From hence we enter a Colonade adorned with Paintings, by Sclater. It is embellished with Exotics and flowering Shrubs. The GRENVILLE ROOM Is 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 firft. 1. The late Countess Temple, Mother to the prefent Earl. 2. The present Countess Temple. 3. The prefent Earl Temple. 4. The Right Honourable George Grenville. 5. The Honourable James Grenville. 6. The Honourable Henry Grenville, formerly Governor of Barbadoes. 7. The Honourable Thomas Grenville, who was killed in Defence of his Country, on board the Defiance, of which Ship he was Captain. 8. The Right Honourable Lady Hefter Pitt. The GALLERY. A magnificent Apartment, 74 Feet by 25 Feet, and 20 Feet high, with Gobelin Tapestry Chairs, and is hung with three fine Pieces of Tapestry, viz. 1. A beautiful Representation of a Farm. 2. A Dutch Wake from Teniers. 3. A Dutch Fishery, from ditto. The two Chimnies have Pictures of Roman Ruins over each, by Panini. The Four Doors have rural Pictures over each, viz. 1. Plowing. 2. Reaping. 3. Hay-making. 4. Sheep-fhearing. And à Rich Cabinet at each End, containing Books ; and 10 Marble Bufts of Roman Emperors. A Dreff A Dreffing-Room. Hangings of Yellow Silk Damaf, trimmed with Silver; with the following Paintings: Joan of Arc, over the Chimney. Sir Thomas Temple, Lady Hefter Temple. A Bed-Chamber. The Hangings, Bed, Chairs and Ornaments, of Yellow Damask, the fame as in the Dreffing-Room; with Paintings of, The Reprefentation of the Holy Lamb. A Flower Piece. Two Landscapes, one over each Door. A Dreffing-Room. Green Damak, trimmed with Gold, with the fol lowing Paintings. 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. A Bed Chamber." Green Damask Bed, Hangings and Chairs trimmed with Gold. Paintings. 1. An Original Portrait of Oliver Cromwell. 2. A Silenus. 3. A Portrait of Colonel Stanyan, A Dreff t A Dreffing-Room. The 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. I. The State Gallery Is 70 Feet 9 Inches, by 25 Feet long, and 22 Feet high; With 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 Tapestry, viz. 1. The Triumph of Diana. The Piers are adorned with Trophies. Two Chimnies, the upper Parts of which are adorned with Gilding and Carving. 4 1. Representing Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnassus. 2. A Goddess conducting Learning to Truth. II. The State Dreffing-Room Is 24 Feet 8 Inches by 30 Feet, and 19 Feet Hung with Blue Damask, and Chairs and Window Curtains of the fame. The Doors and Ceiling are finely ornamented with Carving and Gilding, The The Paintings are, A fine Portrait of the late Lord Cobbam, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Four Converfation Pieces, by Francifco Cippo. Venus binding the Eyes of a Cupid, and the Graces offering Tribute. III. The State Bed-Chamber Is 56 Feet 8 Inches by 25 Feet 10 Inches, and The Bed and Ceiling 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 G'affes. IV. The State Clofet, Hung with Crimson Damask.-In it a Picture of the King of Denmark, by Angelica; facing which is a Portrait of La Belle Terroniere, Mistress to Francis the first, by Leonardo da Vinci. The Chinese Clofet, Wainfcoted with Japan and other Ornaments, Prefents from the late Prince and Princess of Wales.-The Furniture white Satin. A Passage, Ornamented with Marble Bufts. A Grand Stair-Cafe, Adorned with Paintings of the four Seasons. The Ceiling reprefents the rifing Sun. Phœbus in his Car. The Length of the Line through the Houfe 450 Feet: the Offices 450 Feet; the whole Extent is 900 Feet. The 140 The GARDEN S. A ftraight Gravel Road, of two Miles in length, leads from Buckingham to a large Corinthian Arch, 60 Feet high, and 60 Feet wide, decorated on each Side with a large Column, from whence appears the Garden-Front of his Lordship's Houfe, ftanding on the Summit of a Hill, and encompaffed by the Garden and Park.- -From this Arch, you defcend to the Garden Entrance; but the Road to the Houfe leads through the Arch, in which are Dwelling Rooms for the Keeper, and is beautifully diverfified with Hill, Valley, Lawn, River, and a perpetual Change of Scene arifing from the numerous Buildings intermixed with Wood. At the South Entrance of the Gardens are two Pavilions fupported by Doric Pillars. Here you have a View of the House, and of the two Rivers on the Righthand meeting in one Stream, which run into a kind of Bay. Turning to the Left Hand you defcend to Artificial Ruins of a Temple of two River-Gods, covered with Evergreens, and adorned with the Statues of Fauns, Satyrs, and River-Göds; a beautiful Cascade of three Sheets of Water falls from a River above into a Lake of ten Acres. The Shepherd's Cove, Defigned by Kent, is feated in arifing Wood, on the Banks of the Lake; on the Walls of which is engraved the following Monumental Infcription: To the Memory of SIGNIOR FIDO, An Italian of good Extraction; Not to bite us, like most of his Countrymen, But to gain an honeft Livelihood, Yet acquired, it; Top |