Excursions in the County of Cornwall: Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages, Together With Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every Other Interesting Object of CuriosityStockdale, Frederick Wilton Litchfield
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Excursions in the County of Cornwall: Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages, Together With Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every Other Interesting Object of Curiosity
Stockdale, Frederick Wilton Litchfield
Cornwall (England : County) -- Description and travel; Cornwall (England : County) -- History
_Virgin and Child_, by Sassoferrato—This picture recalls the idea of the
celebrated Madonna Della sedia of Raphael, of whom the painter was a
close imitator.
_Landscape and Figures_—Karel du Sardin.
_Storm at Sea_, by Vandervelde.
_View near Tivoli_—Gasper Poussin.
_Group of Soldiers, or Banditti_—Salvator Rosa.
_Interior of a Cottage, with group of Peasants_—D. Teniers.
_A Conversation Piece_—A. Palamedes.
_Landscape, with ruins and antient sculpture_—Francesco Milo.
_Landscape and Figures_—Disk Dalens.
_Ditto_—Both.
_Daphne pursued by Apollo_—Francesco Albano.
_Landscape with Travellers, halting at a blacksmith’s shop_—P.
Wouverman.
_The incredulity of St. Thomas_—Gerard Hoel.
_St. Anthony and Christ_—Antonio Caracci.
_View of the Doge’s Palace at Venice_—Canaletti.
_A Negro’s Head_—Rubens.
_St. John and Christ_—Antonio Raffaelle Mengs.
_A Holy Family_-Frederic Baroccio.
_Two Views in Venice_—Canaletti.
_Three Female Figures, as Huntresses_, by Rubens; supposed to be his
three wives.
_Bolingbroke Family_—Vandyck.
_Seige of Maestricht_—Anthony Francis Vander-Meulen.
_A group of six Figures_, size of life—P. Veronesse.
_Adoration of the Shepherds_—Carlo Dolce.
_Figures with Goats and Sheep_—Berghem.
_Group of Sheep_—Albert Cuyp.
_Ulysses discovering Achilles_—Angelica Kauffman.
_Hector taking leave of Andromache_—ditto.
_Assumption of the Virgin, with glory of Angels_—Lorenzo Sabbatini.
_Portrait of Oliver Cromwell_—David Beck.
_Mercury_—Weenix. There are also near 20 fine productions by Sir Joshua
Reynolds.
A catalogue of the pictures has been printed at the expense of their
noble owner, for the use of strangers, who are at all times allowed to
have access to them. The situation of the house is one of the most
enchanting spots in England, and commands a number of diversified
prospects.
_Mount Edgecumbe_, the seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Mount
Edgecumbe, is another beautiful spot embellished with fine promenades,
gardens, and shrubberies, perhaps equal to any in England. The house is
a very low building, erected about the year 1550, with battlements and
an octagonal tower at each angle. It contains a few fine family
portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The beauty of this spot has often
awakened the ideas of the poet; and who can quit it without enjoying the
same feelings which inspired the following lines?
“Farewell Mount Edgecumbe, all thy calm retreats,
Thy lovely prospects, and thy mossy seats;
Farewell the coolness of thy dark deep woods,
Farewell the grandeur of thy circling floods.
Where’er futurity may lead the way,
Where in this vale of life, I chance to stray—
Imagination to thy scenes shall turn,
Dwell on thy charms, and for thy beauties burn.”
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