THE P LAN S, ELEVATI ON S, AND SECTIONS; Chimney-Pieces, andCielings of HOUGHTON mNORFOLK; Built by theIII Honourable / S. A R OH E 11T WAZPOIP; Fir 11 Lord Commifsioner of the Treaftuy CZemceZ/07^ et/f/itJca. r//cy//c/\ aurZ Kill of the Mo ll Noble Order of the Garter. Who iras/rr Ins greatMer/l created liar/ r/'Or/brd8cc. The whole Uefig-ned by Thomas Ripley Efql Delinated by Isaac Ware and Wiu.i am Kent Ei'q . r5 And mo ft elegantly engravd by tlie Ingenious Ml Fotardrinter. Will) a J)fcnJjlw/iof/:be/Ioi/fe omd oftbePleganl Collection of Pictures. L O ISTD o iy. Su/ti fy CJ'OTCRjmmZERjt/- lie Co/■//('/'o/- 'atAtidS COURT Clnri/io■ Crf . f //.'I/nets i/i Ru/sel StreetCovenl Garden,Me/s? ! Piers kWeblep Jfolboum MRCCLX '•V • . - ' ' • • ' . *■ l - 1 : . . -r- ; “■*. ; .' ■: - f ' . ; \V ... -V) / .... .. I ■ . •> •-: > - V! . / . - " ]\TIHIL opus eft mihi, Lector, ambitiofe hie ^ rnultk defcriberc Domum Walpolianam, qua eft Hougtoniae. Pnefertim cum jam patent omnibus vijenda , in his Tabellis, cum Elevationibus Juis . & Sebtionibus, accurate 'delme ata. Nifi forte id fare geftiat harum rerum cunoflor, quantum Tempons fpatium Perficiepdo Open fit unpenfum. Annus nunc agi incipit Adra CbriftianaMDccxxxv. quo tem¬ pore nullum facile partem reperias, five ex¬ tends Strucburam fpehtes, five interim Orna- turn, abi ultmam Artifas manum defideres. Tempus autem Vundatioius , fuis ipfe Verbis loquatur Lapis, qui primus rite poftus eft in Angulo verfus Auftrum Orientali. Hie me pofuit ROBERTOS ille WALPOLE, Quem tu non nefcies, Pofteriras; Fundamen ut effem Lomus In Agro Natali extruendae, 24° die Mail, A. D. MDCCXX11. FaxitDeus, Poftquam uiamrus ;evi Domnins Diu laetatus fuerit, abfoluta Incolumem tueantur incolumes, Ad fummam diem, EtNatiNatorum, & cpn nafeentur ab Illis. A DESCRIPTION Of the rnoffc Magnificent Seat of HOUGHTO N-HAL L, in Norfolk, BUILT BY Sir ROBERT WALPOLE, EARL of ORFORD; Defigned by THOMAS RIPLEY, Efq ; With a Description of the Elegant Colledtion of PICTURES, and the Meafures of them. !||| H E common Approach to the Houfe is by the j South-end Door, over which is Engraved this ; Infcription: TOBERTUS WALPOLE H A S iE D E S Anno S. MDCCXXII. j Inchoavit, Anno MDCCXXXV. P E R F E C I T. On the Right-hand you enter a fmall Break- ' fast Room. O VER the Chimney is a very good Picture of Hounds, ; by Woo ton. A Concert of Birds, by Mario di Fiori; a very uncommon Pidture, for he feldom painted any thing but Flowers; it be¬ long’d to Gibbins the Carver, and~is~ fuui - Fe et feveirTnches high, by feven Feet nine and a quarter wide. The Prodigal Son returning to his Father ; a very dark Pidture, by Pordenone , the Architecture and Landfcape very good. It is five Feet five Inches high, by eight Feet eleven and half wide. This Pidture belong’d to George Villiers, the great Duke of Buckingham. A Horfe’s Head, a fine Sketch, by Vandyke. A Grey-Hound’s Head, by old Wyck, who was Wootoris Mafter. Sir Edward Walpole , Grand-Father to Sir Robert Walpole. He was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Charles the Second, and made a great Figure in Parlia¬ ment. Once on a very warm Difpute in the Houfe, he pro¬ pos’d an Expedient, to which both Parties immediately con¬ curred : Waller the Poet moved that he might be fent to the Tower, for not having compofed the Heats fooner, when he had it in his Power. He married Sufan , Daughter to Sir Robert Crane , on whofe Death he wrote thefe Verfes in his Bible, which is now in the Church here : She Lives, Reigns, Triumphs in a State of Blifs: My Life no Life, a daily Dying is. If Saints for Pilgrims here concerned can be, I’m confident Ihe now remembers me. My Love for her not leffen’d by her Death, I’m fure will laft unto my lateft Breath. He is buried in Houghton Church with this plain Epitaph : “ Here lies Sir Edward Walpole : Ccetera Ji queer as, nar- i( rabit fatna fuperJlesF Robert Walpole, Son to Sir Edward, and Father to Sir Robert Walpole : he was Member for Cajlle-Rifeing, from the fir ft of William and Mary till his Death in 1700. His Wife was Mary, only Daughter to Sir "Jeffery Burwell, by whom he had Nineteen Children. Horatio Lord Townfloend, Father to Charles Lord Vifcount c Townf]:end. Mr. Harold, Gardener to Sir Robert Walpole, a Plead, by , Ellis. The Supping Parlour. T H E Battle of Conjlahtvie and Maxentius, a Copy, by Julio Romano, of the famous Pidture in the Vatican, which he executed after a Defign of Raphael. It is four Feet eight Inches and half high, by nine Feet feven and a quarter wide. Over the Chimney, Horace Walpole , Brother to Sir Robert Walpole. He was Ambaflador in France and Holland, Cof¬ ferer of the Houfhold, and laftly one of the Tellers of the Exchequer. Three Quarters Length, by Ricbardfon. Sir Robert Walpole, when Secretary at War to Queen Anne, Three Quarters, by Jervafe. Catharine Lady Walpole, his firft Wife ; Ditto. ; Sir Charles Turner, one of the Lords of the Treafury. He married to his firft Wife, Mary, eldeft Sifter to Sir Robert | Walpole. Three Quarters, by Richardfon^ ; Charles Lord Vifcount Townfloend, Secretary of State to King [ George the Firft and Second. Three Quarters, by Sir God- l frey Kneller. ' Dorothy , his fecond Wife, and fecond Sifter to Sir Robert Wal- [ pole. Three Quarters, by Jervafe. > Anne Walpole, Aunt to