Fascicled by J. M. B. from a drawing by J. C. Smith.

VIEW of the NEW GALLERY CLEVELAND HOUSE,
carved in stone, in front of a group of four large stone columns.

CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ

OF THE

PICTURES

BELONGING TO THE MOST HONOURABLE

THE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD,

IN THE

GALLERY OF CLEVELAND HOUSE.

COMPRISING

A LIST OF THE PICTURES,

With illustrative Anecdotes, and descriptive Accounts of the Execution, Composition, and characteristic Merits of the principal Paintings.

By JOHN BRITTON, F.S.A.

Hail, Painting, hail! whose imitative art,
Transmits through speaking eyes the glowing heart!

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW;
AND FOR THE AUTHOR.

1808.

NOTICE

RESPECTING

TICKETS OF ADMISSION

TO THE

CLEVELAND-HOUSE GALLERY.

WITH exemplary liberality the Marquis of Stafford has appropriated one day in the week (Wednesday, from the hours of 12 to 5 o'clock) during the months of May, June, and July, for the Public to view the pictures in his spacious Gallery. In consequence of almost innumerable applications, and in order to accommodate more pleasantly those persons who visit this splendid collection for the express purpose of examining the paintings, his Lordship has found it necessary to adopt the following

REGULATIONS.

No person can be permitted to view the Gallery without a ticket. To obtain which it is necessary that the applicant be known to the Marquis, or to some one of the family; otherwise he or she must have a recommendation from a person who is.

Applications for such tickets are inserted in a book by the Porter, at the door of Cleveland-House, any day except Tuesday; when the tickets are issued, for admission on the following day.

Artists desirous of tickets for the season must be recommended by some member of the Royal Academy.

It is expected, that if the weather be wet, or dirty, that all visitors will go in carriages.

C. WHITTINGHAM, *Printer,*
Goswell Street.