A Dreffing-Room. ANGINGS of Yellow Silk Damask, trim H med with Silver; with the following Paintings: Joan of Art, over the Chimney. Sir Thomas Temple. Lady Hefter Temple. T A Bed-Chamber. HE Hangings, Bed, Chairs and Ornaments of The Representation of the Holy Lamb. Two Landscapes, one over each Door. G A Dreffing-Room. REEN Damask, trimmed with Gold, with the A Picture over the Chimney, by Rembrant. Two Saints, St. Laurence, and St. Stephen, one over each Door. On one Side, Orodes ordering melted Gold to be poured into the Mouth of Craffus. On the other, two Pieces of Ruins, and a Landscape, with Dancing Satyrs, by Paul Brill. The Rape of Helen, by Thefeus. The Return of Chryfeis to her Father, both by Pri maticcio. G A Bed-Chamber. REEN Damask Bed, Hangings and Chairs PAINTINGS. 1. An Original Portrait of Oliver Cromwell. 2. A Silenus. 3. A Portrait of Colonel Stanyan.` T A Dreffing-Room. HE Paintings in this Room are, A Portrait of Rubens's Wife, over one Door, by Rubens. Over the other, a Knight of the Bath, by Vandyke. Cymon and Iphigenia. The STATE APARTMENT S. The State Gallery; Is 70 Feet 9 Inches, by 25 Feet long, and 22 Feet high; ITH two Marble Chimney Pieces of Sienna, &c. The Cieling finely ornamented with Paintings and Gilding, by Sclater. Two fine large Marble Tables, with two large Pier-Glaffes.- -The Walls are adorned with curious Pieces of Tapeftry, vize 1. The Triumph of Diana. 2. The Triumph of Mars. 3. The Triumph of Venus. 4. The Triumph of Bacchus. 5. The Triumph of Ceres. The Piers are adorned with Trophies. Two Chimnies, the upper Parts of which are adorned with Gilding and Carving. 1. Reprefenting Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnaffus. 2. A Goddess conducting Learning to Truth. The State Dreffing-Room Is 24 Feet 8 Inches, by 30 Feet, and 19 Feet 4 H Inches high; UNG with Blue Damask, and Chairs and Window Curtains of the fame. The Doors and Ciel ing are finely ornamented with Carving and Gilding. The Paintings are, A fine Portrait of the late Lord Cobham, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Four Converfation Pieces, by Francifco Cippo. Venus binding the Eyes of a Cupid, and the Graces offering Tribute. The State Bed-Chamber. Is 56 Feet 8 Inches, by 25 Feet 10 Inches, and 18 Feet 8 Inches high, T HE Bed and Cieling by Signor Borra; and Pillars of the Corinthian Order: The whole finely carved and gilt. A Madona from the School of Rubens. A Picture over the Chimney. A very Curious Chimney-piece of White Marble, defigned by Signor Borra. 'Two Marble Tables. Two fine large Pier Glaffes. The State Clofet. UNG with Blue Damask, finely ornamented Hwith Carving and Gilding Out of which we go into a Colonade, where is a beautiful View of the Gardens and the Country. The Paffage is ornamented with Marble Bufts. There is also a grand Stair-cafe, adorned with Paintings of the Four Seafons.The Cieling reprefents the Rifing Sun, by Phœbus in his Car. The GARDENS. HE Spectator will have an Idea of what he is to expect in thefe unrivalled Gardens, where TH Art Art and Nature are fo excellently blended, by the following Lines. With Envy ftung, and Emulation fir'd, Nature the Foreft plants, extends the Plain, Baffled in each Attempt, at Length they ceafe Their fierce Dispute, and knit in Leagues of Peace; Determin'd with associate Powers to fhew One Matchlefs Effort of their Force at Srow. The World, aftonifh'd, as the Labour grew, Exclaims, "What cannot Art and Nature do!" The Southern entrance of the Gardens is formed by two Pavillions of the Doric order, defigned by Sir John Vanbrugh. They are adorned with Rough mafterly Paintings, by Nollikins. The Stories are from Paftor Fido.* The firft ftriking Object is an OBELISC, near 70 Feet high, defigned for a Jet d'Eau, and placed in the Middle of a large OCTAGON PIECE OF WATER. At fome Distance we perceive two Rivers, which are at A&t ii, Scene 3. -Act iii, Scene 2. laft i laft united, and enter the OCTAGON in one stream. Over one of thefe is a PALLADIAN BRIDGE. From this point a Gothic Edifice dedicated to Liberty, 70 feet in height, appears on the top of a hill. On the left is an EGYPTIAN PYRAMID. Here we have a Prospect of a natural CASCADE, falling from the last mentioned OCTAGON, in three distinct sheets, into an extensive LAKE. One of them paffes through the arch of an ARTIFI CIAL RUIN, Covered with ever-greens. But it is time to drop this general and collective detail, and proceed to give a circumstantial and distinct difplay of each remarkable Particular, as it feverally and fucceffively prefents itself, in our progrefs through the Gardens. The HERMITAGE, built of rough ftone and agreeably fituated in a rifing Wood, on the banks of the Lake. The STATUES of CAIN and ABEL, which are finely executed. The TEMPLE of VENUS, with the Infcription, VENERI HORTENSI; i. e." To the Garden Venus." It was defigned by Kent; and is painted with the story of Hellenore and Malbecco*, by Scleter. It is adorned, in the front, with the bufts of Nero, Vefpafian, Cleopatra, and Fauftina. Over the freeze is the following motto alluding to the painting, from a Poem afcribed to Catullus. Nunc amet, qui nunquam amavit ; Thus tranflated by Parnell. Let him love now, who never lov'd before; The BELVIDERE, or Gibbes's Building. Underneath is an Ice-Houfe. The ROMAN BOXERS, admirably copied, Spencer's Fairy Queen, B. III, C. 3. TWO |