Sir Robert Walpole (a Head.) She was j Wife to Mr. Spelman of Narborough in Norfolk. t Dorothy Walpole, Ditto (died unmarried.) • Mary Walpole, Ditto, married to John Wilfon , Efq; of Lei- '* cejlerfloire. I Elizabeth Walpole, Ditto, fecond Wife to James Hofl, Efq; j of Sandringham in Norfolk. * l A The [ 2 - ] The Hunting Hall. \ C US ANN AH and the two Elders, by Rubens ; five Feet j ^ eleven Inches and half high, by feven Feet eight Inches -s and a quarter wide. I A Hunting Piece. Sir Robert Wtalpole is in Green ; Colonel j Charles Churchill in the Middle ; and Mr. !Thomas 'Turner j on one Side. By Wooton , fix Feet ten Inches high, by eight !; Feet five wide. \ \ h 7 he Coffee-Room. ^ i O VER the Chimney a Landfcape with Figures dancing, ;j by Swanivelt , two Feet three Inches high, by three 3 Feet three wide. i Jupiter and Europa , after Guido , by Pietro da Pietris • four j Feet ten Inches high, by fix Feet two wide. ; Galatea, by Zimeni ; four Feet ten Inches high, by fix Feet • two wide. ; Horatio Walpole, Uncle to Sir Robert IValpole. He married ■ Lady Anne Osborn, Daughter of Thomas the firft Duke of ; Leeds, and Widow of Robert Coke, Efq; of Holkam in . Norfolk, Grandfather to the late Earl of Leicejler. ; Three Quarters. 1 Galfridus Walpole, younger Brother to Sir Robert, and one of ; the General Poft-Mafters. He was Captain of the Lion in : Queen Anne s Wars, and was attacked by five French Ships : on the Coaft of Italy againft three Englifh , two of which ■ deferted him, but his own he brought oft', after fighting ■ bravely and having his Arm fbot off. \ Returning thro’ the Arcade , you afcend the Great Stair-Cafe, ; which is painted in Chiaro Ofcitro, by Kent. In the middle ! four Doric Pillars rife and fupport a fine Caft in Bronze of 1 the Gladiator, by John of Boulogne , which was a Prefent to ; Sir Robert from Thomas Earl of Pembroke, floe C O M M O A R L O U R. T HIS Room is thirty Feet long by twenty-one broad. \ Over the Chimney is fome fine Pear-tree Carving, by * Gibbins, and in the middle of it hangs a Portrait of him ] by Sir Godfrey Kneller. It is a Mafter-piece and equal to any ;j of Vandyke's. Three Quarters. King William , an exceeding fine Sketch by Sir Godfrey , for the : large Equeftrian Pidure which he afterwards executed very ill • at Hampton-Court, and with feveral Alterations. Four Feet ; three Inches high, by three Feet fix wide*. ! King George the Firft, a Companion to the former, butfinifhed. ; The Figure is by Sir Godfrey, which he took from the King at ! Guilford Horfe-Race. The Horfe is new painted by ■ Wooton.' A Stud of Horfes by Wovermans ; two Feet one Inch and three 1 quarters high, by two Feet nine wide. Venus Bathing, and Cupids with a Carr, in a Landfcape, by 1 Andrea Sacchi ; one Foot ten Inches and half high, by two ; Feet fix Inches wide. It was Lord Halifax's. A Holy Family by Raphael da Reggio, a Scholar of Zucchero ; ! two Feet two Inches and three quarters high, by one Foot and a quarter wide. * Mrs. Barry and another Actrefs fat for the Two Emblematic Figures, on the Fore- Ground, in the great Pi&ure. A fine Pidure of Architedure, in Perfpedive, by Steenwyck, one Foot nine Inches high, by two Feet eight wide. A Cook’s Shop, by Tenires. It is in his very beft Manner. There are feveral Figures; in particular his own, in a Hawking Habit, with Spaniels; and in the Middle an old Blind Fifherman, finely painted. Five Feet fix Inches and three quarters high, by feven Feet feven and three quarters wide. Another Cook’s Shop, by Martin de Vos, who was Snyders s Mafter, and in this Pidure has excell’d any Thing done by his Scholar. It is as large as Nature. There is a Greyhound fnarling at a Cat, in a moft mafterly Manner. Five Feet eight Inches high, by feven Feet ten and half wide. A Bacchanalian, by Rubens. It is not a very pleafant Pidure, but the Flefh of the Silenus and the Female Satyrs are highly colour’d. There is a fmall Defign for this Pidure revers’d, in the Great Duke’s Tribune at Florence. Two Feet eleven Inches and three quarters high, by three Feet fix wide. The Nativity, by Carlo Cignani. The Thought of this Pic¬ ture is borrow’d (as it has often been by other Painters) from the famous Notte of Correggio at Modena, where all the Light of the Pidure flows from the Child. Three Feet feven Inches and half high, by two Feet ten and half wide. Sir Thomas Chaloner, an admirable Portrait, three Quarters, by Vandyke. Sir Thomas was Governor to Henry Prince of Wales, [Vide Strafford Papers, Vol. I. page 490.] and in 1610 appointed his Lord Chamberlain. [Vide Sandford's Genealogical Tables, page 529.] He died in 16x5, and was buried at Chifuoick. * Sir Thomas Grefham, the Founder of Grefham- College, by Antonio More. Two Feet fix Inches and a quarter high, by two Feet and half wide. Erafmus, by Holbein , a half Length, fmaller than the Life. A Friar’s Head, by Rubens. Francis Halls , Sir Godfrey Kneller s Mafter, a Head by himfelf. The School of Athens, a Copy (by Le Brun) of Raphaels fine Pidure in the Vatican. Three Feet two Inches high, by four Feet two and three quarters wide. Jo/eph Carreras, a Spaniff Poet, writing: He was Chaplain to Catherine of Braganza , Queen of Charles II. Half Length, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Rembrandt's Wife, half