THE 
 
 PLANS, 
 
 Elevations and Sections, 
 
 o F 
 
 HOLKHAM 
 
 , I N 
 
 NORFOLK, 
 
 The SEAT of the late 
 
 EARL of LEICESTER. 
 
 To which are added. 
 
 The CIELINGS and CHIMNEY-PIECES; 
 
 AND ALSO 
 
 A Defcriptive Account of the Statues, Piftures, and Drawings ; 
 
 Not in the former Edition. 
 
 By MATTHEW BRETTINGHAM, Architea. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed by T. Spilsbury, in Cooke's Court, Carey-Strect, near Lincolns Inn ; 
 
 And Sold by B. WHITE, in Fleet-Street, and S. L E A C R O F T, at Cbaring-Crofs, 
 
 MDCCLXXIIL 
 
T O 
 
 The Right Honourable 
 
 MARGARET, 
 
 Countefs Dowager of Leicefter, 
 And Baronefs Clifford. 
 
 P ERMIT me to lay before your Lady (hip, 
 in their prefent enlarged fiate, the Plans, 
 Elevations, and Sections of HOLKH AM. 
 To them indeed your Ladyfhip has fo indif- 
 putable a claim, that it would be the higheft 
 injuftice to withhold a tribute, which your 
 Munificence alone enables me to pay. 
 
 Animated with the zeal of its excellent 
 Founder, your Ladyfhip, by adding the finifhing 
 touches to the Great Work of HOLKHAM, has 
 brought it to the degree of fplendour, in which 
 it now appears, the delight of the prefent age, 
 as it promifes, front the folidity of its conftruction, 
 
 to 
 
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 CO be that of pofterity, while the love of Roman 
 Arts and Magnificence finali continue to dif- 
 tinguifh the taftc and fpirit of a learned and 
 opulent People. 
 
 Your affeéfion for the memory, and zeal for 
 the honour, of the EARL of LEICESTER, are 
 not more conlpicuous in the completion of that 
 noble Edifice, than in the publication of thefe 
 Defigns, which are accurately delineated from it 
 by your command ; linee nothing is now want¬ 
 ing to commemorate, in the moli: pc ricci; man¬ 
 ner, the Tafte, the Elegance, and the refined 
 Erudition, of its illullxious Founder. 
 
 That your Ladyfhip may long live to relied 
 luftre on rank, and to enjoy the reputation which 
 a conduct like yours has merited, is the grateful 
 prayer ofj Madam, 
 
 Your Ladylhip’s 
 
 Obliged, obedient, and 
 Faithful fervant, 
 
 Matthew Brettwgham. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 T HE general ideas of the Plans, Elevations, and Se&ions, of Holkham 
 Hall, in the county of Norfolk, were firft ftruck out by the Earls of 
 Burlington and Leicefter, aflifted by Mr. William Kent, who had been 
 encouraged in his ftudies at Rome by the joint patronage of thofe two 
 Noblemen, at that time making the tour of Italy. 
 
 The Earl of Leicefter, whofe attachment to the Fine Arts is well known, 
 amidft the improvements of Planting and Agriculture, carried on with 
 fuccefs at Holkham, never loft fight of his favorite obje£t, which was the 
 rearing of his Villa, and of the works connected with it. Befides attending 
 to the interior embellilhments of Paintings and Statues, which he had 
 begun to collect during his refidence at Rome, and in which he was 
 
 aided by an extenfive literature,. nnrl intimate fcnr'wlprjrrp of the pitfturefque 
 
 arts acquired in Italy, he continued with uncommon diligence to improve 
 and elucidate the firft (ketches of the plans and elevations concerted with 
 the Earl of Burlington and Mr. Kent ; and in this he was guided by 
 thofe great luminaries of architecture, Palladio and Inigo Jones. 
 
 In the fpace of time which palled from the commencement of the building, 
 to the conclufion of the principal or centre part of this villa, fo many 
 
 alterations indeed took place, that very few traces of the original thoughts 
 
 remained untouched, as will appear in the fubfequent expofition. 
 
 The infide of the Earl and Countefs of Leìcefter’s family wing, which 
 contained their own elegant apartment, was only finifhed from defigns 
 fupplied by Mr. Kent, without undergoing any material change. 
 
 The decorations of the Grand Apartment, and of the other two principal 
 wings, one of which was ultimately perfe&ed and richly furnilhed by the 
 Countefs of Leicefter, and likewife the * Chapel, totally completed by her 
 
 Ladyfliip 
 
 * Part of the great hall, north ftate-bed-chamber apartment, the veftibule under the portico, the chapel, 
 and Grangers (or new wing), the fteward’s evidence-office, the {tables, the north-weft fide of the lawn, and 
 platform before the north front of the houfe, by her Ladylhip’s zeal, and the diligence of the adting truftec, 
 Ralph Cauldwell, Efq. were brought to a final conclufion in the year 1764. 
 
VI 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 Ladyfhip after the Earl’s death, were for the moft part taken from Degodetz’s 
 Antiquities, or from the Defigns of Palladio and Inigo Jones. 
 
 The elevation of the Garden Front, intended originally to have been of 
 ftone work, was in the firft (ketches intirely rufticated, and an Attic or bed¬ 
 chamber dory propofed for the central building, with elliptical windows in 
 the freeze of the entablature to light it, ornamented with Ihield or target 
 work, in the manner of Italian mezzonini; but thefe are omitted. The 
 grand entablature, with its portico to the fouth, of the Corinthian order, 
 was copied from the Pantheon at Rome, as given in Palladio’s book of 
 antiquities. 
 
 The idea of the Great Hall was fuggefted by the Earl himfelf, from the 
 judicious and learned Palladio’s example of a Bafilica, or tribunal of juftice, 
 exhibited in his Defigns for Monfignor Barbara’s tranflation of Vitruvius. 
 The tribunal part, or femi-circular nich at the upper end, contains the flight 
 of Heps leading up to the faloon, or grand anti-camera; that to the 
 right and left, condu&s to the apartments. 
 
 Imagination can fcarcely form an idea more majeftic than that of the 
 great hall, which is one of the nobleft derived to us from the antients 5 
 nor perhaps will any fpace of the fame magnitude admit of a grander 
 difplay of archite&ure. Its ftately range of fluted columns, enriched with 
 purple and white variegated alabafter ; the fplendor of its various ornaments 
 in the deling, in rhe rove, in the loffits of the architrave, and of the 
 colonnades 5 all decorated with admirable propriety from the pureft models 
 of antiquity, jointly produce an effe£t that perfeftly correfponds with our 
 ideas of Vitruvian magnificency. 
 
 The order of columns which forms a Colonnade, or gallery of communication, 
 leading to the apartments on each fide the hall, and which is fupported 
 on a bafement of the fame purple and white alabafter, was taken from 
 the Ionic temple of Fortuna Virilis at Rome, and well executed by the 
 late Mr. Pickford, who alfo performed the greateft part of the inlay, or 
 incrufted work of the bafement. The quadrangular diminilhing mofaics in 
 the cove from the above-mentioned Pantheon, the whole entablature and 
 compartment deling in ftucco, and all the other cielings, cornices, and 
 entablatures, in the numerous apartments of this Villa, were condu&ed, 
 from their commencement, by the ingenious Mr. Thomas Clark, of Weft- 
 minfter -, who, bred in the fchool of Lord Burlington, has with great accuracy 
 followed the antique manner, in the feveral works carried on under his 
 dire&ions at Holkham. 
 
 The Statue Gallery, a capital part of the plan, and the compieteli in this 
 kingdom, for the manner and ftile of finilhing, bears a near analogy to 
 
 that 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 that in the Earl of Burlington’s elegant little villa at Chifwick; confeffedly 
 taken, though with many deviations, from the Marchefe Capri’s, built by 
 Andrea Palladio, near the town of Vicenza. The gallery of Chifwick, 
 which is that of Holkham in miniature, is not indeed to be found in 
 Palladio’s plan juft named ; but its refemblance may be traced in the plans 
 of a town-houfe, conftru&ed by that architect, for the Counts Thieni, 
 within the walls of the fame city. 
 
 Ruftic bafements were at that period much in vogue, and applied to 
 many capital villas, ereéìed fomewhat prior to that of Holkham, in different 
 parts of the kingdom ; as Houghton Hall, in Norfolk, the feat of the 
 Earl of Orford; Wanftead Houfe, in Effex ; and in Yorkftiire, the Marquis 
 of Rockingham’s ; with fome others, all, in that refpedft, imitations of Palladio’s 
 villas in the Venetian territories. The peculiar conveniency of this dif- 
 pofition confifts in having the upper fervants offices, to which the bafement 
 ftory is appropriated, placed under the principal apartments, confequently 
 nearer to the mafter and his company. In large extended country-houfes, 
 where the chief apartment occupies the plan of the ground-floor, to preferve 
 a fuite of rooms unmixed with meaner objects, thefe offices are frequently 
 branched out at confiderable diftances in the neighbouring pavilions : but 
 commodioufnefs was one of the Earl of Leicefter’s leading maxims ; and 
 this fenfible principle is diffufed through every part of the plan, which, 
 though extenfive and numerous in its divilions, is neverthelefs cunftru&ed 
 with beautiful fimplicity, and that fymmetry of difpofition, from whence 
 conveniency uniformly refults : Whether feparately confidered, or in connexion 
 with its wings ; the grand apartment prefents almoft one regular decli¬ 
 nation of rooms, diminiffiing from the centre, which is the largeft and moft 
 dignified part, communicating with facility, and receding gradually to the 
 extreme and leffer apartments fituated in the wings, with which, on the 
 fouth fide, the corridors included, it forms an enfilade of twelve diftin£t 
 fpaces, or rooms, terminated each way by a window; and produces an 
 extent of nearly three hundred and forty four feet. 
 
 The junction of the wings to the main body, or central building, by 
 means of ftrait re&ilinear corridors, which on the fouth fide of the plan are 
 alfo ftair-cafes, is another admirable contrivance ; as they ferve either to 
 unite the principal floors of the Chapel, and of the two capitai wings, 
 with the ftate apartment, or detach it from them at pleafure; communi¬ 
 cating either direéfly with the garden without, or with the fervants offices 
 below on the bafement ftory ; which is one of the chief advantages attending 
 the plan of Holkham. 
 
 Long 
 
Vili 
 
 preface. 
 
 Long extended corridors in a circular form, although they may be 
 allowed" to add grace to an elevation, have this defea in common, that 
 by reafon of their curvature, they do not admit of eafy and direa acceffes to 
 the wings placed at their extremities: they likewife divide the offices too 
 far from" the houfe; which is a fault in the diftribution of a plan, when¬ 
 ever it falls out that the Family apartment is given to one of the wings 
 or pavilions : but this manner of conneaing the feparate corps of buildings by 
 (hort reailinear corridors or galleries, at once obviates thofe mconvemencies, 
 and unites commodioufnefs with elegance. 
 
 The mode of placing the four pavilions diverging from the four extreme 
 angles of the centre building, and conneaed with it by four reailinear 
 corridors, feems to have been borrowed from Palladio’s plan of a villa, 
 defigned for the Cavalier Leonardo Mocenigo upon the Brenta; with this 
 difference, that Palladio's corridors are only reailinear towards the courts; 
 which courts are open at one end, to admit profpeas of the country, limilar 
 to thofe of Holkham ; whereas, on the outward tides, his corridors, referred 
 to, are not only circular and uninclofed, but alfo advance the whole depth 
 of their projeaure beyond the front line of the centre building. 
 
 The preference which the Earl of Leicefter always ffiowed to the works 
 of Palladio, who not only excelled in the praaical knowledge of architeaure, 
 but alfo furpaffed all his rivals in the tafte and elegance of his compofitions 
 for country-houfes, brings to my remembrance a thought which the Earl 
 once entertained of adopting Palladio’s plan of a villa, begun, though not 
 finilhed, at Meledo, a place in the Vicentine, for the brothers Triffini : but 
 this pifiurefque idea, beautiful as it is in the original defign, was alfo laid 
 afide by his Lordfliip, as probably not anfwering the fituation, nor being 
 large enough to admit of offices adequate to the Earl’s family and fortunes. 
 
 The ftone Bridge at the commencement of the lake, the Obelilk, the 
 Temple-building contiguous, the Seat upon the mount, the two Arches which 
 inclofe the pleafure garden, as well as the diftant building called the 
 Triumphal Arch at the entrance of the approach, were all deduced from 
 Iketches of Mr. Kent, with confiderable alterations made in the defigns, 
 long before thefe works were erected ; and alfo with an accuracy in the 
 execution, that diftinguiffies the various edifices of Holkham. 
 
 The care of proportioning the parts at large, and the detail of each member 
 of the buildings in particular, was committed by the Earl of Leicefter to the 
 fuperintendance of his own architect, the late Mr. Matthew Brettingham, of 
 Norwich, the firft publiffier of fome part of this work, who in the knowledge 
 of found building, as laid down in the fchool of Vitruvius, was allowed to 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 equal, if not excel, all the profeffors of his time ; and, in fact, the charactcriftic 
 merit of Holkham is molt difcernable in the accurate performance of its work- 
 manlhip. 
 
