.

A very fine standing cup and cover, enamelled on copper
with the story of Sampson, from the designs of Parmegiano.

A small dejeuné of blue and gold Seve china: very pretty.

A handle cup, faucer, and square plate, of blue and gold
Seve china, with sea-pieces admirably copied from Vernet's
pictures.

Ditto of blue, green, and gold, with flowers on white.

Two porringers of Portuguese earth.

An octagon salt seller enamelled on copper, droll figures on
the

A white gold handle cup and faucer with Chinese figures, of the porcelain of Chignacour, a new manufacture established in the south of France, called porcelaine de Monsieurtau, a cup to hold an egg, imitating lapis lazuli, porcelaine de Seve.

A very small cup and faucer, white ground, with imitations of rubies, 80.

A large candle cup, striped with gold and flowers, porcelaine de Berlin.

Four do with sprigs of flowers on white ground, of the same porcelaine.

Two cracked mustard cups with sprigs of plate silver.

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the sides with old French verses: at top, a head, *Je suis Paris*; at bottom, another, *La belle Helene*.

A copper tray, scollopped and enamelled with Saint John and flowers; a present from Mr. G. Montagu.

A very large glaſs urn, damaged, found near London; a present from Dr. Ch. Lyttelton, bishop of Carlisle.

Six coloured handle cups and saucers, a tea-pot and sugar-dish, in shapes of leaves, of Chantilli china.

Four small blue and white eggshell cups.

The present dauphineſs of France, a large medallion of Seve biscuit; a present from the duchefs dowager d'Aiguil-lon in 1771.

Two handle cups and saucers, different patterns à la Grecque, of Seve china.

Two butter-pots and plates of blue and white delft ware; presents from lady Ailesbury.

A red cup and saucer, clouded.

A small square brown tea-pot.

A jug of old clouded glaſs, and a bottle of the same.

Two Saxon tankards, one with Chinese figures, the other with European. These tankards are extremely remarkable. Sir Robert Walpole drank ale; the duchefs of Kendal, mistrels of king George the First, gave him the former. A dozen or more years afterwards, the countefs of Yarmouth, mistrels of king George the Second, without having seen the other,

A茶pot, plate, bason, sugardish, milk-pot, two chocolate cups, two pomatumpots, and a can of the Staffordshire bamboo ware, 1782.

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Two light purple handle cups and saucers with landscapes,
of Seve china.

A larger cup and saucer, à la Grecque, ditto.

A sfollopped Japan tray.

A fine glafs urn with golden boys; Roman: deſcribed in
doctor Middleton's antiquities.

A tall blue and white tea-pot with flat ſides.

A round brown tea-pot, quite flat.

A fine old blue and white box and cover, a preſent from
lady Aileſbury.

A vafe with two handles of Portugueſe earth.

A cup, ditto, with ſantaſtic forms within it: given by lady
Mary Churchill.

A green and white mug and ſaucer, with figures on white,
of Seve china.

Ditto with ruſtic implements; very genteel.

A white old triangular piece of china and cover, for eggs.

An old white beaker.

Two large blue and white tea-pots.

Twelve old blue and white deſſert-plates with figures.

A ſmall diſh of Chelsea china in a deſſert pattern.

A blue and white beaker with a Chinese proceſſion.

Two blue and white ſoup-diſhes with figures.

Ten diſhes of old Japan ware.

An ancient tall drinking-glafs, with arms and devices; a
preſent from fir John Hawkins.

Two

A round Vase covered in a dish, of a large size, with a large pattern, of Florentine Bayence. Two dishes of the same. Portrait of George, son of Earl of Harcourt, in Wedgwood's ware; the only one excepted in that manner.

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Two large blue and white beakers.
Two ditto, of different patterns: a companion to one of
them is in the great bedchamber.
A blue and white dish of Chelsea china.
A Turkish earthen bottle, with leaves cast in relief on it.
Two blue and white jars.
Two green, blue, and white beakers.
Two blue and white beakers.
A large fayence dish.
A fine Turkish jar and cover, with cast leaves: curious.
A large blue and white dish.
A blue and white basket of Chantilli china.
A white Seve saucepan that bears the fire: 1771.
Two blue and white beakers.
Two small coloured ditto.
Two square blue and white bottles.
An odd green and white tea-pot.

A tyle from the kitchen of William the Conqueror at
Caen in Normandy.

Two bafons of most ancient Gombroon china; a present
from lord Vere, out of the collection of lady Elizabeth Ger-
maine.
A beautiful green bafon.
Ten coloured patypans of different sizes.
An old white dish.

A dish and four dessert-plates, brown, blue, and white.

A cup, a plate, a saucer, white, with green festoons, of Bristol. A large
porcelaine.

A round picture of white flowers in a relief, of the same
manufacture.

A square compot, with blue and white flowers, of chrysanthme porcelaine.

Three pieces of Moorish mosaic, on a white shield with the name of the artist.
Of a Moorish ling: bought at the auction of an after a publication of Spain.

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["STRAWBERRY-HILL.", "A blue and white basket, two round cheese-pots and plate,\nand a glass for liquors, of Chantilli.", "Twelve fine plates coloured, with rich blue edges, of Seve.", "Two ditto, larger.", "Six ditto, blue and white.", "Two green Staffordshire flower-pots with masks, and two\nplates. A curious emblematic picture of a man standing small whole length with a búsy / chartes / seningly before his restoration, for a cupid is weeping the broken arms of Castlend in a common mask / as a last crown, in sening / (búsh / chartes / sening) / before he were made a cup / a mask / a plan / mask / a man / a mask /

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Mary Lepelle lady Hervey; a print.

A moonlight; by Bernard Lens.

A frame with nine miniatures, viz.

+ A young bride; by Isaac Oliver.

Of the family of Digby,

××A lady; behind her a red curtain.

but not known.

Venetia Stanley lady Digby, aged 19, very beautiful; by Peter Oliver.

Sir Kenelm Digby and lady Digby, after Vandyck; by ditto: set in the form of a book with covers of gold enamelled.

The fame lady Digby, as she was found dead in her bed; by ditto, after ditto; set in gold enamelled black; on which behind is a sphere: it seems to mean, that the world was in mourning for her. Sir Kenelm was passionately fond of this lady, who, lord Clarendon says, was of extraordinary beauty and as extraordinary fame. At Windsor is a whole length of her, by Vandyck, treading on serpents, to imply that the stories told of her were the produce of malice. At Goat-hurst, where they lived, are two bufts of her in bronze; on the pedestal of one are inscribed these tender words, Uxorem vivam amare voluptas, defunctam religio.

Sir Kenelm Digby, when young; by Peter Oliver: very fine.

Lady Digby, again, most beautiful; by ditto.

