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D E S C R I P T I O N

O F T H E

V I L L A

O F

Mr. HORACE WALPOLE,

YOUNGEST SON OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE EARL OF ORFORD,

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Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlefex.

WITH AN INVENTORY OF THE

FURNITURE, PICTURES, CURIOSITIES, &c.

STRAWBERRY-HILL:
PRINTED BY THOMAS KIRGATE, MDCCCLXXXIV.

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Symbols of War, and chivalry appear,
The crested Hauberk, and the darting Spear:
Monaftic reliques, carv'd in days of yore,
And legends, fill'd with deep and learned lore.
Here Fancy needs no airy visions paint;
For TASTE supplies, whate'er the Eye can want,
The gay Enchantments waves her magic Wand,
And Sculpture triumphs, by a female hand.(1)
Thro' HER, historic Spencer's tablet warms;(2)
Infpir'd by HER, creative Lucan charms,
Holbein's new made, deceive our wond'ring Eyes,
New Hilliard's pleafe, new Oliver's surprize;(3)
SHE bids another Nymph, from Nature trace,
The rural Landscape, and the beauteous face,
Gives strong expression to each graceful line,
And blends sweet cafe, with accurate design:
The friendly Phantom aids the work unfeen,
And lends to ev'ry leaf a brighter green;
The vivid tints HER partial hand beflows,
Shine on the Wheat, and bloom upon the Rose,

(1) Honorable Mrs. DAMER, whose works engage the attention of the first Artifls.

(2) Countefs SPENCER, who has an extraordinary talent for drawing hiftoriale Subjects.

(3) Lady LUCAN copies the Miniatures of Holbein, and other Masters, with wonderful skill, and accuracy.

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STRAWBERRY HILL.

Till the gay variegated Garland proves,
Worthy of BEAUCLERC's taftc, and WALPOLE's groves.(4)
Nor to fuch germes of fancy, are confin'd
The treafur'd wonders, in thefe walls enfarin'd.
A thoufand rarities the fight amaze,
A thoufand ſpecimens of beauty blaze.
Soft o'er the circle Fafcination fleals,
And the Eye banquets, while the Bofom feels.
If more is wanting to complete the feaſt,
WALPOLE himſelf will furnifh out the reſt,
For like his Pen, his Manners can diſpenſe
Inſtruction, Pleafure, Wit, and Eloquence.
Reſign enthufiaſtic Mufe! the Theme,
Nor of high flights, or Bays poetic dream;
Tho' WALPOLE's Genius, Eagle like, prefumes,
From Fame's broad wing, to pluck the brighteſt plumes,
Theſe humble ſtrains, no other merit claim,
Than a vain wifh to celebrate his name;
How vain the wifh! Iuperior Mufes, weave
For Him, the faireſt Wreaths that Fame can give,
Yet this Apology my verſe ſhall bear,
That none, who praeſe him, can be more ſincere.

(4) Lady Di. BEAUCLERC's drawings furnish an entire room, at STRAWBERRY HILL, which Mr. WALPOLE has elegantly fitted up, on purpose to receive them.

Newport, Isle of Wight, Printed by J. ALBAN, 1791.

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P R E F A C E.

Far from such visions of self-love, the following account of pictures and rarities is given with a view to their future dispersion. The several purchasers will find a history of their purchases; nor do virtuosos dislike to refer to such a catalogue for an authentic certificate of their curiosities. The following collection was made out of the spoils of many renowned cabinets; as Dr. Meade's, lady Elizabeth Germaine's, lord Oxford's, the duchefs of Portland's, and of about forty more of celebrity. Such well-attested descent is the genealogy of the objects of virtù—not so noble as those of the peerage, but on a par with those of race-horses. In all three, especially the pedigrees of peers and rarities, the line is often continued by many in-significant names.

The most considerable part of the following catalogue consists of miniatures, enamels, and portraits of remarkable persons. The collection of miniatures and enamels is, I believe, the largest and finest in any country. His Majesty has some very fine, the duke of Portland more; in no other is to be seen, in any good preservation, any number of the works of Isaac and Peter Oliver. The large pieces by the latter, in the royal collection, faded long ago by being exposed to the sun and air. Mons. Henery at Paris, and others, have many fine pieces of Petitot. In the following list are some most capital works of that master, and of his only rival Zincke. Raphael's most recent work in miniature of that monarch of painting; and the book of psalms by Julio Clovio the finest specimen extant of illumination. The drawings and bas-reliefs in wax, by lady Diana Beauclerc, are as invaluable as rare.

To an English antiquary must be dear so many historic pictures of our ancient monarchs and royal family; no fewer than four family-pieces of Henry 5th. 6th. 7th. and 8th. of queen Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon; of the duchefs of Suffolk and her second husband; and that curious and well-painted picture of Charles 2d. and his gardiner. Nor will so many works

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Mortimer, or any other Husband that he should thereafter marry, to be
equally divided amongst them; and, for want of such Child or Children
of the said Martha, then to the Use of the said *Paul Mansfield*, and his
Heirs for ever; subject nevertheless to the Payment of Twenty Pounds
apiece to each and every of his Nephews and Nieces on his own Side,
which should be then living, over and above the Legacies therein before
given; and he constituted and appointed the said *Paul Mansfield* Executor
of his said Will:

And whereas the said Martha Mortimer, Daughter of the Teftator,
and Wife of Edward Mortimer, is fince dead, and hath left Ilfue of her
Body, begotten by the said Edward Mortimer, One Son, and Two Daugh-
ters; namely, Ann, now the Wife of Richard Branfon, and Paul Morti-
mer, and Martha Mortimer, both Infants under the Age of Twenty-one
Years; and no other Ilfue:

And whereas the Freehold and Copyhold Eftates so given and de-
vifed by the Will of the faid *Paul Mansfield* conſift chiefly of ſmall Houſes
and Tenements, lett at very ſmall Rents, which amount together to Sixty-
nine Pounds *per Annum*; and the clear yearly Income thereof, after the
Taxes and Expenſe of Repairs are deduſt, doth not, at an Average,
and one Year with another, amount to Fifty-five Pounds *per Annum*:

And whereas the faid *Paul Mansfield*, who claims a reſervationary
Eſtate in the Premifes deſived by the faid Will, expeſtant on the Eſtates
and Interfeſts thereby given to the faid *Ann Branfon*, and *Paul Mortimer*
and *Martha Mortimer* (the Three Children of the faid *Martha Mortimer*
by the faid *Edward Mortimer*) hath treated and agreed for the abſolute
Sale of the fame Premifes to the Honourable *Horatio Walpole* the younger,
Eſquire, for the Price or Sum of One thouſand Three hundred and Fifty-
fix Pounds Ten Shillings; and out of Kindneſs to and Regard for the faid
*Ann Branfon*, *Paul Mortimer*, and *Martha Mortimer*, hath propoſed and
doth conſent to accept of the Sum of One hundred Pounds, Part of the
faid Purchase-money, for all his Eſtate, Intereft, or Claim, of, in, and to
the Premifes; and that the reſt of the Purchase-money, being One thou-
ſand Two hundred and Fifty-fix Pounds and Ten Shillings, ſhall be applied
dispoſed of for the Benefit of, and as a Proviſion for the faid *Ann
Branfon*, and *Paul Mortimer*, and *Martha Mortimer*, the Infants:

And although the faid Sum of One thouſand Two hundred and Fifty-fix
Pounds and Ten Shillings not only exceeds the Value of the Fee-ſimple and
Inheritance of the faid Premifes, but is alſo capable of producing a better
yearly Income, for the Benefit of the faid *Ann Branfon*, and *Paul Mortimer*,
and *Martha Mortimer*, the Infants, than the Premifes ſo propoſed to be ſold;
*Pct.*, by reaſon not only of the Infancy of the faid *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha
Mortimer*, but of the Doubts and Difputes that may arise concerning the
Eſtate and Interſt deſived to and veſted in the faid Children by the faid
Will, the faid Premifes cannot be ſold, nor a good Title made thereof, to
the

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the Satisfaction of a Purchaſer, without the Aid and Authority of an Act
of Parliament:

Therefore Your MAJESTY's moſt dutiful and loyal Subjects the ſaid
Edward Mortimer for himiſelf, and on the Behalf of the ſaid *Paul Morti-
mer* and *Martha Mortimer*, his Infant Children, and alſo the ſaid *Richard*
*Branfon*, and *Ann Branfon* his Wife, and the ſaid *Paul Mansfield*,

Do moſt humbly beſeech Your moſt Excellent MAJESTY,

That it may be Enacted; And be it Enacted, by the KING's moſt
Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Conſent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this preſent Parliament affem-
bled, and by the Authority of the fame, That All that Meſſuage or Tene-
ment now in the Tenure or Occupation of the ſaid *Horatio Walpole*, his
Aſſigns, or Under-tenants, and for which he pays the yearly Rent of
Seventeen Pounds; And all that Meſſuage or Tenement now in the Te-
nure or Occupation of Miftrefs *Devereux*, her Aſſigns, or Under-tenants,
and for which he pays the yearly Rent of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings;
And all that Cloſe, or Piece or Parcel of Land, late *Benfon's*, containing,
by Eſtimation Three Acres and an half, and now in the Tenure or Occu-
pation of Maſter *Haverfield*, and for which he pays the yearly Rent of
Ten Pounds; And all that Meſſuage or Tenement now in the Tenure or
Occupation of Maſter *Coles*, his Aſſigns, or Under-tenants, and for which
he pays the yearly Rent of Ten Pounds; And all that Meſſuage or Tene-
ment now in the Tenure or Occupation of Miftrefs *Dandy*, her Aſſigns,
or Under-tenants, and for which he pays the yearly Rent of Three Pounds
and Ten Shillings; And all that Meſſuage or Tenement, with the Garden
thereto belonging, or therewith uſed, now in the Tenure or Occupation
of Maſter *Franklin*, his Aſſigns, or Under-tenants, and for which he pays
the yearly Rent of Five Pounds; And all thatroſe Two Pews in *Twickenham*
Church, now lett at the yearly Rent of Three Pounds; And all thatroſe Five
Roods of Land lying in *Twickenham* Field, now lett at the yearly Rent
of One Pound and Ten Shillings; And all that Meſſuage or Tenement
called *The Mill-bouſe*, now in the Tenure or Occupation of Maſter *Cole*,
his Aſſigns, or Under-tenants, and for which he pays the yearly Rent of
Four Pounds; all which ſaid Meſſuages or Tenements, Lands, and Here-
ditaments, herein before-mentioned and deſcribed, are fituate, lying, and
being, in the Town, Parifh, Fields, Precinſts, or Territories of *Twicken-
ham* aforefaid, in the ſaid County of *Middleſex*; And alſo all that Meſſu-
age or Tenement, and Farm, with the Lands and Grounds thereunto be-
longing, or therewith uſed, fituate, lying, and being, at *Wilſden* in the ſaid
County of *Middleſex*, and now in the Tenure or Occupation of Maſter *Tin-
dale*, his Aſſigns, or Under-tenants, and for which he pays the yearly
Rent of Seven Pounds and Ten Shillings; and alſo all and ſingular Houſes,
Out-houſes, Ediſces, Buildings, Barns, Stables, Yards, Gardens, Orchards,
Lands, Meadows, Paſtures, Feedings, Hedges, Ditches, Mounds, Fences,
Commons,

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Commons, Common of Pafture, Ways, Waters, Watercourfes, Paffages,
Lights, Eafements, Profits, Commodities, Privileges, and Appurtenances
whatfoever to the faid Meffuages, Farms, Lands, Tenements, Heredita-
ments, and Premifes, or any of them, belonging or in any-wife appertain-
ing; and all and every other the Freehold and Copyhold Meffuages,
Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, of him the faid *Paul Mansfield*,
deeceafed, or whereof or wherein he, or any Perfon or Perfons in Truft for
him, had, at the time of his Death, any Eftate of Inheritance in Poffet-
fion, Reverfion, Remainder, or Expectancy, fituate, lying, and being, in
the Parifhes of *Twickenham* and *Wilſen* in the faid County of *Middleſex*, or
ellſwhere in the Kingdom of *Great Britain*, which in and by his faid
Will, herein before-mentioned or recited, were given and devifed to the
faid *Paul Mansfield* the Nephew, and to *Sufanna Lloyd* and *John Dovey*,
both fince deceased, to, for, and upon the feveral Uſes, Trufts, Intents,
and Purpofes therein mentioned, with their and every of their Appurte-
nances, and the Reverfion and Reverfions, Remainder and Remainders,
Rents, Iſſues, and Profits, of all and ſingular the fame Premifes; ſhall, from
and after the Firſt Day of *June* One thouſand Seven hundred and Forty-
nine, be fettled upon and veſted in, and the fame are hereby from thence-
forth fettled upon and veſted in the faid *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert
Holmes*, of *Twickenham* aforefaid, Carpenter, their Heirs and Afligns, To
the Uſe of them the faid *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert Holmes*, their Heirs
and Afligns for ever, freed and diſcharged, and abſolutely acquitted,
exempted, exonerated, and indemnified of, from, and againſt all the Uſes,
Trufts, Eſtates, Charges, and Limitations, in and by the faid recited Will
limited, created, and declared of and concerning the fame Premifes; and
alſo of, from, and againſt all Right, Intereft, Claims, and Demands of
the faid *Paul Mansfield*, *Richard Branſon*, and *Ann Branſon* his Wife,
and *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha Mortimer* the Infants, and their re-
ſpective Heirs.

And it is hereby Enacted and Declared, That the faid *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert Holmes*, and their Heirs, ſhall stand ſeifed of the Premifes hereby veſted in them, as aforefaid, upon the Trufts, and to and for the Ends, Intents, and Purpofes herein after-mentioned, expreſſed, and declared; that is to ſay, Upon Truſt, That upon Payment by the faid *Horatio Walpole*, his Heirs or Afligns, of the Sum of One thouſand Three hundred Fifty-fix Pounds and Ten Shillings, being the Money agreed to be paid by him for the Purchafe of the Premifes, unto the faid *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert Holmes*, their Heirs and Afligns, they the faid *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert Holmes*, their Heirs and Afligns, ſhall and do convey and affure the Meſſuages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and Premifes veſted by this Act, unto, and to the Uſe of, the faid *Horatio Walpole*, his Heirs and Afligns, or unto ſuch Perfon or Perſons, and for ſuch Eſtate or Eſtates, as he or they ſhall in that Behalf nominate and appoint; and alſo upon Truſt, that, in the mean time, and until ſuch Conveyance and Affurance ſhall be made in purſuance of this Act, they the faid

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faid *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert Holmes*, and their Heirs, ſhall and do permit and ſuffer the Rents and Profits of the Premifes hereby veſted in them, as aforefaid, to be had, received, and taken, by ſuch Perſon or Perſons as were intitled to and ought to receive the fame, before the Paſſing this Act, or in caſe the fame had not been made.

And it is hereby Enacted and Declared, That the faid *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert Holmes*, and their Heirs, ſhall apply and difpofe of the faid Sum of One thouſand Three hundred Fifty-fix Pounds and Ten Shillings, to be paid by the faid *Horatio Walpole* for the Purchafe of the Premifes ſo contracted for by him, as aforefaid, in Manner and for the Purpofes herein after-mentioned; that is to ſay, In the Firſt place, ſhall and do pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds, Part of the faid Purchafe-money, unto the faid *Paul Mansfield*, his Heirs, Executors, Adminiſtrators, and Afligns, in full Bar, Recompence, and Satisfaction of and for all the Eſtate, Right, Intereft, or Claim whatsoever, which he the faid *Paul Mansfield* now hath, or which he, his Heirs, Executors, Adminiſtrators, or Afligns, at any time hereafter can or may have, claim, challenge, or demand, of, in, to, or out of the Premifes hereby veſted, or any Part thereof; and ſhall and do ſtand and be poffeſſed of and intereſted in the Refidue and Surplus of the Sum of One thouſand Three hundred and Fifty-fix Pounds and Ten Shillings, which ſhall remain after Payment of the faid Sum of One hundred Pounds, unto the faid *Paul Mansfield*, as aforefaid, upon the Trufts, and for the Purpofes following; that is to ſay, As to One Third-part thereof, In Truſt for the faid *Ann Branſon*, her Executors, Adminiſtrators, and Afligns, to and for her and their own Uſe and Benefit; and as to the other Two Third-parts of ſuch Refidue or Surplus, In Truſt, by and with the Conſent and Approbation of the faid *Edward Mortimer* during his Life, and, after his Death, of their own Authority, to place out the fame upon the publick Funds, or on Government or real Security, at Intereft; and alſo, from time to time, by and with the like Conſent and Authority, to call in the Principal-money to be placed out, and place out the fame again upon new or other Funds or Securities of the like Nature, at Intereft.

And it is hereby Enacted and Declared, That they the faid *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert Holmes*, their Executors, Adminiſtrators, and Afligns, ſhall stand and be poffeſſed of, and intereſted in, the faid Principal-money to be placed out, and the Intereft, Dividends, and yearly Proceed, arifing and produced from the fame, upon the Trufts following; that is to ſay, As to the Principal-money in Truſt for, and as the Portions of, the faid *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha Mortimer* the Infants, to be equally divided between them, Share and Share alike, and to be paid to them at the times, and in manner, herein after-mentioned; that is to ſay, The Portion or Share of the faid *Paul Mortimer* to be paid to him at his Age of Twenty-one Years; and the Portion or Share of the faid *Martha Mortimer* to be paid to her at her

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Age of Twenty-one Years, or Day of Marriage, which shall first happen; and, as to the Interest, Dividends, and yearly Proceed, arising and to be produced from the said Principal-money or Fund, in Trust to pay, apply, and discharge of the fame, as it shall come in and be received, for and towards the Maintenance and Education of the said *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha Mortimer*, until their respective Portions or Shares in the said Principal-money shall become payable.