 It is worthy of remark, that the obelisk, a pillar of eighty feet high, meafured 
 from the bafe line to the extremity of its point, is only cafed with Bath-ftone 
 alhler, fattened together with iron cramps, and, as the work advanced, filled up 
 with regular courfes of brick-work laid dry, and cemented with grout or liquid 
 mortar. The difficulty confided in preventing the fettlement of the inner nucleus, 
 or brick core, from the outfide courfes of done alhler ; which this method 
 effeaually removed. Inigo Jones was the firft that introduced the diamond or 
 flat point ; but the Architea of Holkham has followed the rules of antiquity, and 
 given its termination an equilateral triangle; of which alteration Lord Burlington 
 afterwards approved. This obelisk, the firft work ereaed at Holkham, was 
 completed in the year 172.9- 
 
 The Portico of the Temple, all except the crefts and cyphers in the freeze. 
 Was taken from an example of the Doric order, exhibited in the Parallele 
 de l’Architeaure, which the author, M. de Chambray, gives as a defign of that 
 excellent Italian artid Pirro Ligorio, from an antient fragment found at Albano 
 near Rome. The projeaion of the cornice is very large, more than equal to its 
 height ; and Lord Burlington, who faw it foon after its completion, pronounced 
 it to be the bed-executed piece of work he had feen performed in his time. 
 
 In the grand apartment the defigns of the principal Chimney-pieces, done in 
 various Italian marbles by the Ut* PVkfnrd and Carter, were for the 
 
 mod part copied from Inigo Jones’s works : and thefe, with the Explanations 
 that will be given to each Plate, are fufficient to ihow in what manner the Earl 
 of Leicefter conduaed his building operations. 
 
 It may not be deemed improper, to add fome account of the Conftruaive 
 part, and of the Materials employed in building this admired Villa ; in which the 
 conceptions of fo many eminent Virtuofi as well ancient as modern are affembled, 
 and which was defervedly the delight of its Noble Founder ; who, during a period 
 of not lefs than thirty years, co-operated not only in the choice and appro¬ 
 priation of every member and ornament, before any part was given out to the 
 workmen for execution ; but alfo with a diligent and learned judgment affifted 
 in conduaing each thought, to what the Italians ftyle its Ideata Perfezzione. 
 
 Vitruvius, & the father of architeaure, informs us that brick edifices were held 
 in higher eft’imation, by the old Romans, than even thofe of marble, for dura¬ 
 bility and firmnefs ; and it is certain at this day, that the fragmented bricks of 
 ancient ruinated edifices are preferred by the modern Roman builders for rough 
 walling, and for fagades of houfes intended to be ftuccoed over. Whether we 
 have any brick earth of fo durable a quality, is difficult to afcertain* Theirs was 
 
 undoubtedly 
 
 * The old Roman bricks were lefs than two of our inches in thicknefs, and perfeftly well burnt; to which they 
 owed much of their duration. 
 
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 undoubtedly the fame fort of clay now ufed by the Roman fculptors for modelling, 
 and by their potters for vafes and culinary veflels, compatì:, tenacious, and when 
 burnt, if call: in moulds, a little polilhed. The Holkham bricks referable the 
 modem yellow brick of the Romans, both in colour and hardnefs : this iimilarity 
 was dilcovered by comparing them with one accidentally fent from Rome in the 
 packing-cafe of an antique ftatue. 
 
 Bath ftone, in deference to its fine yellow tintì, was firft fixed on for the 
 external furface of the intended ftrutìure ; but a brick earth was found out in 
 one of the neighbouring villages of Birnham, which, with proper feafoning 
 and tempering, produced an excellent well-ihaped brick, approaching nearly 
 to the colour of Bath Hone, full as ponderous, and of a much firmer texture. 
 
 Of this earth bricks were formed for the outfide walls, and likewife, by means of 
 various * moulds, for the rallies of the bafement ftory : fome lhaped the Bird’s- 
 mouth, or ruftic joint ; others, the window arches ; fome the headers, and fome 
 the ftretchers ; and not lefs than thirty different fizes were required to complete 
 the figure of one fingle ruftic. 
 
 The like diligence was tiled in preparing the mortar for the walls, which, being ? 
 firft mixed in due proportions of lime and fand, was afterwards (to render it 
 of fufficient finenefs for dole brick-work) ground between a pair of large rnill- 
 ftones, fitted to an engine for that purpofe. 
 
 All the inner joints of the walls were carefully filled with this mortar, made up 
 into grout, and poured, in a liquid fiate, upon every courfe, or every two 
 courfes, of the brick-work. The gnnri of this method the architetì had 
 
 obferved in the rubble flint-ftone walling of Gothic ftrutìures, where the mortar 
 though compofed only of foft chalk-lime, mixed with drifted fand, taken out of 
 rivulets, is found to have acquired a degree of hardnefs equal to many natural 
 petnfications. He alfo took care, that no part of the principal walls fhould be 
 fuppòrted upon timber or wood-work, left in decaying it might damage the 
 fabric. What was requif.te to connetì the parts of the building together, is fo 
 fituated, as to be of no further ufe, after the brick-work had acquired a perfetì 
 fettlement. So little indeed does the ftrength of this edifice depend upon the 
 affidante of its timbers, that the girders of the principal floors were not hoifted 
 into their refpetìive fituations till after the roof had been raifed to the building 
 and the walls of the houfe fully perfetìed. To difeharge the weight of brick-work’ 
 and to render the fabric in every part equally folid and permanent, over doors’ 
 windows, niches and chimney-openings, arches and counter-arches were con- 
 ftrutìed, and every precaution employed, that judgment and a perfetì knowledge 
 of mechanifm could fuggeft. 
 
 * Thu was done avoid catting the bricks, which caafes a difolouratiot. of thei, 
 
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 EXPLANATION. 
 
 PLATE I. 
 
 T H E Centre part of this extenfive Villa contains the Principal or Grand Apartment, fituated 
 in the middle of four confiderable Wings, or Pavilions, that are joined to it by Galleries, 
 or Rectilinear Corridors. 
 
 Under the Bafement Story are the Cellars ; and there is alfoa Furnace beneath the Floor of the Hall, 
 for the conveniency of warming it ; which it does by means of Brick Flues, that have their Funnels for 
 the conveyance of Smoke carried up in the lateral Walls. 
 
 Each Wing has its refpe&ive deftination : one is allotted to the ufes of the Kitchen and its Offices ; 
 to which is adjoined a Court for its leffer or inferior Appendages. 
 
 The lower part of another Wing is given to the Dairy, the Wafh-Houfe, and the Landry ; which 
 latter has likewife its contiguous Court or Drying-Yard : and thefe Courts, although they contain a 
 number of fmaller Buildings, commodioufly fituated near thofe Offices to which they belong, are 
 neverthelefs fo happily concealed from outward obfervation, that their boundary Walls (which rife.no 
 higher than to the Plinth of the Bafement Story) are fcarcely perceived on either fide of the Principal 
 Fronts. 
 
 At oppofite Angles on the Weftern Quarter, more advantageoufly placed to command Views of the 
 Lake, the Lawn, and the Garden, are fituated the two other Pavilions, which are the Principal. One 
 of thefe contains a complete Family Apartment, for the Mafter, the Lady, and thofe Servants whofe 
 attendance near them is more immediately required : an Anti-Room of 18 feet fquare, two DrefT- 
 ing-Rooms, 24 by 18; a Library, 18 by 54; a Bed-Chamber, Clofet, and two Stair-Cafes; compofe 
 this very elegant, and well-judged Apartment. In the Ruftic Bafement below (which is the Ground 
 Floor) are Rooms for the Valet de Chambre, the Lady’s Woman, a Secretary’s Office, a neat Eating- 
 Room 24 by 18, called the Ruftic Parlour, a Room for Bathing, an Anti-Room, one Foot-Man’s, 
 and one Houfe-Maid’s Room ; befide an Attic Story in the centre part of the Wing ; which confifts 
 of a Bed-Chamber, Dreffing-Room, two Clofets, and one Servant’s Bed-Room : In the Under-ground 
 Story is a Vault for the Engine that conveys Water to a Lead Ciftern placed on the lower Roof of the 
 Pavilion, for the ufes of the Bath and Water Clofets. This Story is intirely arched over with 
 Brick Work. 
 
 The Plan of the fourth Pavijion is wholly calculated to accommodate the Friends of the Mafter, 
 and is therefore denominated the Strangers Wing. To anfwer this intention, it is divided upon the 
 Ground Floor into fingle Bed-Chambers ; and above, on the principal Story, where it communicates 
 with the Grand Apartment, (which it does at the North End of the Statue Gallery) it is again 
 divided into Bed-Chambers, fingle or double Dreffing-Rooms, as may occafionally be moft requifite. * 
 This Wing has alfo an Attic fimilar to that before defcribed, with its Engine for railing, and Ciftern 
 for a fupply of Water to the Clofets, which are commodioufly difpofed to ferve the Apartments. 
 
 B Separated 
 
 * All the Apartments of this Wing 
 
 fitted up by the diredtion of the Countefs of Leicefter. 
 
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 A N A T I O 
 
 ... „ m .V. Mafar ' s Pavilion, is the Land-Steward’s Lodge, or Evidence- 
 
 Separated at a proper diftanc Garden is decorated with a Tufcan Portico 
 
 Room, for himfelf and Ins flomTnigo Jones’s of Oovent-Garden Church : and this 
 
 offonr Columns copied, ^ ^ JJ contigllous (for railing Water to fnpply the 
 
 "“ ’ S ’ d W Ktctn Offices, ffie n e : Stables, and Stable Appendixes, f.tuated on the farther fide of 
 theYake, comprehend all the detached Offices that belong to this capacious and elegant i a. 
 
 grand apartment. 
 
 HALL 46 by 70, and 43 Feet high; 
 
 Its fluted Alabafler Columns, of the Ionic Order, were taken from Degodeta’s Meafures of the. 
 Temple of Fortuna Virilis at Rome ; the Ornaments of the Cove, from the Pantheon of Agr.ppa; and 
 the Cieling, from Inigo Jones. 
 
 STATUES in the Niches of the Colonnade. 
 
 Antinous, of the Capitol ; a Plafter Caft. 
 
 Santa Sufanna, of Fiamingo ; a ditto. or .„ 
 
 Flora, or the Emprefs Sabina, in that Chafer; a Caft from a moft beautiful antique Drapery 
 
 Figure, found in the Villa Adriana, preferved in the Capitol. 
 
 Bacchus, of the Villa Medici; a rare Caft. 
 
 Venus de Belle Feffe, Pal. Farnefe; ditto. _ 
 
 Julia Mammea, In Trevatioe Stone ; an Antique, bought by the Earl of Leicefter at Rome. 
 
 Faun with the Nacchare, in Marble ; Antique. 
 
 Antique Faun, in Marble ; bought of the late Mr. Pond by M. B. 
 
 Septimius Severus, in Marble ; an Antique, bought by M. B. 
 
 Jfls, or Prieftefs of Ifis ; a Caft from .the Statue in the Capitol. 
 
 Apollo, from „n ;» .be Soir-C.t of Cardinal Alexander Albani’s Palace at Rome ; reftored 
 
 by Carlos Monaldi, of whom this Caft was purchafed by M. B. 
 
 The Hexagonal Mollies, in the head of the great Nich leading to the Saloon, were copied from 
 Degodetz’s defigns of the Temple of Peace, given in his Book of Roman Antiquities. 
 
 SALOON 28 Feet by 40, and 32 Feet high. 
 
 The whole Entablature, which is of the Compofite Order, is takeu from Palladio’s Proportions ; 
 the Foliage in the Freeze, and Odagon Mofaics in the Cove of the Cieling, from Degodetz. 
 
 The Hangings of this Room are of Crimfon Caffoy. 
 
 Two Sicilian Marble Column Chimney-Pieces, with Bas Reliefs in the Tablets of the Freezes ; by 
 the late Mr. Thomas Carter. 
 
 Over the Centre Door is a large Antique Marble Bullo of Juno, bought at Rome by M. B. 
 
 PICTURES in the Saloon. 
 
 Continence of Scipio Africanns ; a large Hiftorical compofition with many Figures, painted for the 
 Earl of Leicefter, when at Rome, by Giufeppe Chiari. The Earl, then a Youth, is introduced in the 
 Chara&er of Allucius. 
 
 Over the Chimney-Piece adjoining is a Pifture of Tarquin and Lucretia, by Procacini. 
 
 Its Companion, above the other Chimney-Piece, is the Story of Perfeus delivering Andromeda from 
 the Sea-Monfter ; by Giufeppe Chiari. 
 
 At the other end of the Saloon is a large Pitture, that fills up the intire fpace between the two Doors, 
 by Pietro Cortona. The Subjett of this Painting is Coriolanus in the Camp of the Volfci, where 
 he receives the Deputies from the Senate, which he does in a menacing attitude. The Painter has 
 
 united 
 
PLATE 
 
 I. 
 
 3 
 
 united into one piece the two Ambaffies, that of the Roman Piiefts, and that of Coriolanus’s Mother 
 and his Family ; though thefe deputations fell out, according to Livy, at two different periods of time. 
 
 T wo Female Portraits over the Doors : one is playing on a Harpfichord ; the other, with a Mallet 
 in her Hand, is faid to be of Carlo Maratt’s Miftrefs ; painted by Carlo Maratt. 
 
