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On the right fide of the Garden,
back'd by a Plantation of Shrubs,
is a Buft of LOCKE,

Who made the whole internal world his own,
Who fhew'd confefs'd to reafon's purged eye,
That nature's firft beft gift was liberty.

The CONSERVATORY,

Fifty feet by fifteen, is planted with bergamot, cedrati, limoncelli, and orange trees of various kinds and fizes. In fummer, the front, fides, and roof of the building are entirely removed, and the trees appear in the natural ground. The back wall is covered with a treillage, against which are planted lemon, citron, and pomegranate trees, intermixed with all the different forts of jeffamines.

The Statue of HEBE

terminates the principal glade, and fronts the temple of Flora: it is backed by a large clump of fhrubs, which forms a collection of all fuch ever-greens as flourish in the open air. On the pedeftral of the ftatue are the following verses:

Hebe, from thy cup divine,

Shed, O! fhed, nectareous dews,
Here o'er Nature's living fhrine,
Th' immortal drops diffuse :

Here while every bloom's difplay'd,

Shining fair in vernal Pride,

Catch the colours e'er they fade,

And check the green blood's ebbing tide,

Till youth eternal like thine own prevail,

Safe from the night's damp wing or day's infidious

gale.

WM, WHITEHEAD, Efq.

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House and Gardens at STOW,

The SEAT of

The Right Hon. the Earl TEMPLE.

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Grand Flight of Steps, defigned by Signor Borra, ornamented with Baluftrades, leads us to

The SALOON,

HICH is a grand Apartment hung with

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Cavalry. The Dimenfions of this Room are 43 Feet by 22; the Furniture is Crim fon, ornamented with two Marble Bufts, a rich Cabinet, and fine China Jars.

The PICTURES are

1. A Landscape.

2. A Flower-piece.

3. A Fruit-piece.

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The HA L L.

HIS is a fpacious Room, 36 Feet by 22 and half, defigned and painted by Kent. It's Cieling is enriched with the Signs of the Zodiac; and the Walls are adorned with Feftoons of Flowers, &c..

Over the Chimney is a curious Piece of Alto Relievo, the Story of which is Darius's Tent: Here are alfo eleven Marble Bufts, properly difpofed, and a Statue of Narciffus.

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The DINING ROOM

S a well proportioned Apartment, 30 feet by 21, in which are the following Paintings, viz.

Two large Landscapes, by Orizonti.

Two fmall ditto, by Loten.

A Dancing at the Duke of Mantua's Marriage, by Tintoretto.

A Landscape, by Claude Lorrain.

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A fmall ditto of Acis and Galatea, by Milé.

A large Picture of young Bacchanals.

A Sea Port, by a Flemish Mafter.

A Landscape with Figures and Cattle, by Bassan. A Landscape, with a Mill.

Vulcan, and Venus.

The Marriage at Cana, by Bassan.

Mofes burying the Egyptian, by Pouffin.

A Bed Chamber, with two Dreffing Rooms.

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HE Hangings, Bed, and Farniture of this Apartment are rich Crimfon; and over the Chimney is a full length Portrait of the late Countess of Dorfet.

In the firft Dreffing Room, a Piece of Still Life over the Chimney.

In the Second, a fine Cabinet, and over the Chimney, Prince Henry, at full length.

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The Grand STAIR CASE.

HIS Stair Cafe is ornamented with Iron Work, and enriched with three Cieling-pieces, painted by Sclater, viz.

1. Juftice and Peace.

2. Fame and Victory.

3. Plenty and Conftancy.

The Walls are adorned with military Pieces.

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The CHAPEL

S wainscotted with Ceder, and has a Gallery of the fame, hung with Crimson Velvet. Its Dimenfions are, 37 Feet by 20 Feet 10 Inches, and 26 Feet high.

Over the Communion Table is a fine Painting of the Refurrection, by Tintoretto; and over that is the King's Arms, richly carved and ornamented.

Above the Cedar Wainscot, are the following Paintings at full length, viz.

1. Mofes and Aaron.

2. St. Peter and St. Paul. 3. The Four Evangelifts. 4. The Afcenfion.

5. Baptifm.

6. The Salutation of the Virgin Mary.

The Cieling is the fame as in the Chapel Royal at St. James's, and the Cedar Wainfcot enriched with elegant Carving, by Guibbons.

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Her Ladyfhip's Dreffing Room.

HE Hangings, Chairs, and Window Curtains of fine printed Cotton.

A fine old Japan Cabinet, ornamented with China

Jars.

A fine View of Pekin, over the Chimney-Piece, by Iolli.

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Her Ladyship's Bed-Chamber.

HE Hangings, Chairs, &c. the fame as the Dreffing Room; with a Picture of a Chinese Temple over the Chimney, by Iolli..

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The CHINESE

CLOSET.

HIS is the Repofitory of her Ladyship's valuable China. The Japan and Ornaments were

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a Prefent from the late Prince and Princefs of Wales. From hence we enter a Colonade adorned with Paintings, by Sclater. It is embellished with Exotics and flowering Shrubs.

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The GRENVILLE ROOM,

S 29 Feet 8 Inches by 26 Feet 3 Inches, and 19 Feet 4 Inches high, is hung with Green Velvet, and ornamented with the following Portraits, all at full length, except the firft.

1. The late Countess Temple, Mother to the prefent Earl.

2. The present Countess Temple.

3. The prefent Earl Temple.

4. The Right Honourable George Grenville.
5. The Honourable James Grenville.

6. The Honourable Henry Grenville, formerly Governor of Barbadoes.

7. The Honourable Thomas Grenville, who was killed in Defence of his Country, on board the Defiance, of which Ship he was Captain.

8. The Right Honourable Lady Hefter Pitt.

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The GALLERY.

Magnificent Apartment, 74 Feet by 25 Feet, and 20 Feet high, with Gobelin Tapestry Chairs, and is hung with three fine Pieces of Tapestry, viz. 1. A beautiful Representation of a Farm.

2. A Dutch Wake from Teniers.

3. A Dutch Fishery, from ditto.

The two Chimnies have Pictures of Roman Ruins over each, by Panini.

The Four Doors have rural Pictures over each, viz. 1. Plowing. 2. Reaping.

3. Hay-making. 4. Sheep-fhearing.

And a Rich Cabinet at each End, containing Books;

and 10 Marble Bufts of Roman Emperors.

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