Lady Lucy Percy, daughter and coheirefs of Thomas earl of Northumberland who was beheaded, wife of Sir Edward Stanley, younger son of the earl of Derby, mother of Vene-

+ It was a favourite Mistres of Sir Kenelm Digby, as I have tia
since I was aBoy from an old Lady, who was long acquainted with

these pictures; she informed me too that the next is

×× Lady Catherine Howard, daughter of Henry Frederic, Earl of Hambrel, and first wife of John Digby, son of Sir Kenelm.

The Virgin Child, two angels holding papers, under each canopy, an ancient canning in very, in anlvony frame; a present from Mr. Watson, the Chineseor.

A Lady in black, equipped in white, modelling from earth, by Mary, sister of Stephen, slaughterer the

painter, a product from this same Clement.

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tia lady Digby; by Isaac Oliver. She is still more beautiful
than her daughter, though dreft very unbecomingly in a
great black hat and large ruff; only set off by a lilac ground.
This is perhaps the finest and most perfect miniature in the
world. All the seven last are wonderfully preserved, though
found in a garret in an old house in Wales, belonging to a
Mr. Watkin Williams, probably descended from Sir Kenelm,
one of whose sons left only two daughters that were married
into Welch families. This set of pictures cost Mr. Walpole
300 guineas.

On the other side of the glafs, another frame, containing,

Robert earl of Efflex, favourite of queen Elizabeth; set in
a cafe enamelled with flowers.

Henry Carey lord Hunfdon, knight of the garter 1585;
by Hilliard: set in black enamel. These two from the collection of lady Elizabeth Germaine.

A lady of the family of Digby; belonging to the set
above-named; set in a white enamelled cafe.

The duc de Vendome, with a red knot; by Petitot.

Madame la princesse Palatine; by ditto.

Madame la duchessc de Montpensier, grandmother of ma-
demoiselle; by ditto. These three from the collection of
the comte de Caylus.

La duchessc de Montbazon, called La Belle des Belles;
by ditto.

Holbein,

It is Mrs Mulsho, wife of Stewarerd Digby, who was
executed for the gunpowder plot, and mother of St. Kenelm.

St. Kenelm Digby, his wife, two sons, by Peter Oliver after Vandych, a large
Miniature, the highest preservation in man-lbom case, set with Red Cross cameos,
Two other large, in a lady of the Digby family, having length after Mary with a beautiful
landscape, by Peter Oliver.

In the other case, lady Digby, enamelled in a frame of the same with her arms, two goddeses supporting
the arms of St. Michael, by T. Toulmin 1632.
A lady of the family of the same, executed by P. Oliver.
St. Michael's arm, in a frame, with a design by St. Michael.

Inside a church in
Hampshire, near Exeter,
with these words in
letterpress type
on a plate of the Digby
collection.

On the back of St. Kenelm's
miniature is this long hairy,
and a label on the Digby
family coat-of-arms.

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26 A DESCRIPTION OF

Cupid, in Seve china.

Two blue and white square tubs, of ditto.

A blue bafon, mounted in or morlu; it belonged to madame de Pompadour.

An urn of granite, brought from one of the Greek islands,
and given to fir Robert Walpole by fir Charles Wager.

Ditto of oriental alabafter, given to fir Robert Walpole by
general Charles Churchill.

A view of Tivoli; copied by Muntz from Gaſpar Pouſſin.

A fea-piece; by Back Huyſen: very good.

Richard 3d. and his queen; a drawing from painted glaſs,
by Vertue.

Madame la marquife du Deffand and the duchefſe de Choi-
feul giving her a doll, which the former, who was blind,
holds out her hands to receive; alluding to her calling the
duchefſe Grand Maman. Every part of the room is exacſtly
reprefented, and madame du Deffand moſt exacſtly like, which
the duchefſe is not; by M. Carmontel, a gentleman belonging
to the duke of Orleans, who has done in the fame manner
moſt of the court of France: a waſhed drawing.

Over the cloſet door, View of St. John's gate at Col-
cheſter, on blue paper, by Muntz.

Virgin and child, a highly finished illumination : it be-
longed to Gaſton duke of orleans.

Francis 1ſt. receiving the homage of the clergy, law, and
army;

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Anne Liddel Countels of Oſory, by Hamilton in crayons.

Margaret Smith, wife of Sir Harle Bingham; by Ditto. This lady
who had lived in Ireland, and had not seen any good pictures, arrived
in five months, by copying the enamels and miniatures in this collection,
of the highest perfection in watercolours, and in that short time copied
forty pictures, imitating most exacſtly the several manners - Mr Walpole
wrote the following lines on that subject:

Without a wall or long painting's thone

At last a British Faire's unerring eyes

Irbina's modest artist sat alone.

In five short moons conſtills the g[od]lonous p[ier].

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army; an illumination. Cardinal du Prat as chancellor is at the head of the law. Two of the officers on the fore ground are engraved in Montfaucon's Antiquities of France.

View of the hotel de Carnavalet, where madame de Sevigné lived, in la rue Coulure St. Catherine, at Paris; built by Du Cerceau; painted by Raguenet.

A woman reading; small whole figure; great nature; by Le Duc.

A French clock, with Chinese figures, by Martin. now in the great bedchamber.

A girl's head, in oil; very lively; by A. Cuyp.

A king of France taking an oath before a pope, figures kneeling: an illumination. ^

Print of Mr. W. Mafon, the poet. #

Two old blue and white china jars; a candlestick of Seve china; tea-things of old china; a small tripod of or moulu to burn incense; and a red velvet purse embroidered with gold and old French arms, to hold counters.

THE GREEN CLOSET.

IN the windows are some very curious pieces of painted glafs. One round pane (one of the beſt in the houſe) repreſents the ſtory of the law-giver, who having enacted a law for puniſhing adultery with blindneſs, and his own ſon being convicted of it, he gave up one of his own eyes to ſave one of

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Lady Chastellاء

Seasame of them in the mémorials de Grammont

Two hands in crayons were copied by Mr Harrington in 1774

from the originals by Mr Peter Lely at Harford in Norfolk the

seat of the late Sir Andrew Hountaine.

Hadady's head unfinished by Hilliard.

a man's do. in a black booke at 30. 1539.

by Holbein. These Two were bought by Mr Lovibond at Hampton Court 1776.

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of his fon's. The drawing is fine, and the figures of the le-
giflator and of the young foldier who contemplates him, are
evidently taken from fome picture or defign which gave the
hint to Vandyck for his Belifarius, now at Chifwick. There
are other curious panes: one with a roſe impaling a pom-
granite, the device of Henry 8th. and Catharine of Arragon;
others with a crown in a thorn-buſh between the letters H
and E, the device of Henry 7th. which he affumed after the
battle of Bofworth, where Richard's crown was found in
that manner. Over the door,

A view of Mr. Pope's house at Twickenham, painted ſince
the alterations made by fir William Stanhope; by Scott in
his very beſt manner. On the fame ſide of the room are the
following pictures, moſt of them ſmall:

A portrait of Sarah Malcolm, who was hanged for mur-
dering her miſtrefs and two other women in the Temple.
She is fitting at a table in Newgate, with popiſh beads before
her. This was drawn by Hogarth the day before her exe-
cution, and ſhe had put on red to look the better.

Four landscapes in water-colours; by Baudin,

A landscape in needle-work, by lady Aileſbury, after Van
Uden.

Eight views of ruins at Rome and other places; by Luca-
telli.

A landscape in Indian-ink, with Italian, Chineſe, and Go-
thic buildings; by Mr. Bentley, in his beſt ſtyle.

The

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The head of old Dahl the painter, in water-colours, by
himself: oval.

Cibber the statuary, with a pair of compasses in his hand,
in water-colours; by Christian Richter,

George Granville lord Landown, in red; ditto; by Vertue, after Kneller.

Two small pictures, in oil, the stories of Sufanna and the
elders, and of David and Bathsheba: Italian.

A beggar-boy with a bird's-neft, water-colours on ivory;
by Mr. Horace Walpole, from Mville.

Queen Henrietta Maria; by Dixon.

Mary princes of Orange, mother of king William; by
Hofkins.

Sir Robert Walpole and Catharine lady Walpole; heads
carved in ivory.

An old head, in a laced night-cap and ruff; by Cornelius
Janzen, or Porbus.

Lady Arabella Stuart, when a child; by Isaac Oliver.

Zachary Kneller, brother of Sir Godfrey; by Vertue, after
Kneller.

St. Catharine reading; after Correggio, by Catharine lady Walpole.

At the end fronting the window:

A pot of Carnations, drawn at Chelsea from the life by
Van Huyfum, who lived there two years with Sir Robert

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Walpole:

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A DESCRIPTION OF

Walpole: he was brother to the famous flower-painter: in oil.

Robert Walpole, father of sir Robert Walpole; a head in
crayons.

Mary Burwell, his wife; ditto.

An herb-market and a fish-market; after Teniers, in oil,
by Angelis.

Sir Jeffery Burwell, grandfather of sir Robert Walpole;
he is an old man fitting; a death's head by him: in crayons.

Mary, daughter and coheireſs of a certain Mr. Crane, of Chilton in Suffolk; his wife: in crayons.

A stable-yard, with a cart and a woman paring turneps;
by J. H. Müntz: in oil.

Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici
and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied
from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where
the originals are dressed in the very cloaths they wore, pafted
on the hangings, with the faces painted on fattin.

Six more drawings of ruins, by Lucatelli.

Anna Chamber countess Temple; by Hamilton.

Henry Carey earl of Monmouth, knight of the bath, tran-
flator of many works;* by Theodore Ruffel.

Pope Benedict 13th. in wax: behind it is his elogium,
written by Mr. Walpole and printed in his Fugitive Pieces.

Lady

* See his article in the Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors.

STRAWBERRY-HILL.

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Lady Newburgh, lord Lansdown's Myra, in widow's
weeds; copied by young Lens from the original of sir Godfrey
Kneller, in the collection of the earl of Cardigan: in water-
colours.

The countess of Buckingham, mother of duke George
Villiers, in mourning; by ditto: from the fame collection.

Anna Maria Brudenel countess of Shrewsbury, famous for
her amours with the second George Villiers duke of Buck-
ingham; by ditto, from ditto.

James Stuart duke of Richmond and earl of Litchfield,
husband of the beautiful Mrs. Stuart whom Charles II. was
in love with; in armour; by Cooper.

Sufan Airmine lady Bellafis, mistres of James II. by Coo-
per, unfinished.

Lady Anne Watson, daughter of Thomas earl of Strafford;
by ditto.

Spencer Compton earl of Northampton, killed in the civil
war.

A lady's head, temp. James I.

Two ladies of the court of queen Elizabeth; by Hil-
liard. These five belonged to Spencer Compton earl of Wil-
mington.

An infant's head, sleeping; by Vischer: very natural, in
black lead.

A boy's head, in red and black chalks; by Peter Oliver:
very lively.

A lady's
profile of an angel after guide, done in hair by
Mary Lane 1770.

Mrs Catherine Chine the excellent comedian in the character of
the fine lady in the the; in watercolours by Worldges.

Henry Howard Earl of Northampton, copied in watercolours by
Harding in 1780 from the original at the Marlborough College at Greenwich.

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32 A DESCRIPTION OF

A lady's head; in a black hood; by Cooper.

Boncourt, a French comedian, given by the Comédie Littérale.

A gentleman's head, in oil; oval, in a metal cafe.

Thomas earl of Arundel; small head in oil.

Charles 2d. in robes of the garter; in water-colours, after
Lely; done by Richard second lord Edgcumbe, at the age
of sixteen.

Two pieces of fruit and flowers, in water-colours; by
old Lens.

Mrs. Scott, the painter's wife; by Deacon.

Mr. Pope, by young Lens, in water-colours; round.

Pomona; by Clinkfted.

Mr. Thomas Gray; etched from his fhade; by Mr. W.
Mafon.

A landscape on copper; by Roland Savery.

By Wale.

Lord Herbert of Cherbury; a print coloured, from the
original of Isaac Oliver in the collection of Lord Powis.

William lord Mansfield; in oil, by Wootton.

Zeeman, junior, painter, in blue; by his father.

Impreflion of Oliver Cromwell's privy feal.

The two sons of the old Pretender; painted at Rome in

1740.

On the window-side fronting the door, beginning on the
left hand:

A view of the Thames from Mrs. Clive's house at Twick-
enham; in blue and white, by Muntz.

A Sprig

A Gentleman of great genius for drawing, who having misfortunes,
took to painting portraits in miniature, where he lived late
Lives in country Gardens, where Mr Meyer the Cnameller now lives;
but Mr Deacon died in a year by the jolter distemper which was brought
to the old Daily where he happened to attend.

The Viscount Stalford, benighted in the night of Charles 2d. in water-colours, a
present from Mr. Stalford to his wife, nearly related to the Stalfords.

STRAWBERRY-HILL.

A sprig of orange-flowers, and another of apple-blossoms;
by Catharine lady Walpole, in water-colours.

A bunch of white roses; by ditto.

Four more views of ruins; by Lucatelli.

James 5th. and Mary of Lorrain his queen; in water-colours; by Wale, from an ancient original in the possession of the duke of Devonshire at Hardwicke.

A Chinese building, designed and drawn by Mr. Bentley
for the corner of the wood at Strawberry-hill, where the
chapel now stands; in Indian ink.

The Farnefe Hercules, in wax; by Goffet.

Cleopatra, in water-colours; Italian.

Mrs. Beale, and her son Charles; heads in water-colours,
by her.

Profile head of a Magdalen, a coloured print by Le Blon.

A red and white rose, executed in feathers by Norman Cany.

Bishop Burnet in robes of prelate of the garter; by Mrs.

Rose.

Prince Charles of Lorrain, in a frame of tortoiseshell.

Then pafs to the right hand :

Over the window, B. Hoadley bishop of Winchester, in
wax; by Goffet: and,

Charles Townshend chancellor of the exchequer: ditto.

Boors reading: Flemish.

A landscape; by Teniers.

Two more views of ruins; by Lucatelli.

K

The

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The arms of Sir Robert Walpole and Catharine Shorter,
cut in paper on looking-glasses, by Birmingham.

A conversation, after Watteau, in water-colours; by Mr.
Horace Walpole.

Design for arms of the two clubs at White's; drawn by
the second lord Edgcumbe, and invented by him, Mr. G. A.
Selwyn, Mr. Geo. J. Williams, and Mr. Hor. Walpole, at
Strawberry-hill. The arms as follow: Vert (for the card-
table) on a chevron fable (for the hazard-table) two rou-
leaus of guineas in faltire between two dice proper, the chev-
ron between 3 parolis at Pharaoh, proper; on a canton fable,
a white ballotting-ball. Crest, an arm and hand holding a
dice-box, iffuant from an earl's coronet. Supporters, an old
and a young knave of clubs (for the two clubs.) Motto,
Cog-it amor nummi. The arms furrounded by a bottle-ticket
inscribed, claret, in the manner of an order.

A king-fisher and ducks, of the Battersea enamel: it was
a manufacture, stamped with a copper-plate, supported by
alderman Janssen, but failed.

Charles 2d. young, in armour, with the garter; oval
miniature.

Mary duchefs of Beaufort: oval miniature.

Mr. Congreve, in armour: oil.

A lady, with Italian mottoes; in a round.

A friar and lady at her toilette; by Clinkfted.

A woman

STRAWBERRY-HILL.

A woman hiding her lover from her blind husband; by
ditto.

A woman fainting in a man's arms; after some great maf-
ter: D. Rawdon fe. 1703.

Mr. Deacon's son; by him: unfinished.

Drawing by Muntz, in water-colours, from an illumina-
tion to a book of earl Rivers in the library at Lambeth, and
from which the frontispiece was taken to Mr. Walpole's Ca-
talogue of Royal and Noble Authors.

At the end of the closet towards the Thames :

Over the window, Impression of the great feal of queen
Henrietta Maria: and,

Frederic prince of Wales, in wax: by Goflet.

Two prints of old Stocks-market, and Effex-court in the
Temple, coloured by Baudin.

Head of James firſt earl of Stanhope, in crayons.

Ditto of Mrs. Sclater, in a black gauze hood.

Four more views, by Lucatelli. There are 24 in all.

Sir John Shorter, grandfather of Catharine lady Walpole;
in crayons. He was lord-mayor in 1688, when receiving
the pope's nuntio in the city, James 2d. gave him an addi-
tional quarter to his arms: two years before he had been one
of the moſt diſtinguished aldermen on the Whig fide. He
died in his mayoralty.

Ifabella

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A DESCRIPTION OF

Isabella Birkhead, his widow, in weeds. They are buried in the church of St. Saviour, Southwark : vide Maitland's History of London.

Mary Bruce duchess of Richmond; by Hamilton.

Anne Conway, daughter of general Conway and lady Ailefbury, and wife of John Damer, eldest son of Joseph lord Milton; by Hamilton.

Oval of Thomas earl of Southampton, in his robes; but quære, whether it is not the last duke of Ormond but one?

A landscape, by Polemberg.

Two landscapes in foot-water; by Mr. Bentley.

A writing-box, richly carved in ivory.

Two blue and white jars.

A red velvet coffer ornamented with silver, and containing fix dram-bottles of the old Venetian glafs flowered with gold and enamelled tops, from Mrs Kennon's collection.

A temple of old japan.

Two cups and saucers of Seve china.

A small table of ditto.

Three ebony chairs, and a small Persian carpet. ✗

THE BLUE BEDCHAMBER.

HUNG with plain blue paper; a linen bed; eight chintz chairs; a toilette worked by Mrs. Clive; a looking-glafs in a tortois-shell-frame, ornamented with silver; and a cabinet

A two blue and white square candlesticks of old Software.

X In the cupboards in this closet are many Nell, particularly all ✓
None of Vertue, which Mr Walpole bought of his Widow; two green
books of Mr Walpole's own collections, one of his Journeys to Paris.

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cabinet japanned by lady Walpole: on it, an ewer and bason of blue and white Seve china: under a bronze of the Hercules Panese.

The chimney-piece was designed by Mr. Bentley. Over it,

In a frame of black and gold carved by Gibbons, fir Robert Walpole and Catharine Shorter; small whole lengths; by Eckardt, after Zink: the hounds and view of Houghton by Wootton. Sir Robert is fitting; by him, on a table, is the purse of chancellor of the exchequer, leaning against bufts of George 1st. and 2d. to denote his being first minifter to those kings: by lady Walpole are flowers, shells, a pallet and pencils, to mark her love of the arts. On the chimney,

A boy and girl in Seve biscuit.

Three small flower-pots, ditto.

Two cups and faucers, ditto.

Four blue and white cream-cups.

In the bow window, some very beautiful painted glafs.

General Henry Seymour Conway, and Caroline countess
dowager of Ailebury, his wife; their daughter Anne fitting
on the ground playing with a dog. The attitudes and dresses
taken from Watteau. This, and all the other pictures in
this room, were painted by Eckardt.

Charles Churchill, and lady Maria Walpole, his wife,
with their eldest son Charles; taken from the picture at
Blenheim, of Rubens, his wife and child.

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, knight of the bath.

L

Mr.

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A DESCRIPTION OF

Mr. Thomas Gray;\* taken from the portrait of a muſi-
cian by Vandyck, at the duke of Grafton's.

Mr. Richard Bentley; from Vandyck. He holds in one
hand his own design of the figure of Melancholy, drawn by
him for the edition of Mr. Gray's Odes.

Mr. Horace Walpole; from Vandyck; leaning on the
Ædes Walpolianæ: behind him, a view of Strawberry-hill.
The frames are of black and gold, carved after those to Lom-
bard's prints from Vandyck, but with emblems peculiar to
each person.

THE RED BEDCHAMBER.

HUNG with crimson paper; a chintz bed, in which fir
Robert Walpole died in Arlington-street; by it a cruci-
fix of ivory; an ewer and bason of Chantilli porcelaine; a
red and white flower-pot, cup, faucer, and sugar-dish, of
Seve porcelaine; crimfon Norwich damask chairs, and an
arm-chair of patch-work.

Pictures on the chimney fide :

A landscape; by Mullins.

An old beggar; by Teniers.

Catharine,

\* With this motto, alluding to his Ode on Eton, which, though one of his best productions, was his firſt published, Nec licuit populis parvum te, Nile, videre.

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Mr. Pope himself; ditto.

Henry St. John viſcount Bolingbroke; ditto.

