liam Waller, by his first wife Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Raynal, of Ford, Devon; wife to Sir William Courtenay of Powderham Castle. Under it, Bacchus and Ariadne, after Guido, by his fcholar, Simon da Pesaro: a fine copy.

THE KING'S DRESSING ROOM.

Over the chimney, a Turkish army on its march in Egypt, by Wyck.

On the fide, Elizabeth, daughter of Simon Earl Harcourt, wife of Sir William Lee, Bart. of Hartwell, Bucks; by Mifs Read.

Mary le Pel, wife of John Baron Hervey of Ichworth, eldest son of John firft Earl of Bristol, of that family; painted at Paris, by la Tour.

A very curious ancient picture, of the Court of Wards and Liveries, with portraits of the Officers, Servants, and other persons there asfembled the infcription on a piece of decayed paper at the back of it, is verbatim the fame as the latter part of the infcription at the bottom of the print engraved by Vertue; and the writer of it (whofe fignature is J. Fish) adds, "I am told that this picture was engraved by Vertue." This, however, was a mistake, as the print was taken from a painting in water colours, in the poffeffion of the Duke of Richmond: from which circumftance it is highly probable, that this is the original, as it is ufual

to

to copy in water colours from pictures in oil; but rarely, if ever, are the latter copied from the former.

A finall head of Madame de Maintenon, by Mignard.

Oppofite the window.

Sarah Jennings, Duchefs of Marlborough, after Kneller; a prefent from her to the first Lord Harcourt.

On one fide, the Cascade of Terni, by Orizonti.

On the other, Architecture, with figures, by Viviani.

Lady Moyer, in the character of St. Catherine, by Mrs. Beale.

Sir Samuel Moyer, Bart. by Riley.

Mr. Edward Hamilton, fon of the Hon. Henry Hamilton, son of Gustavus, Viscount Boyne; by Hunter of Dublin.

John, first Earl Spencer, after Gainsborough. Oppofite the chimney, Noah and his family, with all the different animals, preparing to enter the ark, by Imperiali.

Under it, the Duchefs de Fontange, reclining upon a bank; a beautiful portrait, by Mignard; very rare.

On the left, William Henry Duke of Gloucefter, in the Garter robes, by Opie; a present from the Duke. Under it, Georgiana Poyntz Countess Spencer, after Gainsborough.

On the right, Elizabeth, daughter of King James

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James I. Electrefs Palatine, and Queen of Bohemia, by Hondthurst; a present from her to Sir Simon Harcourt.

Under it, Lionel Cranfield Sackville, first Duke of Dorfet, in the Garter robes, by Reynolds; a prefent from the Lady Cecilia Johnfton.

The table was a present from the Princess Royal, upon her leaving England; it confifts of a basket of flowers drawn upon vellum, in Indian ink, covered with a plate glass, and is executed with much freedom and taste.

Under thefe, Montagne, by Jannet, a curious ancient portrait.

Two clear and beautiful Marines, with figures, by Mr. Cowden.

Two capital and highly expreffive drawings, from the ballad of the Children in the wood, by Miss Catharine Fanshawe.

On one fide of the window, Mr. Joliffe, by Lely.

Richard Grenville, (afterwards Earl Temple,) by Rofalba; a legacy from Anna Chamber, Countess Temple, his wife.

A drawing of a Pedlar Girl, by the Queen. A head of Luther, in chalks, by Albert Durer. Sir Philip Sydney, when a youth, painted upon filver: a prefent from Her Royal Highnefs the Princess Augufta.

Chrift, and St. John playing with a lamb; fchool of Rubens.

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On the other fide, Giles, third Lord Chandos: it came from Weston, (Mr. Sheldon's,) a prefent from Mr. Walpole.

Portrait of a Man.

Mr. Addison, in crayons.

Erafmus, after Holbein, by Lutterel.

A Landscape, by Wotton.

Over the door, Mr. Witham, by Cornelius Janfen.

THE TAPESTRY ROOM,

25 by 19, and 15 feet high, was added in the year 1787, for the reception of the Sheldon Maps. This very curious tapeftry, of which Mr. Gough, in his Topographical Antiquities, gives the following defcription, came from Wefton in Warwickshire, and was a prefent from the Hon. Horace Walpole.

"Three large maps of Warwick, Oxford, and Worcestershire, near 80 feet fquare, by Francis and Richard Hicks: this firft of them has this infcription in capitals, adorned with bears. Warwickshire, so named as well of the Saxons, as of us at this daye, it is divided in two parts by the river Avone ronninge through the mideft. The one is colled Feldon, the other Woodland. The most memorable towns in the Feldons are, Lemington, taking the name of the river Leame, where a falt well

fpringeth. Ichinton and Harbury, betwene which two townes Fermandus, the son of Kinge Offa, was flayn; a man of fingular vertue, and buried in his father's palace, called Ofchurch. The Woodland, being the north part and the greater, was by an auncient name called Arden, which fignifieth a wood. In the middle of this region ftandeth Coventre, fo called of the Covente of Monkes, a citie in times paft populus and riche by the trade of clothing and making of cappes: near Coventre, on the east part, is Caledon, the auncient feat of the Lorde Segrave, from whom it is defcended to the Barons of Barkley, by the Mowbraies, Dukes of Northfolke. Weftward from Coventre standeth the caftle of Kenelworth, compaffed about with a great pool, first buildid by Jeffrey Clinton, Chamberlayne to Kinge Henre the First: about v miles from thence ftandeth Warwicke, called by the Brytaines Caer Guarvick, which fignifieth a place of defence, whear is a caftle of great force, builded by the Romanes. William the Conqueror ordeyned x11 Burgeffes in Warwicke, to attende on him in his warres. Near unto Warwicke, is Guyes cliffe, a place of wonderful pleasure, whear Guye of Warwicke builded a chapel, and was there buried. Read W. Camden, his discription of Bri.'

"At the oppofite corner are the arms of England, fupported by a Lion and Griffin; at another corner, the arms of Sheldon with