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Identifier: newdisplayofbeau02lond (find matches)
Title: A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ..
Year: 1776 (1770s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London: : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers, and by R. Baldwin
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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icRoom is 36 by 24, and 22 high, finifhed with ftucco, an Ionicentablature, antique cieling, compartments, and ornaments.The chimney-piece is of ftatuary marb!e. Among the paint-ings here are Bacchus and Ariadne, a very capital piece, byGuido ; the temple of Flora, by Viviano ; an old mans head,the expreffion of which is remarkably fine, by Rembrandt j andthe Roman charity, by Signora Rozzi. The IVihdrawing-room is hung with blue dam^fk, antiquecieling, coved, and very elegant. A Venetian window, andthe door cafes finely finifhed with Corinthian columns in ala-bafter. The chimney piece is of ftatuary marble. The cor-nice is fupported by two whole length female figures, very nearlyexecuted. The tablet in the frieze is virtue rewarded with richesand honour, in baflo relievo. Among the paintings in thisroom are Olympia and Orlando by Annibal Carracci; there isgreat expreffion in thefe figures, the attitudes are (rrohg, andthe colouring fine ; Death of the Virgin, by Raphael \ Jupiter and
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. :©7 and Io,.by Andrea Sacchi; a Magdalen, by Annibal Carracci;an he ly family, by Raphael, and another by Guido. The Library i-. 36 feet by 24, and-22 high. The cielingMofaic. 7he chimney-piece of ftatuary marble, Doric columps, with bafes to fupport the cornice. Am 1^ tl e. point-ings here are Ad a in and Eve, by Carlo Lotti; Lot and hisdaughter by the fame matter; David interpreting to Nebuchad-nezzar, by Rembrandt; Rinalio and Armtda, by NichoJasPoulin,; and Andromeda chained to the rock, by Guido. The Saloon is a very elegant room, a circle, 42 Kec diameter,in which aie fame good paintings, and very fine ftatues. TheDining-Room is finilhed with fiucco; the cieling painted, and veryelegant; in the circles are Europe, Aiia, Africa, and America.;in the middle circle, Lo-ve embracing Fortune; in the oMongfquares, the four feafons exprefled by triumphs of Venus, Apollo,Bacchus, and 7Eolus. The whole executed in a very neat andelegant manner. The chimney-piece

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  • bookyear:1776
  • bookdecade:1770
  • bookcentury:1700
  • booksubject:Historic_buildings
  • bookpublisher:London____Printed_for_R__Goadby__and_sold_by_J__Towers__and_by_R__Baldwin
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