On the fides of the window:

Maria Walpole, countess of Waldegrave and duchefs of
Glouceſter, with her eldeſt daughter lady Elizabeth Laura;
a mezzotinto.

A moonlight on copper; by Bonus, jun.

The four ſeafons, heads of boys, in rounds; Italian: a
prefent from the duc de Nivernois.

Macbeth in the witches cave; a print.

Sketch by Kent, for a niche in Mr. Fairfax's houſe in Sa-
ville-row.

Four drawings of humour, waſhed, by Elias Martin.

A French partridge, the real feathers; by G. Edwards.

An owl cut in paper, by Nat. Bermingham; removed to the
passage of the great Bedchamber.

A

In a NICHE on the STAIRCASE;

THE armour of Francis 1st. king of France, of ſteel gilt,
and covered with bas-reliefs in a fine tafte: his lance is of
ebony inlaid with filver; his ſword ſteel; beautifully inlaid
with gold, probably the work of Benvenuto Cellini: there
is also the armour for the horſe's head. This very valuable
fuit of armour was purchased from the Crozat collection in
1772, on the death of the baron de Thiers, when the czarina
bought
^a young Lady reading the castle of Obranto to her Companion; a

A young Lady reading the castle of Obranto to her Companion; a
gracefull expreſſive drawing in ſister, done for a preſent to Mr. W.
in 1760, by damia ſirgham, his daſt daughter of Charles, Lord Ducan.
& Margaret, Smith, his Wife, the celebrated Copyright. This Bingham
had only begun to draw in the preceding ſting, but immediately
began a singular design, in design, expreſſion. This Bingham
is now married to Lord Althorpe, son of Sir Spencer!!
Hlpv11753

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bought the fine collection of pictures and bronzes. Over
againſt it,

Henry 5th. and his family; bought in 1773, at the ſale
of James Weſt, preſident of the Royal Society. See a de-
ſcription and print of this picture in the firſt volume of the
Anecdotes of Painting in England.

This picture came out of Stafford House or
Westhall, Westminster, & I imagine that this, & the two others of Henry the Third,
were done by order of

THE ARMOURY

Henry the Third in honour of the house of
Lancaster. I have heard that that of

IS an open yeſtibule of three gothic arches, lighted by a
window entirely of painted glaſs, and ornamented over
the doors and niches with quarterings of the family of Wal-
pole, painted by Grant.

Henry the Third came out of the palace of
Sheene.

Henry the Third and his son, the Prince of

Two ſuits of armour, on one of which is the mark of a
bullet; two helmets; a gauntlet; a round leathern quiver;
and two pair of stirrups; from Coombe, near Kingſton in
Surry, which ſeat formerly belonged to the great Richard
Neville earl of Warwick. Theſe arms therefore probably
were part of thofe which ſerved his troops when he marched
to Westminſter to awe the parliament in the reign of Henry
the Sixth.

A beautiful Perſian ſhield, made of a rhinoceros's hide
tanned, enamelled, and almoſt transparent.

An Indian ſcimitar, the handle and ornaments of filver, in
a green velvet caſe; and a dagger of the fame; given by a

M

nabob

Two Shields, of leather, for tournaments, painted by Polidore, one has a head of a medusa, the other of Perseus. On the inside are battles ingold; they came out of the collection of the Comendatore Vittonia at Naples, & were sent to Mr Walpole by Mr W. Hamilton, to gether with a third, which hangs on the opposite side of the staircase; it is of Iron, seems to have been gilt. It represents the story of Cúirtí, but by an embattled tower in the back ground, a man and a lion on the border, is certainly not antique.

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nabob to George Morton Pitt, governor of Fort St. George,
and by his widow to Mr. Walpole.

An Indian sword, the blade waving and damasked, the
scabbard of wood twisted with cane, the hilt an owl carved
in wood.

Two Indian quivers, full of arrows.

An Indian lance, the head of wood double barbed and
delicately wrought, that it might break into splinters in a
wound.

Several other lances, spears, and Indian bows.

An Indian bow, painted.

An Indian scimitar in a Japan scabbard.

Four broad swords.

A collar fet with spikes, for a wild beast.

Five pieces of a coat of mail.

An Indian pouch made of beads and hair; a girdle, ditto;
a collar, ditto; and two leather shoes, ornamented ditto.

An Eastern powder-horn of steel and bronze, richly graved,
and hung to a chain with a tablet of bronze, characters in
the middle on a red ground.

An Indian mace, inlaid with brafs.

A hatchet, ditto. These three from the collection of
Monf. Julienne at Paris.

A tall offuarium with bas-reliefs, a sacrifice and tripods.

Another,

A two halberts, out of the old House at Houghton.

An American Calumet, a Warrior's wreath, a neck ornament,
presents from Governor Pownall. The Calumet was given to Sir James Johnstone, a British officer, by the Governor of Quebec, in 1616.

An ancient musket, nicely carved, a present from the King of England, in the middle arch of the armory is a curious ancient head of a King Henry III, well-carved in stone, from the Church of St. Barnwell near Ousele in Northamptonshire, which is still crowded. This head is very like the figures on his tomb, to which in painted stone in the shape here at Strawberry Hill.

Another ancient musket
and Pistolet inlaid with
stone from St. Michael's
collection.

I will do it.

STRAWBERRY-HILL.

Another, curious for being a double one; the inscriptions,

VIBIA. P. L.
ASIATICE.
VIXIT
ANN. XXII.

P. VIBIVS.
P. O. L.
MODESTVS.

THE LIBRARY.

THE books are ranged within gothic arches of pierced work, taken from a side-door cafe to the choir in Dugdale's St. Paul's. The doors themselves were designed by Mr. Chute. The chimney-piece is imitated from the tomb of John of Eltham earl of Cornwall, in Westminster-Abbey; the stone-work from that of Thomas duke of Clarence, at Canterbury. The cieling was painted by Clermont, from Mr. Walpole's design drawn out by Mr. Bentley. In the middle is the shield of Walpole surrounded with the quarters borne by the family. At each end in a round is a knight on horseback, in the manner of ancient seals; that next to the window bears the arms of Fitz Osbert, the other of Robart. At the four corners are shields, helmets and mantles; on one shield is a large H, on another a W, and one of crofs crosfslets, in imitation of an ancient bearing of the Howards in Bloomfield's Norfolk. On another shield is the Saracen's head, the crest of the family, but here the catharine-wheel

is

I am an ancient curfew or lowrieu, to put out the fire;
from mrgostling's collection.

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is above the cap, not on it; having been so borne by the
Robfarts, as appears from the tomb of Lodowic Robfart
lord Bourchier, in Westminster-abbey. On the fourth shield
is an antelope, one of lord Orford's supporters, with the
arms about his neck, refting under a tree, as in old devices.
On either side is the motto of the family, Fari quæ sentiat;
and at the ends, M.DCC.LIV, the year in which this room
was finished, expreſſed in gothic letters: the whole on a
mosaic ground.

