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Denton Park, Yorkshire;

THE SEAT OF

SIR HENRY CARR IBBETSON, BART.

DENTON CASTLE, originally so called, in the West Riding of the County of York, five miles north-west of Otley, was the Seat of the celebrated General, Thomas Lord Fairfax, from whom the present possessor, Sir Henry Ibbetson, is lineally descended in right of his grandmother, Isabella, the first Lady Ibbetson, whose maiden name was Carr, sister of the late Ralph Carr, Esq. of Cocken, in the County of Durham.

Denton Park, as it is now called, was purchased by Henry Ibbetson, Esq. of Red Hall, near Leeds, in the year 1690; and at his death his eldest son, the late Samuel Ibbetson, succeeded to it; who leaving an only daughter, Alice, Countess of Shipbrook, the Estate being entailed on male issue, descended of right to the late Sir James Ibbetson, the eldest son of a younger brother, Henry Ibbetson, Esq., created a Baronet in 1748 during the life-time of his elder brother, Samuel. The original Castle, a very magnificent building, was burnt by accident in the time of Henry Ibbetson, the first purchaser, and rebuilt on a modern and moderate scale by his son Samuel, on whose death it was pulled down by Sir James, and the present elegant structure was erected by him from a plan of that celebrated architect, Mr. Carr, of York, with stone found on the Estate, allowed by Mr. Carr to be the finest and best he ever met with for architectural

uses.

The House is situated in the centre of a beautiful and well-wooded Park, of two hundred and; sixty acres in extent, near the river Wharf. The front, including the Wings, which contain the offices, is two hundred and eighty feet in length; the Stables being detached from the House. The dimensions of the principal Rooms, which are hung with a fine collection of pictures by ancient masters, are as follow:

The Entrance Hall, thirty-four by twenty-eight feet; through which is the Library, thirty by eighteen feet: containing many fine Prints, and a well chosen collection of Books, about twelve hundred volumes. On the left a Drawing-room, thirty-three by twenty-two feet, hung with Paintings; on right a Dining room, thirty-three by twenty-two feet, hung also with Pictures; through which a Billiard-room, thirty-two by twenty feet; hung with Paintings. From the Great Staircase, a Room, used as a private Study by Sir Henry, twenty-two by eighteen feet, Portraits, &c.

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The whole of these Rooms are seventeen feet high.

Over the Billiard-room, a ladies' morning Sitting-room, thirty-two by twenty feet, and fourteen feet high, the Great Staircase is circular, from whence the height of the House has a novel and beautiful effect. There are four Bed-rooms, with Dressing-rooms, and six large single Bed-rooms, exclusive of Servants'

rooms.

List of the principal Pictures at Denton Park.

Samson seized by the Philistines in Delilah's
chamber, 9 feet high and eleven wide, figures
size of life-Titian.

Dead Game and Dogs, in a Larder, very large-
Snyders.

Peacocks and Poultry, very large-Hondekoeter.
Holy Family, very large-Andrea del Sarto.

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, very large-Tinto

retto.

Sea-piece, a Calm-Vandervelde.
Landscape-Swanfield.

Ditto and Country Fair-Sachtleven.

Rinaldo and Armida in the enchanted Garden-
Mieris.

Landscape Everdingen.

Two small Battle-pieces-Bourgognone.

The Fallen Angels-Michael Angelo Bounarotti.
Landscape and Banditti, very large-Salvator
Rosa.

Nebuchadnezzar grazing, large-Paul Brill.

Inside of a Dutch Church, large-Stenwyck.
Landscape with Cattle, large—Rosa di Tivoli.
Landscape with Cattle-Weeninx.
Virgil's Tomb-F. P. Ferg.

Two Landscapes-Ruysdael.

Two Sea-pieces, a Calm and a Storm-Bonaventure Petre.

A Landscape, sunrise-John Both.

A Holy Family-Annibal Caracci.

A Ditto-Ludovico Caracci.

Andromeda chained to the Rock-Rubens.

Catharine of Arragon, and Princess Mary-Hans
Holbein.

An old Man's Head-Rembrandt.

Christ in the Temple-Ditto.

The Offering of the wise men-Mabeuge.

A Smith's Shop-Wouvermans.

View of Naples-Canaletti.

A Holy Family, very small-Curlo Maratti.

And about seventy others by old masters; the whole collected about sixty years ago.

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