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Venice, CANALETTI; Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, ALBANO; Landscape, buildings, and figures, BOLOGNESE; Noah sacrificing; C. MARATTI; Battle piece, BOURGOG NONE; Earl of Pembroke and sister, VANDYKE; Inside of a church, GERINO; Landscapes, buildings, and figures, G. POUSSIN; Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, A. SCHIADONE; Ferry boat and cattle, BERGHEM.

GALLERY. Susannah and the Elders, P. VERONESE; two by BASSAN; Three landscapes; middle of the ceiling a battle-piece, P. VERONESE; two statues, GUELPHI; two ditto, SCHEEMAKER; two children's heads, GUELPHI; two beautiful porphyry vases from Rome.

BRONZES. A young Hercules; three pictures of incenselamps, BENVENUTO CELLINI.

EAST SALOON, NEXT THE DOME. Diana and Endymion, SEB. RICCI; Solomon and Queen of Sheba, MARÇO RICCI; Coach and horses, Sir GODFREY KNELLER; Landscape, cattle, and figures, MOLA; 'Portrait of a man, three-quarters length, beard, furred robes, leaning on a carpet, TIȚIAN; a Magdalen, C. MARATTI, from GUIDO; Lot and his daughters, ROTTENHAMER; Sketch of a head, VANDYKE; Landscape and figures, VIVIANO; the figures by MICHAEL ANGELO; Landscape, figures, and cattle, MOLA; Procession of a Dogess of Venice, P. VERONESE; Christ in the garden, GUERCHINO; Angels presenting a glass to a dying Saint, ALBANO; Landscape, with an Apollo and Satyrs, waters, &c. Sea-piece, W. VANDEVELDE; Head of a man with fur cap, BASSAN; Marriage at Cana, M. RICCI; Duchess of Somerset, VANDYKE; Landscape, buildings, and figures; View of Florence, G. DEGLI OCCHIALE ; Flowers, BAPTISTE; the Boy, SEB. RICCI.

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SOUTH-EAST BED ROOM. Earl of Cumberland, in a round; Mr. Pope, ditto, KENT; Lady Burlington, ditto, AIKMAN; Lady Thanet, ditto. The tapestry in this apartment is extremely beautiful; it is divided into five compartments, representing village amusements: 1st, Fishery; 2d, Farm yard; 3d, A Fair, 4th, and 5th, Harvest. They are Flemish, and approach very nearly to first-rate paintings.

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EAST SALOON. Portrait of a gentleman, whiskers, beard, and ruff, three-quarters length; RUBENS; Ditto of a lady, ruff, close cap, and beads, three-quarters length, ditto; St. Gregorio, CAVEDONE; Saint at prayers; View in Rome (over the window), S. RoSA; Crucifixion of St. Peter, SEB. BOURDON; Boy's head, VANDYKE; Inside of a church, PIERINO DEL VAGA; Miraculous draught of fishes, RUBENS; Head of a man, beard and whiskers; Virgin and child; and Wise Men in friar's habits, from GUIDO; Holy Family; Landscape, bridge, water, and figures, BOLOGNESE; Woman and child (over the door); Spanish lady, D. VELASQUES; the Nativity, a masterly painting, by H. VAN STEINWICK, representing the inside of the Jesuits' church at Antwerp; which, for execution and effect, is not to be surpassed, if equalled in this country. Under this picture is a fine table formed of English pebbles by the countess ef Burlington, during her ord's absence in Italy.

CLOSET NEXT THE DUCHESS'S DRESSING ROOM. Boy's head, HOLBEIN; Cleopatra, I. DA VINCI; Earl of Essex; Holy Family, G. POUSSIN; Flora, ALBANO; Portrait of a man, with beard and whiskers, three-quarters length, RuBENS; two small Landscapes, VELVET BRUGHEL; Holy Fa mily, DENIS CALVART; ditto, ditto.

CLOSET NEXT HIS GRACE'S BED ROOM. