with Lady; Mr. Betterton, the Actor; two Dutch Pieces; ditto, by Hemfkirk; James fecond Earl of Middlesex.

The Horn Gallery: the pictures are, Luther, Holbein ; Melan&thon, ditto; Erafinus, ditto; Pomcranius, ditto; Heads of various illuftrious perfons in the time of Henry VIII, and the three fucceeding reigns; two Heads of Anne Boleyn; Edward VI; Elizabeth Queen' of Bohemia; Wickliff.

Lady Betty Germain's Bed Chamber: In this room are, Vandyck, and his father-in-law, the unfortunate Earl of Gowry, in gold tapestry; the principal pictures are, Judith with the Head of Holofernes; the Lady of Sir Walter Raleigh; Saint Francis, and a Holy Family.

The Dreffing Room: In this room are, Edward fourth Earl of Dorfet, Vandyck; the Duke's Arms, curiously cut in paper, by Mrs. Robinfon; Richard fifth Earl of Dorfet; two of Charles fixth Earl of Dorfet, when a Child; Drawings by Polidore, Titian, Michael Angelo, &c.

The Spangled Bed Room: the pictures, James Duke of Monmouth; Mrs. Sackville, Lely. In this room is a state-bed, prefented by James I, to Lionel Earl of Middlesex, when Lord Treasurer, and a very curious large

ebony cabinet.

The Dreffing Room: the pictures are, the Hiftory of the Maccabees, Vandyck; Medea and Jafon, Titian; Abraham entertaining the angels, Guercino; a Sybil, a copy, by Old Stone, at Rome; Francis I of France, Holbein ; his Queen, ditto; Peafants, Teniers; Dryden; Charles V; Holbein; Angel and St. Peter; Anne Duchess of York; Mother of Queen Mary and Queen Anne, Lely; Countess of Shrewsbury, ditto; Duchefs of Richmond; a Satyr difcovering a fleeping Venus, Correggio; Sir Theodore Mayerne, Phyfician to James I, Vandyck; a Dutch Piece, Heemskerk; Vandyck and Lord Gowry, Vandyck; a Landscape, Salvator Refa; Frank Helos, by himfelf; a Nativity, Bafien; Holy Family, Titian.

The Billiard Rom: the pictures, Oliver Cromwell, Walker; Democritus, Mignard; His aclitus, ditto; Ac teon, Titian; Califto, ditto; James Cranfield and his Sifter, Vandyck; Edward fourth Earl of Deriet, ditto;

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the Salutation, Rembrandt; Prince Palatine of the Rhine and his Daughters, Lucas de Heere; George III, Ramfay; Queen Charlotte, ditto;hilip II of Spain, Sir A. More; his Queen, ditto; Lady Martha Cranfield; Sir Ralph Bofwell; Holy Family; Lionel Duke of Dorset, and his Sifter when Children; Countefs of Bedford, Lely; Arts and Sciences, Vafari; Anthony and Cleopatra, Dance; James Marquis of Hamilton, Vandyck ; James I, Mytens; Henry Prince of Wales, his Son; Lord Somers, Kneller; Robert fecond Earl of Dorset ; Duke d'Efpernon; a Venetian Ambaffador, C. Janffen. On a window is painted a man in armour, with this infcription: "Hermannus de Sackvill, præpotens Normannus, intravit Angliam cum Gulielmo Conqueftore, A. D. 1066." In a paffage from this room to the Brown Gallery, among other pictures, are Major Moor, the Prize Fighter; Thomas Flatinan, the Poet; and Abp. Tenifon.

The Venetian Room: the pictures are, the God of Silence, copied from Schiavone, by Cartwright; Lady Hume; Countess of Dorfet; Lionel Duke of Dorfet; and his Duchefs. It this room is a ftate-bed intended for the reception of James II.

