On the left-hand of this quadrangle is the great old hall, in which Queen Caroline erected a theatre,wherein it was intended that two plays fhould be acted every week, during the court's continuance there: but only feven plays were performed in it, by the players from Drury-lane, the fummer when it was raifed, and one afterward for the entertainment of the Duke of Lorrain, afterward Emperor of Germany. In the front is a portal with four Cæfar's heads. On the oppofite fide of this quadrangle is a ftone colonnade of the Ionic order, which leads to the great ftair-cafe, adorned with gilt iron balustrades, erected on porphyry. This ftair-cafe, with the ceiling, was painted by Verrio.

At the top, on the left, are Apollo and the Mufes, at whofe feet fits Pan, and below them Ceres, holding a wheat-fheaf; at her feet is Flora, furrounded by her attendants, and holding a chaplet of flowers; near her are the two river gods Thame and Ifis, with their urns; and a table in the middle, on which is a quantity of rich plate, decorated with flowers.

On the ceiling are Jupiter and Juno, with Ganymede riding on Jupiter's eagle, and offering the cup; Juno's peacock is in the front: one of the Parcæ, with her fciffars, feems to wait for Jove's orders to cut the thread of life.

Beneath is Venus on a fwan, Mars addreffing her as a lover, and Cupid on another swan.

On the right-hand are Pluto and Proferpine, Cœlus and Terra, Cybele crowned with a tower, &c. Neptune and Amphitrite are in the front, and two attendants are ferving them with nectar and fruir. Bacchus is leaning on a rich ewer, and accompanied by his attendants, places his left-hand on the head of Silenus, who fits on an afs that has fallen down, and feems to catch at a tableto which Diana above is pointing.. The table is fup-ported by eagles: on one fide of it fits Romulus, the founder of Rome, with a wolf; and, on the other fide, Hercules leaning on his club. Peace in her right-hand holds a laurel, and in her left a palm, over the head of Æneas, who feems inviting the twelve Cæfars, among whom is Spurina the foothfayer, to a celeftial banquet.

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Over their heads hovers the genius of Rome, with a flaming fword, the emblem of deftruction, and a bridle, the emblem of government.

The next is the Emperor Julian writing at a table, while Mercury dictates to him. Over the door, at the head of the stairs, is a funeral-pile.

From the ftair-cafe we pafs into the Guard-Chamber, which contains arms for 1000 men, placed in various forms. Here are the following portraits of admirals; Sir John Jennings, Sir John Leake, Admirals Churchill, Gradon, and Benbow, Sir John Wifhart, Sir Stafford Fairbone, Lord Torrington, Sir Thomas Dilks, Lord Orford, Sir Charles Wager, Admiral Whetstone, Sir Thomas Hopfon, Sir George Rooke, George Prince of Denmark, Sir Cloudfley Shovel, Admiral Beaumont, Sir John Munden, Lord Orford, by Bockman; Sir John Wifhart, and the seven last, Dahl; and the others by Kneller. Over the chimney piece is the Colofeum, by Cannletter.

The King's First Prefence Chamber is hung with tapestry, representing the stories of Tobit and Tobias, and Midas. In this room is a fine picture, by Kneller, of King Wil liam, on a grey horfe: the Marquis of Hamilton, by Mytens; and two pieces, one of architecture, the other of ruins, by Rouffeau.

The Second Prefence Chamber is hung with tapestry ; the fubject, Abraham offering up Ifaac. Here are Christian IV, of Denmark, by Van Somer; Ifaac and Rebecca, a landfcape, Zucarelli; and three pieces of ruins and landscapes, Rouffeau.

The King's Audience Chamber is hung with tapestry, which reprefents God appearing to Abraham, Abraham purchafing a burying place for Sarah, and entertaining the three Angels. In this room is a landfcape with Mofes, by Zuccarelli; Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, daughter of James I, Honthorft; and two Madonas, Correggio.

The Drawing Room is hung with tapestry; the subject, Abraham fending his fervant to get a wife for Ifaac, and Rebecca opening the trunks of treasure. In this room is a whole length of Charles I, by Vandyck; the Cornaro

family,

family, after Titian, by old Stone; David with Goliah's head, Fetti; and the Holy Family, Schidone.

The King's State Bed Chamber is hung with tapestry, representing the hiftory of Jofhua. The cieling, by Verrio, reprefents Endymion and Diana. On another part of the cieling is a fine figure of Somnus, with his attendants: the paintings are Jofeph and his Mistress, by Orazio Gentilefchi; a flower-piece, Baptift; ditto, Bogdane; and Anne, Duchefs of York, Lely.

The King's Dreffing Room has the cieling painted by Verrio: Mars is fleeping in the lap of Venus, while fome Cupids fteal away his armour, fword, and fpear, and others are binding him with fetters of rofes. This room contains a flower-piece by Old Baptift; flowers, Withoos; dead game, Van Aelft; a faint's head, G. Douw; Chrift and St. John, Da Vinci; Francis I, of France, and his Queen, Jannet; Refhemeer, Holbein; Angel and St. Peter, Steenwyk; Charles I, on horfeback, Vandyck; Great Mogul; a landfcape with figures, P. Brill; Lot and his daughters, Poelemburg; a battle, Wouvermans; Diana and Nymphs bathing, Poelemburg; the infide of a church, with the woman taken in adultery (the figures. by Old Franks) Deneef; Henry VIII, Holbein ; Erafmus, ditto; a woman finging, and a man, G. Douw; and a flower-piece, young Baptift.

