are, 5th Apartment. The particular and moft remarkable Pieces I A Holy Family. 2 The Offering of the Magi. 3 Angel directing Lot out of Sodom. 4 The Flight into Egypt. 5 An unfinished Piece. 6 A Madona, by Carlo Maratti. 7 Mary Magdalen, by Carlo Dolci. Rubens. 8 Two Madona's, in different attitudes, by Titian. 9 Herod's Cruelties, by Paul Veronefe. 10 Queen Esther, by Ditto. 11 A Head, by Rubens. 12 Ditto, by Hans Holbein. 13 Paffage of the Red Sea, by old Franks. 14 Deftruction of Troy, by Bruhl. 15 A Holy Family, by Caracci. To which we may add, four fmall Pieces, and a Dutch Piece, by Teniers; and two fmall Pieces, by Philippo Lauri. With feveral other C 2 fmal fmall Pieces; in particular, a Portrait of Paracelfus; a Piece of Architecture; a Battle Piece; an Affembly of the Gods, &c. 6th Apartment. The Tapestry of the Duke's Battles is here begun, which are introduced by a moft lively reprefentation of a Suttling Booth, Foragers, a Battle, and a Siege. The Pictures. 1 Chrift receiving the Children, by a Scholar of Rubens. 2 Lord Sunderland, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 3 Dobson, an English Painter, in the Reign of King James I. with his Family, by himfelf. This laft is an admirable Piece, in the old correct Manner. 7th Apartment. The Tapestry reprefents the Battles of Wynendale, Bouchain, and Oudenarde, with the Siege of Donawert. The The Pictures. i Jupiter and Europa, by Paul Veronese. 8th Apartment. í The Three Graces cloathed, by Rubens. 2 Venus and Adonis, Ditto. 3 Silenus ægle, and Satyrs, &c. Ditto. 4 The Roman Charity, Ditto. 5 The Egyptian Fortune-Tellers, by M. Angelo Carravaggio. 6 A Battle Piece, by Bourgognone. 7 Another, by Ditto. With fix Landfkips, by Wootton. The Saloon. The Walls are adorned with Paintings of the different Habits, and Modes of Drefs of all Nations. In one of the compartments the Painter, La Guerre, has taken an opportunity of introducing himself. The Ceiling, which is executed by the fame. hand, is an Allegorical Piece, reprefenting Peace flopping the Duke in his Career, and Time admonishing him of the rapidity of his own Flight. 9th Apartment. The Tapestry of the Dukes Battles is here continued with the Battles of Blenheim, Malplaquet, and the Siege of Lifle. Paintings. I A Hunting Piece, by Schnciler. 2 Another Hunting Piece, Ditto. 3 A Dutch Piece, Painter's name unknown. 10th Apartment. The March to, and the Siege of, Bouchain, in the Tapestry here, compleat the fuite of the Dukes Battles. The Pictures. 1 Ifaac bleffing Jacob, by Rembrandt. 2 The Old Duke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 3 A Fruit Piece, by Michael Angelo. 11th Apartment. 11th Apartment. 1 A Piece of Still Life, by Maltefe. 2 A Ditto, by Ditto. 3 The late Dutchefs, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The Apartments hitherto defcribed, compleat the Eaft and South Fronts of the Palace, and we now turn on the right Hand. The Library: From a series of fmaller, though magnificent Apartments, we are fuddenly ftruck at entering this Superb Room, which is 180 feet in length, and proportionably broad and lofty. The Doric Pilafters of Marble, with the complete columns of the fame, which fupport a rich Entablature, the Window-Frames, the furrounding Basement of Black Marble, and the Stuccoed compartments of the Vaulted Cieling, are in the highest taste, both in design and finishing. It was originally intended as a Gallery for Paintings; but the late jufly lamented Duke has added utility to elegance, having furnished it with the noble collection of Books, made by Lord Sunderland his Graces Father. Their number is faid to amount to 24000 |