London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
Over the door.
The adventure of Don Quixote and the barber, by a Spanish painter.
Fronting the landing place at the top.
The portrait of the Duchess of Mantua, grand daughter to the Emperor
Charles the Fifth, with her son in her lap, who was the last Duke of
Mantua, with some allegorical figures, armour, &c. by Giovanni
Benedetto Castiglione.
Under it.
A landscape, and a musical conversation, painted by Sir Peter Lely;
being the portraits of himself and his whole family, drawn by the
life.
Fronting the windows.
The judgment of Paris, by Gerard Lairest.
Under it.
The judgment of Midas, by the same hand.
Over the looking glass.
A young lad blowing bubbles, said to be painted by Hannibal Caracci.
In the first parlour.
Over the chimney.
A Dutch kermis or country fair, painted by Old Pieter Bruegel.
On each side of the chimney.
Next the window, the portrait of a Turk, by Rembrandt van Rijn.
David with the head of Goliath and his sling, by Leonello Spada.
Between the windows.
A man’s head, said to be that of Massaniello the fisherman who caused
the great revolution of Naples, by Salvator Rosa.
The portrait of Francisco de Taxis, the first inventor of the posts in
Europe, for which reason the direction of them has always remained in
one of his family in all the dominions that belongs to the house of
Austria, by a hand not certainly known.
Over the doors out of the hall,
The folly of spending our lives in the pursuit of love, wine, music and
play, an emblematical picture, by Johannes Schorel.
The Virgin, our Saviour, St. Mary Magdalen, St. Peter, St. John the
Baptist, and St. Jerome; by Jacobo Palma, senior, commonly called Old
Palma.
Over the marble table.
The birth of our Saviour, and the adoration of the shepherds, by Giac.
Bassan.
Under it, in the middle.
St. John the Baptist asleep in the desert, by Andrea del Sarto.
On both sides of it.
Two small sea pieces, a port in the Mediterranean, and a fight with the
Turks, by William Vanderveld, junior.
Under them, in the middle.
An emblematical picture, representing a guardian angel pointing out the
way to heaven to a soul, under the figure of a young girl, by Carlino
Dolce.
On both sides of it.
Two very highly finished landscapes on copper, by Salvator Rosa.
Between the two doors.
The portrait of the Duke of Richmond and Lenox, of the Stuart family, at
whole length, with a dog, by Sir Anthony Vandyck.
Over the door to the back parlour.
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