Length, by Rembrandt. Rubens's $ife, a Head, by Rubens. A Man’s Head, by Salvator Rofa. * He wrote a Treatife on the Virtue of Nitre, Printed at London 1584, fome other Philofophic Works, and a Paftoral. He difcovered the Allom-Mines at Gisburg in Yorkjbire (where he had an Eftatc) towards the latter End of Queen Elizabeth's, Reign ; but they being adjudged to be Mines Royal, little Benefit accrued to the Family, tho’ the Long Parliament afterwards reftored them to his Sons, who were from thefe Caufes engaged on the Parliament Side ; and Thomas and James, two of them, fat as Judges on King Charles the Firft. James, who wrote a Treatife on the IJle of Man, and made feveral Colleflions of Antiquities, poi- foned himfelf with a Potion prepared by his Miftrefs 1660, on an Order for taking him into Cuftody. Thomas, who was one of the Yorkjbire Members, had been a Witnefs againft Arch- bifhop Laud, and one of the Council of State, and died in Exile at Middleburg in Z eland 1661. He wrote an Anfwer to the Scotch Papers concerning the Difpofal of the Perfon of the King; A Juftification of that Anfwer ; A true and exaft Relation of finding the Tomb of Mofes near Mount Nebo-, And a Speech containing a Plea for Monarchy in 1659. Thomas, his Grand¬ father, was a celebrated Wit, Poet and Warrior, having ferved in the Expedition againft Algier under Charles the Fifth, where being fhipwrecked, and having fwam till his Arms failed him, he caught hold on a Cable with his Teeth and faved himfelf. He was knighted by the Duke of Somerfet, for his Valour, after the Battle of Muffelborough ; and by Queen Elizabeth fent Ambaflador to the Emperor Ferdinand and to King Philip the Second, where he refided four Years, and died foon after his Return in 1565, and was buried with a fumptuous Funeral in St. Paul's. Mr. mtt immmmmmmi tmtimm&jtimnmi Garden,Park, '/// Plantation, Donjon ...... ,. ••". -k 11';.. V- C 3 ] Mr. Loch, a Read, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Inigo Jones , a Head, by Fandyke. Over the Door, a Daughter of Sir Henry Lee , three Quarters, by Sir Peter Lely. She was married to Mr. Wharton ,, af¬ terwards created a MarquiJs ; and was herfelf a celebrated Poetefs. Waller has addrefs’d a Copy of Verfes to her on the Death of Lord Rochejler, whofe great Friend and Re¬ lation fhe was. Over another Door, Mrs. Jenny Deering , Miftrefs to the Mar- quifs of Wharton. Thele two came out of the TFharton Colle&ion. Over the two other Doors, two Pieces of Ruins, by Fiviano. The Library. T HIS Room is twenty-one Feet and half, by twenty- two and half. Over the Chimney is a whole Length, : by Sir Godfrey Kneller , of King George I. in his Corona- ; tion-Robes, the only Picture for which he ever fat in England. The Little Bed-Chamber. T HIS Room is all wainfcoted with Mahogany; and ; the Bed, which is of painted Taffaty, Hands in an 1 Alcove of the fame Wood. Over the Chimney is a half ; Length, by Dahl , of Catharine Shorter , hr ft Wife of Sir i Robert Walpole , and eldeft Daughter of John Shorter , Efq; : of By brook in Kent, by Elizabeth, Daughter of Sir Erafmus : Philips , of PiBon-caJlle in Pembrokefhire. This is an ex- ; Creme good Portrait. 1 On the other Side, a Portrait of Maria Skerret, fecond Wife ; to Sir Robert Walpole, three quarters, by Fanloo. The Little Dressing-Room. : A Landfcape by Wooton , in the Stile of Claude Lorrain , . over the Chijnney. The Blue Damask Bed-Chamber. : I S of the fame Dimenftons with the Library, and is hung ; with Tapeftry. Over the Chimney, Sir Robert Walpole-, \ afterwards Earl of Orford, Prime Minifter to King George I. and to King George II. Ffiem neque Tydites , nec Lariffesus Achilles , Non Anni domuere Decern. He built this Houfe, and made all the Plantations and Waters here. A whole Length, in the Garter-Robes, by Vanloo. The D RAWING- R o O M, I S thirty Feet by twenty-one, and hung with yellow Caffoy. The Cieling is exactly taken, except with the Alteration of the Paternal Coat for the Star and Garter, from one that was in the Dining-Room of the old Houfe, built by Sir Edward Walpole , Grandfather, to Sir Robert. Over the Chimney is a genteel Buft of a Madonna in Marble, by Camillo Rufconi. Above, is Carving by Gibbins, gilt, and within it a fine Pidure, by Fandyke , of two Daughters of Lord Wharton , out of whofe Collection thefe came, with all the other Fandyke in this Room, and fome others at Lord Walpoles at the Exchequer. Five Feet four Inches high, by four Feet three wide. The Judgment of Paris , by Luca Jordano. There is an odd Diffufion of Light all over this Pidure: The Pallas is a remarkable fine Figure. Eight Feet high, by ten Feet eight and a quarter wide. A fleeping Bacchus , with Nymphs, Boys, and Animals; its Companion. King Charles I. a whole Length, in Armour, by Fandyke . By a Miftake, both the Gauntlets are drawn for the Right- Hand. * Henrietta Maria of France , his Queen, by ditto. Archbifhop Laud , the Original Portrait of him ; three Quar¬ ters, by Fandyke. The Univerfity of Oxford once of¬ fered the Wharton Family Four Hundred Pounds for this Pidure. Philip Lord Wharton , three Quarters, by Fandyke. Lord Chief Baron Wandesford , Head of the Cajllecomer Fa¬ mily ; three Quarters, fitting, by Fandyke. Lady Wharton , three Quarters, by Ditto. Jane Daughter of Lord Wenman ; Ditto. The Hands, in which Fandyke excelled, are remarkably fine in this Pidure. Robert Lord Walpole , eldeft Son to Sir Robert Walpole , by Catharine his firft Wife; a Head in Crayons, by Rofalba. He fucceeded his Father in the Earldom, and died in 175 being Knight of the Bath, Auditor of the Exchequer, and Mafter of the Fox-Hounds to the King. Edward Walpole , fecond Son to Sir Robert Walpole , ditto. Horace Walpole, third Son to Sir Robert Walpole, ditto. Mary Lady Vifcountefs Malpas, fecond Daughter to Sir Robert Walpole by his firft Wife, and married to George Lord Malpas, Mafter of the Horfe to Frederick Prince of Wales , and Knight of the Bath ; afterwards Earl of Cholmondeley , and Chan cel jor of the. Duteby of Lancajler , and Lord Privy Seal. She died of a Confumption at Aix in Provence t JEtatis (uce 29. A Profile Sketch, by Jervafe. N. B. There is no Portrait of Catharine Walpole, eldeft Daughter to Sir Robert Walpole , who died at Bath of a Confumption, JEtatisfuce 19. Lady Maria Walpole, only Child to Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, by Maria his fecond Wife, married to Charles Churchill , Efq; in Crayons, by Pond. The Salon. I S forty Feet long, forty high, and thirty wide; the Hang¬ ing is Crimfon flower’d Velvet; the Cieling painted by Kent, who defign’d all the Ornaments throughout the Houfe. The Chimney-piece is of Black and Gold Marble, of which too are the Tables. In the broken Pediment of the Chimney Hands a fmall antique Buft of a Fenus ; and over the Garden-Door is a large an¬ tique Buft. On the great Table is an exceeding fine Bronze of a Man and Woman, by John of Boulogne . When he had made the fine Marble Groupe of the Rape .of the Sabines in the Log¬ gia of the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence , he was found in * When this Pifture was in the Wharton Collefiion, old Jacob Tonfon, who had re- % markably ugly Legs, was finding Fault with the two Gauntlets; Lady IVharton faid, Mr § Tonfon, why might not one Man have two Right Hands, as well as another two Left * Legs? „ , B Fault [ 4 Fault with, for not having expreft enough of the Softnefs * of the Woman’s Flefh, on which hemodelld this, which |* differs in it’s Attitudes from the other, and has but two Fi- g gures; but thefe two are Mafter-pieces for Drawing, for the g Strength of the Man, and the tender Delicacy of the Wo- g man. This Bronze was a Prefent to Lord Orford from g Horace Mann , Efq; the King’s Refident at Florence. |> On the other Tables are two Vafes of Oriental Alabafter. g Over the Chimney, Cbrift baptized by St. John, a molt capital % Pidure of Albano. His large Pieces are feldom good, but g this is equal both for Colouring and Drawing to any of his % Mailer Caracci , or his Fellow-Scholar Guido. It is eight g Feet eight Inches high, by fix Feet four and a half wide, g There is one of the fame Defign in the Church of San § Giorgio at Bologna , with an Oval Top, and God the Father g in the Clouds, with different Angels; two are kneeling, § and fupporting Chrift's Garments. This Pidure belong’d to g Mr. Laws , firft Minifter to the Regent of France. % The Stoning of St. Stephen ; a capital Pidure of Le Sceur. g It contains nineteen Figures, and is remarkable for expref- § ling a mod Mafterly Variety of Grief. The Saint, by a | confiderable Anachronifm, but a very common one among g the Roman Catholics, is dreft in the rich Habit of a modern Prieft at high-Mafs. Nine Feet eight Inches and a half g high, by eleven Feet three and three quarters wide. The Holy Family, a moft celebrated Pidure of Vandyke. The % chief Part of it is a Dance of Boy-Angels, which are painted •* in the bigheft Manner. The. Virgin feems to have been a g Portrait, and is not handfome; it is too much crowded g with Fruits and Flowers and Birds. In the Air are two Par- g tridges finely painted. This Pidure was twice fold for Four- % teen Hundred Pounds: Since that, it belonged to the Houfe g of Orange. ’Tis feven Feet and half an Inch, by nine Feet g one and three quarters wide. g Mary Magdalen wafhing Chr-ift 's Feet; a capital Pidure of g Rubens , finifhed in the higheft Manner, and finely pre- | ferved. There are fourteen Figures large as Life. The |j Magdalen is particularly well coloured. Six Feet and three % quarters of an Inch high, by eight Feet two wide. It was | Monfieur de Morville s. g The Holy Family in a Round, by Cantarini. The Child is ® learning to read. Three Feet fix Inches every way. g The Holy Family, by Titian. It belonged to Monfieur de t Morville , Secretary of State in France. Four Feet feven % Inches and a half high, by three Feet four and a half wide. S’ Simeon and the Child; a very fine Pidure of Guido. The % Defign is taken from a Statue of a Silenus with a young t Bacchus, in the Villa Borghefe at Rome. This was in Mon- g fieur de Morville % Colledion. Three Feet two Inches and H a half high, by two Feet feven and a half wide. There is | another of thefe, but much lefs finifhed, in the Palace of the Marquis Gerini at Florence. g The Virgin with the Child afleep in her Arms, by Auguftine % Caracci. Three Feet fix Inches high, by two Feet nine % and three quarters wide. g An old Woman giving a Boy Cherries, by Titian. It is his I own Son and Nurfe, four Feet ten Inches high, by three § Feet fix