 Over the other fide Doors are two well-coloured half-length Figures, reprefenting Summer and 
 Winter; by Agoftino Sylla, a Dilciple of Andrea Sacelli. 
 
 There are two fine Antique Mofaic Tables ffi this Room, found in the Villa Adriana, near Tivoli, 
 and purchafed of Cardinal Furietti by M. B. 
 
 D R A W I N G-R O O M, 30 by 22, and 22 Feet in Height. 
 
 This Cieling is from Inigo Jones ; and the Handing Griffins in the Freeze of the Entablature, out of 
 Degodetz. 
 
 Statuary Marble Chimney-Piece ; Inigo Jones, by Pickford. 
 
 Two Marble Buftoes upon the Cornice of the Chimney-Piece : one is of the Emperor Caracalla, 
 the other of Marcus Aurelius ; 'both Copies after the Antique. 1 
 
 The Pi&ure over the Chimney is the Madonna in Gloria, Handing upon a Globe furrounded with 
 Angels ; an Original, by Pietro de Pietri, Scholar of Carlo Maratt : the Colouring is much in the 
 Style of that Mafler’s : it was purchafed of Agoflino Mafucci by M. B. 
 
 Two large Bird-Pieces, emblematical Reprelentations of King William’s Wars ; by Hendicooter. 
 
 A fine large Landfcape of Claude Lorrain ; a bright Sun-fhine : the Subjeét of it is Apollo flaying 
 Marfias : bought by the Earl at Rome. 
 
 A Storm, its Companion ; a noble Pidture by Nicolo Pouffin ; bought at the Earl of Chol- 
 mondley’s Sale. 
 
 Portrait of the Duke of Aremberg on Horfeback ; figures as large as Life ; a moH capital Pidture 
 by Vandyke : the back Ground (Troops marching to the Siege of a Town) is very fine. This noble 
 Pidture is faid to have formerly belonged cbc Duke of Bave 
 
 Jofeph and Potiphar’s Wife ; purchafed for the Earl, of the Marchefe Arnaldi at Florence, by Mr. 
 Gavin Hamilton; a moH capital Painting by Carlo Cigniani. There is a Print after it by 
 Giacomo Frey. 
 
 Four Plafter Cafls of Pleads from the Antique, over Doors ; Faufiina, Pythagoras, Zeno, and 
 Carneades. Above them are four Landfcapes by Horizonti. 
 
 A magnificent Pier-Glafs, the Frame by Whittle ; under which Hands an exquifite Table of Ala- 
 baHro Palombaro, bought at Rome by M. B. 
 
 VESTIBULE to the Statue-Gallery. 
 
 An Odtagon of 21 Feet Diameter, and 32 Feet high. 
 
 This Veftibule is fitted up with four Library Book- Cafes, in large Niches, that contain a finali 
 colledtion of Books, for the ufe of Company. Above the Doors and Book-Cafes are placed fix 
 Antique Marble BuHoes ; viz. of Adrian, Julia Mammea, Julia of Titus, Marcus Aurelius, Gallienus, 
 and Geta. The Entablature is of Palladio’s Corinthian Order. 
 
 STATUE-GALLERY, 
 
 Including its two large end Niches, is in Length 60 Feet, 21 wide, and 23 in Height. 
 
 The Cieling is plain, with only a Tingle Cornice under it, which is Palladio's Corinthian,, but more 
 enriched. Veined and Statuary Marble Chimney-Piece, and Siena Tablet, from Inigo Jones, 
 executed by Pickford. The Heads of the Niches at each end of the Gallery are decorated 
 with the Lozenge Mofaic, taken from the Temple of the Sun and Moon out of Degodetz, and 
 richly gilt. 
 
 Antique 
 
4 
 
 EXPLANATION. 
 
 Antique STATUES and B U S T O E S in the Gallery. 
 
 Two young Fauns, {landing erea with one Leg acrofs the other, playing on Fiftulas; of Parian 
 Marble : their attitudes are the fame as that in the Villa Borghefe, to which in Charaaer and Work¬ 
 manship they are very little inferior : one was purchafed of Cardinal Alexander Albani, the other of 
 Cavaceppi the Sculptor, (who reftored them both) by M. B. 
 
 On a Confole near the Window, a fine Bull of the Elder Brutus ; Antique, purchafed by M. B. 
 
 Seneca, its Companion; a Bull in Trevatine Stone, remarkable for theftrong marks of Age in the 
 Face, for its Likenefs to his other Buftoes, and for its fine Prefervation. M. B. 
 
 A Statue of Neptune, in Parian Marble, and well preferved. Statues of that Deity are very rare : 
 this was purchafed of Carlo Monaldi, (who reftored the two Arms and the Trident) by M. B. 
 
 A Statue of the God Faunus, in Parian Marble ; a very intire and capital Antique Figure : the 
 two Hands, and part of the Lituus which he holds, are the only additions made to it ; and they are the 
 Work of Cavaceppi : he is crowned with Pampini. There were two kinds of the Parian Marble ufed 
 by the Antients ; one of a fine, the other of a larger Grain : this is of the latter fort, called by the 
 Romans, Marmo Salino, from its fparkiing particles refembling Sak. This Figure was dug up in 
 the Campagna of Rome, and firft purchafed by Cardinal Albani, from whom it was bought foon 
 after, in the condition in which it was found, encrufted over with the Tartar of the Earth, by M. B. 
 
 A Statue of Meleager, in Parian Marble : the left Arm, Legs, and Boar s Head, were added by 
 Cavaceppi. This feems to be of Roman Sculpture : the Proportions are very fuitable to the Character. 
 
 A Statue of the Pythian Apollo Hands in a Nich over the Chimney, of Greek Workmanfhip : the 
 Tripod on which he leans is Antique : purchafed by the Earl in Italy. 
 
 A Head of Cybelc, in the open Pediment of the Chimney-Frame, is an excellent one : the Style is 
 Grecian, and intirely Antique. 
 
 A Statue of Venus, in thin Drapery, almoft intirely Antique : her left Hand, in which Ihe holds a 
 Vafe, is the only part that is Modern. This Statue, and its Companion the Meleager, were bought 
 of Belifario Amedei, the Merchant, in Piazza Navona. It was reftored by Cavaceppi. M. B. 
 
 In a larger Nidi contiguous, that makes a centre between the Chimney-Piece and that end of the 
 Gallery, Hands the celebrated Figure of Diana, purchafed and fent out of Rome by the Earl of Leicefter ; 
 for which Offence his Lordfhip (known at that time by the Name of the Cavalier Coke) was put 
 under Arreft, but releafed foon after at the Inftances of the Grand Duke of Tufcany. This Statue, 
 one of the moft excellent amongft the Drapery Figures of the Antients, and perhaps the moft beauti¬ 
 ful reprefentation of that Goddefs any where to be met with, is, for the conveniency of removing it, 
 compofed of two pieces of Parian Marble : the upper piece is fitted to the lower, under the folds of her 
 Garment, above the Cin&ure, which effedually conceals the Joint: her right Arm is raifed, and the Hand 
 bent backward, in the Attitude of reaching an Arrow from her Quiver, which hangs on the fame 
 Shoulder ; while the other Hand holds the Bow : the left Foot advances, and the right falls gracefully 
 back, to preferve the Equilibrium of the * Figure : by this movement the Limbs are gently contrafted. 
 The Cavalier Camillo Rufconi, an eminent Sculptor of great Merit, whofe Fame is well known in 
 Italy, added the Head and fome of the Fingers, which are the only parts of it that are Modern. 
 
 The next is a genteel young Figure of a Bacchus, bought by M. B. of Cavaceppi, who reftored 
 the right Hand and left Arm : all the reft is intirely Antique, and in good Prefervation. 
 
 Metredorus, the Philofopher and Scholar of Epicurus, upon a Confolc near the Angle : this is a 
 rare Bufto, and diftinguilhable as well for its fine Sculpture, as for its extraordinary Beauty of Pre¬ 
 fervation. M, B. 
 
 Within 
 
 * Mr. Spence, in his Polymetis, makes it appear, by a paflage which he quotes from Cicero, that this Statue of Diana was formerly in 
 the poffeffion of that admirable Roman Orator and Statcfman. 
 
PLATE 
 
 I. 
 
 5 
 
 Within the fmaller Niches of the femi-circular Recefs at the upper end of the Gallery, are placed 
 the Statues of Minerva and Ceres, of a leder Size; both of excellent Workmanfhip: the Head, Breaft- 
 Plate, and Toga of the Minerva, are perfect ; fo is likewife the Head of the Ceres, crowned with 
 Wheat Ears and Poppies; and alfo the Upper Part of the Cornucopia, one of the charafteriftic 
 Marks of that Deity. Thefe, obtained of Cardinal Albani by M. B.- were reftored by Cavaceppi. 
 
 The Buft of Cornelius Sylla, the famous Dictator, is the laft in the Gallery, faid to be the only one 
 of him any where remaining. For the Age in which he flourilhed, the Style of the Sculpture is very 
 excellent ; and though the Bullo Part has been fra&ured in many Places, it is plain the Pieces are all 
 its own. It was purchafed by M. B. 
 
 Under the Window Piers of the Gallery, are two very beautiful Tables of Alabaftro Peccorella, 
 bought of Cavaceppi by M. B. 
 
 S T A T U E S and BUSTS in the Tribune of the Gallery. 
 
 Turning to the left Hand, the firft that prefents itfelf, is a large Statue of Lucius Verus, in a 
 Con fui ar Habit, which is very intire, and alfo a good Likenefs of that Emperor, fo well known by 
 his Medals. This antique Statue was purchafed at Rome, for the Earl, by Mr. Kent. 
 
 The Statue of Juno is next to it, of a Size nearly Coloffal : the Head, Torfo, and Legs, are 
 Antique, and in a very high Style of Sculpture: her Drapery, which is held up by her Arm, and 
 difpofed in large flowing Folds, not commonly to be met. within the Antique, adds much to the 
 Majefty of the Goddefs. The late Mr. Roubiliac, who was at Holkham in the time of the 
 Earl, preferred this Statue to any in the Gallery. It was a Fragment belonging to Cardinal 
 Albani, reftored by Cavaceppi, and purchafed by M. B. 
 
 Agrippina, the Wife of Germanicus, an Imperial Figure in the Character of Ceres. She has the 
 Diadem on her Head, which is Antique ; fo is the whole Figure, except the Arms and Hands, and 
 fome few Plaits of her Drapery, reftored by Cavaceppi. In Rome there are many Imperial Statues of 
 a large Size, fuch as the Sabine Matrons in the Loggia ot the Villa Medici, the Livia Mattei, and 
 others, but none fuperior to this in Excellency of Sculpture. It was bought for the Earl, as a Com¬ 
 panion to the Juno, by M. B. of Belefario Amedei, who procured it from the Villa Ginetti, at 
 Veletri, in the Roman Territory. 
 
 The fourth and laft Statue in the Tribune, is an admirable one of Lucius Antonius the Orator, 
 and Brother of Marc Antony ; a very capital Antique Figure bought at Rome by the Earl of Leicefter : 
 the Arms and Head are finely added by the celebrated Cavalier Bernini. 
 
 Over the Doors are two Antique Buftos, one of the elder Emprefs Fauftina ; the other, of the 
 Emperor Philip ; purchafed by M. B. 
 
 The whole Length of the Gallery, including its Veftibule and Tribune, is 105 feet. 
 
 GREAT DINING-ROOM. 
 
 A Square of 27 Feet, exclufive of its Side-Board Nich, which is 9 Feet by 10 in the Clear of the 
 
 Opening. 
 
 The Cieling of this magnificent Room was for the moil part taken from Inigo Jones; its Dome 
 14 Feet Diameter, and 8 Feet perpendicular Height. 
 
 Two-Chimney Pieces of a fimilar Defign, diverfified in the Devices of their Tablets, are placed 
 on oppofite Sides of the Room : thefe are compofed of Sicilian Jafper Truffes and Statuary Marble 
 mixed, executed by Mr. Carter, who alfo did the Foliage Scrolls in the open Pilallers of the Arch- 
 Way leading to the Side-Board, carved in Lime-Tree Wood : the Side-Board Table, Frame, and Legs 
 (Fragments of an antient Sarcophagus), enriched with gilt Metal Ornaments, are of Porphyry ; and 
 the Table Slab, of real Egyptian Green Marble, in which the Albedos is faid to be produced. Beneath 
 
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6 EXPLANATION. 
 
 it ftands a large Bafon of Mount-Edgcumbe Red Granite : the Block was a Prefent from Lord 
 Edgcumbe. 
 
 On the Side of the Room to the great Nich, are two Antique Heads fet upon Modern Buftoes of 
 African coloured Marble, and placed on Confoles : one is of Geta, the other of Marcus Aurelius. 
 
 Two large Antique Heads (probably of Statues) in Elliptical Niches above the Chimney-Pieces. 
 That of the Juno, for Character, Workmanship, and Prefervation, is very capital : its Companion, 
 Lucius Verus, was found in cleaning the Port of Nettuno. They were purchafed by M. B. 
 
 The Mofaics in the Head of the Side-Board Nich, ornamented with Rofes, and richly gilt in Leaf- 
 Gold, were copied from Degodetz. 
 
 STATE BE D-C HAMBER APARTMENT. 
 