The Drefing Room: the pictures are Lionel Duke of Dorfet, Wootton; Mrs. Abington, as the Comic Mufe, Reynolds; a Farm Yard, Hondekoeter; the Wife of Titian going to poifon his Mifirefs, Titian; a Painter's Gallery, Old Frank; a Dutch Piece, Van Pool; a Candle-light Piece, Scalcken; a Woman contemplating a Skull, Elfheimer; a Landscape, Salvator Rofa; a Mai querade, Paul Veronefe; Banditti, Vandervelde; ano. ther candle-light Piece, Scalcken: a Battle, Bourginone; St. Paul, Rembrandt; Banditti, Salvator Rofa: a Poor Family, ditto; St. Francis; Cleopatra; a Landscape, Bergham; Mr. Brett, Janfen; Countess of Dorfet, ditto; Sachariffa; Landfcape, with figures, Botham; a Sifter of the first Duchefs of Dorfet; Sir Thomas More, Holbein; Earl of Shaftesbury, Riley; four Spanish Pieces.

The Ball Room In this noble room the pictures are, the prefent Duke, Reynolds; George Vilcount Sackville, Gainsborough; Dover Caftle, with the Proceffion of

Lionel Duke of Dorfet, Lord Warden, on his Return to the castle, Wootton; Lionel Duke of Dorfet, Kneller; his Duchefs, Hudfon; Charles Duke of Dorfet, Kneller; his Duchefs, ditto; Richard Sackville, Mytens; his Lady, ditto; Lionel Earl of Middlefex, ditto; his Counters, ditto; Thomas first Earl of Dorset, Janfen. These portraits are all full lengths.

The Chapel Room In this room are the portraits of Madame Baccelli, Gainsborough; and of Sir Fleetwood Shepherd; and a beautiful ebony cabinet, with figures of the Crucifixion.

The Chapel, in which is a picture of our Saviour; Chrift fcourged; Chrift walking on the Sea.

The Lower Chapel contains a picture of the Apostles compofing the Creed, done in Raphael's School.

The Organ Room: In this are the pictures of James I; James Duke of Ormond; Charles Earl of Middlefex, in a confular drefs, and other family portraits; Rape of the Wife of Hercules by a Centaur, Annibal Carracci; a Magdalen, Albani; Ortelius, the Inventor of Maps, Holbein; and fome others.

The Drawing Room: The pictures, a Sybil, Domenichino; Sir Kenelm Digby, Vandyck; the Story of Count Ugolino and his fons, ftarving in prifon, Reynolds, for which the Duke gave 400l. and has fince refufed 1000l. Henry VIII, Holbein; Countefs of Dorfet, Vandyck; a Beggar Boy, Reynolds; the Four Seafons, Philip Laura; Dutch Figures, Teniers; Madame Sheldon, Reynolds; an Artist, ditto; a Dutch Wedding, Teniers; two Cupids in difguife, Reynolds; Head of an old Man, Tintoret; two fmall Landscapes; Duchefs of Cleveland, Lely; Jofeph and the Angel, Mentz; Fortune-tellers, Reynolds; Holy Family, And. del Sarto; a Chinate, Reynolds; a Landscape, Berghem; a Girl and Fird, Reynolds; a French Poft Houfe, Wouvermans; Madame Baccelli, Reynolds; a Dutch Family, Surght; Angel and Peter, Teniers; a fmall picture, Vandyck; Marriage of St. Catharine, Farmegiano; Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Garobalo; a Fancy Piece, Wouvermans; a Pieta, Annibal Caracci; Holy Family, Pater Perugino; Head of Raphael, Himfelf; St. Peter, Rem

brandt ;

brandt; Sacchini, Reynolds; Execution of Charles I; two fmall Landscapes, More. All the paintings in this room are very capital.

The Cartoon Gallery: Here are copies of the Cartoons of Raphael, by Mytens, the first ever made, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester; Charles fixth Earl of Dorset, Kneller; his Countefs, ditto; a capital picture, by Holbein, of the Earl of Surry; James Earl of Northampton; the firft Earl of Dorfet, Janfen. In this room also are four fine ftatues, in plaifter of Paris, from the Florentine Gallery; namely, a Dancing Fawn, Venus de Medicis, a Liftening Slave, and the Boxers.