**Provided always, and it is hereby Enacted and Declared.** That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert Holmes*, their Executors, Administrators, and Affigns, by and with the Consent of the said *Edward Mortimer*, during his Life, and, after his Decease, of their own Authority, to apply any Part of the Portions hereby provided for the said *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha Mortimer* the Infants respectively, as aforefaid, at such time and times as they respectively shall think requisite and expedient, for the advancing and placing out either of them the said *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha Mortimer* in any Trade, Profession, or Employment, or otherwife.

**Provided also.** That if either of them the said *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha Mortimer* shall die before his or her Portion or Share of and in the said Principal-money or Fund shall become payable, then the Portion or Share of him or her is dying, or so much thereof as shall not have been applied for his or her Benefit, as afore-mentioned, shall go, accrue, and be paid, to the Survivor of them, and the said *Ann Branfon*, in equal Shares and Proportions: And if both of them the said *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha Mortimer* shall die before either of their said Portions or Shares shall become payable, then the said Principal-money is to be placed out, and the Interest, Dividends, and yearly Proceed, arifying and produced from the fame, or so much thereof as shall not have been advanced and applied unto and for the Benefit of the said *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha Mortimer* the Infants, as aforefaid, shall go unto, and be in Trust for, the said *Ann Branfon*, her Executors, Administrators, and Affigns.

**And it is hereby farther Enacted and Declared.** That immediately after the Payment by the said *Horatio Walpole*, his Heirs or Affigns, of the Purchase-money for the Premises, and the Conveyance of the fame to him and them, in purpuance of this Act, he the said *Horatio Walpole*, his Heirs and Affigns, shall and may have, hold, and enjoy, the Purchase, Sales, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and Premises, vested by this Act, and so to be conveyed to him and them as aforefaid, freed and discharged of, from, and againft all the Ufes, Eftates, Trufts, Charges, and Limitations in and by the said recited Will limited, created, and declared, of and concerning the fame; and also of, from, and againft all Eftates, Intererſts, Claims, and Demands, of the said *Paul Mansfield*, *Richard Branfon*, *Ann Branfon* his Wife, and *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha Mortimer* the Infants, and their respective Heirs and Affigns; and that the Receipt and Receipts of the said *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert Holmes*, or the Survivor of them, or the Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, of ſuch Survivor, under their or his Hands or Hand respectively, ſhall, from time to time, be a good and effectual Difference to the said *Horatio Walpole*, his Heirs and Affigns, for so much of the said Purchase-money for which ſuch Receipt or Receipts ſhall be given; and after ſuch Receipts he or they respectively shall be abfolutely acquitted and discharged of and from the fame, and ſhall not be answerable or accountable for any Lofs, Misapplication, or Nonapplication, of the said Purchase-money, or any Part thereof.

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**And it is hereby farther Enacted and Declared.** That the said *Paul Mansfield* and *Robert Holmes*, shall not, nor shall either of them, or the Heirs, Executors, or Administrators of either of them, be answerable or accountable for any Money to be received by virtue of or under the Trufts hereby in them respectively repofed, any otherwife than each Perfon for ſuch Sum and Sums of Money as he shall respectively actually receive; and that no one of them shall be answerable or accountable for the Acts, Receipts, Neglects, or Defaults, of the other of them; and also that they the said Truſtees, their respective Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, ſhall and may, out of the Eſtate and Effects vested and to be vested in them, by virtue and in purpuance of this Act, retain to, and reimburse themſelves, all Cofts, Charges, and Expences, that they respectively ſhall or may ſuſtain, or be put unto, in and about the Execution of the Truſts hereby in them repofed.

**Saying always** to the KING's moſt Excellent MAJESTY, his Heirs and Succefſors, and to all and every other Perfon and Perfons, Bodies Polity and Corporate, his, her, and their Heirs, Succefſors, Executors, and Administrators (Other than and except the said *Paul Mansfield*, *Richard Branfon* and *Ann Branfon* his Wife, and *Paul Mortimer* and *Martha Mortimer*, and their respective Heirs and Affigns), All ſuch Eſtate, Right, Title, Interest, Claims, and Demands, of, in, to, or out of, the Meſſuages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and Premifes, vested and fetted by this Act, as they, every or any of them, had before the Paſſing of the fame, or could or might have held and enjoyed, in cafe this Act had not been made.

An ACT for Sale of divers Lands
and Tenements in Twickenham
in the County of Middlesex, de-
vised by the Will of Paul Manf-
field, deceased, pursuant to an
Agreement for that Purpose; and
for the Benefit of his Grand-
children.

[* * *]

Committed for Tuesday the 30th May 1749
at 12 o'clock at 9 o'clock.

STRAWBERRY-HILL,

of which was deigned by Richard Bentley, only son of Dr. Bentley, the
learned master of Trinity-college, Cambridge. Over the door are three
fields of Walpole, Shorter, and Robfart.

You first enter a small gloomy hall paved with hexagon tyles, and lighted
by two narrow windows of painted glafs, reprefenting St. John and St. Francis.
This hall is united with the staircafe, and both are hung with gothic paper,
painted by one Tudor, from the screen of prince Arthur's tomb in the cathe-
dral of Worcester. The ballustrade was deigned by Mr. Bentley; at every
corner is an antelope [one of lord Orford's supporters] holding a shield. In
the well of the staircafe, by a cord of black and yellow, hangs a gothic lant-
horn of tin japanned, deigned 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, over the entrance of which
is an ancient carving in wood of the arms of queen Elizabeth, 1567, and in
it a window 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 flucco. The chimney-piece was deigned by Mr. Bentley:
upon it stands a fine Etruscan vafe, between two bottles of black and gold
porcelaine.

Over the chimney, a conversation, by Reynolds, small life: Richard, fe-
cond lord Edgecumbe, is drawing at a table in the library at Strawberry-hill;
George James Williams is looking over him; George Auguftus Selwyn
stands on the other side with a book in his hand. Lord Edgecumbe, Mr.
Selwyn and Mr. Williams ufed to be with Mr. Walpole at Chriftmas and
Eafter at Strawberry-hill.

On one side of this picture, a head of fir Horace Mann, refident at Flo-
rence; painted there by Aftley, and highly coloured: He is dreft in red
velvet.

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

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

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The

A DESCRIPTION OF

The chairs are black, of a gothic pattern, designed by Mr. Bentley and Mr. Walpole. The table of Sicilian jalper on a black frame designed by Mr. Bentley: upon it, a large punch-bowl and pail of Seve china; two beakers of old grey porcelain, veined; two ice-pails of Chelsea china. Under it, two Etruscan vases, and a jar of Roman fayence. Over the table hangs a hunting-horn, finely enamelled on one side in colours, on the other in chiaro furo, with the history of Saint Hubert. By the table an old white china bottle, ornamented with or moulu, on a mahogany pedestal, for water, bought at Mr. Bateman's sale, 1775.

On each side of the window, the top of which has fome fine painted glafs, and one ridiculous Dutch piece representing the triumph of Fame, who is accompanied by Cato, Cicero, and other great men in square caps and gowns of mafters of arts, are card-tables of rofe-wood, carved in China; and over each, a looking-glaf in a gothic frame of black and 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 Cholmondeley vicount Malpas, eldest son of George earl of Cholmondeley and of Mary second daughter of Sir Robert Walpole. The former is copied by Eckardt, from a miniature by Liotard, in the cabinet above flairs: the latter is original by Eckardt. On one side of the window,

An old woman letting a boy light his candle, by Schalken; very fine.

Opposite, Two boys, a dog and a goat, by Baffin; from Mr. Jennings's collection.

At the end of the room, over againft the window, fir Robert Walpole, knight of the garter, afterwards earl of Orford. 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 drets of a fhemderſs) 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,

* There is another Dutch emblematic pane, on which is Charles 2d. riding uppermost on the Wheel of Fortune, and Rebellion thrown down. Another pane is painted with a Cobler whistling to a Bird in a Cage, by Pearson, scholar of Price. This window was altered and enlarged in 1774.

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bath, eldest son of Sir 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 Devonshire, 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 habit with a stick: by Jarvis.

On the other side, Sir 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 the ladies Laura, Maria, and Horatia Waldegrave, daughters of James, second earl of Waldegrave and Maria Walpole, afterwards duchefs of Glouceſter; by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1781.

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

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

Over one of the doors, Mary lady Malpas, second daughter of Sir 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 Sir 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.

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

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

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## 6 A DESCRIPTION OF IN THE WAITING-ROOM.

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

Inflde of King's college chapel, by Canaletti.

A curious emblematic picture of a man standing, small whole length,
with a buſt of Charles 2d. feemingly before his re restoration, for a cup is
weighing the broken arms of England (as a commonwealth) againſt crowns
and ceſtres, (but the ceſtre is a French one, and therefore probably painted
abroad) fragments of architecture, and the man holds a plan like St. Paul's;
thence it has been ſuppofed a portrait of a Christopher Wren, but does
not re ſembl e him, nor are the arms his.

A print of lady Mary Coke.

THE CHINA-ROOM.

PAINTED glafs in the windows, and crefts of Shorter and Geſlinthorpe:
the cieling painted with convoluſus on poles, by Mützt, from a
cieling in the little Borghefe villa at Freſcati: the ſides, white Dutch tyles,
with borders of blue and white.

In the floor ſome very ancient tyles with arms, from the cathedral at
Glouceſter. The upper part of the chimney-piece is taken from a window
of an ancient farm-houſe, formerly Bradfield-hall, belonging to lord Grim-
ſton in Eſſex; the lower part from a chimney at Hurſt Monceaux in Suffex:
it is ador ſed with the arms of Talbot, Bridges, Sackville, and Walpole,
the principal perſons who have inhabited Straſberry-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 ſalt ſeliers of old
blue and gold Venetian glafs, with flowers.

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

On the ſides, George 2d. and Frederic prince of Wales, in Batterſea
enamel.

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

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

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

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

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

Two muftard-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, faucer 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 dithes fcollopped and ribbed, with coloured flowers.

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

A large deep diſh of Roman earth, with ſtories from Ovid's Meta-
morphofis.

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

An old blue and white diſh, with landſcapes.

Ditto, larger, with figures.

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

Two small dithes of fayence, with grotesques and the arms of a biflop
Contarini.

An octagon coloured plate of Saxon china, old pattern.

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An ollagon square plate, 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 embossed flowers.

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

A tea-pot and milk-pot, six cups and faucets, of modern china, with grey landcapes.

Five white cups and faucets 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 embossed.

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.

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

Six coloured water-cups and plates of Cheldea China.

A blue and white caudle-cup.

Two ditto, coloured.

An old blue and white honeycomb tea-pot.

Two Roman lacrymatories of glafs, two of earth, and two water-glasses. M.

An ewer enamelled with bacchansls on copper.

Two coffee-cups and faucets 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 Cheldea china.

Two coloured Saxon trays with squirrels.

A folloped faucer of Saxon china, the second sort, very rare: in it lies a medal of Louis quinze in Seve china.

A hand candlestick of coloured Seve china.

A blue

This cup is of M'Plac's China and of the same size as the original.

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A blue and gold sugar-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.

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

An old earthen mug of Arabian ware.

Two vafes with handles, of red Portugueſe earth.

Two plates like having-bafons, of the fame.

An earthen bottle; painted on it, Sack, 1647: it was thus fold by apo-
the caries. From the collection of Mrs Kennon, the virtuofa 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; two lacrymatories, ditto; and two
of earth. 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 bafon, six handle cups and faucers, with battles in black,
of Vienna china; a prefent to Catharine lady Walpole from count Dehn,
envoy from the duke of Wolfenbuttle.

A fquare 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.

An ewer enamelled on copper, with naked horſemen fighting.

A blue and gold coffee-cup and faucer, with birds on white cartouches, of
Seve china.

A cup and faucer, all blue and gold, of ditto.

An old glafs tankard, with a battle of Turks and chriftians in black, finely drawn.

Ditto of old Venetian glafs striped with white, mounted in filver gilt: on
the lid, arms of Parr enamelled.

Six handle cups and faucers with green landſcapes on white, of Chelſea
china.

An urn and cover of red Portugueſe earth.

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Two large coloured faucers with figures.

Two small ditto baons with flowers.

Two large coloured baons.

Two white faltfellers with crawfith in relief, of Chelſea china.

A fine square plate, à la Grecque, of Seve china.

Two old blue and white trays.

Two Saxon coloured faucers, cinquefoil.

Two green and gold fairs, with flowers on white, of Seve china.

Two white Chelſea fairs on feet.

Two small blue and white baons.

A boy supporting a shell, finely modelled in red earth; the first fort of Saxon china before it was glazed or painted, and which was only given as preſents by the elector: extremely rare.

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

Two chineſe baons 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 car- touches 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 Chelſea china.

Two small baons 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 defins of Parmegiano.

A small dejuné of blue and gold Seve china; very pretty.

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

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

Two porringers of Portugueſe earth.

An octagon faltfeller enamelled on copper, droll figures on the sides with old French verres; at top, a head, *Je fuis 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.

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Six coloured handle cups and faucers, a tea-pot and fugar-difh, in shapes
of leaves, of Chantilli china.

Four small blue and white eggshell cups.

The prefent queen of France, a large medallion of Seve biskuit; a prefent
from the duchefs dowager d'Aiguillon in 1771.

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

Two butter-pots and plates of blue and white Delft ware; prefents from
lady Ailebury.

A red cup and faucer, clouded.

A small square brown tea-pot.

A jug of old clouded glafs, and a bottle of the fame.

Two Saxon tankards, one with Chinese figures, the other with European.
Thefe tankards are extremely remarkable. Sir Robert Walpole drank ale;
the duchefs of Kendal, miftrels of king George the Firft, gave him the
former. A dozen or more years afterwards, the countefs of Yarmouth,
miftrels of king George the Second, without having seen the other, gave
him the fecond; and they match exactly in form and fize.

Two deflert-difhes of coloured Japan china.

A fcollopped fugar-difh of old china, white without, striped with colours
within: rare.

A bafon and plate of fcollopped Saxon china.

A plate with small flowers, ditto.

A monteith of coloured Seve china: beautiful.

Two old white china candlesticks, mounted in filver.

A large fcollopped and coloured bowl of Japan china.

A pale green and white flat bafon; very old.

Two green jars.

A mug of earthen ware, with Arabic characters.

A fugar-difh, cover and plate, of Japan china.

A green ewer with a purple handle.

An Etruscan cup with two handles, and an owl on it.

Two very small brown tea-pots.

Medallion of Henry quatre, in Seve biscuit.

Four blue and white chocolate cups, and four faucers.

A triangular falteller of fayence with fine figures on terms.

An old Venetian glafs cup and faucer, with gold flowers.

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A cup of Matlock fpar, on a foot.

An urn, ditto.

Four deflert-plates of fayence, with figures and boys round the borders;
by Pietro Cortona: very fine. A fifth ditto, with goats; a preent from
lady Diana Beauclerc.

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

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

A ſcollopped Japan tray.

A fine glafs urn with golden boys; Roman: defcribed in doctor Middle-
ton's antiquities.

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

A round brown tea-pot, quite flat.

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

A vafe with two handles of Portugueſe earth.

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

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

Ditto with ruſtie 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 deflert-plates with figures.

A ſmall diſh of Chelſea china in a deflert pattern.

A blue and white beaker with a Chineſe proceſſion.

Two blue and white ſoup-dithes with figures.

Ten diſhes of old Japan ware.

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

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 Turkifh 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 diih,

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A fine Turkish jar and cover, with caft leaves: curious.
A large blue and white dih.
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 prefent from lord Vere,
out of the collection of lady Elizabeth Germaine.
A beautiful green bafon.
Ten coloured pattypans of different fizes.
An old white dih,
A dih and four deflert-plates, brown, blue, and white,
A large blue and white dih, and a small ditto.
Four green leaves of Staffordshire-ware for a deflert.
A tea-kettle of brown china.
A white jar.
Two white handle cups and faucers, finely painted with natural flowers, of
Seve porcelaine. A Mercury, ditto.
A group of the graces supporting a basket, of Seve biscuit.
A large old white china tea-pot, that was the duke of Monmouth's; a
prefent from Simon fecond earl of Harcourt.
A sauce-boat of Roman fayence, with Cupid riding on a dolphin.
Twelve plates of Wedgwood's ware, with cameos of blue and white, and
blue feltoons; from a defign of lady Diana Beauclerc.
A bafon and ewer of Roman fayence, painted with landſcapes; a prefent
from the earl of Exeter.
A large round vafe and cover, and a dih to it, of Roman fayence.
Two diſhes of the fame.
A cup and faucer, white with green feltoons, of Bristol porcelaine.
A round picture of white flowers in alto relievo, of the fame manufaſture.
A square compotier with blue and gold flowers, of Salopian porcelaine.
A blue, gold, and colour'd fugar-dih and plate, of Woreeſter porcelaine.
Two white glafs cups, with gold feltoons and rams heads, of English
manufacture.

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Two dessert-plates of old china in form of herons.

A groupe of two figures and five single cupids, of Heffe and Brunfwick
porcelaine; prefents from lord Beauchamp.

Sir William Hamilton, envoy at Naples, and Catherine lady Walpole;
medallions of Wedgwood's ware.

Louis quinze, and Dr. Franklin, medallions in biscuit.

Two tall chocolate cups and faucers, beautifully painted with holyoaks,
of Seve china; prefents from lady Ailefbury.

A white and gold mug and faucer, with Chinese pheafants, of ditto.

A cup and faucer of ditto, all over strawberries; a prefent from madame
du Deffand.

A cup and faucer of ditto, lilac and gold, with the flowr of Pan and
Syrinx in crimfon.

A cup and faucer of Wedgwood's ware, finely painted with English views.

A white and gold handle cup and faucer with Chinese figures, of the
porcelaine of Clignancour, a new manufacture eitablihed by the Comte de
Provence, called Porcelaine de Monfieur.

A cup to hold an egg, imitating lapis lazuli; porcelaine de Seve.

A very small cup and faucer, white and gold, with imitations of rubies; ditto.

A large caudle cup, striped with gold, and flowers; porcelaine of Berlin.

Four ditto, with frigs of flowers on white ground; ditto.

A tea-pot and plate, bafon, sugar-diff, milk-pot, two chocolate-cups,
two pomatum-pots, and a cann; of the Staffordthire bamboo ware, 1782.

A Turkifh earthen-ware plate, brown and gold, a prefent from Mrs.
Griffith the Authoreſs.

A white glafs sugar-diff, painted with natural flowers.

A red Portugueſe bowl with a grate at the bottom, for cooling water.

Three black and red earthen vafes, with handles, highly polifhed.

Two more copper enamelled plates given by Lady Ailefbury.

A tumbler of crackled china within; japanned without; very rare: a
prefent from Mrs. French.

A bafon of Turkifh earthen-ware, gilt within; a prefent from Mr. Fitz-
william.

A glafs faucer, gilt and filvered; given by lord Offory.

Portrait of George Simon Earl of Harcourt, in Wedgewood's ware; the
only one executed in that manner.

A Tufcan vale of Wedgewood's ware.

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CHINA IN THE WAITING-ROOM.

Two ice-pails with vines of Saxon china.

A white butter-pot and plate of Chantilli, and two blue and white falt-
fellers, ditto.

Two monteiths of Tolle, a new French metal japanned.

Four oblong deflert-difhes, four leaves, and twelve plates, with coloured
fruits and flowers, of Chelflea china.

Twelve blue and white coffee-cups and faucers of Chantilli.

Twelve black and white tea-cups and faucers of Bow china.

Two red and white handle cups and faucers with boys, of Seve.

A fine coloured ice-pail and cover, ditto.

A blue and white Delft butter-pot and plate.

Two white and gold falt's of Seve.

Twenty-four white plates with knurled borders and gold edges, four deep
leaves, two square plates, and a cream-bowl, of Seve.

A large white plate, and a white glafs beaker.

A blue and white basket, two round cheefe-pots and plate, and a fceau 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 marks, and two plates.

THE LITTLE PARLOUR.

OVER the door is a shield of Mr. Walpole's arms and quarterings on
painted glafs, by Price. The room is lighted by a bow window, in
which, among other pieces of painted glafs, are the arms of Ayliffe, im-
paling Clifford of Frampton; given by Mr. George Selwyn.

The chimney is taken from the tomb of Thomas Ruthall bishop of
Durham, in Westminfter-abbey. The room is hung with gothic paper of
stone colour in mofiic, on which are wooden prints by Jackson of Venice;
and furnished with a table and eight chairs of ebony, bought at the lady
Conyers's at Great Stoughton in Huntingdonshire, as were others in other
chambers. On the table is an ice pail of Wedgewood's ware.

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IN THE YELLOW BEDCHAMBER, OR BEAUTY-ROOM.

THE chimney-piece was designed by Mr. Bentley. The room is hung with grey spotted paper, the bed and chairs of yellow silk and stuff damask. On the ebony table, two large old blue and white china candle-flicks, and a writing-box of fandal-wood inlaid with ivory. On the com-mode with a flab of white marble, bought at Mr. Bateman's sale, a bronze caft of the hermaphrodite. A fire-screen worked by lady Offory, 1781.

Over the chimney, Charles 2d. James duke of York and Mary princes of Orange, when children, copied from Vandyck by Charles Beale.

A fine portrait of Mr. Peter Lely, after himself, by ditto.

Elizabeth Wriothesly countefs of Southampton, and afterwards first wife of Ralph the first duke of Montagu, by ditto, after ditto. These three are in water-colours.

Nineteen finall heads in oil of the court of Charles 2d. (except Sachariffa) copied by Jarvis for himself, and bought with his house at Hampton by Mr. Lovibonde, at whose sale these and the three foregoing were purchased.

Charles the second.

Queen Catherine.

King William when prince of Orange.

Queen Mary, when princefs.

Catharine Sidley, countefs of Dorchester, mitrefes of James 2d.

Frances Stuart (of Grammont's Memoires) duchefs of Richmond.

Louife de Querouaille, duchefs of Portfimouth.

Lady Dorothy Sidney, countefs of Sunderland, Waller's Sachariffa.

Barbara Villiers, duchefs of Cleveland.

Arabella Churchill, wife of Mr. Godfrey, mitrefes of James 2d.

Mrs. Philadelphia Saunders.

Mrs. Trevor, maid of honour: having seen the duke of Monmouth in bed with another lady, and divulged it, the duke engaged Mr. Thynne to debauch her. Mr. Thynne being killed before he bedded lady Ogle, this epigram was made on him,

Here lies Tom Thynne of Longleat-hall,
Who never would have mifcarried,
Had he married the woman he lay withal,
Or lain with the woman he married.

Lady

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Lady Anne Cavendish, daughter of William earl of Devonshire, and wife of John earl of Exeter.

Lady Gertrude Pierpoint, daughter of William earl of Kingston, and
wife of George Saville marquis of Halifax.

Lady Mary Rich, daughter of Robert earl of Warwick, wife of Henry
vifcount St. John, and mother of the famous lord Bolingbroke.

Henry earl of Ogle, only son of Henry Cavendish duke of Newcaftle.

Lady Elizabeth Percy, only daughter and heirefs of Joceline laft earl of Northumberland, married firft to Henry lord Ogle, fecondly to Thomas Thynne, Eq. and laitly to Charles Seymour duke of Somerfet.

Two other ladies, unknown.

Over the door, Mary Queen of Scots, by Vertue.

Lady Anne Hamilton, daughter of W. duke of Hamilton, and wife of Robert Carnegie earl of Southeſk.

Lady Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James duke of Ormond, and wife of Philip Stanhope earl of Chefterfield. Thefe two heads are copied in chalks by Mr. Farringdon, from the originals by fir Peter Lely, at Mr. Fountaine's at Narford. See an account of the two ladies in the *Memoires de Grammont*.

ON THE STAIR-CASE.

View of Richmond-hill, the original drawing by Mr. Henry Bunbury;
a prefent from himſelf.

THE BREAKFAST-ROOM, ONE PAIR OF STAIRS:

FURNISHED with blue paper, and blue and white linen. Black and
yellow painted glafs fet in plain blue glafs in the bow window. On the
writing-table, an inlaid writing-box made by Langlois. The chimney-piece
and windows are not truly gothic, but were defigned by Mr. W. Robinſon of
the Board of Works, before there was any design of farther improvements
to the houſe.

Over the chimney, a glafs in an ebony frame, a prefent from the reverend Mr. Hemmings of Twickenham: two blue and white flower-pots of Seve china; and two candleſticks with Chineſc figures, by Martin, and china flowers. On one ſide of the glafs,

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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.

A lady; behind her a red curtain. Both of the family of Digby, but not known.

Venetia Stanley lady Digby, aged nineteen, 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 paf- tionately 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 onferpents, to imply that the fories told of her were the produce of malice. At Goathurft, where they lived, are two buifs of her in bronze; on the pedestal of one are infcribed thefe tender words, Uxorem vivam amare voluptas, defunctorum religio.

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

Lady Digby, again, moſt beautiful; by ditto.

Lady Lucy Percy, daughter and coheireſs of Thomas earl of Northumberland who was beheaded, wife of fir Edward Stanley, younger ſon of the earl of Derby, mother of Venetia lady Digby; by Isaac Oliver. She is ſill more beautiful than her daughter, though dreſt very unbecomingly in a great black hat and large ruff; only ſet guff by a lilac ground. This is perhaps the fineſt and moſt perfect miniature in the world. All the ſeven laſt are wonderfully preferved, 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 pietures, with a ſew more leſs fine, coſt Mr. Walpole 300 guineas.

On the other ſide of the glaſs, another frame, with fifteen miniatures, viz.

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

Henry Carey lord Hunſdon, 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; in a white enamelled cafe.

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

Madame la princesse Palatine; by ditto.

Madame la duchesse de Montpenier, grandmother of Mademoiselle; by ditto. Thèfe three from the collection of the comte de Caylus.

La duchesse de Montzabon, called La Belle des Belles; by ditto.

Holbein, in a round, original by himself.

An exceedingly fine watch, given to general Fairfax by the parliament after the battle of Naseby; by P. Bordier, brother-in-law of Petitot. On one fide is Fairfax on horseback, after Vandyck's king Charles; on the other, the houfe of commons; behind, the battle. It was bought at the fale of Thoreby's muſeum, who has defcribed it in his Ducatus Leodienſis.

Two boys, ſons of fir Kenelm Digby. Note, theſe and ſome after-men-
tioned pictures of the Digbys were the other divifion of that collection,
and were purchased by Mr. W. of the lady who ſhared them with the
other heir.

John duke of Lauderdale, copied by lady Lucan from the original by
Cooper, in the poffeffion of lady Greenwich.

William Henry duke of Glouceſter, by lady Lucan after Meyer.

Charlotte de la Tremouille countefs of Derby; in a frame of filver filigrane.

A lady's head, ſuppoſed to be the countefs of Pembroke, wife of earl Wil-
liam, by Holkins; finely preferved; a prefent from the duchefs dowager of
Portland.

Fontenelle, a drawing; bequeathed to Mr. Walpole by lady Hervey.

A landiſcape, a drawing in water-colours, by Vanderneer.

Inſide of Walpole church in Lincolnſhire; by Vertue.

View of Mad. du Deffand's room and cats, a print, with verſes by the
prefident Henault.

A print of count Antoine Hamilton.

A moſt curious picture of Roſe the royal gardiner, preſenting the firſt pine-
apple raſed in England to Charles 2d. who is ſtanding in a garden: the
houſe ſeems to be Dawny-court near Windsor, the villa of the duchefs of
Cleveland. The whole piece is well-painted, probably by Danckers. It
was a preſent to Mr. W. from the rev. Mr. Pennicott of Ditton, to whom it
was bequeathed by Mr. London, grandfon of him who was partner with Wife.

Two prints of Rubens's own houſe.

Two beautiful bas-reliefs of boys in wax, by lady Diana Beauclerc; ſet in
frames with her arms, and cameos by Wedgwood and Taffie.

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Margaret Smith, wife of Sir Charles Bingham lord Lucan; by Hamilton. This lady arrived in five months, by copying in water-colours the enamels and miniatures in this collection, at great perfection, and in that short time copied forty pieces, imitating most exactly the manners of the several maasters. Mr. W. wrote the following lines on that subject;

Without a rival long on painting's throne,
Urbino's most perfect art still is alone.
At last a British fair's unerring eyes
In five short months contemplates the glorious prize.
Raphael by genius, nur'd by labour, gain'd it---
Bingham but fix'd perfection, and attain'd it.

Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, wife of lord Craven; by Romney.
Richard 3d. and his queen; a drawing from painted glafs, by Vertue.
A fea-piece; by Backhuyfen: very good.

Madame la marquise du Deffand and the duchess de Choiseul giving her a doll, which the former who was blind, holds out her hands to receive; allowing to her calling the duchess Grand Maman, Every part of the room is exactly represented, and madame du Deffand most exactly like, which the duchess 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.

A print by Bartolozzi of Giorgiana Spencer duchefs of Devonshire, from the drawing of lady Diana Beauclerc; in a frame with Wedgwood's cameos, and two flies engraved and painted by Hill.

A view of the church of Stokepogeys in Buckinghamshire; the moon::hining on Mr. Gray's tomb in the church-yard; by Baron: a pre:ent from
fir Edward Walpole.

Virgin and child, a highly finished illumination: it belonged to Gafton duke of Orleans.

Francis rft. receiving the homage of the clergy, law and army; an illumina-
tion; 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.

An allegoric washed drawing of Chriftina of Pifa, writing her Cité des
Dames, from an illumination in the library of the king of France.

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

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

A flower

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A flower, in paper mozaic, executed by Mrs. Delany, the inventress, who between the seventieth and eightieth years of her age executed 500 plants in this manner. She was daughter of Mr. Granville by the daughter of Sir John Stanley, and was first married to Mr. Pendarvis, and then to Dr. Delaney.

Its companion, by Mrs. Delany's scholar, miſs Jennings of Shiplake.

Lady D. Beauclerc's two daughters, engraved from her drawing by Bartolozzi; in a blue and gold frame painted in mozaic with lions and flower-de-luces, in allusion to the arms of Beauclerc.

Sir Kenelm Digby, his wife and two sons, by Peter Oliver, after Vandyck; a large miniature in the highest prefervation; in an ebony cafe fet with Wedgwood's cameos. On the infides of the doors, two other ladies of the fame fet.

Two other ebony cafes, ditto. In one, a lady of the Digby family, half-length, after Vandyck, with a beautiful landscape, by Peter Oliver.

In the other cafe, lady Digby enamelled, in a frame of the fame, with her arms, and Latin mottoes, supported by two goddesſes; by G. Toulin, 1637.

Lady Catharine Howard, daughter of H. Fred. earl of Arundel, and first wife of John Digby fon of fir Kenelm.

On the reverie, in the fame enamelled frame, another lady of the family, exquifitely painted by Peter Oliver; probaby the fecond wife of John Digby.

Lady Frances Howard countess of Eſſex and then of Somerſet; copied by lady Bingham, now lady Lucan, from the original at Woburn.

Catherine duchess of Buckingham, daughter of James 2d. in enamel by Zincke: a preſent from her neice madame de Bouzols.

A holy family in wax, from Carlo Maratti, by Mrs. Mary Slaughter, firſter of Stephen Slaughter, painter: a preſent from miſs Anne Clement.

The virgin and child, and two angels holding tapers: an ancient carving in ivory: a preſent from Mr. Watfon the chirurgeon.

A lady's head, by Hilliard, unfiniſhed: bought at Mr. Lovibonde's.

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

George Hamilton, brother of count Antony Hamilton; ſmall copy in oil by E. Edwards, from the original in the poſſeffion of lord Kingland.

Print of Mr. W. Maſon, the poet.

A man's head in a black bonnet, æt. 30, 1539, by Holbein, unfiniſhed; bought at Mr. Lovibonde's.

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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 blindnefs, and his own son being convicted of it, he gave up one of his own eyes to fave one of his sons. The drawing is fine, and the figures of the legislator and of the young foldier who contemplates him, are evidently taken from some picture or design which gave the hint to Vandyck for his Belisarius, now at Chiswick. There are other curious panes: one with a rose impaling a pomgranite, the device of Henry 8th. and Catherine 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 Boisworth, 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 Sir 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 murdering her mistrels 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 execution, and she had put on red to look the better.

Four landscapes in water-colours, by Baudin.

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

Eight views of ruins at Rome and other places, by Lucatelli.

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

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 Landdowne, 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-

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

Queen Henrietta Maria; by Dixon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the end fronting the window:

A pot of Carnations, drawn at Chelſea from the life by Van Huyſum, who lived there two years with fir Robert Walpole: he was brother to the famous flower-painter: in oil.

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

Mary Burwell, his wife; ditto.

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

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

Mary, his wife, daughter and coheireſs of Thomas Derehaugh of Colton-hall in Suffolk; in crayons.

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

Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchefles of Tufſany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Im-периале near Florence, where the originals are drefſed in the very cloaths they wore, pafled on the hangings, with the faces painted on ſattin.

Six more drawings of ruins, by Lucatelli.

Anna Chamber counteſs Temple; by Hamilton.

Henry Carey earl of Monmouth, knight of the bath, tranflator of many works,* by Theodore Ruffel.

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

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

The

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

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The countefs of Buckingham, mother of duke George Villiers, in mourn-
ing; by ditto: from the fame collection.

Anna Maria Brudenel countefs of Shrewsbury, famous for her amours
with the second George Villiers duke of Buckingham; by ditto, from ditto.

James Stuart duke of Richmond and earl of Litchfield, husband of the beautiful Mrs. Stuart whom Charles 2d. was in love with; in armour; by Cooper.

Sufan Airmine lady Bellaſis, miſtrefs of James 2d. by Cooper, unfiniſhed.

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

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

A lady's head, temp. James 1st.

Two ladies of the court of queen Elizabeth; by Hilliard. Theſe five
belonged to Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington.

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

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

Mrs. Catherine Clive, the excellent comedian, in the character of the
Fine Lady in Lethe; in water-colours by Worlidge.

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

Boncourt, a French comedian; given by the comte du Chatelet.

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. A gentleman of great genius for drawing, who having misfortunes, took to painting portraits in minia-ture, and hired the houſe late Zincke's in Covent-Garden, where Mr. Meyer the enameller now lives; but Mr. Deacon died in a year by the jail-diſtemper which was brought to the Old Bailey, where he happened to at-tend.

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

Pomona; by Clinkſted.

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

A landscape on copper; by Roland Savery.

Lord Herbert of Cherbury; a print coloured by Wale, from the original
of Ifaſ Oliver, in the collection of lord Powis.

William lord Mansfield; in oil, by Wootton.

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

Profile of an angel, after Guido; done in hair by Mary Lane, 1778.

Impression of Oliver Cromwell's privy seal.

The two sons of the old Pretender; painted at Rome in 1740.

The viccount Stafford, beheaded in the reign of Charles 2d. in water-colours; a present from Mr. E. Jerningham the poet, nearly related to the Staffords.

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

A view of the Thames from Mrs. Clive's houfe at Twickenham; in blue and white, by Müntz.

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

A bunch of white roves; by ditto.

Inflde of a church, by Steenwick.

Four more views of ruins; by Lucatelli.

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

The Farneſe Hercules, in wax; by Goffet.

Cleopatra, in water-colours; Italian.

Mrs. Beale, and her fon 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 Werman Cany.

Bifop Burnet in robes of prelate of the garter; by Mrs. Rofe.

Prince Charles of Lorrain, in a frame of tortoſhell.

Then paſs to the right hand.

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

Charles Townnhend chancellor of the exchequer: ditto.

Boors reading: FLEMISH. It was in fir Robert Walpole's collection.

A landscape; by Teniers.

Two more views of ruins; by Lucatelli.

The arms of fir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter, cut in paper on looking-glafs, by Bermingham.

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

Design for the arms of the two clubs at White's, drawn by the fecond lord

THIS seal of brafs very finely cut, belongs to Henrietta Maria, daughter of the Great Henry IV. of France, and wife to our Charles I. The arms are England, France, and Navarre, borne separately in a lozenge, with the words HENRETTA MARIA, DEI GRATIAE ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE, FRAYNCIAE, ET HIBERNIAE, REGINAE round it. The supporters of the arms are, the Lion of England and the St. Michael powdered with fleurs de lis. On the reverfe, the queen at full length, under a canopy, crowned and in royal robes, with the fceper in her right hand, and the globe in her left; the arms of England on her right fide and of France without Navarre, on her left; both crowned with Imperial crowns, and the fame infcription round the whole.