 The firft Room, reckoning from the Saloon, is the State Anti-Chamber, which in its Dimenfions is 
 nearly fimilar to the Drawing-Room already defcribed : the Cieling of it is one of Inigo Jones’s 
 Deligns, ornamented in the Soffits of the Beams with Vine- Branches, Leaves, and Bunches of Grapes. 
 The Hangings are Crimfon flowered Genoa Velvet. 
 
 Between the Doors, on the Side towards the Saloon, is a large capital Pitture reprefenting the 
 Flight of the Virgin and St. Jofeph into Egypt, by Rubens. The Figures are as big as the Life. The 
 Plead of the St. Jofeph is equal to any thing of that Matter : the Figure of the Young Chrift ; 
 the Drapery of the Virgin, which is red ; and the pitturefque Head of the Afs (that makes a part of 
 the centre Group) are all painted with admirable Force, and Brilliancy of Colouring. There is one at 
 Blenheim, in every refpett like this, excepting that the Colour of the Virgin’s Drapery is Blue inflead 
 of Red, by the fame Matter. 
 
 A naked Venus, and a Man playing on a Guitar : fhe has a Flute in her Hand ; a Violin ftands 
 by her ; Cupid is crowning her with Flowers. This Picture was bought out of Prince Pio’s Collettion 
 at Rome, and is faid to be by Titian. 
 
 A Landfcape underneath ; the Compofition noble j a Storm, with Gleams of Lightning ffrikino- 
 upon a Tower ; by Nicolo Pouffin. 
 
 Over the Chimney there is a well-compofed Pitture of the Reconciliation between Jacob and Efau 
 from the Barberini Collettion, by Pietro Cortona. M. B. 
 
 Lot and his two Daughters, fmall Life : this is a Sketch of Dominichino’s Painting: the Ap¬ 
 pearance of Inebriety in the Countenance, and of Age in the Limbs and Body of the Lot, are finely 
 delineated. There is a Print after it, by Giacomo Frey. 
 
 Under the foregoing is a Landfcape, Companion to the Storm ; Figures repofing on a Bank ; by 
 Nicolo Pouffin. 
 
 Jofeph and his Miftrefs; the Figures as large as Life: this is in Guido's firft Manner, when he 
 imitated the Colouring of his Fellow Student Guercino : the Folds of the Drapery, which are remark¬ 
 able for their fine Tafte; the Attitudes of the Figures, and the Airs of the Heads, neverthelefs are 
 conceived in his own inimitable Gufto. This Pitture was held in great Eftimation, when it made part 
 of the Coftaguti Collettion, from whence it was purchafed for the Earl, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton. 
 
 Over the four Doors are the Portraits of Sir Lionel Talmarffi, and of the Poet Waller, by Sir 
 Peter Lely ; of a Pope, by Pomeranico ; and of a Venetian Lady, by Titian. 
 
 The Chimney-Piece is an Idea of Inigo Jones’s : on its Cornice are placed two Marble Buftoes ; 
 one is of the Veftal Virgin ; the other, of the younger Emprefs Fauftina ; both copied from the 
 Antique. 
 
 STATE DRESSING-ROOM. 
 
 A Cube of 21 Feet. 
 
 The Chimney-Piece and Cieling are both of Inigo Jones: The Hangings are Crimfon Genoa 
 Damalk. 
 
 This 
 
EXPLANATION. 
 
 7 
 
 This Room, which is magnificently lighted by one of the large Venetian Windows in the South 
 Front, contains a Colleflion of choice Landfcapes, by the greateft Matters ; particularly of Claude 
 Lorrain’s, who was the favorite Painter of the Earl of Leicefter. 
 
 The firft over the Chimney is an upright one of this Matter ; three Female Figures, feemingly on 
 the Terras of a Garden, fenced in with a Baluftrade, from whence the View was probably taken : a 
 Group of large Italian Pines forms the principal Mafs on the forePart of the Pidure; the diftant 
 Country is the Campagna of Rome, terminated by Mount Sorade, and the Sabine Hills. 
 
 Above it hangs a fmall Hiftorical Pidure, and the only one in the Room that is fo, of St. John 
 the Baptift preaching ; by Luca Giordano. 
 
 On each Side of it is a Landfcape, by Horizonte. 
 
 Below them, over the Side Doors, are two well-.preferved ones, by Gafpar Poullin. 
 
 The famous Landfcape of Dominichino, formerly in the Barberini Palace, is over the Door next 
 the Anti-Room. The Story of this Piece is Abraham preparing to facrifice his Son Ifaac : a Servant 
 loads the Afs, whilft the Patriarch is reprefented laying a Faggot of Sticks on the Neck of the 
 intended Vidim : a Pidurefque Mafs of Marble Rocks, crowned with Shrubs growing out of the 
 Clefts, form a back Ground to the principal Figures ; and the Diftance is clofed with an Italian Blue 
 Mountain. The fine Defign of the Figures, and the beautiful Style of the Landfcape (that was 
 taken from the Banks of the Tiber, near Ponte Molle) ; the extreme Rarity of Dominichino’s 
 Works in this kind, who, with Guercino and fome others of the Carracci’s School, derived an excellent 
 Gufto of Landfcape from their Matter Annibai ; are Charms to the Adepts in Painting, that have 
 rendered this Pidure one of the moft celebrated of the Matter. It was bought by M. B. 
 
 Over it is a fine'Salvator Rofa. 
 
 The Pendents that hang on each Side the Salvator Rofa, by Lucatelli, are much fiiperior to the 
 Horizontes in the fame Room. 
 
 On the Window Side of the Dominichino is a very fine Landfcape of Francefco Bologrefe : 
 the Subjed is St. John baptizing our Saviour. 
 
 Its Companion is a capital Landfcape of Gafpar Pouffin. This Compofition is diftinguiflied by a 
 Group of Ruins, raifed on an Eminence near the Centre of the Pidure. In the lower Tier are two 
 Pendents by the fame Matter, one on each Side the Door : they are beautifully compofed, and in 
 admirable Prefervation. 
 
 On the other Side of the Room, next the Corridor, the firft over the Door is a bright agreeable 
 Landfcape, Figures and Cattle, by Claude Lorrain. 
 
 Above it is a larger one by Claude : the Story, out of Taffo, is Ermenia in Difcourfe with the old 
 Man and his two Sons ; the is leading her White Palfrey. 
 
 The Pendents in the fame Tier, one a Sea-Piece, the other a Landfcape, diftinguiflied by their 
 bright Tone of Colouring, are the Produdions of Monf. Vernèt’s Pencil. They were bought of 
 Signor Amerani, the Pope’s Mcdalift, by M. B. 
 
 The Pair of Landfcapes below the Vernèts, purchafed by the Earl, of Mrs. Edwin, are both by 
 the Hand of Claude Lorrain : That which reprefents the Sun rifing behind a Cloud, refleded in a large 
 Extent of Sea, is particularly fine : the ftupendous pierced Rock, through which is feen a continued 
 Chain of Caverns ftretching along the Sea Shore, gives the Compofition a romantic Air ; which 
 Idea is heightened by the Grey Colouring of the Morn, tinging all its Objeds : the Winged Horfe ; the 
 Nymphs frighted at the Head, fuppofed to be of Medufa ; the Scene by the Sea Side, added to the 
 Information of the Cupids, all point out the principal Figure to be Perleus entering upon his Expe¬ 
 dition for the Deliverance of Andromeda. 
 
 Its Companion is a fetting Sun ; in which Reprefentation Claude is allowed to have excelled all 
 other Painters : the Mais of glowing Rocks, the Sibyls’ Temple, and the Calcade under the Arch- 
 Way, that conftitute the principal Group in the Pidure, Ihow thofe parts of the Compofition to have 
 
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 planted on a Rock, to watch the Metamotphofe areb othby thefame Mailer : Apollo, 
 
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 m his exiled State, attcn g j : „. the Lyre on the Ground near 
 
 Anachronifm that Claude feemed to ave cen aw Mercury is reprefented driving off 
 
 the Deity : whilft Apollo amufes htm.e ^ ^ ^ of Buildings, which are placed near the 
 
 part of the Herd, over a njp gmup ^ ^ ^ Town . Such pianrefqne Villages, built 
 
 ^Te Sun, mits’of Rocks, are very common in Italy; from one of which Claude took the Idea 
 luth with an improved and more beautiful Grouping. A Clump of dark-green Ilexes mixed 
 wiAthe yellow Foliage of Autumn, forms the principal Group of Trees on the Fore Ground, whrch 
 Toppofed to a Cute of Italian Pines on the other Side; and his favorrte Mount Soraae comes ,n 
 
 Vipvnndthe River, to terminate the Diftance. , 
 
 Its Companion is a Sea View, not much unlike the Bay of Naples feen from the Port : upon he 
 ’ F e Ground is a Figure fitting, probably Claude himfelf, in the Attitude of drawing from the Rums 
 J[ n antient Portico: beyond a Veffel (hored up, as if for the purpofe of careen,ng are drfeovered 
 the large Remains of an Amphitheatre ; and a Group of yellow and dark caved Trees jud.cmufly 
 detaches thefe different Maffes of Buildings : the reft of the Mure confi*, of an open Sea Profpedf 
 bounded with diftant Mauds. Thefe two beautiful Piflures of Claude, that have hrtherto efcaped 
 the Injuries of Time with unfaded Luftre, hung in Cardinal Alexander Albani s Bed-Chamber, an 
 
 were purchafed of his Eminence, in the Year 1750, by M. B. 
 
 STATE BED-CHAMBER, 20 by 30, and 17 Feet high. 
 
 Tapeftry Hangings; Europe, Africa, and America: thefe three principal Pieces are faid to have 
 been formerly in the poffeffion of a Duke of Bavaria; the Manutafturing is of Flauders : Afra rs 
 enrefented by a Turkilh Proceffion of Pilgrims to Mecca, done from Paintings of Zucarelli, by the 
 late Mr. Paul Saunders, as were likew.fe the two fmaller Pieces (Sleep and Vigilance) on the Sides of 
 
 the Bed. . . 
 
 The four Seafons over the Doors are alfo of Zucarelli s Painting. 
 
 A flowered Genoa Velvet Bed, of three Colours, adorned with Earl's Coronets and Pine Apples. 
 Over the Chimney is a well-defigned Piante of Jupiter careffmg Juno ; the Subjed from Homer ; 
 
 by Mr. Gavin Hamilton. , , _ . „ 
 
 The Chimney-Piece, Statuary Marble Thermes, with Heads of the younger Emprefs Fauftma, 
 
 upon a Ground of Siena, executed by the late Mr. Carter. , „ , , 
 
 On its Cornice (lands an, antique Medallion of Julius Cate, m Bas Rchef, bought at the Sale of 
 
 Dr. Mead’s Antiquities, by M. B. 
 
 STATE BE D-C HAMBER CLOSET, 
 
 Is hung with Green Sattin : the finali Chimney-Piece of this Room is compofcd of Antique Pavo- 
 nazzo, Detbylhite Black Marble, and White Alabafter. There are fome choice Mures in this 
 
 Ca pT,phemus and Galatea, painted in Frefco upon an antique Tile, lefs than two Feet fquare : it 
 has a Glafs before it : Polyphemus is reprefented fitting on a Rock by the Sea Side, in an Attitude as 
 if founding his Sampogna; the Mufie of which he fufpends, to behold his beloved Galatea, whopaffes 
 by him, attended b, Nereids, in a Shell drawn by Dolphins : her Veil (beaming to the Wind, forms 
 over her Head a Bow in the Air, that gracefully fills up a void in the Compofition. Th.s admirable 
 
EXPLANATION. 9 
 
 Pidture of Annibai Carracci, who exceeded all other Painters in that kind of Imagery, where Herculean 
 Proportion, united with mufcular Strength, form with propriety the Charadter, was purchafed out of 
 the Barberini Collection, (of which it made one of its moll celebrated Ornaments; by M. B. 
 
 Above it is a very fine Piece of Macaws and Parrots, by Rubens and Snyders. 
 
 Two Flower-Pieces over Doors ; the Flowers by M. Angelo degli Fiori ; the Boys, which are 
 defigned and painted with great Delicacy of Pencil, by Fillipo Lauri. 
 
 A finali Holy Family, in an Oval, by Albano. 
 
 Two Altar-Pieces, by Sebaftian Conca. 
 
 Between the Concas, the Portrait of a Woman holding the Lappet of her Veil, ftrongly exprefllve 
 of Leonardo da Vinci’s Manner, from the Barberini Palace, was bought by M. B. 
 
 A finali Portrait, in Water Colours, of Lord Chief Juftice Coke, the great Anceftor of the Earl’s 
 Family, at the Age of twenty-fix, by Cornelius Janfens. 
 
 Four Landfcapes, in Water Colours, by Goupy, viz. 
 
 A Copy of his Majefty’s fine Claude Lorrain. 
 
 Ditto of a Landfcape from N. Pouflin ; our Saviour at the Lake of Genazereth. 
 
 Ditto of a Landfcape from Rubens. 
 
 Ditto from N. Pouflin, with the Story of Pyramus and Thilbe. 
 
 A View of Vignola’s Palace at Caprarola, by G. Occhiali. 
 
