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Title: Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ... library of George John, earl Spencer
Year: 1814 (1810s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847 John Rylands Library
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Incunabula Rare books Printing
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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h his pencil was exercised, may be seen onconsulting Granger, vol. i. p. 116-17. I should add, that all thefigures are of the size of life. The Sforzas, by Albert Durer. Maximilian Sfor%a, Duke of Milan, in 1512. Eldest sonto Ludovico, surnamed the Moor, and Beatrix DEst: died in1530, unmarried. Francis Sforxa, Duke of Milan, in 1529. Second son to theMoor, married Christiana, daughter to Christian II. King ofDenmark : died in 1535, without issue. . The above portraits are curious and interesting specimens ofAlbert Durers art; they appear in one of the compartments ofa picture painted in wood by that artist; the middle division ofwhich represents a man sitting at a table with a skull before him;and the opposite compartment to that above described, containsthe Salutation of the Virgin. It is in good preservation. Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, by Sir Peter Lely.—She was daughter to Villiers, Viscount Grandison, who was sonto Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. She married Palmer, Earl of 4
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i L THE PICTURE GALLERY. 045. Castlemain; and being mistress to Charles II. was created Du-chess of Cleveland by that monarch : by whom she had severalchildren. She was, says Bishop Burnet, a Avoman of greatbeauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; fooHsh butimperious; very uneasy to the King; and always carrying on in-trigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealousof him. His passion for her and her strange behaviour to him didso disorder him, that often he was not master of himself, norcapable of minding business, which in so critical a time requiredgreat application. Granger observes that she was the mostinveterate enemy of the Earl of Clarendon, who thought it anindignity to his character to show common civihties, much moreto pay his court, to the mistress of the greatest monarch uponearth. When this honoured nobleman was going from court,upon his resignation of the Great Seal, the Duchess of Cleveland,who knew him to be her enemy, insulted him from a windo

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