WHAT little we know of this queen is, that upon the Spanish match being broken off between Charles, when prince of Wales, and the Infanta of Spain, he applied to his father James the Firft, to demand Henrietta of France, whom he had feen incognito at a ball at Paris, when on his journey to Spain.

PREVIOUS to the marriage, it was agreed, that the queen fhould enjoy all manner of indulgence with refpect to her religion, and fhould fuperintend the education of her children till their age of thirteen; which will account in a great meafure for the religion both Charles the Second and James the Second died in.

✓ THE portion this queen brought with her was only 60,000 French crowns, which Charles foon diptoted of, and made grants of lands to her in lieu of it, for lives and years, at Chertley and in feveral counties in England, which accounts for her having fuch a feal. Several leafes granted by her, with this feal annexed, are fill extant, and I have heard of one which appears to have been executed fome time after her death, the feal being always kept in England.

A LITTLE before King Charles put himfelf into the arms of the Scotch, the ſle firſt to Holland, and next to France, where, after paying the king one more vifit in England, ſhe in general refided.

In November 1660, ſhe returned to England to congratulate her fon Charles the Second upon his reſoration, and then went back to France, where ſhe died in 1669.

MUCH miſchief enfued to Charles's affairs by her intermeddling at firſt, as well as by her pride and bigotry. She inherited none of the talents of her great father, and though ſhe was artful ſhe had little good ſucceds in all her ſchemes.

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lord Edgcumbe, and invented by him, Mr. G. A. Selwyn, Mr. Geo. J.
Williams, and Mr. Hor. Walpole, at Strawberry-hill. The arms are as
follow: Vert (for the card-table) on a chevron fable (for the hazard-table)
two rouleaus of guineas in faltire between two dice proper, the chevron be-
tween 3 parolis at Pharaoh, proper; on a canton fable, a white ballotting-
ball. Creft, an arm and hand holding a dice-box, effuant 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 surrounded by a bottle-ticket in-
fcribed, 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 Janfen, but failed.

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

Mary duchess 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 Clinksted.

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

A woman fainting in a man's arms; after some great matter: D. Raw-
don fe. 1703.

Mr. Deacon's son by him: unfinished.

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

At the end of the closet towards the Thames:

Over the window, impreffion of the great seal of queen Henrietta Maria: and
Frederic prince of Wales, in wax: by Goffet.

Two prints of old Stocks-market, and Effex-court in the Temple, co-
loured 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 Catherine lady Walpole; in crayons.
He was lord-mayor in 1688, when receiving the pope's nuntio in the city,
James 2d. gave him an additional quarter to his arms: two years before he
had been one of the most distinguished aldermen on the Whig side. He
died in his mayoralty.

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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 bufs 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 saucers, ditto.

Four blue and white cream-cups.

In the bow window, some very beautiful painted glafs.

General Henry Seymour Conway, and Caroline countefs dowager of Aile-
fbury, his wife; their daughter Anne fitting on the ground playing with a
dog. The attitudes and dresse 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 eldeft fon
Charles; taken from the picture at Blenheim, of Rubens, his wife and child.

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, knight of the bath.

Mr. Thomas Gray;* taken from the portrait of a musician 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 Walpolinæ:
behind him, a view of Strawberry-hill. The frames are of black and gold,
carved after those to Lombard's prints from Vandyck, but with emblems
peculiar to each person.

THE RED BEDCHAMBER.

HUNG with crimson paper; by the bed, a crucifix of ivory; an ewer and
bason of Chantilli porcelaine; a red and white flower-pot, cup, faucer
and sugar-dish, of Seve porcelaine; crimson Norwich damask chairs, and
an arm-chair of patch-work.

Pictures on the chimney fide :

Gypsies telling a country-maiden her fortune at the entrance of a beech-
wood;

* 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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wood; a most beautiful drawing in water-colours, designed and executed by
lady Diana Beauclerc in 1781; the chef-d'œuvre of her works.

A drawing in Indian-ink of a forest, by Mary Danby, first married to
Mr. Lockhart, and afterwards to general Harcourt, only brother of George
Simon second earl of Harcourt.

An old beggar; by Teniers.

Head of goats, a fine sketch by Berghem; from the collection of Woot-
on the painter.

View of Elizabeth-castle in Jersey, by Muntz; in oil.

A coloured drawing, by the reverend Mr. Gilpin.

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

A moonlight on copper, by Bonus, jun.

Side opposite the window.

A landscape, by Mullins.

Falconet the painter's wife, by him; highly finished:

Mary Kirk, wife of Sir Richard Vernon, known by the name of War-
meftre in the Memoires de Grammont.

Two views of Richmond-hill, and Twickenham, from Strawberry-hill,
by Muntz; in oil.

Le comte de Grignan; a print.

Madame de Caylus, niece of madame de Maintenon; a print.

Two old men; an Italian sketch.

The original drawing of Titus Oates, in black lead, by Robert White; a
prefent from Richard Bull, esq.

A head of the duke d'Epernon, favourite of Henry 3d. painted on oriental
alabafter; a prefent from colonel St. Paul, chargé d'affaires at Paris.

A print of the princefs Sophia, eldest daughter of their royal highneffes
William Henry and Maria, duke and duchefs of Gloucefter.

The father of Pope as he lay dead, drawn by his father-in-law Samuel
Cooper: bought by Richardfon, junior, at the sale of Mrs. Martha Blount,
to whom Pope had bequeathed this and the three following.

Mrs. Editha Cooper, mother of Pope; by John Richardfon, senior.

Mr. Pope himself; ditto.

Henry St. John viccount Bolingbroke; ditto.

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

On

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On the sides of the window :

Madame de Prie, mistres of the duc of Bourbon, prime minister in the minority of Louis xv. in crayons; she died of vexation at the disgrace of the duke: a present from madame du Deffand, who was intimate with her.

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

Macbeth in the witches cave; a print.

Four drawings of humour, washed, by Elias Martin.

An ancient illuminated drawing.

A landscape, view in Jersey, by Mr. Bentley; in oil.*

A young lady reading the Castle of Otranto to her companion; a gracefull and expressive drawing, done for a present to Mr. W. by Lavinia Bingham, eldest daughter of lady Lucan, the celebrated copyist, and since married to lord Althorp.

ON THE STAIRCASE.

IN a niche, The armour of Francis I. king of France, of steel gilt, and covered with bas-reliefs in a fine taste: his lance is of ebony inlaid with silver; 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 suit of armour was purchased from the Crozat collection in 1772, on the death of the Baron de Thiers, when the czarina bought the fine collection of pictures and bronzes. Over again it,

Henry 5th and his family; bought in 1773, at the sale of James West, president of the Royal Society. See a description and print of this picture in the first volume of the Anecdotes of Painting in England. This picture came out of Stafford-house, or Tart-hall, Westminister; and I imagine that this, and the two others of Henry 6th. and 7th. were done by order of Henry 7th. in honour of the house of Lancafter. I have heard that that of Henry 6th. came out of the palace of Shene.

Henry 8th. aged 29, and Charles 5th. aged 20, in one picture from Mr. West's collection. Behind Charles 5th. are two figures, probably designed for his grandfather and father, the emperor Maximilian, and Philip.

Two shields of leather, for tournaments, painted by Polidore; one has the head of Medusa, the other of Perseus: on the insides are battles in gold.

They

* In this piece Mr. Bentley has represented himself and his second wife on the sea shore.

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They came out of the collection of commendatore Vittoria at Naples, and were sent to Mr. W. by Mr. W. Hamilton, with a third of iron, representing the story of Curtius, but certainly not antique, as there is a cannon and an embattled tower at a distance.

Over the middle arcade is a curious ancient head of Henry 3d. carved in alto-relievo on oak, from the church of Barnwell near Oundle in Northamptonshire, which he endowed. This head is very like to the effigies on his tomb, and to that in painted glafs in the chapel here at Strawberry-hill.

THE ARMOURY

IS an open veftibule of three gothic arches, lighted by a window entirely of painted glafs, and ornamented over the doors and niches with quarterings of the family of Walpole, painted by Grant.

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 Kingflon in Surry, which feat formerly belonged to the great Richard Neville earl of Warwick. Thefe 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 handles and ornaments of filver, in a green velvet café; and a dagger of the fame; given by a nabob to George Morton Pitt, governor of Fort St. George, and by his widow to Mr. Walpole.

An Indian ſword, the blade waving and damatked, 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

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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.

Two halberds, from the old house at Houghton.

An American calumet; a warrior's wreath; and a neck ornament: presents from governor Pownall.

An ancient musket, richly carved; a present from Mofes Franks, esq;

Another ancient musket and pistol inlaid with ivory; from the collection of Mr. Scott.

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

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

VIBIA. P. L.

P. VIBIVS.

ASIATICE.

P. O. L.

VIXIT.

MODESTVS.

ANN. XXII.

THE LIBRARY.

THE books are ranged within Gothic arches of pierced work, taken from a side-door case 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. An ancient curfeu, or couvre-feu; from Mr. Goftling's collection. 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 feals; that next to the window bears the arms of Fitz Oftbert, the other of Robfart. At the four corners are shields, helmets, and mantles; on one shield is a large H, on another a W, femée of crofs crofslets, in imitation of an ancient bearing of the Howards in Blomfield's Norfolk. On another shield is the Saracen's head, the crest of the family, but here the Catherine-wheel is above the cap, not on it; having been so borne by the Robfarts, as appears from the tomb of Lodowic Robfart lord

F

Bourchier,

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Bourchier, in Westminister-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 que fentist; and at the ends, M.DCC.LIV, the year in which this room was finished, expreſſed in Gothic letters: the whole on a mofaic 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 1ft. and Charles 2d.

On one side of the window, a landscape by Polemberg. Oppoſite to it, Chriftina queen of Sweden, in her usual drefs, partly male, partly female:

a curious drawing with a pen by Steph. de la Bella.

Over the chimney, an ancient and valuable piece, repreſenting 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 Margaret's arms in a lozenge. On each side, two bronze medallions 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 Edward Walpole, knight of the bath, grandfather of fir Robert; in oil.

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

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

The queen of Bohemia, daughter of James 1ft. ditto, by ſfaac Oliver.

Sir Francis Drake: ditto, by Hilliard.

Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham, the great admiral, æt. 37; by ſfaac Oliver.

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

Count Gondomar, a fine head in oil; ſmall.

A Roman ſimpulum in bronze.

Two bronze antique lamps and chains.

One ditto, modern, with a triton.

A cow, ditto.

An ancient braſs padlock in the ſhape of a hand.

A greyhound

CRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN.
after an Original Drawing.

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A greyhound in bronze, to keep down papers.

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

Pictures over the book-cafes.

Lady Fairborne, daughter of fir --- Rookefby, and wife of fir Stafford
Fairborne; in red: niece of

Catherine, daughter of Edward Darcy, esq; and wife of fir Erafmus Phi-
lips, of Picton-castle in Pembrokeshire, grandmother of Catherine lady
Walpole, whom she educated.

Sir John Shorter, lord mayor of London in 1688; in black.

Isabella Birkhead, his wife.

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

Lady Isabella Fitzroy, youngest daughter of Charles second 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 Bybroook in Kent, and
third wife of Francis lord Conway; in yellow.

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

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

John Shorter, in armour, eldest son of the foregoing, and brother of

Catherine Shorter, eldest daughter of John Shorter of Bybrook, and first
wife of fir Robert Walpole afterwards earl of Orford: a copy after old Dahl.

A clock of filver gilt, richly chafed, engraved, and ornamented 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 bottom, *The most happy*---
One of the weights, agreeably to the indelicacy of that monarch's gallantry,
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
feetoon hangs from the horns of the men, on which are two more birds:
the inscription,

F 2

P. LENILIO

A DESCRIPTION OF

P. LENILIO
MARTIALI

POSITV FORTVNATVS
PATRONO SVO B. M.

A square offuarium; heads of rams, a fesloon and birds; the infcription,

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

FECIT MCEEI
CAEIIAPRI
MIGENIAPD.

Theſe two urns were in the collection of doctor Meade.

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

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

ANN. VIX. XII. PARENTES FEC.

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

Rare books of prints and drawings in the library.

Thuanus, the large edition in 14 volumes, enriched with beautiful prints
of the beſt impreſions, containing portraits of the principal perſonages.
This ſet was collected by fir 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 fir Robert Walpole and the family of Walpole.

'A collection of initial letters from the beginning of printing, with ſome drawings of heads of the firſt printers; collected by Mr. Ames, author of the Typographical Antiquities.

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

Faithorne's works, moſt beautiful impreſions; folio.

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

Mr. Henry Bunbury's ditto, in two volumes.

Vertue's ditto, in 2 large folios.

Teniers's ditto.

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

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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 artifts, in 2 volumes
folio: very curious.

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

Five larger of the reign of George 3d. and an additional volume of heads of different reigns collected since.

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.

Sevigniana, or a collection of portraits of several perſons mentioned in the letters of madame de Sevigné.

A book of French portraits in the time of Francis 1st. It belonged to Brantome, who has inſcribed the names of ſeveral of the perſons. From the collection of monfieur Mariette at Paris.

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

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

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.

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

Drawings of all the Spintrian medals; from fir Clem. Cotterel's library.

Apologie de Jehan Chastel : very rare.

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 exquifite original drawings by

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by himseif: a prefent to Mr. Walpole from his brother Robert earl of Orford: very valuable.

Bizarie di varie figure di Giovan Batifta Bracelli, pittore Fiorentino al Illmo. S. Don Pietro Medici: 1624. This moft rare and singular book con-
tains prints of human figures formed by the ftrangeft materials, as diamonds,
hoops, bladders, pieces of carpentry, battledoors, kitchen-fluff, &c. &c.
It feems to be the composition of a madman, but the drawings are mafterly,
and the attitudes moft 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 fir
Robert Walpole.

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 prefent 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 vafes, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities.

Catalogue of the Harleian collection with the prices, and drawings of
fome 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 defigns of buildings, by John Chute, eſq; of the Vine.

Drawings of churches, monuments, &c. by fir Charles Frederick and
Smart Lethullier, 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 tranſla-
tions : in one of the volumes is a view of Twickenham, drawn by Pope.

Three illuminated miſſals.

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

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

The Charter of Foreſts, one of the original copies finely preferved, with the great

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great fear of Edward 1st. appendant; found at Hackney 1743, among writings of the ancient family of Shordich, by Robert Bygrave; presented by him to Sir Edward Walpole, and by him to his brother Horace.

Bathoe's catalogues of the collections of Charles 1st. James 2d. and the duke of Buckingham; with their portraits, and large additions and notes, by Mr. Walpole.

Catalogue of the pictures belonging to the crown, temp. Annæ, MS. A present from Mr. Topham Beauclerc.

Two large volumes of catalogues of all the exhibitions from the first, to the end of the year 1780, with MS. notes.

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 satirical silver medal struck in Holland. On the obverse, the head of Oliver Cromwell laureated in armour. On the reverse he is kneeling in the lap of Britannia, with his breeches down; the French and Spanish ambasfadors are contending which shall kill first; the former says to the latter, *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 of the most exquisite 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 armada. 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 Stosch.

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

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

12. Gold medal of Trajan: reverfe, his forum. Thefe two are very rare.

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

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

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

16. Copper coin of king Ferdinand of Naples; a pun on the reverfe; his arms, a borsé; the motto, Equitas regni.

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

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

19. Copper medal of pope Gregory 13th. on the correction of the calendar: the reverfe, which is in beautiful tafte, was defigned by Parmegiano.

20. Silver medal of the fame pope, on the maffacre of St. Barthelemi: on the reverfe, the deftroying angel murdering the proteftants; 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 flabbed duke Alexander: the reverfe copied from Brutus's medal, with the cap of liberty between two daggers; the legend, VIII Id. Jun. Very rare.

23. Copper medal of Clement 7th. Revere, Józeph and his brethren: defigned by Raphael.

24. Coin of Theodore king of Corfica: rare.

25. Braſs fatirical medal on queen Anne: reverfe, the queen and lady Malham embracing; motto, All for Love.

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

THE chimney-piece was defigned by Mr. Chute, and has great grace.
In the window, composed of feven lights, are feveral 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 defended,
with

M'Walpole's unique Gold, is N. 4 of this plate.

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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 feat of John Chute efq; by Müntz.

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

Fifteen small drawings of English and French comedians; by Feſch.

View of the gate at St. Edmund at Bury.

A fable, in cut paper on looking-glafs; by Bermingham.

Over the door, Head of John Chute eſq; by Müntz, after Pompeio Battoni.

La fignora Elifabetta Capponi Grifoni, a Florentine beauty; by Ferd. Richter, 1741.

Patapan, a Roman dog, belonging to Mr. Walpole; by Wootton.

Doctor Conyers Middleton; by Eckardt.

Doctor Thomas Afhton, fellow of Eton-college; by ditto. He died in 1775.

A man and woman in water-colours, after Watteau; by Mr. Walpole.

A rural ball, after Watteau; by ditto.

Catherine Walpole, eldeſt daughter of fir Robert Walpole; a small head in oil.

Horace Walpole, when a child, in a white frock; in crayons.

A sprig of orange, in water-colours; by lady Walpole.

A bunch of flowers, ditto; by lady Anne Conway, eldeſt daughter of lord Hertford, and wife of the earl of Drogheda.

Drawing of Rembrandt's mother, from the picture at Windsor, called the countefs of Defmond; by Müntz.

Prints, of the houſe of commons and warrant for beheading Charles rſt, inſcribed with a pen, Major charta; of Ethelreda lady Townſhend; of lord Chatham; lord Holland; lord and lady Strafford; Mr. H. Walpole; and le comte de Guerchy.

In the PLAID BEDCHAMBER, in the South Tower, is the portrait of Henry Walpole the jefuit, who was executed for attempting to poifon queen Elizabeth. He is crowned with glory and holds a palm-branch, the emblem of

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of

LES BRUX AVARIES

Drawn by Feſch.