 A View of Rome from the Banks of the Tiber, by Ditto.* 
 
 The Marriage of Pfyche, and the Banquet of the Gods ; two finali Paintings, in Water Colours, 
 from Raphael, by Ignatius. 
 
 Continence of Scipio, from Pietro Cortona. 
 
 Two Lahdfcapes, in Water Colours, by Fillipo Lauri. 
 
 Drawing of a Saint bellowing the Benediction, in Biller and White, by Carlo Maratt. 
 
 Bringing the Sick to a Saint preaching ; a Drawing by Andrea Mantegna. 
 
 Sketch of the Salutation, in Red Chalk, by C. Maratt. 
 
 Two Landfcapes of Claude Lorrain, in Biller. 
 
 A Water-Fall, by G. Pouflin. 
 
 Nativity of the Virgin, in Biller, by Di Raffi). 
 
 A Battle-Piece, in Biller, by Borgognone. 
 
 Nativity of the Virgin, in Biller, by Federico Barocci. 
 
 Landfcape of Salvator Rofa, in Biller. 
 
 Sketch of two Figures, in Chiaro Ofcuro, by P. Caravagio. 
 
 Sketch for an Altar-Piece, by Ciro Ferri. 
 
 A naked Woman, by Giufeppe d Arpino. 
 
 CLO.SET to STATE BED-CHAMBER. 
 
 The Hangings are Purple Silk : the Chimney-Piece is compofed of an antique Marble, called Sette 
 Bafi, Italian Red, and Derbylhire White Alaballer, by Pickford. 
 
 The principal Ornament of this Cabinet is the Madonna and Young Chrill, over the Side Door ; an 
 undoubted Original of Raphael D’Urbino : the Virgin is a three-quarter Figure, nearly the Size of 
 Life : the Child Jefus, fitting on her Knees, regards his holy Mother with a Look of ineffable Sweetnefs, 
 mixed with Rapture ; for which Expreffions Raphael, above all other great Mailers, merited the Appel¬ 
 lation fo often given him by the Italian Writers, of II Divino ; fince he only could exprefs (joined to 
 Gracefulnefs and Dignity of Character) thofe exalted Affections of the Mind. This Pidture, which i s 
 painted upon Board, was brought into England by the Cavalier Cafali, of whom the Earl obtained 
 it. From the Tindts of the Chiaro Ofcuro, it is evident that Raphael painted it at the time when 
 
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 EXPLANATION. 
 
 he imitated Leonardo da Vinci, and the Fiorentine Manner ; but the Airs and Ideas of the feJeads, 
 particularly thofe of the Chrift, are much fuperior to any ever imagined by that School. The Robe 
 of the Virgin is ftriped, like that of the Madonna della Seggia in the Palazzo Pitti. 
 
 A large Landfcape, in the Manner of Francefco Bolognefe, by Bartolomeo, who was his Scholar. 
 
 Over the Doors of the Suite are two Perfpettive Views ; one, of the Doge’s Palace, the Procuratia 
 Nuova, the Mint, the Jefuits College, and the Church of the Salute, by Gafparo Occhiali. 
 
 The other, over againft it, is the famous one of the Bridge and Calile of St. Angelo, the Front of 
 St. Peter’s Church, and part of the Vatican Palace ; the moll magnificent Group of Buildings in all 
 Italy. G. Occhiali. 
 
 Cincinnatus at the Plough. The Roman Deputies are delivering to him the Orders of the Senate : 
 he has a Spade in his Hand, lhaped like one of thofe now ufed about Rome : a Damfel Hands by his 
 Side, ready to inveli him with the Dictatorial Robe, which lhe holds extended : the Scene is laid in a 
 Meadow near the Banks of the Tiber, where the Event happened ; and the.back Ground is clofed 
 with a View of the Modern Buildings, upon the Capitol Hill. By Luigi Garzi. 
 
 A Front View of St. Peter’s Church, its Obelilk, Fountain, circular Colonnades, and of the 
 Vatican Palace ; by Occhiali. 
 
 A View of the Coloffeum, and Arch of Conllantine, by G. Occhiali. In the lower Tier of 
 Pittures, is a Profpett of the Canal at Milan, by the fame Hand. The Juftnefs of Occhiali’s Perlpec- 
 tive Views, and the fine Glow of his Flemilh Colouring, are Excellencies perhaps not to be met with 
 in the Works of any other Painter. 
 
 Judith with the Head of Holofernes : lhe is delivering it to a Woman her attendant : the Scene 
 on the back Ground is the Enemy’s Camp ; Soldiers lleeping, &c. by Carlo Maratt. Bellori, in his 
 Life of this great Painter, has given an Account of it. 
 
 A View of the Bridge called the Rialto, at Venice, by Canaletti. 
 
 Palace Cornaro, on the Grand Canal, by Ditto. 
 
 In the Centre of the lower Tier, oppofite the Chimney, is a Portrait of Rubens’ Daughter, by 
 Rubens. 
 
 NORTH STATE BED-CHAMBER. 
 
 The Figure of this Room is a Cube of 21 Feet Diameter, hung with Tapeflry excellent both for 
 Defign and Workmanlhip : its feveral Pieces exhibit the various Productions of the Months, caufed by 
 the Sun’s annual Progrefs through the Signs of the Zodiac : Pifces is reprefented under the Form of a 
 winged Genius, bearing two admirable Pike ; below his Feet are Fifhermtn’s Nets, Boys fporting 
 with a large Cod Filh ; and above are Feftoons, compofed of all the variety of Fifh that are to be 
 found in thefe Northern Regions : a Boy is faftening a huge Sturgeon to the Capital of a Column, 
 &c. &c. The dead Game, Fruits, Flowers, and Animals, were probably copied from Paintings 
 of Snyders. 
 
 By the Window Side is a curious antique Mofaic Table-Slab, bought from the Villa Adriana, near 
 Tivoli. M. B. 
 
 The Chimney-Piece, Fior di Perfica, an antique Marble. The Ornaments within the funk Pilafters 
 (Inflruments of the Roman Sacrifice) were copied from a very fine antient Fragment of the fame Size, 
 in the Garden of the Villa Medici, by the late Mr. Thomas Carter : on its Tablet is reprefented the 
 Birth of the Poet Lucan, out of Montfaucon. 
 
 Over the Chimney is a Pitture of a Mufician playing on a Violoncello ; a dark, but mod excellent 
 Performance of Mola’s. 
 
 Under it are two finali Paintings of Fowls and Fifh, by Duprèt. 
 
 Above the Dreffing-Room Door is a whole-length Portrait of the Earl of Leicefter, in the Robes 
 of the Order of the Bath : this was never reckoned a like one, and is ill defigned : by Richardfon. 
 
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EXPLANATION. 
 
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 DRESSING-ROOM to Ditto, 
 
 Is 27 by 17, and 20 Feet high ; the Cielingfrom Inigo Jones ; Hangings of Blue Genoa Damate. 
 Above the Door opening into the Hall, is a Whole-length of Mrs. Newton, the Earl s Grand¬ 
 
 mother. 
 
 Numa Pompilius giving Laws to Rome ; a large Hiiloricil Compofition, painted for the Earl of 
 Leicefter, by Procaccini. The Figure of Rome is kneeling : a young Senator, on the right of the 
 venerable Lawgiver, is drawn for the Earl himfelf : a Veftal Virgin, pouring Oil upon the holy Fire, 
 alludes to that famous Inftitution ; and the leverai Orders of Priefts, the Salii, and the Martii, form 
 different Groups that fill up the Piatire : below the Figure of the River Tiber, Romulus and Remus 
 are introduced fucking the Wolf. 
 
 A Cupid : he is holding the Point of an Arrow to the Bill of a Dove hovering above his Head ; an¬ 
 other Cupid is feen flying in the Diftance, over the Elements of Earth and Water ; perhaps denoting 
 the univerfal Power given by the Poets to that Deity. Guido Reni. 
 
 The Companion is a fine Head of an Evangelift holding a Book ; alfo by Guido Reni. 
 
 The Adoration of the Magi ; a large Compofition, which makes the centre Piflure on that Side the 
 Room; painted by the Cavalier Calabrefe, a Neapolitan : from the Barberini Palace ; purchafed by 
 M. B. This Painter, who was what the Italians flyle a Machinifta (or Grand Compofer) excelled alfo 
 in the Knowledge of the Chiaro Ofcuro. 
 
 The Virgin Mary reading ; by Carlo Maratt, 
 
 Two Portraits ; an old Man’s, and a young Girl's, looking through a magnifying Glafs, Which Ihe 
 holds in her Hand : this is an allegorical Reprefcntation of Youth and Old Age, by Lanfranco. 
 
 Mary Magdalen doing Penance in the Defert ; a graceful fmall Whole-length Figure, highly 
 finiihed ■ the Air of the Head very devout : three Cherubinis group with the Crown of Glory, to 
 which her Eyes are direfled : her Drapery, in the Style of an antique Statue, is exquifrtely defigned j 
 and well coloured. It is faid to be of Parmegiano. 
 
 Mary Magdalen anointing the Feet of Chrift : the bearded Figure in black, looks like the Portrait 
 of Titian. °Paul Veronefe, the Painter of this Piece, is fitting between his Greyhounds, which he 
 frequently introduced into his Piftures : he is difcourfing with a Man in a red Garment : two Beggars 
 are fitting on the Floor under the Portico : a Man, with his Back turned to the Spedlator, Teems, with 
 a lifted-up Stick, to drive out fome that are entering : a droll Face, in a Pink-coloured Head-Drefs, 
 appears over his Shoulder : Figures in Jewilh Habits are viewing the Ceremony from the Balcony of 
 the Portico. Purchafed from the Barberini Colleflion, by M. B. 
 
 Apollo and Daphne, grouped with the River Peneus ; a beautiful yonng Figure of the God : (he 
 is rooted to the Earth, and Laurel Leaves are feen fprouting from her Fingers. By Carlo Maratt. 
 
 Chrift fallen under the Crofs ; the Virgin Mother weeping ; and Santa Veronica prefenting the holy 
 Handkerchief. This is a very bright Piante, painted with great Force and Brilliancy of Colouring ; 
 one of the heft of the Mailer. Giacomo Baffaoo. 
 
 The Virgin, young Chrift, St. John, and St. Jofeph ; an old Copy after Raphael, from the Bar¬ 
 berini Palace. The Original is in the Duke of Tufcany's Colkaion. 
 
 A fine Piece of Fruit and Flowers, a Fountain, and a Macaw; by Hondicootef. 
 
 The Deluge ; by Carlandrucci, a Difciple of Carlo Maratt. 
 
 ALandfcapei three Fiihermen on the fore Ground; one is lighting a Fire ; painted m a mafterly 
 Style, by Annibai Carracci. 
 
 To the right of the Chimney, is a beautiful fmall Landfcape and Figures; a Repofe, by Claude 
 Lorrain, in fine Prefervation ; purchafed by the Earl, in Rome. 
 
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 St. George, Santa Saba, and the Dragon ; painted for a Companion to the foregoing, by Studio. 
 
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 Full-length of Lady Leicefter, and her Son Lord Coke ,• by Richardfon. 
 
 At the Bottom of the Room, on a Pedeftal, is placed an exquifite fmall antique Drapery Figure 
 of an Ifis, with a Cornucopia ; reftored by Cavaceppi : the Marble of which, fuppofed to be the 
 Parian, is remarkably tranfparent. It was purchafed at Rome by M. B. 
 
 CHAPEL, 63 Feet by 18, and 27 high. 
 
 The principal Pidture at the Altar is the Affumption of the Virgin j a mafterly Performance by the 
 admirable Guido Reni. 
 
 On the Side Pannels are two whole-length Figures, Santa Cecilia and St. Anne ; both painted by 
 Cipriani. 
 
 Above, in the Attic Part of the Chapel, are three large Pictures : the middle one, Abraham, Hagar, 
 and Ifmael, is by Andrea Sacchi, from the Barberini Collection. 
 
 That towards the Window is the Angel appearing to Jofeph in a Dream ; a capital Painting, by 
 Lanfranco. 
 
 The third is Rebecca at the Well: the Servant of Jacob is prefenting her with Bracelets : which is 
 painted by Benedetto Luti. 
 
 In the Family Seat, over a neat fmall Chimney-Piece, compofed of Staffordfhire Al abaft er and 
 coloured Marbles, is a very fine Pidure of St. Mary Magdalen and an Angel, by Carlo Maratt. 
 
 The Screen to the Seat towards the Chapel is of Cedar Wood, inlaid with Ornaments carved in 
 Lime Tree: the Bafement Part of the Chapel is encrufted with Staftbrdfliire Alabafter; and the 
 Columns are alfo of the fame Material. 
 
 FAMILY WING. 
 
 ANTI-ROOM, 18 Feet fquare by 16, which is the Height of this Floor: Cieling by Mr. Kent. 
 
 On the Chimney-Piece, of Purple and White Carrara Marble, by the fame Mafter, ftands the 
 Egyptian God Canopus, in Oriental antique Alabafter. 
 
 Two Heads in Marble, one of Alexander, the other of Homer ; copied from thofe in the Capitol 
 and Farnefe Gallery. 
 
 A Plafter Caft of the Cupid and Pfyche in the Florentine Gallery. 
 
 Above the Chimney is a Portrait of John Coke, Efq. 
 
 Over the Door, a Head unknown. 
 