and three quarters wide. % The Holy Family, by Andrea del Sarto. This and the laft g were from the Colledion of the Marquis Mari at Genoa. | Three Feet one Inch and a quarter high, by two Feet % feven and a quarter wide. ** 3 The Afliimption of the Virgin ; a beautiful Figure fuppoi ted by Boy-Angels, in a very bright Manner, by Morellio. Six Feet four Inches and three quarters high, by four Feet nine and half wide. * The Adoration of the Shepherds, its Companion: All the Light comes from the Child. The Cyclops at their Forge, by Luca Jordano. There is a Copy of this at St. James's, by Walton < This belong’d to Gibbins. Six Feet four Inches high, by four Feet eleven wide. Dcedalus and Icarus, by Le Brim. In a different Manner from what he generally painted. Six Feet four Inches high, by four Feet three wide. For the Story, fee it twice told in Ovid’s Metamorphofts, Lib. 8. and Lib. 2. de Arte Amandi. Ihe Carlo Maratt Room. S thirty Feet by twenty-one. The Hangings are Green Velvet, the Table of Lapis Lazuli; at each End are two Sconces of maffive Silver. Over the Chimney is + Clement the Ninth, of the Rofpiglioft Family ; three quarters, fitting, a moll admirable Portrait, by Carlo Maratti. It was bought by Jervafte the Painter out of the Arnaldi Palace at Florence, where are the re¬ mains of the great Pallavicini Colledion, from whence Sir Robert bought feveral of his Pidures. Nothing can be finer than this, the Boldnefs of the Penciling is as remark¬ ably as his Delicacy in his general Pidures, and it was fo much admired, that he did feveral of them ; one is at Lord Burlington’s at Chifwick. The Judgment of Paris, drawn by Carlo Maratti, when he was eighty-three Years old, yet has none of the Rawnefs of his latter Pieces; the Drawing of the Juno is very faulty, it being impoflible to give fo great a turn to the Perfon as he has given to this Figure ; it come out of the Pallavicini Colledion, The Earl of Strafford has a very good Copy of it, by Giofeppe Chiari. Five Feet nine Inches and three quarters high, by feven Feet feven and a quarter wide. Galatea fitting with Acis, Tritons , and Cupids-, its Compa¬ nion. Five Feet eight Inches and three quarters high, by feven Feet feven and a half wide. The Holy Family, an unfinifh’d Pidure, large as Life, by Carlo Maratti, in his laft Manner. Three Feet two Inches and three quarters high, by two Feet eight and a quarter wide. The Virgin teaching Jefus to read, by Carlo Maratti. Two Feet three Inches and a quarter high, by one Foot ten and a quarter wide. Giofeppe Chiari has executed this Thought in the Barberini Palace at Rome, but with Alterations. In this the Virgin is in Red. Giofeppe's is in White, and in- Head of St. John, St. Elifabeth, and the Angels, he has drawn a Cardinal reading. St. Ccscilia with four Angels playing on Mufical Inftruments, Companion to the former. Or dreft in Smiles of fweet Cecilia, ffine With ftmfring Angels, Palms and Harps divine. Pope. * The Duke of Bedford has a large Pidlure like this, except that it wants the Virgin, by the fame Hand, brought out of Spain by Mr. Bagnols, from whofe Colleflion the late Prince of Wales bought fome fine Pi&urcs. f He was a Poet. Sec an account of him in the Sidney Papers publifiled by Collins, Vol. II. Page 714. And Firmani’s Seminar. Roman. Page 189. Thefe > [ ? ] Thefe two laft are moft perfect and beautiful Pidlures in his beft and moft finifli’d Manner, and were in the Pallavicini Colledtion. The Aflumption of the Virgin , by Carlo Maratti. She has a deep blue Veil all over her. Two Feet three Inches and three quarters high, by one Foot ten and a quarter wide. The Virgin and Jofeph with a young Jefus, a fine Picture, by Carlo Maratti , in the Manner of his Matter Andrea Sacchi. Two Feet five Inches and a quarter high, by two Feet wide. The Marriage of St. Catherine , by Carlo Maratti, two Feet feven Inches high, by one Foot ten and a half wide. Two Saints worfhipping the Virgin in the Clouds, by Carlo Maratti, Two Feet three Inches and a half high, by one Foot nine and a half wide. St. John the Evangelift, its Companion. A naked Venus and Cupid , by Carlo Maratti , in a very parti¬ cular Stile. Three Feet one Inch and a half high, by four Feet four and a half wide. The Holy Family, by Nicholo Beretoni, Carlo's beft Scholar : This Pidture is equal to any of his Matter’s. The Grace and Sweetnefs of the Virgin, and the Beauty and Drawing of the young Jefus, are incomparable. Three Feet one Inch and a half high, by four Feet four and a half wide. The Aflumption of the Virgin, by ditto. Two Feet two Inches and a half high, by one Foot eight and a half wide. The Pool of Bethefda , by Giofeppe Cbiari , another of Carlo's ^ Scholars. Three Feet three Inches high, by four Feet five wide. Cbrijl's Sermon on the Mount, ditto. Apollo and Daphne, ditto. Bacchus and Ariadne , ditto, the beft of the Four; the Bac¬ chus feems to be taken from th erApollo Belvedere , as the Ideas of the Ariadne, and the Venus, evidently are from the Figures of Liberality and Modefty in the famous Pidture of Guido , in the Colle&ion of the Marquis del Monte at Bologna. There are four Pictures about the Size of thefe in the Spada Palace at Rome , by the fame Hand; two, juft the fame with thefe two laft, the other two are likewife Stories out of the