L'ETIÈSE

L'ETIÈSE 15527
15528
15529
15530
15531
15532
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15535

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of martyrdom; the arms of the family in one corner. This picture came
from Mr. Walpole's of Lincolnshire, the left of the Roman catholic branch
of the family, who died about the year 1748.

THE STAR CHAMBER

IS a small anti-room, painted green, with golden stars in mosaïc. It has a
large window entirely of painted glafs; two triangular chairs taken from
a piece of glafs in Mr. Walpole's bed-chamber; two small Welch armed
chairs, painted blue and white, with cufions of point-lace, and on one the
arms of Mr. Richard Bateman, at whose sale they were purchased; a japan
tea-table with white porcelain; and a card-table of the fame.

A mahogany cabinet, containing a collection of English and foreign coins and medals. On it, a bust of Henry 7th. in stone, a model in great taſſe for his tomb, by Torreggiano.* Under it a table of false porphyry; from the collection of the comte de Caylus.

Another like cabinet, with gold, filver, and braſs Greek and Roman
coins, and a complete set of Roman weights from Dr. Middleton's collec-
tion. On it, a bust of Gibbs the architect in marble, by Ryfrack. Be-
neath, a table, companion to the former.

A porringer, cover and plate, white, with different golds, of Seve china;
a present from Mrs. Damer.

Hence you go into a trunk-cieled paſſage, lighted by a window of painted
glaſs, in which are many quarterings of Latton, a family formerly feated at
Elher in Surry: in the window, a candlestick enamelled on copper. This
paſſage leads to

THE HOLBEIN CHAMBER.

THE cieling is taken from the queen's dresſing-room at Windsor. 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
gold frame; and a piece of Roman fayence in the shape of a boat,
Bacchus and Ceres in relief in the middle.

A fire-screen embroidered by Mifs Hotham, to whom Mr. W. addreffed
the fable of The Magpie and her Young.

Two

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

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Two blue china beakers.

The pierced arches of the screen from the gates of the choir of Rouen;
the raft 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 mofaie of
crimson, blue, and pearls, designed and painted by Price of Hatton-garden.

A table and fix 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 tortoisell fludded with silver hearts and roſes; the
two others of tortoisell likewife, 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 ſayence, 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 Arthurus Monacus Glaſtonie, falvet
eum Deus: Da pacem Domine: Sit Laus Deo. Lord Bathurit had ſeveral
chairs copied from this.

Another chair covered with purple cloth, made from one in a pane of
painted glaſs in the breakſtair-room.

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

The red hat of cardinal Wolfey, found in the great wardrobe by biſhop
Burnet when clerk of the cloſet. From his ſon the judge it came to the
counteſs dowager of Albemarle, who gave it to Mr. Walpole.

Chrift crowned with thorns, by Mabeufte; bought at monſieur Hareng's
faſc. 1764.

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 prefent to Mr. Walpole from Mr. Bateman.

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Catherine

A DESCRIPTION OF

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

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

Lord Vaux. This is done in the fame manner by Müntz, 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.

* Catherine 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 St. 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 gentleman, unknown.

* William Fitzwilliam earl of Southampton.

* Edward Stanley earl of Derby.

* Borbonius, a French poet.

* Either bishop of Rochester. Richardson the painter had another of these, which was engraved among the Illustrious Heads.

* Thomas Boleyn earl of Ormond, father of queen Anne Boleyn.

On the fide opposite to the chimney:

A fine and very valuable picture by Lucas de Heere, representing Frances
duchefs

* Vertue thought it to be Catherine duchefs of Bar, sifter of Henry 4th. of France, and so it
probably is.

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ducheſs of Suffolk, mother of the lady Jane Grey, and Adrian Stoke her
fecond huſband. This picture was in the collection of the earl of Oxford,
and was engraved by Vertue. *Vide Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting.*

Philip and Mary, copied in water-colours by Vertue, from the original
by Antonio More, at the duke of Bedford's at Wooburn-abbey.

A fingle combat before the emperor Maximilian, in terra cotta, by Albert
Durer.

Anthony king of Navarre, father of Henry 4th. by Janet.

The marechal de Montluc, who wrote the Commentaries: by ditto.

A very ſmall head of a man, in a round; by Holbein,

* Lord Wentworth.

* Lord chancellor Rich.

* Lady Rich, his wife.

* Sir Thomas Wyat, the poet.

* George Brook lord Cobham.

* Edward 6th. when a child; very like Henry 8th.

* Jane Seymour.

Frobenius, the printer, in a round.

Melanchthon, ditto; by Holbein; very fine.

Bought at fir W. Hamil-
ton's sale, 1761.

A man's head with a black beard; ditto.

Margaret queen of Scots, daughter of Henry 7th. copied by Vertue from
the picture at Hampton-court

Jane Gray; by ditto, from the original that was the duke of Somerſet.

Head of Henry 8th. with a watch at his neck, carved in box by Holbein.

* John Ruffel, firſt earl of Bedford.

* Anne Savage lady Berkeley. She held up the train of Anne Boleyn at her coronation: *Vide Stowe's Chron. p. 543.*

* Sir W. Sherrington, maſter of the mint, whence he furniſhed admiral
Seymour with money.

* Sir John Gage.

* Sir Richard Southwell, one of the accuſers of the earl of Surrey.

* Queen Mary, when princeſ.

* Thomas duke of Norfolk; beheaded in the reign of Elizabeth: young,
Holbein; in a round.

Anne Boleyn; ditto.

Copies by Eckardt.

Charlotte, daughter of Francis ſt. died at five years of age; by Janet:
fine. From fir Luke Schaub's collection.

Lord

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poffection of lord Romney, who was related to the Wyats, and to whom the
laft bequeathed their portraits.

A man in black, by Holbein, in a rich gold frame; from the collection of H. Conftantine Jennings, elq, of Shiplake.

Over the door, Mary queen of Scots, a head; on her ruff, the arms of France and England.

Between the door and the screen :

Henry 8th. three quarters; a preent from the reverend Mr. Pennicott.

Henry duc de Longueville; in crayons.

Sir John Godfalve, knight of the carpet; after Holbein.

A drawing of architecture; by ditto.

Sir Thomas Wyat; by Vertue.

A man's head; an original drawing, by Holbein.

A man in a masquerade habit; ditto.

Louis 11th. an original: his prayer-book opens in the shape of a heart.

A drawing of a clock, by Holbein; deigned for fir Antony Denny as new year's gift to Henry 8th. Bought at the faire of Monf. Mariette.

A drawing of a Romifh epifcopal faint; whole length, by Holbein.

A carpet worked by Mrs. Catherine Clive, the celebrated comedian.

THE GALLERY.

FIFTY-SIX feet long, feventeen high, and thirteen wide without the five
recefes. The cieling is taken from one of the fide ifles of Henry 7th's.
chapel. In the windows, by Peckitt, are all the quarterings of the family.
The great door is copied from the north door of faint Alban's, and the two
fnafter are parts of the fame deign. The fide with recefes, which are
finifhed with a gold net-work over looking-glaſs, is taken from the tomb of
archbiſhop Bourchier at Canterbury. The chimney-piece was deigned by
Mr. John Chute, and Mr. Thomas Pitt of Boconnoch. The room is hung
with crimfon Norwich damaſk: the chairs, fettees, and long ftools are of
the fame, mounted on black and gold frames. The carpet made at Moorfields.

East end :

Laura and Charlotte Walpole, eldeſt and youngeſt daughters of fir Edward
Walpole, and wives of Frederic Keppel biſhop of Exeter, and of Lionel
Talmach earl of Dyſart; Mrs. Keppel in white, lady Dyſart in pink: by
Ramſay.

Marriage

SIR JOHN GOD SALVE K;

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A DESCRIPTION OF

Marriage of Henry 7th. and Elizabeth of York; by Mabeuse. *Vide Anecdotes of Painting.*

Sir Francis Walingham, with a view of his house at Scadbury in Kent; by Frederic Zucchero: from fir Robert Walpole's collection. This picture has been engraved by Houbraken amongst the Illustrious Heads.

Sir George Villiers, leaning his hand on the head of a greyhound. He was father of George duke of Buckingham, and lord Clarendon relates a story of his ghost. This is a very fine picture: by Cornelius Janfen.

George duke of Buckingham, his son: a very fine head, by Rubens: the garter is put on the wrong way.

Admiral Montagu earl of Sandwich; by Sir Peter Lely: very good head. Lord Sandwich gave this to Mr. Blackwood, from whom Mr. W. bought it.

Holy family, with boy angels, in a landscape; by Van Artois, scholar of Rubens: from Sir Robert Walpole's collection.

Inside of an ancient Flemish house; by old Frank.

A cheft* of old japan inlaid with mother of pearl.

Two coins of old japan with marble flabs. On one,

A bronze of the Hercules Farnefe.

A light blue pot pourri of Seve, mounted in or mólu:

Two octagon bafons, Saxon, old china pattern.

On the other, a bust of Tiberius; bought at Mr. Jennings's sale: another pot pourri; and two Saxon bafons.

Chimney-fide, left hand:

On the hearth, two tubs of old blue and white porcelain; a prefect from Mrs. Goftling.

Virgin and child, after the picture of Dominichino, at Houghton; by John Davis, cef; of Watlington.

Mr. Leneve, after the company of merchant taylors: a most bright and pure picture, by Cornelius Janfen.

Marguerite de Valois, duchess de Savoie, sister of Henry 2d. of France; he was killed at the tournament for her wedding: by Sir Antonio More. This picture belonged to king Charles 1st. In one niche,

Maria, second daughter of Sir Edward Walpole, widow of James earl of

Waldegrave,

* In this cheft, are three flash'd doublets, a cloak ditto, and a pair of black embroidered breeches, which belonged to Robert Walpole, great grandfather of Sir Robert Walpole first earl of Orford, and had been preferred in the old house at Houghton: given by George lord Orford.

HERCULES DE FARNESE.

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A DESCRIPTION OF

Thomas earl of Arundel, and his grandson cardinal Howard; in water-colours, by Vertue, after Vandyck.

Right hand of the chimney:

----- Leneve, alderman of Norwich; son of the foregoing Leneve. The best picture fir Peter Lely ever painted, and as fine as Vandyck's countefs of Exeter, before-mentioned.

His wife, in blue; ditto.

John lord Sheffield, hufband of lady Douglas Sheffield, on whose account it was furmifed that he was poifoned by R. earl of Leiceter; by Ant. More: from Buckingham-houfe.

Henry Jermyn earl of Saint Albans, favourite, and as fir John Rerefby fays, fecond hufband of queen Henrietta Maria: probably by Old Stone.

James 2d. earl of Waldegrave; by Reynolds.

Bacha Bonneval; by Liotard: bought at the sale of Everard Falkner, knt. embaffador to the Porte.

Henry Fox lord Holland; by ditto.

Sea-piece; views, of Britol-crofs, and of a Gothic farm near Marble-hill, belonging to the countefs of Suffolk, and designed by Richard Bentley: all by Sam. Scott.

Vespafian, in bafaltes; a noble buft, bought out of the collection of cardinal Ottoboni. It stands on a Roman sepulchral altar, on which, in bas-relief, is a man sacrificing, with this inscription,

TI. CLAVDIVS AVG. L.

DOCILIS

AEDITVS AEDIS

FORTVNAE TVLLIANAE.

Over a door, Anne Hyde duchefs of York; by Mrs. Beale, after fir
Peter Lely.

Lady Sophia Farmor, eldeft daughter of Thomas earl of Pomfret, and
fecond wife of John earl Granville, prime minifter to George 2d. by Ro-
falba. She is drawn as Juno.

Two men cheating another at cards; by John Miel: very good.

A landſcape in encauſtic; by Mütz.

Weſt end:

A large piece of Catherine de' Medici and her children, Charles 9th.
Henry 3d. the duke d'Alençon, and Margaret queen of Navarre; whole
lengths, by Janet: bought from Mr. Byde's in Hertfordshire.

Griffiere

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Griffiere, the painter; by Zouft: the fattin on the arm remarkably well painted.

A young man's head, æt. 18; admirable nature: by Giorgione. This was in the collection of Charles I. *Vide Tapham's Catalogue*.

A pot of flowers, highly finished yet very free; by Old Baptist: from Sir Robert Walpole's collection.

Sevyanys the painter, by himself; a very fine head.

Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk, and Mary queen of France. This picture was lord Granville's. Kent defigned the frame. The picture had before been at the earl of Westmorland's at Apthorpe.

Tobit burying the dead. *And when Tobit found any dead, he buried them without the walls of Jerusalem:* by Benedetto Caftiglione.

A coin of old Japan; on it, buifs of Julia Domna, Julia Titi, and Cicero; the latter a prefent from lady Hervey; a flat vaſe of white, blue and gold Seve china, with cover and handles.

Another coin, ditto; statue of Harpocrates and Telephorus; Antinous, Greek work; and Zenocrates, a preſent from general Conway; a flat vaſe, like the former.

Window ſide:

Thomas lord Howard of Bindon, father of Frances duchefs of Richmond and Lenox; whole length, in robes of the garter.

Lodowic Stuart duke of Richmond and Lenox; ditto: theſe two laſt came out of Luton-houſe in Bedfordshire, where the latter lived.

Frances duchefs of Richmond and Lenox. *See a curious account of this great lady in Wilson's Reign of king James the First.* This picture came from Eaſton-Nefton, the ſeat of Thomas earl of Pomfret. By Mark Garrard.

Henry Carey lord Falkland, deputy of Ireland, and father of the famous Lucius Jord Falkland; in * white, by Vanfomer.

Mrs. Catharine Philips, the poetefs; a head: it belonged to Charles earl of Halifax.

Philip Villiers de Lille Adam, the laſt grand maſter of Rhodes, which he defended two years againſt Soliman the Magnificent and a prodigious army: a head.

A view of mount Orgueil in Jerſey; by Richard Bentley eſq.

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Heads

* The idea of the picture walking out of its frame in the Castle of Otranto, was ſuggeſted by this portrait.

PHILIPPE VILLIERS
GRAND-PRIEUR

DE L'ISLE-ADAM,
DE FRANCE;

ensuite Grand-Maitre de l'Ordre de St. Jean de Jérusalem, établi d'abord à Rhodes, puis à Malthe; Né en 1464; mort à Malthe en 1534.

A DESCRIPTION OF

Heads in the upper line, begin from the left:

Vandyck. Richard Rigby, paymafter of the forces and mafter of the Rolls in Ireland, by Eckardt. Prior, the poet. Cooke, the painter; by himſelf. General Edward Cornwallis, governor of Gibraltar and groom of the bedchamber to George 2d. by Eckardt. Pearce, ſenior, ſatuary. Wal-ler, the poet. Horatio lord Walpole, younger brother of fir Robert Wal-pole; by Vanloo. Mr. Chifinch, privy purſe to Charles 2d. by Riley. Dobſon, the painter. George Keppel, third earl of Albemarle; by Eck-ardt. Sir Nicholas Dorigny, the engraver. Van Wyck, the younger, paint-er. George Montagu, eſt; by Eckardt, after Vanloo. Dahl, the painter.

Anne Clifford,* counteſ of Dorſet, Pembroke and Montgomery. There is medal of her taken exaſtly from this picture.

Thomas Howard duke of Norfolk, beheaded for the cauſe of the queen of
Scots. In this picture he is young, and it was probably painted in the reign
of Edward 6th. before he was reſtored in blood, for there are his arms with-
out a coronet, and yet on his handkerchief are an N and a †, to mark his
title and his religion: by Antonio More.

A fea-piece, by Scott.

Bronzes in the windows; an ‡ Ibis: a Ceres with silver eyes, and a cow in her lap: the Laocoon: Antinous ‡ on a tripod: an oſtrich, very spirited.

Two tables of ſolid granite, from the Farneſe gardens at Rome; the frames black and gold, from a tomb in Westminſter-abbey.

On the firſt table, buſts of Marcus Aurelius: Domitilla, wife of Vepa-ſian, exceedingly rare: a Camillus or ſacrificing prieſt. Beneath, a bronze from John of Boulogne's rape of the Sabines: two antique urns of marble; that with a cover heavily deſign'd by Kent belonged to Brian Fairfax.

On the other table, buſts of Julia Mæſa: Fauſtina, ſenior: and Antonia Claudii Mater: very rare. Beneath, the liffening flave in bronze: and two antique urns of marble: on one this inſcription, PAILIOVI RITIO FILIO SVO QVI BISIT ANNIS XX FECIT SIBI.

Two commodes of old Japan with marble flabs; on one, a triangular cíſern of Roman ſayence, finely painted with figures, probably from deſigns of Julio Romano; two large vafes, ditto, finely painted, and inſcribed, FATTE IN BOTEGA DE ORATIO FONTANA, and mounted in or molu.

On

* See an account of her in the ſecond vol. of Royal and Noble Authors.

‡ From Dr. Middleton's collection.

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On the other commode, another cistern * like the former; and two bottles of blue and white and gold Seve china, most beautifully designed and ornamented.

A mother of pearl box, with fishes and counters of the fame; a present from Mrs. Clive.

In a CLOSET, with glaſs doors, between the gallery and round chamber, is a large collection of ancient porcelaine of China, which belonged to Catherine lady Walpole. Under the window, a small altar, part of the shrine in the chapel, and on it a silver ladle with an ivory handle carved and gilt, used by Indian ladies for incense; a present from Charles duke of Richmond.

## THE ROUND DRAWING-ROOM.

HUNG with crimson Norwich damask: the chairs of Aubusson tapestry, flowers on a white ground, the frames green and gold; and a carpet of the manufacture of Moorfields; the design taken from the Seve china-table in the green closet.

The design of the chimney-piece is taken from the tomb of Edward the Confessor, improved by Mr. Adam, and beautifully executed in white marble inlaid with scagliuola, by Richter. The dogs are silver: on the chimney are three large jars and two beakers, of silver also, bought at the auction of lady Eliz. Germaine; on the middle one is the rape of the Sabines emboffed. Two silver fconces, with histories, on the sides.