 Next to the Drefling-Room, a Whole-length of the Duchefs of Richmond, by Kneller. 
 
 Over the Drefling-Room Door is a Head of Lady Anne Tufton, Countefs of Saliibury. 
 
 A Whole-length of Lady Anne Walpole, by Kneller. 
 
 A Whole-length of Lady Dover, by Ditto. 
 
 The Oval over the Door is a Portrait of Mrs. Coke, Mother to the Earl of Leicefter. 
 
 A Whole-length of Mrs. Henningham, by Kneller. 
 
 DRESSING-ROOM, 24 by 18. 
 
 Dove Marble Chimney-Piece and Cieling, by Mr. Kent. 
 
 A Whole-length of Edward Coke, Efq. Father of the Earl of Leicefter ; by Kneller. 
 
 Mrs. Cary Newton, Mother to the Earl of Leicefter ; a Whole-length, by Ditto. 
 
 The Oval over the Door, a Portrait of Lord Clifford. 
 
 Above is a Head of Mr. Henningham* 
 
 Underneath, Lady Mary Henningham, his Wife. 
 
 Below, Dorothy Walpole, Lady Townfend ; by Jarvis. 
 
 The three-quarter Pidure over the Chimney, is Catharine Tufton, Lady Sondes ; by Dahl. 
 
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 Anne Tufton, Countefs of Salilbury ; by Jarvis. 
 
 Head of Richard Coke, Efq. 
 
 Lady Coke, Wife of Sir Robert Coke. 
 
 Below, in the under Tier, is the Duchefs of Richmond; 
 
 Two Whole-lengths, the Duke of Leeds; and Lady Caernarvon; by Kneller. 
 Over the Library-Door, the Countefs of Leicefter. 
 
 Mrs. Price, by Sir Peter Lely. 
 
 LIBRARY, 54 Feet by 18. 
 
 The Cieling, and Pilafter Chimney-Piece, of Siena Marble, are both Defigns of Mr. Kent. 
 
 Over the Chimney is a good Copy of a Sea-Piece, by Griffier, from Claude Lorrain. 
 
 This Library is elegantly and completely fitted up with light open Book-Cafes, that contain a large 
 number of choice Printed Books, fome Manufcripts, and Books of Prints : in the Dado Part there are 
 Shelves for Port Folios, &c. 
 
 The Drawings in this Library are many of them capital, particularly thole bound up in a finali 
 Folio Volume, confiding of Freezes, Cornices, Capitals, and Bafes, defigned by Raphael, from the 
 antient Roman Temples. Baron Stofch, the late Hanoverian Refident at Florence, had in his 
 polTeflion the Elevations and Plans belonging to this Book of Defigns ; done by the fame great 
 Hand. Befides the above-mentioned, there are five large Port Folios of Drawings, by Raphael, Jul ; o 
 Romano, Francefco Penni, Polidoro, the Carraccis, Guido, Dominichino, Guercino, Titian, the 
 Venetian School, and of Carlo Maratt and his Scholars. 
 
 Alfo a Collection of Cielings, Pavements, Vafes, and Urns, defigned and coloured from the 
 Antique, by Santo Bartoli. 
 
 LADY LEICESTER’S DRESSIN G-R OOM, 18 by 24. 
 
 The Statuary Marble Chimney-Piece, Cieling, Soffas, Chairs, Table Frames, and two Pier Glafiès, 
 were all executed from Defigns of Mr. Kent. 
 
 Over the Chimney are the Countefs of Leicefter’s two Sifters, Lady Catharine and Anne Tuftons : 
 the Back Ground is touched by Zucarelli. 
 
 Madonna and St. Francis, by Cavedone. 
 
 Its Companion, an Altar-Piece, by Solimene. 
 
 Two Landfcapes over the Side-Doors, by Lucatelli, intcrfperfed with Ruins and Figures. 
 
 Head of Chrift, by Federico Barocci. 
 
 Its Companion, a fine Head of the Virgin Mary, by C. Maratt. 
 
 A large Pidure of Lucretia : ftie is (tabbing heifelf with a Dagger, in the prefence of Lucretius her 
 Father, her Hulband Collatinus, and their Friends; as related by Livy. Painted by Luca Giordano. 
 
 Over the Door leading into the Bed-Chamber is a Moon-light Piece, by Vanderneer. 
 
 Two Pieces of Poppies and Thiftles, by a FlemiCh Mailer. 
 
 Over the Door towards the Library, a Storm at Sea, a Ship fecn in Diftrefs : the Calile on the 
 Rock is taken from the Ruins of Metella’s Tomb, upon the Via Appia near Rome. This Pidure, 
 and the four finali ones in the lower Tier, were all painted by that excellent and rare Flemilh Mailer, 
 Livio Meus. He was firft a Defigner of finali Figures with the Pen, in the Manner of Callot ; but 
 going to Florence, and applying to Painting by the Advice of his Friend, Stefano della Bella, who 
 took him to Rome, he became famous for Landfcape. 
 
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 B E D-C H A M B E R, 18 Feet fquare. 
 
 Chimney-Piece, black ahd yellow Italian Marble, Malk and Drapery of Statuary, from Inigo Jones. 
 The Cieling by Mr. Kent. 
 
 In a handfome gilt Frame over the Chimney, (defigned by Mr. Kent) is a View of the Palace and 
 Place of St. Mark, at Venice, by Canaletti. The Preparation for the Doge’s wedding the Sea upon 
 Afccnfion-Day, is exhibited on the Fore Part of the Canvas ; where are affembled a prodigious 
 Number of Gondolas and Gondoliers, difpofed in a variety of Attitudes ; together with the grand 
 gilded Veffel called the Bucentauro, in which the Doge performs the Ceremony ; fet off with that 
 Gaiety of Colouring, for which the Venetian Painters have been ever remarkable. 
 
 Above it is a beautiful Head, in an Oval, of an Italian Girl, known by the Name of the Maid of 
 the Inn ; painted in Crayons, by Rofalba. 
 
 T wo fine Pieces of Fowls over the Doors', by Imperiali. 
 
 This Room is hung with Tapeftry, executed by Vanderbank, from Defigns of Albano, excepting 
 the two Door-Pieces, (Venus, Vulcan, and Cupids) which Additions were manufactured by the late 
 Mr. Bradfhaw. 
 
 LADY LEICESTER’S CLOSET, 
 
 Hung with Green ; Chimney-Piece from Inigo Jones, and Cieling by Mr. Kent. 
 
 Over the Chimney is a large coloured Drawing of St. Ignatius’s Chapel, within the great Church of 
 the Gefù, done by Francefco Bar toll 1 Figures of the Earl, and of his Governor, Dr. Hobart, are 
 introduced viewing the Altar-Piece, which is by far the moft fuperb of any in Rome. 
 
 Two Papal Crowns, and a Mitre ; a coloured Drawing by the fame Hand. 
 
 Four circular Drawings in red Chalk, from Dominichino’s Paintings in the Church of St. Sylvefter, 
 Upon Monte Cavallo ; by Giacomo Frey. 
 
 A Portrait of Lord Coke, in Crayons, by Rofalba. 
 
 Two Girls Heads, faid to be Benedetto Luti’s Daughters, drawn in black and white Chalk, by himfelf. 
 
 Beneath them are two Views, in Water Colours, by G. Occhiali. 
 
 A finali Affumption of the Madonna, painted on Agate, by Rotenhamer. 
 
 Two Drawings, framed and glazed, with many Figures after Titian, by Mr. Kent. 
 
 Two Drawings of Views in Circles, by Occhiali. 
 
 An Oblong Sea-View, by Ditto. 
 
 Two young Heads, in red and white Chalk, by Mr. Kent. 
 
 Two Drawings in Water Colours ; one, the Death of Cleopatra, copied by Mr. Kentj the other, 
 of Auguftus and Cleopatra, by Ignatius ; after Pietro Cortona. 
 
 Two Views of Roman Buildings, Trinità di Monte, and the Palace Salviati. 
 
 Over the Book-Cafes are two finali Portraits, inOil Colours, of Lord Leicefter’s Father and Mother. 
 
 Above the Altar-Piece is a finali Painting of a Cupid, drawn in a Carr ; by Guido Reni. 
 
 A Miniature Head of St. John, upon Copper. 
 
 Cardinal Gualtera, a Ditto, upon Copper. 
 
 Two Miniatures, a Head of Chrift, and a Diana’s, by Ignatius. 
 
 Miniatures in a Rofe-Wood Cafe, painted in Enamel. 
 
 Earl of Leicefter, Lord Coke, Henry Coke, his Son, 
 
 A Madonna, a Leda. 
 
 Portraits of the Duke of Leeds, 
 
 Earl of Leicefter, by Rofalba, 
 
 Princefs Borghefe, in the Habit of a Veftal, by Ignatius, 
 
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 Lady Lanfdown, Mrs. Route, Mr. Henningham, of a Lady unknown, Sir Marraadukc Wyvill, 
 two Men’s Heads unknown. 
 
 STRANGERS WING. 
 
 In the Corridor leading to it from the Statue-Gallery, is a fine antique Bullo of the Emperor 
 Saloninus, placed over a Book-Cafe. 
 
 A Plafter Caft of the little Apollo in the Villa Medici. 
 
 A Ditto of the Camillus in the Capitol. 
 
 A Ditto of the Venus di Medici. 
 
 A Ditto of the Mufe Urania, from an antique Statue in the pofleffion of Mr. Lloyd at Beacons* 
 field, 
 
 ANTI-ROOM. 
 
 A veined Marble Chimney-Piece, the Tablet and Pateras of black Marble, by Pickford. 
 
 Over the Chimney-Piece is a Whole-length Portrait of Lord Coke. 
 
 Over Doors, Lord Leicefter’s Father ; a Child playing with a Dog. 
 
 Its Companion, the fame when a Lad. 
 
 Facing the Entrance, Richard Coke, and his Wife Mary Roufe. 
 
 On the Window Side is a Whole-length of Robert Coke. 
 
 Lady Anne Coke, and her Son • Whole-lengths, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 
 On the Corridor Side are two Whole-lengths, the Earl and Countefs of Leicefter ; by Cavalier Cafali. 
 Two Door-Pieces ; one, òf the Earl of Leicefter ; the other, of liis Brother Edward ; when 
 Ghildren. 
 
 An antique Bufto of a Roma, on a Therme Pedeftal. 
 
 DRESSING-ROOM. 
 
 Yellow and Red Flowered Hangings. 
 
 A veined and Statuary Marble Chimney-Piece, with a Tablet of Red Porphyry, by Pickford, 
 
 The Cieling is from Inigo Jones, and the Enrichment of its Soffit from Degodetz. 
 
 Above the Chimney is a Whole-length fitting Figure of the Earl of Leicefter ; painted at Rome, 
 by Trevifani. 
 
 Two Pidtures over Side Doors, Half-lengths, of Colonel Walpole, and Lady Mary Hen¬ 
 ningham. 
 
 Lord Chief JufticeCoke, and his firft Wife, Mrs. Pafton ; two Whole-lengths, by Cavalier Cafali. 
 Over a Door, Archbifhop Laud. 
 
 Over the Centre Door, Sir Thomas More. 
 
 Henry Coke of Torrington, fifth Son of Lord Chief Juftice Coke, and Margaret Lovelace, his 
 Wife, painted by C. Cafali. 
 
 BED-CHAMBER. 
 
 This Room is hung with Tapeftry, from Defigns of Watteau ; the Cieling after the Manner of 
 Inigo Jones. 
 
 Over the Chimney-Piece, which is compofed of Plymouth and Statuary Marbles, is a Whole-length 
 Portrait of the firft Duke of Richmond, by Vandyke. 
 
 Upon the Chimney Cornice, a fmall antique Head : the Bufto part is modern. 
 
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EXP LANATION. 
 
 DRESSING-ROOM. 
 
 Crimfon Silk Damalk Hangings; Chimney-Piece of Statuary and Giallo Antico Marbles, by 
 
 Pickford. r i-v j 
 
 The Ckling is in the Manner of Inigo Jones, enriched with Ornaments taken out of Degodetz. 
 
 Over the Side Door, a Landfeape and Ruins, Figure of Time; and two Boys fitting on a Column ; 
 
 by Gifolfi. 
 
 Deborah and Barak, by Solimene. 
 
 Underneath it is a finali View of Naples, by G. Occhiali. 
 
 Two Pieces of Ruins, Companions ; by Viviani. 
 
 Over the Centre Door, Figures and Ruins, with a Church; by M. Angelo Caravagio. 
 
 Below the Vivianis are two Views, both by Occhiali ; one is of Naples ; the other, of Nettuno. 
 Above the Chimney-Glafs, a Woman’s Head, copied from Guido Reni, by Mr. Kent. 
 
 Two Heads of Madonnas, after Raphael. 
 
 Over the Side Door, Nymphs bathing ; by F. Lauri. 
 
 On the Window Side, the Nativity of Saint Anne ; by Baccicia Gault. 
 
 On the fame Side, the Genius of the Arts, fupporting the Figure of Time; an emblematical 
 Painting, by Sebaftian Conca. 
 
 GREEN DAMASK BED-CHAMBER. 
 
 The Chimney-Piece, Fior di Pe.fica, Statuary Marble Freeze enriched with a Golofs ; by Pickford. 
 The Cieling in the Manner of Inigo Jones, ornamented from Degodetz. 
 
