THE House and Gardens at STOW, The SEAT of The Right Hon. the Earl TEMPLE. A us to Grand Flight of Steps, defigned by Signor The SALOON, WHICH is a grand Apartment hung with Tapestry, reprefenting the Functions of the Cavalry. The Dimenfions of this Room are 43 Feet by 22; the Furniture is Crimson, orna mented with two Marble Bufts, a rich Cabinet, and fine China Jars. The PICTURES are 1. A Landfcape. ISV MOMENT 2. A Flower-piece. 3. A Fruit-piece. 12v 248 MCH THI The HA LL.. 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 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 also eleven Marble Bufts properly disposed, and a Statue of Narciffus. 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. A fmall ditto of Acis and Galatea, by Mile. A large Picture o young Bacchanals. A Sea Port, by a Flemish Mafter. A Landscape with Figures and Cattle, by Baffan. Vulcan, and Venus. The Marriage at Cana, by Baffan. Mofes burying the Egyptian, by Pouffin. A Bed Chamber, with two Dressing Rooms. THE HE Hangings, Bed, and Furniture of this Apartment are rich Crimson; and over the Chimney is a full length Portrait of the late Countefs of Dorfet. In the first 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. The T The Grand STAIR CASE. HIS Stair Cafe is ornamented with Iron pieces, painted by Sclater, viz. I 1. Juftice and Peace. The Walls are adorned with military Pieces. S wainscotted with Cedar, and has a Gallery of the fame, hung with Crimson Velvet. Its Dimensions are, 37 Feet by 20 Feet 10 Inches, and 26 Feet high. Over the Communion Table is a fine Painting of the Resurrection, 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 Wainscot enriched with elegant Carving, by Guibbons. Her Her Ladyfhip's Dreffing Room. THE 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 Iölli. Her Ladyfhip's Bed-Chamber. HE Hangings, Chairs, &c. the fame as the Dreffing Room; with a Picture of a Chinese Temple over the Chimney, by Lölli. The CHINESE CLOSET. HIS is the Repofitory of her Ladyfhip's valuable China. The Japan and Ornaments were a Present 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. I 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 first. 1. The late Countefs Temple, Mother to the present Earl. 2. The prefent Countefs Tim le: 3. The prefent Earl Temple. 4. The Right Honourable George Grenville. 5. The Honourable James Grenville 6. The The Seat of the RIGHT HONOURABLE The EARL of HARCOURT. Collection of Pictures. 1773. The BREAKFAST-ROOM. VER the Chimney; A Nymph with Cupids, representing Evening, by Valerio Caftelli. Over the Doors; Two fmall Landscapes, with Figures, by Paul Brill. A Landscape, with large Figures, a fine Picture, by Francefco Bolognefe. Two Landicapes, by Tempesta of Genoa. Two Fruit Pieces, by Michael Angelo Campidoglio. King WILLIAM hunting, with feveral figures, by Wootton. A Landscape, by Swanevelt. A Male and Female Satyr, after Rubens. The EATING-ROOM. 32 by 24, and 18: Feet high. VER the Chimney; Ulyffes and Nauficaa, a moft capital Picture, by Salvator Rofa; a prefent to Lord Harcourt, from the Comte de Har-. court-Lillebonne. A Landscape by Ruyfdaal, the Figures by Wouvermans. |