A screen worked in chenille, to suit with the chimney, by the countess of Ailebury.

The cieling is taken from a round window in old Saint Paul's; the freeze was designed by Mr. Adam.

In the great bow window is a large shield of the arms of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicestershire, given by Mr. H. Reade; under it a thornbush with H R, the device of Henry 7th.; the arms of queen Elizabeth, on the left hand, from Essex-house in the Strand; roses; other arms of nobility; and fix fine pieces, by a scholar of Price, from Raphael's bible. The furbace of the window is taken from the tomb of queen Eleanor in Westminster-Abbey.

Over

* Prefers from the earl of Exeter; and had belonged to Jervas the painter, who had a fine collection of that fayence.

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A DESCRIPTION OF

Over the chimney, lady Dorothy Percy countess of Leicester, in red, and her sister lady Lucy, the famous countess of Carlifle; a very capital picture of Vandyck, sold out of Penshurst by lady Yonge, when she inherited half of that ancient seat by the will of lady Brownlow. Mr. Hoare of Stourhead offered the last earl of Leicester of the Sidney family an hundred pounds for this picture.

Over the door, Mrs. Lemon, mistrels of Vandyck, with a sword, as Judith; by Vandyck; bought out of Buckingham-house: very boldly and freely painted.

Bianca Capello; by Vafari; bought out of the Vitelli palace at Florence by sir Horace Mann, and sent to Mr. Walpole: the hands never finished. Her story is thus written in a cartouche on the frame. Bianca Capello, a Venetian lady, who having disobliged her family by marrying a Florentine banker, was reduced to maintain him by washing linen; Francis the great duke, saw, fell in love with, and made her his mistrels, and her husband his minister; but the latter, after numberless tyrannies, for which she obtained his pardon, and after repeated ill usage of her, for which she pardoned him, having murdered a man, and being again protected by her, the great duke told her, that though he would remit her husband's punishment, he would pardon whoever should kill him. The relations of the deceased murdered the assassin, and Francis married his widow Bianca, who was poisoned with him at a banquet by cardinal Ferdinand, afterwards called the Great, brother and successor of duke Francis.*

Jacob travelling from Laban; very fine; by Salvator Rafa: a present from the fame.

The education of Jupiter; by Nicolo Poussin. This picture coft fir Robert Walpole an hundred and fourteen pounds.

A most beautiful landscape by Paul Brill.

A piece of rocks, with the temple of Tivoli; by Gobbo Caracci.

A trunk of tortoisell and bronze; by Boul, on a frame of the fame. A small jar of Seve china under it.

A Japan cabinet. On it, two double branched silver candlesticks with figures of women, bought at lady Vere's sale, in 1783: and a bronze figure of

* Montaigne, in his Travels, vol. I, p. 251, gives a description of Bianca, which corresponds much with this portrait. "Cette duchesse eft belle à l'opinion Italienne, un visage agreable et imperieux, le corfage gros, et de tetins à leur souhait." The small portrait of her in the cabinet of enamels here, p. 59, is younger and much handsomer.

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of Muses, after Michael Angelo. Under it, a large vafe of Florentine
fayence, with the arms of the great duke.

Two old Japan coffers on gilt frames. Under them, two large bottles of Florentine fayence, with the arms of duke Ferdinand of Medici and his wife Chriftina of Lorrain.

In the window, a green and gold table and two high stands, with the
cyphers of fir Robert Walpole and Catharine Shorter his firft wife. On the
table, two vafes, boat-shaped, of deep blue Seve china, mounted in or moulu
with fnake handles. Beneath, a large round vafe and cover, and a diil to
it, of Roman fayence.

THE TRIBUNE.

IT is a square with a femicircular receſs in the middle of each fide, painted
stone-colour with gilt ornaments, and with windows and niches, the latter
taken from thofe on the fides of the north door of the great church at Saint
Alban's; the roof, which is taken from the chapter-houfe at York, is ter-
minated by a ſtar of yellow glafs that throws a golden gloom all over the
room, and with the painted windows gives it the solemn air of a rich chapel.
The windows contain a head of Chriſt and two apoſtles, one in the middle
of each, fet round with four hiftories, all old, but finely re-coloured by
Price, and furrounded with moſt beautiful moſaics of the pureſt taſte. In
five of the niches, on pedeſtals, are,

1. A caſt in plaifter bronzed of Catherine lady Walpole, the model of her ſtate in Weſtminſter-abbey, executed at Rome by Valory, and taken from the Livia or Pudicitia in the villa Mattei.

2. The *Venus of Medici.
3. Antinous.
4. The Apollo Belvedere.
5. The Farneſe Flora in bronze.
In the windows, fix ſmaller bronzes from ancient ſtatures; a Chineſe incenſe-
box of bronze; and two pots-pourris of red japan fet in or moule and fur-
mounted with Indian figures by Martin. The carpet is taken from the moſaie
of the windows, and in the middle has the reflection from the ſtar in the
cieling. The grated door was deſigned by Mr. Thomas Pitt.

On the right hand stands an altar of black and gold, with a marble flab
of the fame colours, taken from the tomb of two children of Edward 3d.
in Weſtminſter abbey. On the altar, a Florentine box inlaid with hard
ſtones, a prefent from fir Horace Mann : two moſt beautiful vafes in paſſe,
imitating

* The Venus and Antinous were lord Waldegrave's.

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imitating root of amethyst and ornamented with vines and heads of goats, by Germaine of Paris: a silver dih of basket-work, and two candlesticks of German agate, prelates from general H. S. Conway. On the fides, two silver fconces with the arms of Francis Pelham * vifcountefs Cassetleomer; and two vafes of ivory from the antique, carved by Verfkovis. Over the altar,

A cabinet of rofe-wood, deigned by Mr. Walpole; on the pediment, flatues in ivory of Fiamingo, Inigo Jones and Palladio, by Verfkovis, after the models of Ryfbrach. In the pediment, Mr. Walpole's arms, a cupid and lion, by the fame: on the doors, bas-reliefs in ivory, Herodias with the head of the Baptift, by Gibbons; a lady, half-length, by the fame; Perfeus and Andromeda; the Hercules Farneſe; the Flora; Diomede with the Pal- ladium; the Medufa of Strozzi; the Perfeus of ditto; Caracalla and Alex- ander, by Pozzo; and eight other heads. On the drawer, the Barberini lion, by Pozzo; and heads of Eagles, by Verfkovis.

Within the cabinet of enamels and miniatures:

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

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

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

Ethelreda Harrifon, wife of Charles vifcount 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-cafe, after Raphael and Dominichino.

Emperor Joseph fit. small.

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

The ducheffs of Cleveland and Portſouth; very ſmall.

Sir Edward Walpole, father of Maria duchefs of Glouceſter, in enamel; by Zincke.

Galfridus Walpole, youngeſt brother of fir Robert Walpole; in water-colours.

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

A valuable

• Sifter of Thomas duke of Newcastle; he died, and is buried at Twickenham.
† 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 quaedam Antiquitatis Monuments.

A. DESCRIPTION OF

old gentlewoman, to whom he gave it when he loved godfather to her in
Holland.

James 2d. when duke of York; fine, by Petitot: bought at the sale of
Mrs. Dunch, daughter of his mitrefs, 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, grandfather of Sir Ro-
bert Walpole; by Hoskins: set in a cafe with small diamonds, and enam-
elled with the judgment of Paris in relief, very neat.

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

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

Frances his wife, daughter of Sir Francis Walfingham, widow of Sir Phi-
lip Sidney, and lastly wife of the earl of Clanrickard and faint Albans.

Robert Walpole, second earl of Orford; painted in water-colours by Ro-
falba 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 fame
collection.

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

George Walpole, third earl of Orford; ditto.

John Chute eq; of the Vine in Hampshire; finely painted in water-co-
lours, by Pompeio Battoni, at Rome.

A watch enamelled with hiltories, 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 Wilmington's.

Queen Elizabeth; ditto: ditto.

George 2d. by Mr. Deacon.

Cowley,

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Cowley, the poet, after fir Peter Lely; by Zincke: his after-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 duchess of Orleans, but probably Martinozzi,
princes of Conti: one of the finest works of Petitot. A looking-glass
behind it: bought of Zincke.

A beautiful enamel by Petitot, of Catherine Henriette d'Angennes com-
teffe d'Olonne, as a Diana, a character very different from that given of her
in Buffy's Hifloire amoureuse des Gaules. It is set in a frame of flowers
enamelled in relief by Giles Legaré de Chaumont en Baffigni, who was fa-
mous for that fort of works: from the collection of monfieur Mariette.

Bianca Capello, great duchess of Tufcany; a small head in oil, by Bron-
zino. See her hiftory, p. 54.

Louis 14th: Mary of Auftia, his queen: Anne of Auftria, his mother,
very delicate: madame de Montespan, his miſtref's, beautiful. Theſe four
are ſmall heads in enamel, by Petitot.

Mrs. Middleton, a beauty in the reign of Charles 2d. ditto; by ditto.

Duchefle of Mazarin, in water-colours.

Conftant Hayes, wife of Galfridus Walpole, and afterwards of Mr. Ker-
wood; very ſmall.

A filfer gilt heart; within, the arms of fir Robert and Catherine lady
Walpole, his firſt prefent 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 fame frame;
all which are now in the poſſection of the duke of Richmond.

Catharine Parr, by Holbein; a moſt ſcarce head, and exacfly like the
picture of her at the earl of Denbigh's at Nuncham Padox, Warwickthire.

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

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

John Dodd, of Swallowfield, Bucks; by Rouquet.

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

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

Peter Oliver, profile in black lead, from a leaf of his own pocket-book,

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and his wife, full-faced, on the other side; both fine: it belonged to Vertue
the engraver.

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

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

A Calcedonian stone, antique, used as an ornament to a horde 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. Elizabeth; by Antonio More: belonged to Richardón the painter, and engraved among the Illustrious Heads.

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

Lucy Barlow, alias Waters, mother of the duke of Monmouth; by Cooper.

Catherine of Arragon, first wife of Henry 8th. an admirable original; by
Holbein. These two were bought at the auction of lady Isabella Scott.

A young man in black; copied by lady Lucan from a portrait by Titian,
in the collection of the duke of Devonshire.

A lady's head, by Rofálba; fct in tortoishell.

James Brydges, first duke of Chandos; in enamel, by Zincke: a prefent
from G. S. earl of Harcourt.

A golden heart fet with jewels, and ornamented with emblematic figures
enamelled, and Scottifh mottoes; made by order of the lady Margaret
Douglas, mother of Henry lord Darnley, in memory of her huband Mat-
thew Stuart earl of Lenox and regent of Scotland, murdered by the papifts.

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 the painter, in his Turkifh drefs, in enamel, by himfelf; given
to Mr. Walpole by his fitter lady Mary Churchill.

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

A naked Venus, whole length, and very fine; the attitude copied by
Zincke from a picture of Annibal Carracci in the collection at Houghton:

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Let in a frame like the former. [End of the cabinet of enamels and miniatures.

Other pictures and curiosities in the fame room:

Little children presented to Christ; Italian, on copper.

The virgin, child, and Saint John; Baroccio, after Correggio.

The virgin and child, by Carlo Cignani; from lord Cholmondeley's collection.

Head of a cardinal; and an old man's head: rounds, on fayence.

A fine dish, enamelled on copper, with the history of Moses. P. R. 1557.

A fayence dish, painted in grotesque.

Rembrandt; by Old Lens.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, as a shepherdess; after Jervas; by ditto.

Two vases carved in ivory, by Verskovis, after the antique.

Queen Anne of Denmark; and a lady of the fame time; by Isaac Oliver: in one frame.

Louis 12th. of France; and Sir John Gage; by Holbein: in another frame. These from the collection of lady Elizabeth Germaine.

Margaret of Austria, daughter of Charles 5th. in a white religious habit; enamelled on copper, in a round: behind it, Moses receiving the law; enamelled on gold.

Henry d'Albret, king of Navarre, grandfather of Henry 4th. in enamel. These two were presented to Mr. Walpole from mists Rachael Loyd, and belonged to the princesses Sophia, mother of king George III.

Lord Loudon, chancellor of Scotland; by Samuel Cooper.

In the glasses-cafe near the window:

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

Model of the shrine of Thomas Becket, enamelled.

An amber jewel-box.

Great seal 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 cross of cedar inlaid with mother of pearl.

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

An ancient square German watch, curiously chafed in silver gilt.

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

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

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 buft of Vespasian in cornelian.

An agate cup and faucer.

A small cornelian faucer.

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

A box in compartments of old Japan.

A small buft in bronze of a Caligula, with silver eyes. This exquifite piece is one of the finest things in the collection, and fhews the great art of the ancients. It is evidently a portrait, carefully done, and seems to represent 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 refided many years afterwards at Florence, where it was found on his return to France, and being purchased by Mr Horace Mann, was by him ſent to Mr Walpole.

A broken patera engraved. M.

A facrificing 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, fet in gold: given to Mr. Walpole by Ilabella de Jonghe, countefs of Denbigh.

A chryſtal ſceptre, fet in gold enamelled, with pearls; from lady E. Ger-
maine's collection, and given to Mr. Walpole by her niece lady Temple.

A cup and faucer of Seve china, blue ground with white heads and feſtoons.

A drefling-box and tray of the fineſt old silver Japan.

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

A magnificent miſſal, with miniatures by Raphael and his ſcholars, fet in gold enamelled, and adorned with rubies and turquoſes; the fides are of cornelian, engraved with religious ſubjects; the clafp, a large garnet. This precious prayer-book belonged to Claude queen of France, wife of Francis ſt.

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and seems to have belonged to the father of Thuanas; wide vol. i. p. 142, of the French edition. It was purchased by Mr. Walpole from the collection of doctor Meade, 1755.

A silver Turkish ornament, taken by a Russian officer in the last war; brought over by Charles lord Cathcart, and given by him to Margaret lady Brown, and by her to Mr. Walpole.

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 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 silver, richly chafed.

An agate oval casket.

Henry 8th's dagger, of Turkish work; the blade is of steel damasked with gold, the cafe and handle of chalcedonyx, 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 mufe caft in silver; fitting: 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 glafs.

A large amethyst, fet coarsely in gold. It belonged to the second bishop of Landaff, and was given by doctor John Ewer bishop of Landaff, in whose time it was found, to 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, Prepared be to follow me. A present to Mr. Walpole from lady Murray Elliot.

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

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An urn set 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 fenic mafk, 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 bridle, and some other small bronzes. M.

In the other glafs cafe:

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

Two vases of Chelsea porcelaine, claret colour, gold and white, with car- touches of historic figures.

Two long Japan boxes.

Two Roman spears, a votive foot and toe.

A point cravat carved by Gibbons; a present from Mr. Grofvenor Bedford.

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

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

An Etruscan Mars; very barbarous.

A small Egyptian figure fitting, of bafaltes. M.

A naked man. M.

The seal of archbishop Dowdall, aft popish primate of Ireland; in silver from Mr. Briflow's collection.

Two cups and a faucer of Milan stone.

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

A Japan pomatum-pot.

A small bloodstone cup fet in gold enamelled.

A small cornelian box fet in gold.

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

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

A large

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A large ancient gold ring, with a castle 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: from Mr. Briftow's collection.

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

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

A small bust of Omphale in bronze.

A round flat box of silver filigraine.

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

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

A seal of the head of Sir Robert Walpole on white cornelian, by Natter; a present from Margaret lady Brown.

A silver popish medal mounted in filigraine.

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

A dressing-box and tray of fine old gold Japan.

A tea-canister of straw; on one side Meleager and Atalanta, on the other the arms of Sir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter.

A Japan dressing-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 marcasites. This box, with the letter t in it from madame de Sevigné in the Elysian fields to Mr.

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Walpole,

\* There were a dozen of these spoons made by order of Catherine lady Walpole, as a present to queen Caroline, after whose death Mr. W. met with this and the handle of another in a toy-shop. The countefs dowager, mother of R. earl of Burlington, was the first who countenanced the polishing of English pebbles, and gave a fine table of them, which is now at Chiswick, to her son.

t Letter written by madame Marie de Vichy, marquise du Deffand [the lady to whom Mr. W. afterwards dedicated his edition of the Memoires de Grammont] in the name of madame de Sevigné from the Elysian fields to Mr. Walpole, after his return from Paris in 1766;

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Walpole, was sent to him by madame du Deffand.

A toothpick-cafe of gold, enamelled with cameos; a present from lady Diana Beauclerc.

A gold snuff-box, with the image in wax of mad. du Deffand's dog, Tonton, whom she bequeathed with this snuff-box and her MSS. to Mr. Walpole.

A green and white snuff-box of Dresden porcelaine fet in gold; a present from Francis earl of Huntingdon.

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

A smelling-bottle of purple glafs with peacock's feathers in gold.

Ditto of Chinese silver.

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 cornelian.

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 princes de Craon.

Ger-

“ Des champs Elifées; point de succession de tems, point de datte.

Je connois votre folle passion pour moi; votre enthousiasme pour mes lettres, votre veneration pour les lieux que j'ai habités: J'ai apris les culte que vous m'y * avez rendu: j'en suis fi penetrée, que j'ai sollicité & obtenu la permission de mes Souverains de vous venir trouver pour ne vous quitter jamais. J'abandonne fans regret ces lieux fortunés; je vous prefere à tous ſes habitans: jouissez du plaïſir de me voir; ne vous plaignez point que ce ne ſoit qu'en peinture; c'eſt la ſeule exiſtence que puiffent avoir les ombres. J'ai été maitresse de choiſir l'age ou je voulais reparoitre; j'ai pris celuy de vingt cinque ans pour m'affurer d'etre toujours pour Vous un objet agreable. Ne craignez aucun changement; c'eſt un ſingulier avantage des ombres; quoique legeres, elles font immuables. J'ai pris la plus petite figure qu'il m'a été poſſible pour n'etre jamais ſeparée de Vous. Je veux vous accompagner par tout, ſur terre, ſur mer, á la ville, aux champs; mais ce que j'exige de vous, c'eſt de me mener inceflamment en France, de me faire revoir ma patrie, la ville de Paris, et de choiſir pour votre habitation le fauxbourg St. Germain; c'etoit là qu'habitoient mes meilleures Amies, c'eſt le ſejour des vôtres; vous me ferez faire connoiſſance avec elles: je ferai bien aife de juger ſi elles font dignes de vous, & d'etre les Rivales de

RABUTIN DE SEVIGNE.”