The King's Bed Chamber: Here are a portrait of Mr. Crewe; Lucretia, by Guido Rheni, worth 1400l. and a ftate bed of gold and filver tiflute, that coft 8000l. It is lined with pink fatin emboffed with gold and filver, &c. and the reft of the ancient furniture in this room is in a ftyle of correfpondent magnificence.

The Dining Parlour: The pictures are, Pharaoh's Daughter taking Mofes from the Bull Rufhes, Giordano; Charles fixth Earl of Dorfet, Kneller; Mr. Garrick, Reynolds; Mr. Foote, Romney; Dr. Goldfmith, Reynolds; Dr. Johnson, ditto; Sir Joshua Reynolds, ditto; Mr. Humphreys, the Miniature Painter, Romney; James I; Henry Prince of Wales; Pope, Gay, Swift, Congreve, Milton, Betterton, Garth, Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Dryden, Sir Philip Sydney, William Cartwright, Villiers fecond Duke of Buckingham, Cowley, Wycherly, Locke, Hobbes, St. Everemont, Newton, Otway, and D'Urfey, the greatest part by Kneller; Corelli; Earl of Rochester, Du Bois; Thomas firft Earl of Dorfet; Richard I; Beaumont and Fletcher; Sir Charles Sedley; Chaucer; Prior; Waller; Butler; Addifon; a Converfation Piece, by Gooch and others. In the chimney is a curious pair of dogs, with the Arms of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn. In this room Oliver Cromwell held a court of fequeftration, and fequeftred the eítates of the Earl of Dorfet, for his adherence to the royal cause.

In The Colonnade is a reprefentation, on curious painted glafs, of all the marriages in the family, from Thomas, the first Earl, to the prefent time; marble bufts (antiques,

bought

bought at Rome) of Anthony, Mithridates, Pompey, an Ancient unknown, L. J. Brutus, Thefeus, J. Cæfar, Marcellus, M. Brutus, and a young Hercules; and, two fide-boards made of the lava of Vefuvius.

The Guard Room: The pictures, Charles fecond Duke of Dorfet, Rofalba; Madame Mofokoveti, ditto; Lady Milton, ditto; a Lady, ditto; Rofalba, Herself; an Angel conveying a Child to Heaven, Cortona; two Landscapes, Dean; four Drawings, Clariffa; four Pieces of Game; a Flemish Piece; two candle-light Pieces, Van Pool; Oysters, &c. very fine; the Nativity, Old Palma; Lewis XV of France; Charles II; Mrs. Woffington, as Penelope; two curious Fan Pieces, Guido ; View of Knole, Sandby; Lady Betty Germaine, Philips; a Roman Amphitheatre, a fine Mofaic Picture, by Cæfar Aquatti. In this room is a curious brafs weighing Machine.

The Blue Room: The pictures, a Head, Guido; a Head of Raphael, Himfelf; the Virgin teaching Chrift to read; a boy and Lamb, Correggio; a Sea Piece, Vandervelde; Cofmo Duke of Tufcany, Tintoret; two Cupids, Pouffin; three Cupids, Parmegiano; Mrs. Bates, Humphreys; the Wife Men's Offering; a Fancy Piece; a Drawing of the prefent Duchefs, by Dance, and another by Cipriani; Lady Mary Sackville, a Miniature, by Lady Malden; the Prophet Samuel, Reynolds; St. John and a Lamb, Vandyck; a Queen, Rembrandt; a Magdalen and Crofs, Guercino; a fine Head, Clermont; Flight into Egypt, Paul Brill; a Landicape, Rottenhammer; Mrs. Sheridan, Gainsborough; her brother, ditto; a Poetefs, Domenichino; a fine Madona, Raphael; a ditto; a Dog, Hackwood; Mr. Burke, Opie; a French Nobleman, Gainsborough; a Miniature of three Kings of France. All the paintings in this room are esteemed very capital.

The Drawing Room below Stairs: The pictures, Lady Betty Germain; and St. Peter's at Rome.

In general, it will fuffice to obferve, that many of the rooms are hung with curious old tapestry; and that the furniture and decorations, which are ancient, and which

exhibit