 Above the Chimney-Piece is an original Whole-length Portrait of an Earl of Warwick, by 
 Vandyke. 
 
 GREEN DAMASK DRESSING-ROOM. 
 
 The Chimney-Piece, Black and Yellow, with Statuary Marble Ornaments, by Pickford. 
 
 Cieling in the Style of Inigo Jones, enriched from Degodetz’s Antiquities. 
 
 In a Frame, of Mr. Kent’s Defign, over the Chimney, is a Portrait of the Princefs of Orange, 
 Mother to King William ; copied from Sir Peter Lely. 
 
 Over the Door, Diana and her Nymphs ; a Copy of the famous Pidture of Dominichino, in the 
 Palace of Borghefc. 
 
 Its Companion, St. Jerome in the Defert; in the Style of Titian. 
 
 Galatea, a large Pidture, by Albano. 
 
 Landfeape over the Door, by Gafpar Pouflin. 
 
 Over another Door is the Figure of a Magician, mounted up in the Air, faid to be Simon Magus ; 
 a Number of Spedtators affembled in a Court-Yard ; by Tintoret. 
 
 Elyfian Fields, painted for the Earl of Leicefter, at Rome, by Sebaftian Conca ; a large Pidture 
 full of Figures, amongft which his Lordfhip is reprefented in the Charadter of Orpheus. 
 
 Two large Table-Slabs, of antique Oriental Alabafter, upon Mahogany Frames. 
 
 BLUE and YELLOW BED-CHAMBER. 
 
 Cieling and Entablature in the Style of Inigo Jones. 
 
 Chimney-Piece in Dove Marble ; an Idea of Mr. Kent s, done by Pickford. 
 
 Pidture above the Chimney-Piece, a Number of Cupids fleeping, and Nymphs of Diana clipping 
 their Wings, 8cc. in the Style of Albano. 
 
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 BLUE SATTIN DRESS IN G-R OOH. 
 
 Cicling. an Oval in an oblong-fquare Frame, after the Manner of Inigo Jones. The Chimney-Piece 
 is compofed of Green and Siena Yellow Marbles, and Derbyihite Spar ; by Pickford. 
 
 I ins neat Cabinet contains a Colle&ion of valuable Drawings in Frames and Glaffes; the greateft 
 part of which were purchafed at Rome, for the Earl, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton. 
 
 Above the Centre Door is an original Cartoon of Raphael, the Madonna, young Chrift, and St. John, 
 in Chiaro Ofcuro. 
 
 Next it, in the upper Tier of Drawings, is a finifhed one in red Chalk, from the antique Statue of 
 Juno Lanumvina. 
 
 A Man’s Head, in black Chalk, by Carlo Maratt. 
 
 A Landfcape, in red Chalk, by Dominichino. 
 
 A large Chiaro-Ofcuro Painting upon Board; Figures of Men, fome Lathing, fome dreflìng ina 
 hurry, as if alarmed by the Approach of an Enemy. Vafari, in the Life of Michael Angelo Buonaroti, 
 gives the following Account of it. « At the time that Pietro Soderini was Gonfaloniere of Florence, 
 “ he employed Michael Angelo to paint part of the Council-Hall, in concurrence with Leonardo da 
 “ Vinci.” Perloche Michel Angelo ebbe una Stanza nello Spedale de Pintori a San Onofrio ; e quivi 
 comincio un grondiamo Cartone e lo empiè di ignudi , , che bagnandoft per lo caldo , , nel fiume d'Arno in 
 quello fante fi dava al' arme nel campo, fingendo, che gli inimici li affaliffero, e mentre che fuor delle 
 acque ufcivono per vefiìrfi i Soldati fi vedeva , Chi affrettare lo armar fi per dar aiuto a Compagni, altri 
 ajfibbiarfi la corazza , e molti metterfi altre Armi indoffo. It was purchafed out of the Barberini 
 Collection. 
 
 Hannibal paffing the Alps with his Army ; in red Chalk, by P. Cortona. 
 
 Academy Figure, in red Chalk, by Andrea Sacchi. 
 
 Ditto of Dominichino. 
 
 Ditto of Andrea Sacchi. 
 
 A Peftilence, in Bifter, by N. Pouffin. 
 
 Head upon blue Paper* in black Chaik, by Dominichino. 
 
 Over the Chimney-Glafs a finali Academy Figure, drawn with the Pen, by Raphael. 
 
 A Head of a Madonna, black Chalk, upon blue Paper, by Francefco Chiari. 
 
 Compofition, a Tomb on the Fore Ground ; coloured Drawing, by Van Lint. 
 
 A Head, red Chalk, upon blue Paper, by Carlo Maratt. 
 
 Efculapius, from an antique Statue, red Chalk. 
 
 Middle Row, the firft from the Door, the Virgin embraci g the Crofs, in black Chalk. 
 
 Crucifixion of St. Andrea, red and white Chalk, by Ciro Ferri. 
 
 Chrift carrying the Crofs ; by Luca D’Olanda. 
 
 A Study from a Fox, with the Pen, by Annibai Carracci. 
 
 A Battle-Piece, by Monfù Leander. 
 
 Academy Figure, in red Chalk, by Bernini. 
 
 A Woman poftcffed ; many Figures in red Chalk ; School of Raphael. 
 
 Academy Figure, in black and white Chalk, by Lanfranco. 
 
 Over the Door, Venus and Adonis, in red Chalk, by Guercino. 
 
 Flora’s Head, in black Chalk, by C. Maratt. 
 
 A Man’s Head, in black Chalk, by Corregio. 
 
 Wife Men’s Offering, in Bifter, by Pietro Perugino. 
 
 A Landfcape and Figures, with the Pen, by Claude Lorrain. 
 
 Soldiers breaking down a Bridge ; in Bifter, by Parmegiano. 
 
 The Afcenfion, in black Chalk, by Carlo Maratt. 
 
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 AChrift, with the Croft; PenandWalh, by Gtufeppe d’Arptno. 
 
 A Salutation, Pen and Waih, by Carlo Maratt. 
 
 An emblematic Subjeft, in red Chalk, by Lanfranco. 
 
 Our Saviour and his Apoftles ; School of Raphael. 
 
 An Affumption of the Virgin, inBifter, by Ciro Fern. 
 
 wit " whit£> by Folidor 
 
 “down front the Croft; a Sketch for his lament Pianrein the Church of Trinità di Monte; 
 by Daniel di Volterra. 
 
 A young Chrift with the Croft ; in red Chalk, by Guerc.no. 
 
 St. Francis healing a Lame Man ; in red Chalk, by Andrea Bacchi. 
 
 An Apoftle, drawn with the Pen, by Titian. 
 
 St. Paul preaching; a Sketch in red Chalk, b, Carlo Maratt. 
 
 An Academy Figure, Pen and Biller, by Onerano. 
 
 Flight into Egypt; PcnandWalh, by Agoftino Carracci. 
 
 Cupid and Pfyche, a red Chalk Drawing 
 
 Two Roman Saints healing the Blind, by Giovani Bonati. 
 
 St John baptizing our Saviour ; in Biller, by Carlo Maratt. 
 
 Academy Figure, red Chalk, by Andrea Camafeo. 
 
 Cattle and Countrymen, by Caftiglione. 
 
 Portrait of a Woman, in red Chalk, by Titian. . 
 
 Marriage of Joleph and the Virgin Mary, black Chalk, Agoft.no Mafucc. 
 
 Lch Of a Female Saint, in red Chalk, by Callo Maratt. 
 
 BUSTOES and STATUES in the Veftibule under the Portico. 
 
 • mil;,. Marble of Carneades, the Cyrenean Philofopher ; 
 Above the Chimney-Piece is a Meddhon,.n ’ „me, with Diogenes the Stoic, and Crito- 
 
 who, being lent y the' “““ Romaos to adm ire the Learning and Eloquence of the Greeks. 
 Ians the Peripatetic, g the only goo d one of him) perfeflly agrees 
 
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 other parts of the Medallion were «ftomd, rf fms> thc Athenian Orator, 
 
 on the Bread, in Greek Letters of Beard, a „d his Hair (which is 
 
 A ditto of Plato, as he - Head with a Fillet. Likeneffes of this great 
 
 PhWopte in Gel, in Marbles, are frequently to be met with^ this was dug up in a 
 
 Vineyard near the Church of Saint John Lateran, and purchafed at Rome by M. B. 
 
 A Butto of Cicero, in Marble, copied after that in the Gallery of Florence. 
 
 SSTp^W-- bought in Italy by the Earl, which is intire, except the Arms 
 and Hands, refloredby Mr. Wilton. inferibed to Petronio Hydychro, orna- 
 
 Wolf, and the facred Chickens feeding, are its Decorations m Front, upon 
 
 fitting Griffins. The 
 
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 The other is inferiteci to C. Calpurnio. Boys in Baflb Relievo, bearing up Feftoons of Flowers and 
 Fruit : a Genius is tranfporting tile Soul of the Dead to the Regions of Pluto and Proferpine. 
 
 Six Flatter Calls in Niches, from antique Statues ; viz, Apollo of the Belvedere, a Call of an 
 original Mould, taken from that Statue in the Year 1750, and brought to England by M. B. 
 
 Meleager of Pichini, a ditto. 
 
 Ganymede of the Villa Medici, a ditto; 
 
 Ptolemy of the Grand Duke’s Gallery at Florence. 
 
 Venus di Belle Fefle, a ditto. 
 
 Dancing Faun in the Gallery at Florence. 
 
 There are likewife two large Side-Board Slabs of Mount-Edgecumfce Red Granite, with gilt Metal 
 Borders. 
 
 In the PORTER^ HALL, or GUARD-ROOM, 
 
 Is an excellent Bufi: in Plafter, and a very good Likenefs, of the Earl of Leicefter, by Roubiliac. 
 
 A good antique Bufto of the Emprefs Salonina, which, though of the latter Empire, when Sculpture 
 was on the decline, might Well p,ifs for the Work of a finer Age. 
 
 A Bufto called by the Name of Lucius Lentulus ; antique. 
 
 A fine antique Confidar Bufi: and Pedeftal, both of one Piece of Marble ; incognito. 
 
 AUDIT-ROOM, 21 by 48. 
 
 Above the Chimney-Piece is an antique Medallion of a Faun, in the Attitude of dancing, as if 
 infpired by the God Bacchus : he holds the -Lituus in one Hand, and in the other a Bunch of Grapes i 
 upon the back Ground is a Vafe. It is in Baflb Relievo. 
 
 SOUTH and NORTH TOWÉk ATTICS 
 
 Have, linee the Earl’s Death, been fitted up with Book-Cafis, and with the Addition of the Space* 
 in the Roof over the Statue-Gallery, between the Towers, formed into a Library of nearly ic6 Feet 
 in Length ; in which a great Number of old Editions of Printed Books, brought from other Libraries 
 belonging to the Family, are depofited. Upon the upper Shelf are placed, by way of Ornaments 
 twenty-three Plafter Cafts of Greek, Roman, and Modern Buftoes} many of which were moulded 
 from antique original Marbles, and fent to England by M. B. 
 
 BUSTOES in the PORTICO of the STEWARD'S LODGE. 
 
 Meceenas, a very rare one in Bigio Antico : the Head of it is antique, and thought to be the only 
 One of him yet difeovered : the upper Part of the Head is thin of Hair, or rather bald on the Crown 
 as he is reprefented in his Gems. Notwithftanding Portraits of this eminent Roman (who Was the 
 Patron of the Arts in the Reign of Auguftus) are fo fcarce in Marble, neverthelefs in Gems they are 
 more obvious ; Impreflions of which, extant in Sulphur, fhow that the Art of Engraving precious Stones 
 was then arrived at its greateft Perfection, if Sculpture in general were not. There is a fine Head of 
 Mecamas in Amethyft, preferved in the King of France’s Cabinet, (that refembles this Bufto). of 
 Greek Workmanftiip, by the Hand of Diofcorides, who was the Apelles of Seal-Engravers. 
 
 A Caft of the Emperor Titus, in modern Bronze. 
 
 Within the principal Room of the Lodge, is another Plafter Buft of the Earl of Leicefter, by 
 Roubiliac. 
 
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 SEAT 
 
SEAT upon the MOUNT. 
 
 Alto Relievo. 
 
 In the OREEN-HOUSE. 
 
 AP ,after Call, taken front an original Mould of the Lion in. the Viila Medici, afcribed ,0 Fla- 
 minius Vacca. 
 
 In the ORANGERY. 
 
 A very fine antique Corinthian Capital'in white Marble ; aifo two antique Marble Safer of Columns. 
 
 In the COURT between the KITCHEN and CHAPEL WINGS. 
 
 A large fluted antique Sarcophagus, without its Cover = the Body of it is very intire, and in good 
 Confervation. 
 
 In the TEMPLE. 
 
 The little Apollo of Medici, Venus of Medici, Dancing Faun of ditto, Ptolemy of ditto ; all 
 Plafter Cafts from the Antique. 
 
 CHAPEL WING BED-CHAMBER. 
 
 King James II. a Whole-length Portrait, by Sir Peter Lely. 
 
 Charles II. a Half-length. 
 
 William III. a ditto. 
 