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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 fardonyx.

A caprice, on white cornelian; intaglia. M.

Apollo; intaglia on cornelian: a present from sir Horace Mann.

Ifis; Egyptian cameo on onyx. M.

A Cicada; fine intaglia on cornelian.

A Syrian king; ditto. M.

Fauftina, 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 sir Robert Walpole to his son Horatio.

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

Jupiter Serapis; altiflimo relievo in bloodstone.

A ram's head; intaglia on cornelian.

[End of the rings.]

Old Japan plate of different colours.

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

Turkish beads enamelled with blue and gold; probably for ornaments in a proceftion: bought at the sale of monfieur 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 masks, flies, grafshoppers, and other insects; the virgin and boy-angels at top, a wreath 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 of Leonati at Parma, and was bought by the

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* In Baron Stofch's collection of Pierres Gravées which have the names of their artifts, there is another Germanicus with the name of the fame workman Epitynchanes. It is larger than Mr. Walpole's and represents that prince younger, but it is imperfect, the lower part being broken off directly from the chin.

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marquis of Rockingham, who exchanged it with Mr. Walpole for some very scarce Roman medals of great bronze, amongst which was an unique medallion of Alexander Severus with the amphitheatre, in the highest preservation.

Two cornish diamonds, one inclosing green, the other yellow moors.

A bronze altar-pot and a tripod. M.

A large Goa stone.

A silver box, almost in the shape of an egg, engraved.

A small box of the gold and white Japan. In it are two dates found in a jar at Herculaneum; they are burnt to a coal, but the shapes and rivelled skins are entire.

A cornelian spoon that belonged to Cossim Aly Caun.

An amber toothpick-cafe.

A tortoiseshell snuff-box, the top represents Flemish lace; given to Mr. Walpole by lady Mary Coke.

A round snuff-box, and an egg-shaped ditto.

Pictures and bronzes in other parts of the Tribune.

Side opposite to the door:

A drawing by Mr. Bentley, representing two lovers in a church looking at the tombs of Abelard and Eloisa, from these lines of Pope,

If ever chance two wand'ring lovers brings
To Paraclete's white walls and silver springs, &c.

Chrift and Mary Magdalen in the garden, in water-colours; by Catherine lady Walpole.

Two flower-pieces; by Baptiste Monoyer.

Chrift laid in the sepulchre, after the fine picture of Parmegiano at Houghton; by Mr. Horace Walpole.

Two more flower-pieces; by Baptiste Monoyer.

Madonna and child; by Salfa Ferrata, after Guido.

Correggio's Magdalen copied in crayons by Rosalba.

Temptation of Saint Antony; by Teniers.

Story of Celadon and Aftrea, in water-colours; by W. Baur.

St. George, in altissimo relieve in silver.

Frances Howard, the famous countess of Effex and Somerset; by Isaac Oliver: from Mr. West's collection.

Vandyck's head, by himself; a sketch for the duke of Grafton's picture.

Soldiers at cards, a curious picture, being painted in the manner of Teniers, by Vandyck; from Lord Oxford's collection.

The

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The education of Cyrus, in water-colours, by Judith Boiffiere, a French woman, in 1725; from Caftiglione, in the collection at Houghton.

A wreath of flowers; octagon; by Phil. Laura: in the middle, head of Rofalba's Tirolese girl, by Carlevares, a female scholar of Rofalba.

Cornelius Polemberg, by himself, oval on copper, exquisitely finished like enamel, yet with great freedom.

His wife, by ditto; inferior in freedom and labour. These two from fir Robert Walpole's collection.

A beautiful bronze vafe, taken from the antique by Fiamingo, who has added fine bas-reliefs of boys; from the Harleian collection.

A young gladiator in bronze. M.

A young Hercules, ditto, with the lion's skin on his arm; fine. M.

An antique ewer of bronze; a greyhound reaching to drink forms the handle: a prefent from Charles Churchill efg;

A very rare figure of Diana of Ephefus, in serpentine stone.

A green Egyptian figure, one of those found in the pyramids.

Pictures and bronzes on the fide where the altar is:

A man and woman fitting; by Watteau: from fir Robert Walpole's collection.*

Thompson, printfeller; by Riley.

An oval hunting-piece, by Wyck; from fir Robert Walpole's collection.

Mary queen of Scots, whole length in water-colours; by Vertue, from the picture at Hatfield.

A merry-making, very neat; by a Swif's lady.

A rural ball; ditto.

St. Sebaftian; by Goltzius.

An old woman's head; by Gerard Dow.

Boys with vines on a monument; from fir Robert Walpole's collection: by Philippo Laura.

Chrift as a pilgrim, and faint Catherine, crowned by an angel: by Tad-deo Zucchero.

A calm fea with ships; by Samuel Scott.

The engagement between the Lion and Elizabeth in the year 1745; the young pretender was on board the latter: by ditto.

The Florentine boar in bronze.

A finall bronze vafe, with a sacrifice to Priapus.

A larger

* All the pictures that were not at Houghton were fold after his death.

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A larger, ditto. These two from Dr. Meade's collection.

A bronze bull.

An Egyptian hieroglyphic hand; bronze.

A sphinx; ditto. M.

Pictures and bronzes on the side opposite to the altar:

A dog drinking; by Castiglione.

Two larger; by young Baptiste.

Charlotte de la Tremouille, grand-daughter of William the great prince of Orange, and wife of James Stanley earl of Derby, who was beheaded in the civil war: she defended Latham-house for several weeks against the republicans.

The virgin and child, with other saints; a capital drawing by Parmegiano.

Ulysses discovering Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes; by Wermer, in water-colours, after Nicolo Poussin. The architecture is most beautiful, and in the roof Poussin has judiciously introduced an ancient bas-relief with the judgment of Paris, as connected with the story of Achilles.

Madame Suarez, a Florentine beauty; in crayons, by Rosalba.

Madame de Sevigné, when a young widow.

Madame de Grignan. These two are ovals on copper, by Müntz.

A woman carrying a pig to be sacrificed; bronze. M.

A lamp with a fatyr's head; ditto: copied from the antique.

An antique lamp, of bronze, with a face.

Sketch of the head of Roger Palmer earl of Castlemaine, husband of the duchess of Cleveland; by fir Godfrey Kneller.

Chrift depofited in the sepulchre: by Mola, after Raphael.

Chrift praying in the garden; by Philippo Laura: from the collection of monfieur Julienne.

Margaret Cecil lady Brown, in crayons; by Rosalba.

Madame de la Fayette, on copper: by Müntz.

Lady Mary * Coke, in wax: by Goffet.

Raphael's Jonas, in ivory.

A beautiful lamp, in the shape of a foot, Cupid fallen asleep over the flame; antique bronze with silver ornaments: it was found in the temple of Cupid

* Lady Mary Campbell, fourth daughter of John duke of Argyll and Greenwich, widow of Edward lord Coke, only son of Thomas earl of Liecester. This was the lady to whom Mr. W. dedicated the Castle of Otranto.

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Cupid, is published by Montfaucon, and was bought at the sale of the Har-
leian collection.

Another bronze lamp.

Pictures and bronzes on the door fide:

A landscape; by Müntz.

Two hermits; after Rubens.

Two flower-pieces; by young Baptiste.

A Dutch surgeon dressing a boor's leg; from fir R. Walpole's collection.

The circulation; by Ludovico Carracci, on copper: a design for an altar-
piece which he executed at Bologna.

A farm-yard; most natural.

Young Hercules with the serpents; by Annibal Carracci.

St. George; painted by Gioseppe d'Arpino on lapis lazuli.

Sir Godfrey Kneller, when young; by himself: great spirit. These four
left from fir Robert Walpole's collection.

A Roman emperor in bronze, as an idol, with thunderbolt and cadu-
ceus. M.

Two Roman lamps of bronze; one Chriştian, of the latter empire.

Sir Peter Lely, in crayons; by himself.

Rubens, his wife and child, in water-colours, by B. Lens, from the ori-
ginal at Bleinham.

A battle, in black and gold, exquisitely touched by Callot: bought at
Mrs. Stanley's sale.

The virgin and child in the clouds, the city of Bologna beneath; by
Goupy, after Annibal Caracci.

A drunken boor; by Brauwer.

Head of an abbé; by Teniers: from the collection of monfieur Hareng.

Bust of an emperor, in black marble.

A bagpiper; bronze. M.

A sacrificing priest; ditto. M.

N. B. All the bronzes, lamps, &c. stand on brackets under the pictures.

IN THE PASSAGE,

Over the entrance of which is an owl in cut paper, by Bermingham;

An Indian bottle and pipe, ornamented with gold and pearls; brought
from Bengal by Henry Churchill, efij. in 1776.

A flower

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A flower in paper mosaics, by Mils Jennings.

A head in profile of Robert Vere earl of Oxford and duke of Ireland, favourite of Richard 2d. from Mr. Scott's collection.

Mary duchess of Richmond, daughter of George Villiers, duke of Bucks, small whole length from Vandyck.

Head of Fiamingo the sculptor, holding an ivory groupe of boys.

THE GREAT NORTH BEDCHAMBER,

IS hung with crimson Norwich damask. The bed is of tapestry of Aubusson, fezoons of flowers on a white ground, lined with crimson silk, plumes of oftrich feathers at the corners. Six elbow chairs of the fame tapestry, with white and gold frames; and fix ebony chairs. A carpet of the manufacture of Moorfields; a foot-carpet of needle-work; and a fire-screen of the tapestry of the Gobelins.

The chimney was designed by Mr. Walpole from the tomb of W. Dudley bishop of Durham, in Westminster-abbey, and is of Portland stone, gilt; with dogs of or moulu with arms and trophies; the chimney-back is ancient, and bears the arms of Henry 7th. On the hearth, two old red china bottles.

Over the chimney, a large picture of Henry 8th. and his children; bought out of the collection of James West, esq; in 1773. See a description of this curious piece in the first vol. of the Anecdotes of Painting. On the chimney,

A bust of Francis 2d. king of France, husband of Mary queen of Scots.

A bronze bas-relief in profile of Anne of Bretagne, queen of Charles 8th. and of Louis 12th. These two heads from the collection of the count de Caylus.

A nautilus mounted in silver gilt, with fatyrs and the arms of Pafton.

A crystal tankard and cover, mounted in silver gilt. These two pieces belonged to the last earl of Yarmouth.

Four old blue and white china bottles.

Two bas-reliefs of boys in wax on glafs, designed and modelled by lady Diana Beauclerc, sister of George duke of Marlborough. On the back are written these lines.

Tho' taft>e and grace thro' all my limbs you see,
And nature breathes her soft simplicity,
Me nor Praxiteles nor Phidias form'd;
'Twas Beauclerc's art the sweet creation warm'd,

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From Marlbro' sprung.---We in one heav'n-born race
Th' attemper'd rays of the fame genius trace;
As big with meteors from one cloud depart
Majestic thunder and keen lightning's dart.

H. W.

On one side of the chimney, a fine whole length, by Vandyck, of Margaret Smith, wife of Thomas Carye, groom of the bedchamber to Charles 1st. From the Wharton collection, afterwards in that of Sir Robert Walpole.

On the other side, Philip Herbert earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, (with a view of old Wilton) whole length; by Mytens.

On one side of the bed, a whole length of Henry Vere earl of Oxford, in his robes. He was made knight of the bath at the creation of Henry prince of Wales, and died in Flanders in 1625.

On the other side, Robert Walpole 2d. earl of Orford; whole length, in robes of the bath; by Vanloo.

On the side opposite to the bed :

Frances daughter of Richard Jennings efq; [the mademoiselle Jennings of Grammont] first married to George Hamilton, and afterwards to Richard Talbot duke of Tirconnel: copy by Milbourn from the original at lord Spencer's.

Two views of Venice; by Marieski,
A fine landscape with cattle; by Gaspard Poussin.

The duchess de la Valiere, miſtreſs of Louis 14th. given by the duchefs dowager of Portland.

Mademoiselle Hamilton, comteſſe de Grammont; copy after Lely, by Eckardt.

Ninon L'Enclos, the only original picture of her; given by herself to the countefs of Sandwich, daughter of Wilmot earl of Rochester, and by her grandson John earl of Sandwich to Mr. Walpole.

Richard 1st. prisoner to the archduke of Austria; highly finished, by Mieris.
The presentation in the temple; its companion: by Rembrandt.*

Over the doors, which were designed by Mr. Chute, and have medallions of Louis 14th. and Charles 5th. in bronze,

Madame de Maintenon; and Hortense Mancini duchefs of Mazarin: the latter a copy from Carlo Maratti, at the duke of St. Albans's.

L

A small

* These two pictures were bought of a very old gentlewoman, for whose grandfather they had been painted, and till then had never been taken out of their old black frames,

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A small japan cabinet; a dejeuné of Seve china, blue and white with co-loured birds; and a blue and white old china jar.

On the window side:

A large looking-glafs in a rich ebony frame; and two bronze arms with masks, for candles.

Over the glafs, the original portrait of Catherine of Braganza, that was
fent from Portugal previous to her marriage with Charles 2d. and from which
Faithorne scraped his print: a prefent from Richard Bull, esq;

A table of Saracen mosaic, fent to Mr. Walpole from Rome by fir Wil-
liam Hamilton, mounted on an ebony frame, with two ebony stands.

An ewer and two beakers, of Roman fayence; a prefent to Mr. Walpole
from mifs Speed, afterwards married to the comte de Virri, minifter from
Turin.

A small table with a landscape of Seve porcelaine, mounted in old Japan;
a legacy to Mr. Walpole from Mary lady Hervey.

In the window, two china porcelaine ftools.

Richard Wellborn, mafter of requefts temp. Henry 8th. He was defcended
from a younger fon of Simon de Montford earl of Leicefter, on whofe death
to fecure himfelf, he changed his name to Wellborn: a prefent from the
earl of Exeter.

Sir Nicholas Carew, knight of the garter and mafter of the horfe to Henry
8th. in whofe reign he was beheaded: copied by Milbourn from the original
by Holbein, at Beddington in Surrey.

Sir John Perrot, lord deputy of Ireland in the time of queen Elizabeth;
in black and white chalk, by Chambars, from the original at fir Herbert
Perrot Packington's.

The original ſketch of the Beggar's Opera: Walker, as Macheath; mifs
Fenton, afterwards duchefs of Bolton, as Polly; Hippifley, as Peach'em;
Hall, as Lockit: on one fide in a box, fir Thomas Robinson, very tall and
lean; fir Robert Fagg, a famous horſe-racer, fat, with ſhort grey hair: by
Hogarth. Bought at the ſale of John Rich, the well-known harlequin, and
mafter of the theatres in Lincoln's-inn-fields and Covent-garden, for whom
the picture was painted.

Van Helmont, the chymift; copied by Müntz from a fine original by fir
Peter Lely, at the earl of Hertford's at Ragley.

Lady Henrietta Berkeley, firſer-in-law and miſtrefs of Ford lord Grey in
the reign of Charles 2d. Bought at lady Suffolk's ſale.

Mary

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Mary princes of Orange, daughter of king Charles 1st. given to Mr. Walpole by the prince of Monaco.

Rehearsal of an opera, with caricatures of the principal performers: Nicolini stands in front, Mrs. Toft is at the harpsichord, Margarita is entering in black.† Bought at the sale of John duke of Argyll, who bought it at that of Charles Stanhope, esq; by Sebastian Ricci, the landscape in it by Marco Ricci.

In the bow windows are ten coats of arms in painted glafs, by Peckitt of York, with the principal matches of the family of Walpole.

The cieling was copied from one at the Vine in Hampshire.

Curiosities in the glafs closet in the great bedchamber:

A falver of Raphael fayence, ftory of the prodigal son.

A large dish, ditto, ftory of Abfalom.

One ditto, fsmaller, ftory of Jael and Sifera.

A large plate, ditto, feast of the gods.

One fsmaller, Chrift walking on the water.

One ditto, cupids in relievo, ribbed border.

Ditto, Apollo and Marfyas, fcolloped border.

Two fsmall ditto, with landscapes and buildings.

Two ditto, twelve square, very coarse.

Two ten square difhes of the old dragon china.

A fine silver trunk to hold perfumes, with bas-reliefs, the top from Ra-
phael's judgment of Paris; the work of Benvenuto Cellini. Bought out of
the great duke's wardrobe; a present from fir Horace Mann.

A Chinese feelyard.

An amber standing cup and cover, from Mrs. Kennon's collection.

A bottle of purple glafs.* This and all the following articles marked with an afterfm, were bought at the sale of count Caylus at Paris.

Seven boxes of the old gold and white Japan, with smaller boxes of the
fame within.

A silver gilt plate in relievo, the meeting of Charles 5th. and Francis 1st: a present from fir William Hamilton.

A pair of gloves worn by king James the First, bought out of Thoresby's
museum.

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† The gentleman in blue, with a patch on one eye sitting by the Margarita, is fir Robert Rich, father of Elizabeth lady Lyttelton. See curious accounts of Mrs. Toft and the Margarita in the 5th. vol. of fir John Hawkins's History of Music.

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The wedding gloves of Mrs. Hampden, wife of the celebrated John
Hampden.

An agate puncheon with the arms of Mr. Gray the poet, and a Goa stone;
given to Mr. Walpole by doctor Browne and Mr. W. Mafon, Mr. Gray's
executors.

A carved bottle for perfumes, mounted in silver; Indian.

A bronze perfume-pot.

A clouded ewer of polished earth.*

An ewer of Villeroy ware.

Three packs of Florentine cards, for playing at Minchiati and Tarocco.

Rubens's child, in biscuit china of Nancy.

Three French snuff-boxes mounted in gold.

Small ivory box, containing a suite of prints representing medals on the
victories in the war at the end of the reign of George 2d.

