without reluctance, leave a place fo properly calculated to inform the judgement, and intereft the fancy; where art appears without affectation, and nature without extravagance. WILTON, The Earl of PEMBROKE'S. N the court, before the grand front of the houfe, ftands a column of white Egyptian Granite, out of the Arundel collection. The fhaft weighs betwixt 60 and 70 hundred weight, of one piece. It has a fillet 5 inches broad below, and another at top, 3 inches broad, which project but half an inch. The height is 13 feet, the diameter 22 inches, and leffens fcarce two inches at top. It had a hole both at top and bottom, which shows that it anciently flood as a fingle pillar. The ftatue of Venus, ftanding on its top, Lord Arundel valued much, because it was the only one caft from a model made at Rome, proportionable to fome parts remaining of the broken broken antique. This Column was never erected fince it fell in the ruins of old Rome, till fet up here, with a Corinthian Capital and Base of white marble, which makes the Column, eight diameters, the whole, with all its parts, is 32 feet high. On the lower Fillet of this Column are five letters, which having the proper vowels fupplied, make ASTARTE, the name by which Venus was worshipped among the antient nations of the Eaft, In the Front of the House on each Side of the Entrance. Two Statues in black Marble, out of the ruins of the Palace in Egypt, in which the Viceroys of Perfia lived many years after Cambyfes returned to Perfia, from the conquest of Egypt. There is a garment on their shoulders of different coloured marble, and only their toes appear at bottom. There is the old Diadem on one of them. In the Great Gate-way. A Statue of Shakespeare, (by Scheemaker) in the fame manner as in Westminster-Abbey, only the lines on the fcrole are different, these are cut of his Macbeth. Life's but a walking Shadow, a poor Player, This Gate-way and Tower were begun by William Earl of Pembroke, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and finished by his fon Henry Earl of Pembroke. The faid Earl William received, from King Henry the Eighth, a grant of Wilton-Abbey, &c. In the Middle of the Inner Court. In four niches of a Pedestal (whereon stands a Horfe as large as the life) afe four Statues; the first of Jupiter Ammon from Thrace, not only with Ram's Horns, but with a whole Ram on his shoulders; it came out of the Temple, faid to be built there by Sefoftris. On the right Hand, is the Father of Julius Cæfar when Governor in Egypt. The next is Plautilla, the wife of Caracalla, dreffed like Diana the Huntress. The Fourth is Cho the Mufe. In In two painted Niches are two Statues; the firft is Attis, Cybele's high Priest, cloathed as a Woman (a). In the other Niche is a Statue of Autumnus, with Autumn Fruits. On one Side of the Gate-way. The Bufto of Pan. On the other Side. The Bufto of Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great. In the Porch, built by Hans Holbein, leading into the Veftibule. The Buftos of Hannibal, Pefcennius Niger, Albinus, Miltiades. Buftos in the Vestibule. Begin with that next to a Pillar by the Door. Pindar, Theophraftus, Sophocles, Philemon, Tryphena, Vibius Varus, Lucius Verns when (a) See Montfaucon, Vol. I. Emperor, Emperor, Didius Julianus, Agrippina Major, Ariftophanes, Caligula. Here are two Columns of the Paionet (or Peacock) marble, each 9 f. 7 in. high, made ufe of for Urns. There are holes at the top to put ashes in; they were in the Columbarium of a nobleman and his wife, and the infcription over them, which was in the wall fignified, that they had made that Columbarium. In the Middle of the Vestibule. The Statue of Apollo, out of the Juftiniani Gallery. He appears with a moft graceful air in a refting pofture, having hung his Quiver on the laurel with many ornaments of very fine Sculpture. In the Dining-Room. Over the Door. Still Life of Plate and Earthen Veffels On each Side of the Door. Labradore. A Capital Picture; one by Tintoret reprefents our Saviour washing St. Peter's Feet, the other Difciples being present. The |