 In the CLOSET. 
 
 Lady Wivill, Sifter to the Earl of Leicefter, ? chadrm _ 
 
 His Sifter, Mrs. Roberts, J 
 
 Lady Grade Pierpont, a Head. 
 
 D R E S S I N G-R O O M. 
 
 Twelve Drawings in Chalk, Sketches of Views about Holkham, decorated with Garden-Buildings, 
 by Zucarelli. 
 
 One Drawing by Mr. Kent. 
 
 Seventy Prints of different Hands. 
 
 RUSTIC 
 
 A fmall Bronze Figure of Jupiter. 
 
 Five large Views of the Ports of Sicily. 
 Four Drawings of Holkham Houfe. 
 
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 al lettore. 
 
 TL Nobiliffimo Sigr. Conte di LEICESTER, difendente dal rinomato Cavalier' Edoardo Coke, 
 
 I famofiffimo Legatore e Giudice fnpremo in tempo della Regina Erbetta e del R^Gracomo 
 primo d' Inghilterra, fece incominciare a HOLKHAM, terreno fuo nella Contea dr Norfolk per fua 
 reiìdenza dr campagna, incirca l'anno , M o, la Fabbrica fegnente difcofta xao mrgha da L^ . 
 Quaff opera effendo data ben avanzata avanti la di Ini morte, che fuccedè appredó 1 anno ' 7 9. 
 a poi profeguita a termine dall' EcceUentiffima fua Conforte La Conteffa prefente, la quale dtede 
 
 l’ultima mano verfo la fine dell’anno 1764. , -M-lUi* con 
 
 Le Facciate di cotefta maeftofa Villa, fono de mattoni belliffimr, color gralletto ed^abbelhte too 
 ornati di Zoccolo, Architrave, Fregio, Cornice, e con Colonne d'Ordine Corrotto fatte d. pretta vw , 
 quali della medefrma tinta; che fù riportata da Bath, cioè dai Bagnr, luogo ben conofcmto 
 
 ^I^Corpo^rincipale della Fabbrica è dilpoflo in mezzo a quattro Ale, « fiata' Padiglioni, ai quali 
 fanno lega quattro Corridori rettilineari, che. conducono ai quattro fop, adem Padiglioni, e fanno 
 interne incirca 3S o piedi Inglefi Menzione nelle Facciate principab. La parte dr mezzo connen 
 la Sala grande in forma di Bafilica tirata dall' antica defeizzione di Marco Vimine, la quale conduce 
 per una Scalinata grandiofa al primo Piano ovvero Appartamento nobrle ; e botto 1 eifc Appartarne., 
 
 V'e '1 piano terreno, ove fono collocate le Officine dei Domenici princpall, cobi drfpofle per effere 
 più vicine al Padrone, e ai funi Amici Vifrtatori. 
 
 Ciafcun Padiglione ha '1 fuo nule deftinato-gli = Uno contiene la Cucina, la Sala, dove mangiano 
 u Servitori di Livrea, la Difpenfa, Sciaqua.oio, = 1 Forni, ed altre officine minori fono dtfpofte 
 intorno un' Cortile biffimgo circondate da un Muro che le rinchiude da Vtffir edema. La parte ter¬ 
 ranea d’un altro Padiglione viene confegnata al luogo dove fi conferva il Latte, d Lavanda^, e luogo 
 per afclugar . panni, contiguo a) quale v è parimente nn Cortile bifiungo per mettere Legna, Carbone 
 di Tettar Sabbia, ed altre Abbifognevoli Cofe, eh 'effe richiedono. 
 
 Dall' altra banda verfo l'Occidente fono le altre due Ale le piu prmc.pal, ; in una fi contiene 
 „ , __ padrone e fua Dama, e le Camere minori per il Segretario, Camerieri, e 
 
 ppartamen ■ deve attendere perfonalmente appreflb i Signori. Quello Apparta- 
 
 “’Padro. comprende un' Anticamera, due Camere da Vedirfi, la Libraria principle e la 
 Camera di Letto con Cabinetto e due Scale che conducono da per tutto ; di p.u v è una Sala privata 
 a mangiate nel Piano terreno, un Bagno, e in «ma del Tetto vi è collocata una Orfana, che riceve 
 l’acqua per mezzo d'una Tromba per commodo dell'Appartamento e per ufo der luoghr priva.. 
 
 'Ta^iLtTlttt'padiglloue, nominato per 1 Stranieri, bàia fna difiribuzione adate al fuo 
 utile, cioè per accomodare li Vifitanti dei Padroni ; confifte intieramente m Camere per dormire, ,n 
 Camere per VelUrfi, e per alloggiare i Camerieri che vengono co loro Padroni ; hi eziandio la fu 
 Ciftema d'acqua e luoghi privati, e v' è una Galleria piccola che conduce all Appartamento maggiore 
 
 o fia Piano nobile. 
 
 SPIEGAZIONE 
 
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 SPIEGAZIONE 
 
 delle STAMPE 
 
 Contenute in queft’ Opera. 
 
 N°. x. TT^IANTA generale del Piano fotterraneo coi lìti delle quattro Ale già defcritte, Cortili, 
 A ed Officine minori ; e delle Cantine che fono polle fotto il Pian’ terreno del Corpo 
 Principale. 
 
 2. Piano terreno, dove ce la gran’ Sala d’ Entrata, e la Sua Scalinata ; poi il Veftibulo fotto il 
 
 Portico che conduce dentro il Giardino ; La Sala billunga dove li trattengono i Tenenti, Sala per 
 l’Armi è per il Portinaro, (a Man’ dritta-della Gran’ Sala ;) Le Camere per i Domeftici principali, 
 cioè per il Maeflro di Cafa, per il Bottigliere, la Governatrice delle Serve, la Cucina, la Capella, 
 ed altre Camere diftribuite nell’ Ale per ufo della Servitù, e per accomodare gente di meftiere. 
 
 3. Piano nobile. A, la gran Sala; B, Salone ò fia prima Anti Camera; C, Portico; D, Sala di 
 
 compagnia; E, Galleria con tré divifioni lunga, incirca 108 Piedi; F, Anti-camera che conduce all’ 
 Appartamento dei Padroni ; G, Camera a Veftirfi ; H, la Libraria lunga 54 Piedi ; I, Camera di 
 Mi Lady Leicefter ; K, Camera per dormire col fuo Cabinetto a canto ; LL, Appartamenti per i 
 Stranieri ; M, altra Sala di Compagnia ; N, Camera della Toilette principale ; O, Sedia ò Palco 
 per i Padroni dentro la Capella; P, Capella ; Camera principale a dormire ; RS, Camere de 
 Toilette ; TU, due Camere le quali fanno un Appartamento diftinto, l’una per il Letto l’altra a 
 Veftirfi ; W, gran’ Sala a mangiare ; N, la Cucina che occupa l’altezza di due piani. 
 
 4. • Pianta dell’ Attico, ò Mezzanino dove v’è un’ altra Libraria grande con diverfe Camere a 
 
 dormire. 
 
 5. Facciata principale verfo Settentrione. 
 
 6. 7. verfo Mezzo dì. 
 
 8. dirimpetto *1 Levante. 
 
 9. verfo Occidente. 
 
 1 o, 11. Spaccato della Sala grande, Sala a mangiare, della Galleria, e d'uno dei Appartamenti princi- 
 pali a dormire. 
 
 12, 13. Spaccati per traverfo, della Sala grande, Salone, e del Portico* 
 
 14, 15. Spaccato della banda verfo’1 Salone. 
 
 16. della Libraria. 
 
 1 7* della Galleria, dove fono collocate le Statue antiche. 
 
 18. Soffitto della gran Sala. 
 
 19. della Sala di Compagnia. 
 
 20. dell’ altra Sala di Compagnia. 
 
 21. della Camera di Toilette principale. 
 
 22. della Camera principale per dormire. 
 
 23. della Camera per dormire verfo Settentrione. 
 
 24. della Camera de Toilette appartenente alla medema. 
 
 24. dei Cabinetti fra tutte due le Camere a dormire. • 
 
 2 5 • della gran Sala a mangiare. 
 
 26. Soffitto 
 
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 26. Soffitto della prima Camera del Padrone. 
 
 27. della feconda, ò Camera a Veftirfi. 
 
 2 7 * della fua Camera di Letto. 
 
 2 7 * della Camera di Milady Leicefter. 
 
 28. del Salone. 
 
 29. del Portico. 
 
 30. della Libraria. 
 
 31. dei Cabinetti de Toilette. 
 
 32. Spaccato della Capella ove v’è l'Affonzione della Madonna da Guido Reni, Sant' Anna, e Santa 
 
 Cecilia quadri dipinti dal Signor Cypriani. 
 
 32. Soffitto della medefima Capella. 
 
 33. della prima Camera nel Padiglione nuovo, ovvero de i Stranieri. 
 
 3 +- della Camera di Tapezzeria in fudetto Padiglione. 
 
 35 - d’un’ altra Camera fornita d'Arazzi, di color rotto, e giallo, nel medemo, 
 
 36. della Camera d’Arazzi color turchino, e giallo. 
 
 37. della Camera d’Arazzi color verde. 
 
 38. della Camera di Letto apartenente alla fudetta. 
 
 39. Portone della gran Sala, e del Salone. 
 
 40. Porte principali dell’ Appartamento Nobile. 
 
 41. Fin eftre principali. 
 
 42. Dette. 
 
 43. Camini della Sala di Compagnia, e della Galleria. 
 
 44. Detti della Sala a mangiare, e del Salone. 
 
 45. dell’ Aqti-camera, e della Camera di Toilette. 
 
 46. della Camera principale a dormire. 
 
 47. della Camera di Mi Lady Leicefter. 
 
 48. della Libraria. 
 
 49. della Capella. 
 
 50. della Camera di Tapezzeria Padiglione nuovo. 
 
 51. della Camera turchina e gialla. 
 
 52. dell’ Anti-camera del Padrone. 
 
 53. Facciata e Pianta d’un Calino fabbricato vicino il Giardino, per il Caftaldo e fuo Segretario. 
 
 54. Califfi Portinarii all’ Entrata Settentrionale del Parco. 
 
 55. Spaccato d’uno de’fopradetti. 
 
 56. Facciata d’un Tempietto nel Giardino. 
 
 57. Spaccato del medelimo. 
 
 58. Portico nell’Orangeria, e l’Alzato d’un’Arco nel Giardino. 
 
 59. Sedia fopra il Monte, e ’1 Obelifco Egiziaco nel Giardino. 
 
 60. Ponte Palladiano. 
 
 61. Altri Califfi Portinarii all' Entrata del Parco verfo Mezzo dì. 
 
 62. Arco Grande fu’ la Strada principale, dittante tré miglia dalla Villa. 
 
 63. Colombaria. 
 
 64. Facciata delle Stalle. 
 
 65. Pianta generale delle medelime. 
 
 66. Pavillione, ideato per un lito fui lido del Lago, non melfo in opera. 
 
 67. Califfi all’ Entrata Orientale, non metti in opera. 
 
 68. Il Roverfcio dei medelimi. 
 
 69. Pilaftri rullici, e porte di ferro ideate per l’Entrata verfo l’Occidente, non mette in opera. 
 
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 N. B. Nell Appartamento nobile, v’ è una Scielta de’ vari! belliffimi Quadri raccolti dall’ Italia, opere 
 Vquifite di Guido Reni, di Rubens, Vandike, di Dominichino, Lanfranco, Nicolo e Gafparo 
 Pollino, Tiziano, Pietro Cortona, ’ Carlo Maratti, con altri braviffimi Profeffori : Una Madonna, 
 col Bambino, Originale di Raffaele d’Urbino : Il Polifonie dipinto a frefeo da Anntbale Carracci, 
 tirato dal Palazzo Barberini; la Moglie di Potifera quadro dipinto in grande da Carlo Crgnanr, e 
 
 più de’ dieci Paefì belliffimi dipinti da Clodio Lorronefe, &c, 
 
 Nella Galleria opera perfettiffima in fuo genere, v’ è una raccolta di Statue antiche, cioè la famofa 
 Diana Cacciatrice, portata da Roma dal fù Ecc”' Signor Padrone ; il Dio Fauno di lavoro e 
 prefervazioné (Ingoiare; il Nettuno raro; Giunone, Agrippina maggiore, Lucio Antonio 
 riftorato dal Cavalier’ Bernini, Lucio Vero, Venere, Meleagro, Minerva, Cerere, Apollino, Bacco, 
 e due Faunetti che Tuonano la Fidala, e più di venti Buffi antichi, trà i quali c’è quello di 
 Cornelio Siila, di Metredoro, di Giunio Bruto, ed alcuni altri, Buffi raffilimi. 
 
 Anche nella Libraria vi fono Porta Foghi pieni de belliffimi Diffegni originali dai più eccelenti Maeflri 
 d’Italia; alcuni di Raffaele, di Giulio Romano, i Carracci, Guido Reni, Guercmo, Dommichino, 
 Andrea Sacelli, e Carlo Maratti : c di più v’ è un’ Libro de’ Diffegni tirati colla penna dalla mano 
 di F affo-!, doppo gli Edifici antichi di Roma effiftenti in tempo fuo ; Fregi, Cornicioni, ed altri 
 Ornati maravigliofamente diffegnati. 
 

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