In the King's Writing Clofet are the Shepherds' offering, by Old Palma; Queen Henrietta, after Vandyck,. by Gibfon; Sachariffa, by Ruffel; the Centaur carring away the wife of Hercules, after Julio Romano; a flowerpiece Bogdane; Judith and Holofernes, P. Veronese; a Magdalen's head, Saffo Ferrato; David and Goliah; Ádministration of the Sacrament, Baffan; the Judgment of Paris, from Raphael; Nymphs and Satyrs, by Poelemburg; a landscape with cattle, A. Vandervelde; the head of Cyrus brought to Queen Thomyris, Vincentio Malo Peter and the Angel, Steenwyck; a landscape, Wouvermans; a peacock, Bogdane; the Vifitation, Carlo Maratti; Charles I, at dinner, Baffan; and a flower-piece, Bogdane.

Queen Mary's Clofet is hung with needle-work, faid to be wrought by herself and her maids of honour. The

paintings

paintings are, the Virgin_teaching Chrift to read, by Guercino; Holy Family, Doffo de Ferrara; Lord Darnley and his brother, Lucas de Heere; King of Bohemia at dinner, Baffan; Charles V, initiated into the church Queen of George I; Mofes ftriking the rock, Marco Ricci; St. Jerome, Mieris; Mrs. Lemon, Vandyck; George I; a landscape, Dietrice; St. Francis, Teniers; a Madona and St. John, Guercino; a Lady; Bellini, the master of Titian, by himfelf; a bunch of grapes, Verelst; a woman to the waift, Piombo; the Shepherds' offering, Ricci; a woman milking a goat, Bergen; a woman, Rembrandt; the Afcenfion of the Virgin, Calvart; and a landscape, Pouffin.

The Queen's Gallery is hung with feven pieces of tapestry, after the famous paintings of Le Brun: . Alexander's triumphal entry into Babylon; 2. his battle with Porus; 3. himself and his horse Bucephalus; 4. his visit to Diogenes; 5. his confultation with the foothfayers; 6. his battle with Darius; 7. the tent of Darius.

The cieling of the Queen's State Bed Chamber is painted by Thornhill: Aurora is rifing out of the occean, in her chariot, drawn by four horfes. The paintings are James I; Queen Anne, his confort, both by Van Somer; Henry Prince of Wales, their fon, Mytens; the Duchefs of Brunfwick, Moreelze; a landscape, Zucarelli; and the portraits of George I, George II, Queen Caroline, and Frederick Prince of Wales.

The Queen's Drawing-Room has the cieling painted by Verrio; in the middle of which is Queen Anne, in the character of Juftice: Neptune and Britannia holding a crown over her head. This room has nine pictures, (formerly all in one piece of a great length) representing à triumph of Julius Cæfar, painted in water colours, upon canvass, by Andrea Manregna. Over the two doors are our Saviour and the woman of Samaria, and another Scripture Piece, by Ricci.

The Queen's State Audience Room is hung with tapestry, representing Melchifedec giving bread and wine to Abra

ham.

Here are fix pictures, viz. a lady; the Countess of Lenox: Bacchus and Ariadne, Ciro Ferri; Margaret Queen

Queen of Scots, Mytens; the Duke of Brunfwick, and his Duchefs.

The Public Dining Room, in which the late King ufed to dine in state, is ornamented with the following pictures; Prince Charles Elector Palatine; four fhip pieces, by Vandervelde: Bacchus and Ariadne, after Guido, by Romanelli; Princess Elizabeth; our Saviour in the houfe of Lazarus, Ricci; the Pool of Bethefda, ditto; Baccio Bandinelli, Correggio; the woman taken in adultery, Ricci; Prince Rupert, Mirevelt. In this room is the model of a palace that was intended for Richmond.

The Prince of Wales's Prefence Chamber is hung with tapestry, representing the ftory of Tobit. In this room is a portrait of Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador, Blenburgh; Guzman, another Spanish ambaffador; Queen of France, Pourbus; Lewis XIII of France, Belcamp; and Ahasuerus and Efther, Tintoret.

The Prince of Wales's Drawing Room is hung with tapeftry, reprefenting Elymus ftruck with blindnefs, taken from one of the cartoons now at Windfor. Here are the Duke of Wirtemburg, Mark Gerrards; the Queen of Philip II, of Spain; Count Mansfield, Mytens.

The Prince of Wales's Bed Chamber has the Duke of Lunenburg, Mytens; Alexander Duke of Parma; a Spanish nobleman, Pantoga: and the Queen of Chriftian IV of Denmark.

In the Private Chapel is the Lord's Supper, by Tin

toret.

In the Clefet next the Chapel, are George II; Queen Caroline; Jonah under the gourd, Hemfkirk; a landscape; a head, Artemifia Gentilefchi.

In the Private Dining-Room are eight fhip-pieces, fix of them by Vandervelde, four of which reprefent the defeat of the Spanish armada: and over the chimney is the Earl of Nottingham, Zucchero.

The Clafet next the Private Dining-Room has the murder of the Innocents, by Brueghel, and the Rape, of the Sabines.

The King's Private Dreffing Room is hung with tapestry representing the Battle of Solebay; and contains the por

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