The large window and the two roſe windows have a great
deal of fine painted glaſs, particularly, Faith, Hope, and
Charity, whole figures in colours; a large ſhield with the
arms of England, and heads of Charles 1ſt. and Charles 2d.

Over the chimney, an ancient and valuable piece, repre-
fenting the marriage of Henry 6th. of which fee a deſcription
in the firſt volume of the Anecdotes of Painting. Above it
are that king's arms, the red roſe crowned, and queen Mar-
garet's arms in a lozenge. On each side, two bronze medal-
lions of the Malateſtas, sovereigns of Rimini.

A girl and cat, in water-colours, copied by Mr. Walpole
from Rofalba.

A boy with a flute, by ditto, from a picture of Cavalier
Luti, at Houghton.

Sir Robert Walpole, when a boy, in crayons.

Sir

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Sir Edward Walpole, knight of the bath, grandfather of
sir Robert; in oil.

Henry duke of Richmond, natural son of Henry 8th. in
his shirt and night-cap, which is embroidered with black:
a miniature.

Mary, sole daughter and heirefs of Thomas lord Fairfax,
wife of George Villiers second duke of Buckingham: ditto,
by Cooper.

The queen of Bohemia, daughter of James 1st. ditto, by
Ifaac Oliver.

Sir Francis Drake: ditto, by Hilliard.

Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham, the great admiral,
aet. 37; by Isaac Oliver.

Lady Penelope Compton, daughter of Spencer earl of
Northampton, and wife of sir Edward Nicholas, secretary of
ftate; by Cooper.

Count Gondomar, a fine head in oil; fmall.

A Roman fimpulum in bronze.

Two bronze antique lamps and chains.

One ditto, modern, with a triton.

A cow, ditto.

An ancient brafs padlock in the fhape of a hand.

A greyhound in bronze, to keep down papers.

A filver ſtandish that was fir Robert Walpole's, with his
arms.

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Pictures

A DESCRIPTION OF

Pictures over the book-cafés.

Lady Fairborne, daughter of sir ---- Rookeby, and wife
of sir Stafford Fairborne; in red: neice of

Catharine, daughter of Edward Darcy, esq; and wife of
sir Ermus Philipps, of Picton-castle in Pembrokeshire,
grandmother of Catharine lady Walpole, whom she educated.

Sir John Shorter, lord mayor of London in 1668; in
black.

Isabella Birkhead, his wife.

Francis Seymour Conway, earl of Hertford, and knight
of the garter; by Astley, after Liotard.

Lady Isabella Fitzroy, youngest daughter of Charles fe-
cond duke of Grafton, and wife of Francis earl of Hertford;
by Eckardt, after Vanloo.

Henry Seymour Conway, only brother of lord Hertford;
in armour; by Eckardt.

Charlotte, second daughter of John Shorter of Bybrook in
Kent, and third wife of Francis lord Conway; in yellow.

Thomas Shorter, second son of sir John Shorter; in brown.

John Shorter, esq; of Bybrook in Kent, eldest son of sir
John Shorter; in red.

John Shorter, in armour, eldest son of the foregoing, and
brother of Catharine Shorter, eldest daughter of John Shorter
of Bybrook, and first wife of sir Robert Walpole afterwards
earl of Orford: a copy after old Dahl.

A clock

This should begin a new paragraph, as Lady Walpole's picture
follows her brothers.

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A clock of silver gilt, richly chafed, engraved, and orna-
mented with fleurs de lys, little heads, &c. on the top fits a
lion holding the arms of England, which are also on the
fides. This was a present from Henry 8th. to Anne Boleyn;
and since, from lady Elizabeth Germaine to Mr. Walpole.
On the weights are the initial letters of Henry and Anne,
within true lovers knots; at top, *Dieu et mon droit*; at bot-
tom, *The most happy*.---One of the weights, agreeably to the
indelicacy of that monarch's galantry, is in a shape very
conformable to the last motto. The pedestal is adorned with
small heads of bronze gilt of the age of Henry 8th. but
which did not belong to the clock.

A femicircular offuarium, an uncommon form: in the
pediment, a tripod supported by grifons: at each corner, a
horned head of a man and a bird, a festoon hangs from the
horns of the men, on which are two more birds: the in-
scription,

P. LENILIO

MARTIALI

POSVIT FORTVNATVS

PATRONO SVO B. M.

A square offuarium; heads of rams, a festoon and birds;
the inscription,

D. Q. I. C. L. M.

FECIT MCEEI
CAEIIAPRI
MIGENIAPD.

These two urns were in the collection of doctor Meade.

An

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A DESCRIPTION OF

An offuarium adorned on the front and sides with ivy and
birds drinking out of a vase; the inscription,

D. TI. CL. M. SVCCESSO. FILIO. PIENTISSIMO. QVI.

ANN. VIX. XIIIX. PARENTES FEC.

Three more, square; and one round, with a bird on the
t Cover.

Rare books of prints and drawings in the library!

Thuanus, the large edition in 14 volumes, enriched with
beautiful prints of the best impressions, containing portraits
of the principal personages. This set was collected by Sir
Clement Cotterel Dormer.

Ædes Walpolianæ, the original drawings, with every print
that has been engraved from the pictures, and with other
prints and drawings of houses and buildings that belonged to
Sir Robert Walpole and the family of Walpole.

A collection of initial letters from the beginning of print-
ing, with some drawings of heads of the first printers; col-
lected by Mr. Ames, author of the Typographical Antiquities.

Sir Julius Cæsar's travelling library, containing 44 small
volumes in Latin, inclosed in a case the size of a folio.

Faithorne's works, most beautiful impressions; folio.

Hogarth's ditto; the most complete set of his works that
is known, with some of his original drawings.

Vertue's ditto, in 2 large folios.

Teniers's ditto.

Twenty

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Twenty-one large volumes of prints after different great masters.

A volume of drawings by Mr. Sam. Scott and Mr. Müntz.

Three volumes of Hollar's prints.

Drawings of the Florentine gallery.

Prints from pictures, antiquities, and curiosities, at Strawberry-hill.

Drawings by Italian masters, bound in red morocco, 3 vols.

Drawings and prints of heads of English painters and artists, in 2 volumes folio. *very curious*.

Twelve large folios of English heads, bound in vellum, and ranged according to the reign of each king.

A large volume of the reign of George 3d. not ranged.

A volume of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by Vertue and others.

Designs by Mr. Richard Bentley, bound in marble and gilt.

Ditto by Rembrandt, Van Huyfum, &c.

Procession of knights of the garter temp. queen Elizabeth, copied by Vertue from the originals by Mark Garrard.

A large volume, bound in red morocco gold, containing 5 things by various persons of quality.

Curious books in the glaſs cloſet in the library.

Mr. Bentley's original designs for Mr. Gray's poems, bound in red morocco and gilt.

