Over the Chimney. Rubens, his Wife and Child, by Rubens, given to John Duke of Marlborough by the Town of Bruffels. A round Landscape.-Cattle and Figures, by Wovermans.An Angel, by Corregio.-King Charles the Ift, by Vandyck. Over the Door. A Holy Family, faid to be by Raphael, given to John Duke of Marlborough by the Town of Ghent.Henrietta Maria, King Charles the Firft's Queen, by Vandyck. A very fine Day-light by Vanderneer. This Drawing-Room is furnished with Crimson Da. malk. The Grand Cabinet, Which is alfo Furnished with Crimson Damafk. Over the Door next to the Eaft Drawing Room, a Holy Family by Rubens. Over the Chimney. A Madona ftanding on a Globe, furrounded by An, gels, by Carlo Maratti.-The Roman Charity, by Rubens.-Lot's Departure out of Sodom, by Rubens, given to John Duke of Marlborough by the Town of Antwerp. Over the other Door is The Flight into Egypt, by Rubens.-The Offering of the Magi, by Rubens. The under Row. A very capital Picture of Our Saviour bleffing the Children, by Vandyck.-Raphael's Miftrefs, exceedingly Ane, by Raphael-Pope Gregory, and a Female Martyr with a Palm Branch, by Titian.-The Portrait of Paracelfus, by Rubens.-A Holy Family, by Ludovico Caracci.-A Magdalene, in his beft manner, by Carlo Dolce.-A Head of Rubens, by Rubens. The Blue Drawing Room, Which has gilt Ornaments to the Blue Damask. Over the two Doors. Ifaac bleffing Jacob, and the Woman taken in Adul. tery by Rembrandt.-Catherine of Medicis, by Rubens. -Time cutting Cupid's Wings, by Vandyck.William Marquis of Blandford, by Sir Godfrey Kneller.-An Aftronomer and his Family, by Dobfon.-Our Saviour, and St. John, by Carlo Dolce.-A Young Woman's Head, and Ditto, both by Paul Veronese. Under Row. Our Saviour and the Virgin in the Clouds, and a Monk worshipping, by Hannibal Carracci.-Our Saviour and the Virgin in the Clouds, &c. by Tintoret -Thirty. Miniature Portraits in one Frame.-A Holy Family, by Ludovico Caracci.-Cattle and Figures, by Bambocchio. -A Landscape, by Vanderneer.-A Dutch Family, by Oftade.-A Landscape, by Gafpard Pouffin.-Dorothy Countefs of Sunderland, celebrated by Waller, by Vandyck. Another Landscape, by Gafpard Pouffin.-A fmall beautiful family Piece, by Gonzales.-A very fine Landscape by Woovermans. The Winter Drawing Room.. THE Tapestry is a Representation of the Cardinal Virtues. A very Over the Chimney is fine Portrait of Mary Duchefs of Richmond. and a Girl presenting her Gloves, by Vandyck. Över the Doors, Lord Strafford and his Secretary, and Mrs. Kille grew and Mrs. Morton, by Vandyck. The Dining Room. OVER the Door going in from the Drawing-Room is a Capital Piece of Cattle and Figures, by Caftiglione. A Bacchanalian Piece by Vandyck.-Lot and his Daughters, by Rubens, given by the Emperor.-Queení 1 3 Queen Anne, whilst Princess of Denmark, by Sir Godfrey Kneller.-Venus and Adonis, by Rubens, given by the Emperor Jofeph I.-A moft noble Landscape, by Claude Lorrain. Over the other Door. The Rape of Europa, by Paul Veronefe. Six fmall Landscapes, by Wooton. The S.ALO N. THIS Room, which is nobly decorated, is propor tioned to the magnificence of the reft. The lower Part is lined with Marble, which affords a cool retreat in the warmeft weather. The feveral Compartments reprefent the different Nations in their various Habits and Modes of Dress, by La Guerre. The Ceiling is emblematic, reprefenting John Duke of Marlborough in the midft of his Victories ftopt by Peace, and Time reminding him of the rapidity of his own Flight, painted alfo by La Guerre. Over the Right-hand Chimney as we enter from the Hall, a Buft of Carracalla. Over the other, a buft of a Roman Conful. 1 Drawing Room to the Right of the Salon. THE Tapestry reprefents other of John Duke of Marlborough's Battles. Over the Chimney. The prefent Duke of Marlborough. A Buft of the Emperor Adrian. Over the neareft Door to the Salon, is A Portrait of a young Knight of St. John of Jerufalem, by Barrocio. Over the oppofite Door, Meleager and Atalanta, very mafterly, by Rubens. On the Pannel near the Window, next the Salon, The Adoration of the Shepherde, by Luca Giordiano. Under Under it is, A Madona and Child, by Nic. Pouffin.-A Garland of Flowers, with Figures in the middle, by Rotten hammer. In the Pannel oppofite this is, The Offering of the Magi, by Luca Giordano.-A Holy Family, by Nic. Pouffin.-A Garland of Flowers, with Figures in the middle, by Rottenhammer. Middle Drawing Room Right of the Salon. THE Tapestry continues to reprefent the farther Defcription of the Battles of John Duke of Marlborough. Over the Chimney. The prefent Duchefs of Marborough. A capital Painting upon Black Marble, by Allefandro Verenefe. Over the first Door going in, is A Picture of a Sea-Port, with a Stone Pedestal and Figures, by Weenix. Over the oppofite Door, is St. Laurence diftributing the Ornaments of the Altar, by II Prete Genoefe. The State Bedchamber, Which is furnished with Blue Damask, with elegant gilding. On the Chimney a Buft of Diana. Over the Chimney. A very capital Picture of Seneca bleeding to Death, by Lucca Giordani. In the Pannel to the Left of it, is A Portrait of King Edward VI. by Holbein-A View of Architecture, by Panini.-The Burning of Troy, by Old Frank. Over the Doors. Two Pieces of Still-life, by Malteze. The The LIBRARY. FROM a series of fmaller yet magnificent Apartments, we are fuddenly ftruck at entering this fuperb Room, which is 183 Feet 5 Inches long; in the middle it is 31 Feet 9 Inches wide, and at each End 28 Feet 6 Inches wide. The Doric Pilafters of Marble, with the complete Columns of the fame, which support a rich Entablature, the Window Frames, the furrounding Basement of Black Marble, and the ftuccoed Compartments of the vaulted Ceiling, are in the highest tafte both of Defign and Finishing. It was originally intended as a Gallery for Paintings; but the late Duke adding utility to elegance, furnished it with the noble collection of Books, made by Lord Sunderland, his Grace's Father. Their Number amounts to more than 24,000 Volumes, which renders it the principal private collection in England. At one End of the Room is a highly fignifhed Statue of Queen Anne, by Ryfbrack, with this Infcription: To the Memory of Queen ANNE, Under whofe Aufpices JOHN Duke of MARLBOROUGH And to whofe Munificence Owe the Poffeffion of BLENHEIM Over the Marble Door, is A Buft of Milo Crotonienfis, by Wilton. A Buft of Charles Earl of Sunderland, who collected this Library. Over each Chimney are Landscapes after Gafpard Pouffin. Over the right-hand Chimney, is A Buft of Charles Spencer Duke of Marlborough, by. Ryfbrac. At |