Metamorphofis. Apollo, in Crayons, by Rofalba. Two Feet two Inches high, by one Foot eight wide. Diana, its Companion; A profile Head of a Man, a Capital Drawing, in a great Stile, by Raphael. A profile Head of St. Catherine , by Guido. The Birth of the Virgin, by Luca Jordano. Two Feet one Inch high, by one Foot and a quarter of an Inch wide. The Prefentation of the Virgin in the Temple, its Companion. Thefe two are finifli’d Defigns for two large Pidtures, which he painted for the fine Church of the Madonna Della Sa¬ lute at Venice. The Flight into Egypt , by Morellio , in the Manner of Van- dyke. Three Feet two Inches and a quarter high, by one Foot eleven and a quarter wide. The Crucifixion, its Companion. Hercules and Omphale, by Romanelli. Three Feet one Inch and half high, by four Feet three Inches wide. The Velvet Bed-Chamber. I S twenty-one Feet and half, by twenty-two Feet and half, the Bed is of Green Velvet, richly embroider’d and laced with Gold, the Ornaments defigned by Kent ; the Hang¬ ings are Tapeftry, reprefenting the Loves of Venus and Adojiis, after Albano. Alexander adorning the Tomb of Achilles , by Le Mer. The Subjedt is taken from the fourth Chapter of the Second Book of Quintus Cutius. Achillem, cujus origine (Alexander) gloriebatur, imprimis mirari folitus, etiatn circum cippum ejus cum amicis nudus decucurrit , unEloque coronam im- pofuit. The Head of Alexander is taken from his Medals, the Figures are in the true Antique Tafte, and the Buildings fine. Eight Feet two Inches and three quarters high, by five Feet two and a half wide. Over one of the Doors, a Sea-port, by old Griffier. Three Feet two Inches and half high, by four Feet one Inch wide. A Landfcape over the other Door, by ditto. The D R E S S I N G -R o ' I S hung with very fine gold Tapeftry after Pictures of Vandyke. There are Whole-Length Portraits of James the Firft, Queen Anm his Wife, Daughter to Frederick the fecond King of Denmark, Charles the Firft, and his Queen, and Chriflian the Fourth King of Denmark, Brother to Queen Anne ; they have fine Borders of Boys with Feftoons, and Oval Pidtures of the Children of the Royal Family. At the upper End of this Room is a Glafs Cafe filled with a large Quantity of Silver Philegree, which belong’d to Ca¬ tharine Lady TV alpole. Over the Chimney, the confulting the Sibylline Oracles, a fine Pidture, by Le Mer \ Companion to that in the Bed- Chamber, the Architedture of this is rather the better. The Embroider’d Bed-Chamber. T H E Bed is of the fineft Indian Needle-work. His Royal Highnefs Francis Duke of Lorrain, afterwards Grand Duke of 'Tufcany, and fince Emperor, lay in this Bed, which flood then where the Velvet one is now, when he came to vifit Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton. The Hangings are Tapeftry. ; Over the Chimney, the Holy Family, large as Life, by Nicolo ; Poujfm. It is one of the moft capital Pidtures in this Col¬ ledtion, the Airs of the Heads, and the Draperies are in the ; fine Tafte of Raphael, and the Antique, Elizabeth's Head i is taken from a Statue of an old Woman in the Villa Bor- ghefe at Rome, the Colouring is much higher than his ufual ; Manner ; the Virgins Head and the young Jefus are par- ; ticularly delicate. Five Feet feven Inches high, by four ; Feet three and three quarters wide. ; Over the Doors, Two pieces of Cattle, by Rofa di Tivoli. The Cabinet. I S twenty-one Feet and a half, by twenty-two and a half, hung with Green Velvet. Over the Chimney is a £ele- brated Pidture of Rubens' s Wife, by Vattdyke ; it was fitted for a Pannel in her own Clofet in Rubens's Houfe. She is in black Sattin with a Hat on, a whole Length ; the Hands and the Drapery are remarkably good. C Rubens' s [ * 1 Rubens’s Family, by Jordano of Antwerp ; Rubens is playing on a Lute, his firft Wife is fitting with one of their Chil¬ dren on her Lap, and two others before her. There are ! feveral other Figures, and Genii in the Air. Five Feet nine ■ Inches high, by four Feet five Inches and a half wide ; ; this Pi&ure belong’d to the Duke of Portland . • A Winter-Piece, by Giacomo Bajfan. Three Feet eight Inches i and a half high, by five Feet eleven and three quarters wide. 1 A Summer-Piece, by Leonardo Bajfan. Three Feet eight | Inches and a half high, by five Feet eleven and three < quarters wide. Thefe two were in the Colleaion of Mon- | Jieur de la Frilliere. | Boors at Cards, by Teneirs. One Foot four Inches high, by J one Foot ten wide. f Chrijl appearing to Mary in the Garden, an exceeding fine | Pidure, by Pietro da Cortona. One Foot nine Inches and I a half high, by one Foot eight Inches wide. % The Judgment of Paris, by Andrea Schiavone. | Note, that all the Pidures in this Room, except the Portraits | that have not the Sizes fet down, are very fmall. ’ % Adidas judging between Pan and Apollo, by ditto. f* Chrift laid in the Sepulchre, one of the fineft Pidures that J Parmegiano ever painted, and for which there is a Tradi- I tion, that he was knighted by a Duke of Parma ; there * are eleven Figures; the Expreflion, the Drawing and | Colouring, the Perfpedive, and Chiaro Scuro, are as fine as t poffible. The Figure of Jo/eph of Arimathea is Par me- | giano's own Portrait; there are two Drawings in the Grand % Duke’s Colledion for this Pidure, but with Variations