Six views after nature in Indian ink, by Bernard Lens.

A book of patterns for old point lace; exceedingly rare.

Baker on Learning, with MS. notes, by Mr Walpole.

O

Holbein's

a large book of miscellaneous drawings by various masters, ancient and modern.

a book of French Portraits in the time of François I. It belonged to Brantome, who has written the names of several of the persons bought at Mariette's sale in 1745.

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Holbein's prints for the bible, with French verses by Nicholas Borbonius.

Drawings of all the Spintrian medals, from S....lem. c...terel's l...brary.

Apologie de Jehan Chastel: very rare.

Mad. de Sevigne's Letters to M. de Pomponne on Fouquet's trial: MS. *since printed*.

Milton's Paradise Loft, given by the duke of Wharton to
lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who has written verses in the
first leaf.

A missal, engraved on copper-plates at Venice.

Deon's Letters, with prints of the principal persons: quarto.

Callot's pocket-book, with a great number of exquisite
original drawings by himself: a present to Mr. Walpole
from his brother Robert earl of Orford: very valuable.

Bizarie di varie figure di Giovan Batista Bracelli, pittore
Fiorentino al Illmo. S. Don Pietro Medici: 1624. This
most rare and singular book contains prints of human figures
formed by the strange materials, as diamonds, hoops, blad-
ders, pieces of carpentry, battledoors, kitchen-stuff, &c. &c.
It seems to be the composition of a madman, but the draw-
ings are masterly, and the attitudes most noble.

Le Tombeau de Marguerite de Valois, with verses by 3
daughters of the protector duke of Somerset: very scarce.

The pocket-book, with his expences, of Robert Walpole,
father of Sir Robert Walpole.

Accounts

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Accounts of Blenheim, Stowe, Wilton, and other places,
with MS. notes by Mr. Horace Walpole. *tied in one parcel*.

A German book with prints coloured of Charles 5th. and
the German princes of his time.

The arms of the knights of the garter made by Richard 3d.
in their proper colours, and bound in red velvet: a precent
from Walter Robertson, mayor of Lynn.

Description of Wilton, with drawings and notes by Vertue.

A book of heads and sketches, by Vertue.

A complete set of the books printed at Strawberry-hill.

A book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities.

Catalogue of the Harleian collection with the prices, and
drawings of some of the curiosities by Vertue.

Dr. Percy's book of the earl of Northumberland's household.

Two books of swan-marks, on vellum: extremely rare.

A book of defigms of buildings, by John Chute, esq; of
the Vine.

Drawings of churches, monuments, &c. by fir Charles
Frederick and Smart Lethuillier, esq; in 3 vols. folio.

A thin folio containing 35 prints after grotesque paintings.

The Iliad and Odyssey, the very books from which Pope
made his translations: in one of the volumes is a view of
Twickenham drawn by Pope.

Mason's life of Gray, with portraits, views, notes, and
additional poems, richly bound in green and gold.
Three

Dryden's love of fame, with his notes, &c. by Mr Walpole.
D. Chesterfield's works, MS. with notes,

Bathoe's Catalogues of the Collections of Charles's! James's
and Duke of Buckingham, with their portraits, large additions
and notes by Mr Walpole.

Catalogue of the pictures belonging to the Crown Temp. Anne,
given to Mr Walpole by Mr Beauclerc, MS.

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A DESCRIPTION OF

Three illuminated miffals.

Whifton's Life, with MS. index of the principal paflages.

Sir Thomas More's Life, with marginal writing by Philip
earl of Pembroke.

The Charter of Forests, one of the original copies finely
preserved, with the great seal of Edward 1st. appendant;
found at Hackney 1743, among writings of the ancient fa-
mily of Shordich, by Robert Bygrave; presented by him to
fir Edward Walpole, and by him to his brother Horace.

Catalogue of the 25 most precious coins and medals in
the rose-wood cafe.

1. An unique crown of king Edward 6th. bought at lord Oxford's sale in 1742.

2. Medal of pope Julius the 3d. in silver, struck on the restoration of the Roman catholic religion in England by queen Mary.

3. A fatirical filver medal struck in Holland. On the ob-
verfe, the head of Oliver Cromwell laureated in armour.
On the reverfe he is kneeling in the lap of Britannia, with
his breeches down; the French and Spanisb ambaffadors are
contending which shall kifs firft: the former says to the lat-
ter, *Retire toy, l'honneur appartient au Roi mon maitre Louis*
*le Grand. Very scarce; from lord Oxford's collection.*

4. A silver medal; on one side the head of queen Mary of England, on the other, of Philip 2d. both in alto-relievo, and

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and of the moſt exquifite workmanship. It was a trial-piece,
and is certainly the fineſt modern medal known. It was
bought by Mr. Walpole in Italy.

5. A large gold medal of Henry 8th. On the reverse, his titles in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. It is the first medal of the English series. From lord Oxford's collection.

6. A silver medal on the destruction of the Spanish arma-
da. See an account of this medal, and the preceding, in
Evelyn. From the fame collection.

7. Coin of young king Henry, son of Henry 2d. From ditto.

8. Fine gilt coin of pope Paul 3d. Reverse, a Ganymede,
admirably drawn: this beautiful coin was the work of Michael
Angelo Buonaroti. From the collection of Baron Stofsch.

9. Silver medal of lord treasurer Southampton; by Abraham Simon.

10. Gold fragment of queen Elizabeth's last broad piece,
described in the Royal and Noble Authors. Unique: from
the Oxford collection.

11. Gold medal of Nero Claudius Drusus: reverse, trophies, *De Germanis*.

12. Gold medal of Trajan: reverse, his forum. These two are very rare.

13. Gold medal of Marc Antony: reverse, the head of Octavia, the only one of her known, which makes this medal of the highest value.

P

14. Gold

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14. Gold medal of Otho: very scarce, and finely preserved.

15. Ditto of Pertinax: not only very rare, but in the most exquisite prefervation.

16. Copper coin of king Ferdinand of Naples; a pun on the reverie; his arms, a horje; the motto, *Equitas regni*.

17. Silver coin of Euftace, son of king Stephen; very rare: from lord Oxford's collection.

18. A silver half crown of pope Clement 11th. Reversé, the pantheon.

19. Copper medal of pope Gregory 13th. on the correction of the callendar: the reverse, which is in beautiful tafte, was designed by Parmegiano.

20. Silver medal of the fame pope, on the massacre of St. Barthelemi: on the reverse, the destroying angel murdering the protestants; the legend, *Hugonotorum Strages*. This scandalous medal was called in and the die broken, which has made it very uncommon.

21. A silver coin struck by the republic of Florence when they declared Jefus Chrift their king, to keep off the pope: from baron Stoſch's collection: extremely rare.

22. Copper medal of Lorenzo of Medici, who stabbed duke Alexander: the reverse copied from Brutus's medal, with the cap of liberty between two daggers; the legend, *VIII Id. Jan*. Very rare.