A snuff-box with views of Spa; given by mfs Churchill.

Two enamel plates, presents from Caroline lady Greenwich.

A silver gilt apoſtle-ſpoon. Addifon, in the Drummer, mentions apoſtle-
ſpoons; and ſo do Beaumont and Fletcher, in one of their plays. It was an
ancient fashion to have a little figure at the end of a spoon's handle, as this
has. It was a preſent from the reverend Mr. W. Cole.

Three ditto, ungilt.

An antique bronze of a man, naked, the head of fir Robert Walpole ad-
ded by Nattier.

Small octagon dish of old china with figures.

Nineteen draftſmen of box, with heads of German princes and princesſes;
a preſent from Charles duke of Richmond.

Fourteen more, bought at Mr. Bateman's ale.

Two vases of blue china mounted in or moulu.

A blue and white plate with the brown edge, old china.

A smaller with dragons, without the border.

Two octagons of blue and white with figures, pierced.

Two hexagon faucers, ditto, with feet.

A box with ancient round trenchers, with ſcriptural mottoes; a preſent
from the reverend Mr. W. Cole.

A German pitcher and cover, with bas-reliefs of figures dancing.*

Two plates of Chantilly china, of different ſizes.

A tea-pot of the old red Japan ware.

Another

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Another, red and black, of China.

A Turkish mug, with characters.*

An earthen pot, Indian.*

A blue and white earthen barrel, with handles.*

A drinking vessel of black earth, with ditto.*

A saltceller of old fayence supported by dolphins.

Two blue and white dishes and seven plates of old china; a legacy from
Mrs. Henrietta Conway, sister of Francis earl of Hertford.

Two old blue and white water-plates.

A copper dish with a foot, enamelled with the story of Abraham and
Melchizedec; a present from George William Hervey earl of Bristol.

A basket of Seve china, blue, gold and white.

A Staffordshire Etruscan vase.

A blue vase of antique Roman glasses with a boy's head.*

Four water-plates of old coloured china.

An urn and cover of Volterra alabaster.

Two ewers of ancient glasses.*

A blue and white square pot for flowers, of old china.

A speculum of kennel-coal, in a leathern case. It is curious for having been used to deceive the mob by Dr. Dee, the conjurer, in the reign of queen Elizabeth. It was in the collection of the Mordaunts earls of Peterborough, in whose catalogue it is called, the black stone into which Dr. Dee used to call his spirits. From the Mordaunts it passed to lady Elizabeth Germaine, and from her to John last duke of Argyll, whose son lord Frederic Campbell, gave it to Mr. Walpole.

A small chest in terra-cotta of Nicolo Poussin's wife, beautifully simple and natural, by Fiamingo, amicitiæ caufâ: from Monf. Mariette's collection.

Two square flower-tubs of Wedgwood's ware, painted with antique ca-
meos and masks in blue, from designs of lady Diana Beauclerc.

The spurs worn by king William at the battle of the Boyne, preserved in an Irish family, and given to the late earl of Harcourt when lord-lieutenant, and by the present earl to Mr. W. in a red leather box lined with green velvet.

A tortoiseshell cafe studded with silver, in which Van Tromp used to carry his pipes to sea: a present from Mr. Hamilton.

Two ivory billiard-sticks, engraved; they belonged to H. Herbert earl of Pembroke, and have his crest a wyvern holding a bloody hand, and the bear and

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and ragged staff for his third wife, the famous Mary, sister of Sir Philip Sidney; and an ancient ivoryenk, engraved with French devices and mottoes: all three from the collection of Mr. Goftling at Canterbury.

Twelve silver dessert-plates, engraved with the history of the prodigal son. They belonged to lord chancellor Clarendon, and defcended to his great grand-daughter the celebrated duchess of Queensberry, and were purchased at the duke's auction.

A small tray of red Japan.

A snuff-box beautifully painted in brown and white with figures from Etruscan vases, be spoken at Naples, and given by Sir William Hamilton.

An ancient German wooden spoon, curiously carved with religious figures and mottoes.

A vane of rock chrysal, carved with battles, unfinished, having been cracked in the workmanship, with a silver gilt foot; bought out of the great duke's wardrobe by Sir Horace Mann, and sent to Mr. W.

In the closet-window is a head of queen Elizabeth in painted glaſs, and another pane with men playing at cards, very old.

ON THE BACK STAIRS.

Lady Catherine Fitzalan marchioness of Dorset, daughter of William earl of Arundel, and first wife of Henry Grey, afterwards duke of Suffolk, from whom she was divorced to make room for his marriage with lady Frances Brandon, daughter of Mary queen of France and Charles duke of Suffolk.

A large piece of flint life, by Adrian Van Utrecht.

THE BEAUCLERC CLOSET,

IS a hexagon, built in 1776, and designed by Mr. Effex, architect, of Cambridge, who drew the cieling, door, window, and surbase. In the window is a lion and two fleurs de lys, royally crowned, ancient, but repaired and ornamented by Price; and being bearings in the royal arms, serve for Beauclerc. The closet is hung with Indian blue damask, and was built on purpose to receive seven incomparable drawings of lady Diana Beauclerc for Mr. Walpole's tragedy of the Mysterious Mother. The beauty and grace of the figures and of the children are inimitable; the expression of the passions most masterly, particularly in the devotion of the countess with the porter,

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porter, of Benedict in the scene with Martin, and the tenderneſs, defpair,
and refolution of the counteſs in the laſt scene; in which is a new ſtroke of
double paſſion in Edmund, whose right hand is clenched and ready to ſtrike
with anger, the left hand relents. In the ſcene of the children, ſome are
evidently vulgar, the others children of rank; and the firſt child, that pre-
tends to look down and does leer upwards, is charming. Only two ſcenes
are represented in all the ſeven, and yet all are varied; and the ground in the
firſt, by a very uncommon effect, evidently deſcends and rifes again. These
sublime drawings, the firſt hiftories ſhe ever attempted, were all conceived
and executed in a fortnight. Other pictures in this cloſet are,

Lady Diana Beauclerc, by Powel, after ſir J. Reynolds.

Charles Lenox 3d. duke of Richmond, profile, by Milbourn after
Romney.

Count Schouallow, favourite of the Czarina Elizabeth, whose image he
holds. This worthy man, who enjoyed absolute power for twelve years,
never did an injury or made an enemy. Painted at Paris in 1775.

Two young women and a boy, a drawing in a round, by lady Diana
Beauclerc.

Four fronts of a gothic house, designed by Mr. John Chute for Mr.
Andrews, and built at Spinehill near Donnington-castle, Berkshire.

Two capital drawings by Paulo Panini, bought at Mariette's sale.

A view of the fictitious monument designed and erected by general H. S.
Conway, near the Thames, at his seat at Park-place near Henley: and,

A view of the leſſer arch, designed and erected by the fame, at ditto;
with a ſmall portrait of the general himself. These two by Paul Sandby,
in 1781.

All these pictures have black and gold frames.

Two arms for candles of or moulu, in the form of lillies, from Paris.

Two black and gold triangular stands.

A tea-service of old blue and white porcelain.

A tea-chest of Clay's ware, painted with loose feathers.

A head of Augustus, from an antique cameo belonging to Mr. William
Hamilton, modelled in wax by Mrs. Damer, daughter of general Conway,
in 1777.

A head of Voltaire, ditto, its companion.

A writing-table of Clay's ware, highly varnished: it is black, with
blue and white ornaments in a gothic pattern, designed by Paul Sandby.

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In one of the drawers the play of the Mysterious Mother, to explain the drawings, bound in blue leather and gilt.

Four blue damask ftools with black and gold frames.

THE ROUND BEDCHAMBER, TWO PAIR OF STAIRS.

THE inside of a church, a very good Flemish picture on board; a legacy to Mr. Walpole from doctor Meyrick at Illeworth.

Henrietta Hobart countefs of Suffolk, sitting; a view of her house at Marble-hill, Twickenham: by Jervas. It was Mr. Pope's: lady Suffolk bought it at Mrs. Martha Blount's sale, and gave it to Mr. Walpole.

Ogleby, the poet, in his shirt; fine, by Fuller: from R. Walpole's
collection.

Tillemans, the painter.

Mrs. Barry, the celebrated actrefs; profile, by fir Godfrey Kneller. Sketch for the head of Britannia in the great equestrian picture of king William at Hampton-court.

Henrietta duchefs of Orleans, as Pallas; bought at lady Suffolk's sale.

The emperor Maximilian; a curious head.

Robert Dudley earl of Leicester.

Two half lengths of ladies, by fir Peter Lely.

Christian Reifin, feel-engraver, in an oval; freely painted by Dahl.

Enoch Zeeman, the painter, in his original prebyterian habit, and his daughter as a boy by him: well painted by himself.

Pearce, fen. statuary, by Fuller; from Vertue's collection.

THE GREAT CLOYSTER.

A T each end, a blue and white china flower-pot, and in the middle, a
fine antique marble vase, on a pedestal with a Greek inscription; bought
at the sale of Chafe Price, efq; in 1778.

Eight very ancient Welch chairs, turned, and four stands; bought at the
sale of Mr. Richard Bateman of old Windfor.

The piers of the garden-gates are of artificial stone, and taken from the
tomb of William de Luda bishop of Ely, in that cathedral.

Before

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two chocolate-cups, ditto; a handle cup and faucer; a caudle-cup and deep
faucer; all with coloured flowers. A rice cup on feet; a salt-feller of old
fayence; and four biscuit figures. On the hearth, a large green vafe of
German ware, with a spread eagle, and lizards for handles. From Mr.
Bateman's.

On a shelf and brackets, two pots-pourris of Nankin china; two pierced
blue and white bafons of old Delft; and two fceaus of coloured Seve; a blue
and white vafe and cover; and two old fayence bottles.

On the tea-table, a white tea-pot with gold edge, of Seve; four handle
cups and faucers, a sugar-dish, milk-pot, bafon and plate, of the fame; a
tea-pot of crackled china with blue and brown flowers; an octagon green
bafon with coloured flowers; a ditto white, with ditto; a green leaf of
Staffordshire-ware; two blue and white handle cups of Seve; one ditto
larger in shape of a pail; two ditto with coloured flowers and blue rims; one
ditto with dark blue and gold edges and coloured flowers; and one ditto
with blue and gold mofaic on white.

THE LITTLE LIBRARY,

IS painted green and white. Over the chimney, an original half-length of
Milton, æt. 45, in black, a ring tied to one of his button-holes. In the
key-stone of the chimney, an antique bas-relief with the story of Mars and
Venus. On the mantle-piece, several antique fepulchral earthen lamps. On
the hearth, a flower-pot of fine blue earth.

Four ancient Welch chairs: from Mr. Bateman's.

Over the door, an antique painting in freco. V. Middleton's Germana, &c.

A bronze tripod for burning incense. M.

A marble canopus.

Two ditto, smaller: bought at Mr. Bateman's.

Over the book-cafés, a small marble built of lord chancellor Clarendon.

Several small Etruscan and black Staffordshire vases.

Two yellow beakers with flowers of Staffordshire-ware.

Two red china ditto.

Two flower-pots of crackled china.

A blue china bottle.

A bronze inkstand, in good taste; from count Caylus's collection.

In this library are several volumes of MSS.

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IN THE GARDEN,

AN extraordinary large brainstone: a present from Mr. Grosvenor Bedford.
Bernini's Apollo and Daphne in bronze.

A large antique farcophagus in marble, with bas-reliefs: from the collection of Bryan Fairfax, efq;

Two offuaria.

The sleeping Morpheus in plaister.

## ADDITIONS.

**IN THE GREAT PARLOUR.** A two-leafed screen, containing part of a map of Surry and Middlesex. It is a piece of the first tapestry woven in England, and came from Weston in Warwickshire, the seat of the Sheldons who introduced the manufacture. The complete suite of hangings were purchased by Mr. Walpole, and presented by him to the Earl of Harcourt. This specimen had never been hung up.

**IN THE LITTLE PARLOUR.** Two sleeping dogs, the original model in terra-cotta, by the honorable Mrs. Damer, which she afterwards executed in marble for the duke of Richmond.

**ON THE STAIRCASE.** Monamy the painter shewing a fea-piece to Mr. Thomas Walker, a collector of pictures; small life: the figures by Hogarth, the fea-piece by Monamy. A present from Richard Bull, efq;

**IN THE HOLBEIN CHAMBER.** A large drawing of a magnificent chimney-piece; a design by Holbein for one of the palaces of Henry 8th.

**IN THE GREAT BEDCHAMBER.** An ebony cabinet, ornamented with or moulu, lapis-lazuli, agates, pieces of ancient enamel, bas-reliefs of Wedgwood, and nine capital drawings of a gipsey girl and beautiful children by lady Diana Beauclerc, with other drawings by her; and with strawberries and Mr. Walpole's arms and creft. The design of the cabinet by Mr. E. Edwards, in 1783.

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STRAWBERRY-HILL.

LIST OF THE BOOKS

Printed at Strawberry-Hill.

TWO Odes by Mr. Gray; quarto, 1757: 1000 copies.
Translation of part of Hentzner's Travels; small octavo, 1757: 220 copies.
Royal and Noble Authors; 2 vol. small oct. 1758: 300 copies.
Walpole's Fugitive Pieces; small oct. 1758: 200 copies.
Whitworth's Account of Ruffia; small oct. 1758: 700 copies.
Spence's Parallel of Magliabechi and Hill; small oct. 1758: 700 copies.
Bentley's Lucan; quarto, 1759: 500 copies.
Anecdotes of Painting; small quarto, 3 vol. and 1 of Engravers; 1761: 600 copies.
A second edition of the fame, 1765.
Lord Herbert's Life; small quarto, 1764: 200 copies.
Lady Temple's Poems; quarto, 1764: 100 copies.
Cornélie, Tragedie de Henaut; small oct. 1768: 200 copies; 150 went to Paris.
The Myfteric Mother, Tragedy; small oct. 1768: 50 copies.
Hoyland's Poems; small oct. 1769: 300 copies.
Memoires de Grammont; small quarto, 1771: 100 copies; 30 went to Paris.
Letters of Edward VI. small quarto, 1771: 200 copies
Miscellaneous Antiquities, 2 numbers; small quarto, 1772: 500 copies.
Description of Strawberry-Hill; small quarto, 1774: 100 copies, 6 on large paper.
Mr. Fitzpatrick's Dorinda, and Mr. Charles Fox's Verfes to Mrs. Crewe; small quarto, 1775: 300 copies.
The Sleep-Walker, Comedy, by lady Craven; small oct. 1778: 75 copies.
Letter to the Editor of Chatterton's Miscellanies; octavo, 1779: 200 copies.
Mr. Charles Miller's Verfes to Lady Horatia Waldegrave; small quarto, 1780: 150 copies.

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IN THE WAITING-ROOM. Buft of Colley Cibber, poet-laureat, in a cap,
when old, coloured from the life, and extremely like. He gave it to
Mrs. Clive, the celebrated actres, and her brother Mr. Raftor gave it, after
her death, to Mr. Walpole.

IN THE CHINA-ROOM. A white cup and faucer with coloured flowers,
made for the comte d'Artois, and called Porcelaine d'Angouleme; a prefent
from the viſcountefs Mount-Edgecumbe.

Two cuſtard cups of old crackled china, with flowers of plated filver.

A small jar, white within and japanned without; a prefent from Mr.
Barrett of Lee.

A Delft beaker, and two blue and white bottles, ditto.

A large flattish drinking glaſs, one of the firſt manufacture at Venice, with
the initials of an English lady's name for whom it was made, and the date
1580; a prefent from lady Giorgiana Smythe.

Three pieces of Moorith mofaſc; on one a ſhield, with the name or title
of a Moorith king; bought at the auction of Mr. Carter, who published an
account of Spain.

Two vases of white porcelaine, ſtriped with blue and gold, and orna-
mented with red feſtoons; from the manufacture of marquis Ginori at
Florence: ſent by Mr Horace Mann.

IN THE BEAUTY-ROOM. Buſt of the lady viſcountefs Melbourne; a caſt
from the original by Mrs. Damer.

IN THE BREAKFAST-ROOM. A maſquerade at Vauxhall, in bifter; by
lady Diana Beauclere. There is wonderful expreſſion in the faces, and atti-
tudes, though ſome of the figures are quite maſked, and others have half
maſks.

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APPENDIX.

IN THE GREEN CLOSET. Profile of lady Ailesbury, in wax; by her
daughter Mrs. Damer.

Thomas Seymour lord Dudley, brother of the protector Somerset, copied
by lady Lucan from the original in the possession of the marquis of
Buckingham.

ON THE STAIRCASE. A Persian shield, over the door into the blue room.
An ancient dish of fayence, over the door of the red room.

Top of a warming-pan that belonged to Charles 2d. with his arms and
this motto, *Sarve God and live for ever*. As the date on it is 1660, with
C. R. it probably was used for his majesty and the duchefs of Cleveland.

Wootton the painter, his wife and children; small life, painted by
Gav. Hamilton.

ARMOURY. Head of Iris, small model in terra-cotta by Mrs. Damer,
which she executed in large stone for the bridge at Henley.

An ancient battle-axe and a bandelier.

IN MR. WALPOLE'S BEDCHAMBER. A cat, in an ebony frame.

IN THE LIBRARY. A print of king Staniflaus in his old age, coloured
and dressed with silks after the cloaths he wore: a present from Mrs. Damer.

IN THE STARCHAMBER. Catherine Haftings, first countess of Chester-
field.

IN THE HOLBEIN CHAMBER. A man in black, holding a ring; small
half-length, by Holbein. On the back is written H. II. data excel. Pnpis
Vallistari avunculi munere.

A young lady, its companion; seems to be painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
On the back, Coftanza Fregosa, moglie del Co. Manfredo Lando, madre
d'Agoftino Landi Print. di Val di Taro. Tableau du palais di Monaco. Pnpis
Vallistari munus. These two pictures were presents to Mr. W. from his great
nephew George earl of Cholmondeley.

IN THE CHINA CLOSET. Three blue baskets made like ruffles, of old
blue china; bought at the sale of the duchefs dowager of Portland.

IN