from * what he executed : In one of thefe, Jofeph has his Hands f extended like Paul preaching at Athens , in the Cartoon of I » A Boy’s Head with a Lute, by Cavalier Luti. J Friars giving Meat to the Poor, by John Miel. One Foot > feven Inches and a half high, by two Feet two Inches ; wide. I Its Companion. ; A dying Officer at Confeflion, by Bourgognone ; very bright Colouring and fine Expreflion. One Foot fix Inches and a half high, by 2 Feet one Inch and three quarters wide. Its Companion. Boors at Cards, by Teniers. Boors drinking ; its Companion, by OJlade. Chrijl laid in the Sepulchre, by Giacomo Bajfan', a very particular Pidure, the Lights are laid on fo thick that it feems quite BafTo Relievo. It is a fine Defign for a great Altar-piece which he has painted at Padua. This Pidure was a Prefent to Lord Orford, from James Earl of IFaldegrave, Knight of the Garter, and Embaflador at Paris. Holy Family, with St. John on a Lamb, by Williberts, a Scholar of Rubens , who has made a large Pidure, from whence this is taken, now in the Palace Pitti, at Flo¬ rence: This is finely finiffi’d, and the Colouring neater than Rubens. Holy Family, by Rottenhamer. The Firgin and Child, by Alexander Fzronefe ; painted on black Marble. Three Soldiers; a fine little Piftiire, by Salvator Rofa , in his brighteft Manner. The Virgin with the Child in her Arms, by Morellio , on black Marble. A Prefent, from Benjamin Keene , Embaflador at Madrid. 1 in iuc v_.drcoon or maana. SifrJr s itf"* e,m —- f 1 Ti sr* •“ *•»» a- , - . ' -o- *~* Concha. The Adoratron rf the Magi, by Velvet Brueghel , there are % Edmard. the Sixth, an original fmall whole Length bv a Multitude of little figures, all finiffied with n •&» TT „ . . . , ° , wnoie length, by ZWr exaflnefs; the Ideas’too Se S * Ethiopian King is dreft in a Surplice with Boots and Spurs, • and brings for a Prefent a Gold Model of a Modern Ship. ’ | The Virgin and Child, a very pleafiug Piflure, by Boroccio, % but the Drawing is full of Faults. % Naked Venus Sleeping, a moft perfcft Figure, by Annilal * Caracci ; the Contours and the Colouring excefllvely fine, I Head of Dobfons Father, by Dobfon. St. John, a Head, by Carlo Dolci. Head of Innocent the Tenth, b y Velafco- he was fent by the King of Spain to draw this Pope's Pidure; when the Pope fent his Chamberlain to pay him, he would not re¬ ceive the Money, faying the King his Mailer always paid him with his own Hand : The Pope humour’d him. This Pope was of the Pamphilii Family, was reckoned the ug- liefl Man of his Time, and was rais'd to the Papacy by the Intrigues of his Sifter-in-law Donna Olimpia, a moll beautiful Woman and his Millrefs. f t Jty.l.1 A la Bd» tb Ibllo.taj r.m.rk.bfc Scry „ ,h= „f thl , * Popy H.»d » ns with the Bundle of Sticks, by Salvator Rofa, in his fine Tafte. Six Feet high, by four Feet two and a half wide. The Adoration of the Shepherds, Ocftagon, a raoft perfedl ; and Capital Pidture of Guido , not inferior to the Dodtors: ] fine. It was painted for Stella , and bought of a French Nobleman, in the Beginning of the laft War between Franca and the Emperor Charles VI. who declared he fold it to pay for his Campaign Equipage. Three Feet eleven Inches and a half high, by fix Feet three and a half wide. Ihe Beauty of the Virgin, the Delicacy of her and the J The piecing Chrift in the-Sepulchre, over the Door, by Ludo Child, (which is the lame as in flip Armt in the t? nii.'n c;„ I?..... .1_ t.. _l_1. .• .1. 1 r T-- Child, (which is the fame as in the Simeons Arms in the Salon) the Awe of the Shepherds, and the Chiaro Ofcuro of |> the whole Picture, which is in the fineft Prefervation, all incomparable; you fee the Shepherds ready to cry out Jj one to another, Deus! Deus ille, Menalca 1 There is one vied Caracci. wide. Six Feet three Inches high, by five Feet one are 5 Mojes in the Bulruffies, by Le Sceur ; a Prefent to Lord Or- ford from the Duke of Montague. Seven Feet one high, by four Feet eight and a half wide. Inch of this fame Defign in the Church of the Chartreufe at | The Adoration of the Man by Carlo 'Marat,l l\lnfolat nrrrp nc I i fo* OKI/-,*-. t-1. -.. --- c. • . . - ^ . Naples , large as Life, Oblong, with many more Figures, but unfinifhd: This belong'd to Monfieur de la Vrilliere • Three Feet three Inches and a half every Way. The Continence of Scipio, by Nicolo PouJJin ; painted with all the Purity and Propriety of an ancient Bafs-relief. The Story is told by Livy , Lib. xxvi. Cap. 50. Of which the following is a Tranflation : When thus the virtuous Conful had decreed, A captive Virgin to his Tent they lead : In her each Motion ffiin’d attractive Grace, And Beauties faireft Features form’d her Face. A Celtiberian Prince her deftin’d Spoufe, But, more than Int’reft, Love had bound their Vows, 1 Allucius was his Name. When Scipio heard How fond the Youth, how for his Bride he fear’d ; ; He fummons to his Tribune all her Friends: 1 Allucius in that Number chief attends. To him the Conful mod addrefs’d his Word, ; To him, her anxious Lover and her Lord. 1 “ A Youth myfelfj to thee a Youth I call, ; “ Left diftant Awe thy freer Speech appall. “ When to my Tent this beauteous Maid was brought, \ u When of your mutual Paffion I was taught, ;j “ And foon her Charms confirm’d the Story true * “ (For Scipio' s felf could