23. Copper

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23. Copper medal of Clement 7th. Reversé, Joseph and his brethren: designed by Raphael.

24. Coin of Theodore king of Corfica: rare.

25. Brafs fatirical medal on queen Anne: reversé, the queen and lady Matham embracing; motto, *All for Love*.

MR. WALPOLE'S BEDCHAMBER, TWO PAIR OF STAIRS.

THE chimney-piece was designed by Mr. Chute, and has great grace.

In the window, compoſed of ſeven lights, are ſeveral curious pieces of painted glaſs; as, the arms of Anne Boleyn with the quarterings which the king allowed her to bear of the families from which ſhe was defcended, though with no right of quartering; a large lion coloured; four large angels in black and white; cypher and portcullis of king Edward; arms of Clinton and Ratcliffe; fine heads in black and white of Charlemagne, prince William, and prince Maurice of Orange, &c.

Over the chimney, View of the Vine in Hampshire, the ſeat of John Chute, eſq; by Muntz.

A ſmall print of Mr. Andrews's gothic houſe near Donnington-caſtle and Spine-hill, Berkshire; designed by John Chute, eſq;

Fifteen

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Drawing of Rembrandt's mother, from the picture at
Windsor, called the countess of Desmond; by Muntz.

Prints, of the house of commons and warrant for behead-
ing Charles 1st. inscribed with a pen, *Major charta*; of
Ethelreda lady Townhend; of lord Chatham; lord Hol-
land; lord and lady Strafford; Mr. H. Walpole; and le-
comte de Guerchy.
*A drawing in black chalk of Jasol Hal the Rose of Sharon, the Rose of Cleveland, copied by Jean from an unique print in the collection of Dr. Totheridge, THE STAR CHAMBER, which belonged to Mr. Hateman's arms.*

IS a small anti-room, painted green, with golden ftars in
mosaic. It has a large window entirely of painted glafs;
and two triangular chairs taken from a piece of glafs in
the breakfast-room; a japan trunk; a card-table of the
fame; and a bust of Henry 7th. in ftone, a model in great
taste for his tomb, by * Torreggiano. Hence you go into
aushions of pointlace,
the arms of Mr.
Mr. Hateman.
Hence you go into
a trunk-cieled paflage, lighted by a window of painted glafs,
in which are many quarterings of Latton, a family formerly
feated at Elther in Surry: in the window, a candlestick en-
amelled on copper. This paflage leads to

* two small Welsh
* blue and white
* one of them with
* a ring
* a ring with
* a light

* a Mahogany Cabinet with a collection of English foreign coins and medals. under it, a Vase of false porphyry from the collection of the Comte de Taybis.

* Another like Cabinet with gold, silver & graff Greek Roman coins, and a complete set of Roman weights from Dr. Middleton's Collection. beneath a vase companion to the preceding.

* A Tuscan Vase of Wedgwood, of porphyry ware.

* Aromager, cover of a vase of Chinese white with wreaths of different metals, present from many States.

THE HOLBEIN CHAMBER.

THE cieling is taken from the queen's drefling-room at
Windsfor.

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* Vide Anecdotes of Painting, vol. I, p. 102.

The

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The chimney-piece, designed by Mr. Bentley, is chiefly taken from the tomb of archbishop Warham at Canterbury. Over it, a glaſs in a black and gold frame; and a piece of Roman fayence in the shape of a boat, Bacchus and Ceres in relief in the middle. X

The pierced arches of the screen from the gates of the choir of Rouen; the reft of the screen was designed by Mr. Bentley.

In the bow windows some fine painted glaſs, and the arms of England, and those of George prince of Denmark; the ground is a beautiful mosaic of crimson, blue, and pearls, designed and painted by Price of Hatton-garden.

A table and six chairs of ebony. On the table a tray with four ancient combs; one of ivory is extremely ancient, carved with figures, on one side representing persons bathing and going to bed, on the other, two men and a woman with musical instruments; another comb, said to have belonged to the queen of Scots, is of tortoiseshell studded with silver hearts and rotes; the two others of tortoiseshell likewise, of which the one with very long teeth belonged to the father of the first lord Edgcumbe, and was used when the large flowing wigs were in fashion: two bottles of Roman fayence, and a bason and ewer of purple and white Seve china.

A very ancient chair of oak, which came out of Glastonbury-Abbey; on it are carved these sentences, Joannes Ar-tburus

On the hearth a large vase of Florentine fayence, with the arms of the great Duke.
A screen embroidered by Mrs. Hotham, to whom Mr. W. Addisbed the table of the Magpie her young.

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thurus Monacus Glaſtonie, ſalvet eum Deus: Da pacem Domine: Sit Laus Deo. Lord Bathurſt had ſeveral chairs copied from this.

The bed is of purple cloth lined with white ſattin, a plume of white feathers on the center of the teſter; the room is hung with purple paper. By the bed,

Chriſt crowned with thorns; by Mabeuſe, bought at Mons Hareng's sale 17th, AX.

Over the chimney, an ancient painting of the emperor Maximilian and his ſon Philip the Fair: from the collection of Mr. Bryan Fairfax.

Lady Arabella Stuart, in white, whole length in water-colours; copied by Vertue from the original at Welbeck.

A man's head with a book; by Quintin Matſis: it was in fir Robert Walpole's collection.

Anne Stanhope duchefs of Somerset, ſecond wife of the protector, whose portrait ſhe holds in one hand: a preſent to Mr. Walpole from Mr. Bateman.

Catharine of Arragon, firſt wife of Henry 8th. by Holbein: it was in the collection of fir Robert Walpole, and has been engraved among the Illuſtrious Heads.

* Sir Thomas More. This and all the following heads marked with an afterſm, were taken off on oil-paper by Vertue from the original drawings of Holbein in queen Cαroline's cloſet at Kensington, now removed to Buckingham-house.

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Lord Vaux. This is done in the fame manner by Muntz,
from the fame collection.

A man's head, in old enamel.

Margaret queen of Navarre, who wrote the Tales: ditto.

Between the bow windows:

Queen Elizabeth, when a girl.

* Lady Henningham.

* William Parr, marquis of Northampton, brother of
queen Catherine Parr.

* A lady, unknown.

* Ditto.

* Sir Nicholas Poines.

* Catharine Willoughby, fourth wife of Charles Brandon
duke of Suffolk.

Queen Mary, when a child: from Mr. Fairfax's collection.

* Henry Howard earl of Surrey, the poet.

* Nicholas Cratzer, astronomer to Henry 8th.

* Edward Clinton earl of Lincoln, lord high admiral of England.

* Dr. Colet, dean of Saint Paul's.

* Sir Thomas Elyot, the author.

* Henry Howard earl of Surrey; younger than the preceding.

Edmund Montacute, a judge; by Holbein: from fir R.
Walpole's collection.

* A gen-