idolize like you) “ Durft I indulge the Character of Age, * t( And in a youthful, lawful Love engage ; “ Did not the Commonwealth employ me whole, “ And all majeftic Rome poffefs my Soul: “ Oh ! I could love like thee; like thee cou’d pine; 1 cl Like thee cou’d—But, Allucius , fhe is thine I M Inviolate have I preferv’d the Maid ; | “ Not purer in her native Courts fhe flay’d : “ Pure, as becomes a Roman Chief to give ; | “ Pure, as becomes thy Paffion to receive. J “ The foie Return for this fair Boon I afk : “ To live a Friend to Rome be all thy Talk: | “ And if in me fome Virtue you have known, | “ As other Scipio' s in this Realm have ffiown; | tc Think many fuch fpring from her glorious Womb, f “ And learn to love the virtuous Sons of Rome.” t | This Picture belong’d to Monfieur de Morville , and is three | Feet eight Inches and three quarters high, by five Feet | two wide. | Mofes ftriking the Rock ; by Nicolo Pouffm. There is a great ’a Fault in it; Mofes is by no means the principal Figure, ^ nor is he ftriking the Rock angrily, and with a great Air, § but feems rather feraping out the Water: The Thirft in all t the Figures, the Piety in the young Man lifting his Father g to the Stream, and the Devotion in others, are extreamly % He painted another of them in the Church of the Venetian St. Mark at Rome. Six Feet eleven Inches high, by four Feet ; four wide. j Cows and Sheep, by "Teniers , in his beft Manner; one Foot ; eleven Inches high, by two Feet nine wide. ; A Landlcape with a Cafcade and Sheep ; a very fine Picture, : b y Ga/par Pouffm. It was bought at the late Earl of Hali- ; fax's Sale. One Foot eleven Inches high, by two Feet . nine wide. ; The laft Supper, by Raphael. It was in the Arundel Col- Jeflion, and is printed in the Catalogue of thofe Piaures ■ from thence it came into the Pofleffion of the Earl of Yarmouth , and from him to Sir John Holland, of whom Lord Orford bought it. It is in'fine Prefervation. One Foot eight Inches high, by two Feet eight and a half wide. Solomon s Idolatry, by Stella. It is painted on black and gold Marble, which is left untouch’d in many Places for the Ground. There are many Figures finely finiflied, and feveral beautiful Airs of Women’s Heads. One Foot ten Inches high, by two Feet five and a quarter wide. A Sea-port; a fine Pidture of Claude Lorrain. There is a bright Sun playing on the Water, and the whole Shine of the Piflure is in his very beft Manner. It belong’d to Mon¬ fieur Morville. Three Feet one Inch and a quarter high, by four Feet two and a half wide. A calm Sea, ditto. A moft pleafing and agreeable Pidure. There are two Figures on the fore Ground, Apollo and th e Sibyl-, ffie is taking up a handful of Sand, for every Grain of which file was to live a Year. Apollo granted her thi s Boon as the Price of her Perfon, which afterwards ffie re¬ fus’d him. The Promontory is defigned for Cumae, the Refidence of the Sibyl. Among the Buildings are the Ruins of the Cafellum Aquas Marcias, with the Trophies of Marius , which are now placed in the Capitol ; the Remains of the Building itfelf ftand near the Colifasum. Three Feet two Inches and three quarters high, by four Feet one wide. Two Landfcapes by Gafpar Pouffm, in his dark Manner, that at the upper End of the Gallery is fine. Thefe two and the latter Claude were in the Collection of the Marquis di Mari. Mr. Edwin, of whom thefe were purchas’d, had two more; the Prince of Wales bought the fine one of Jonah in the Storm, the only Sea-piece, I believe, of that Hand. Three Feet three Inches and quarter high, by four Feet five and a quarter wide each. The Joconda, a Smith’s * Wife, reckon’d the handfomeft Woman of her Time : She was Miftrefs to Francis I. King * Mezeray calls her La Ferroniere, and fays, her Hufband being enraged at the King’s taking her, caught on purpofe a very violent Diftemper, which he communicated thro’ her to the King, who never recover’d it. The fame Story James II. when Duke of Tori, E told of Lord Southejk and King of [ IO ] of France-, bv Lionardo da Vinci. She would often fit $ King has one larger, and the Queen of Hungary another, half naked, with Mufick, for feveral Hours together, to J printed in Teniers’ s Gallery: There is another in the be drawn by him. Mr. Ricbardlm had another of them, j Altieri Palace at Rome. Two Feet eleven Inches high, by This was Monfieur de Morville's. Turn Feet nine Inches one Foot eleven wide. high, by two Feet and a quarter wide. v- The Virgin and Child, a moll beautiful, bright, and Apollo, by' Cantarini a Cotemporary of Guido , whofe Manner | capital Pidure, by Domimcbino. Bought out of the he imitated. Two Feet liven Inches high, by two Feet J Zambeccari Palace at Bologna, by Horace IValfole, junior, and a quarter wide. t Two Feet fcur Inches high, ty ° nc Foot ele,cn attd a haIf The Holy Family, with Angels, b y Valerio Cajlelli, who flu- y wide. died Vandyke. Two Feet five Inches high, by one Foot % The Salutation, a fine finilhed Pidure, by Albano. The eleven and half wide. I Angels are much the fame with thofe in the great Pidure The Eagle and Ganymede, by Michael Angelo Buonarotti ; a | by this Mailer in the Salon. Two Feet high, by one Foot Subjed he has often repeated, but with Alterations. The % fix Inches and a half wide. F / N I j : I ///.if f’fron£: '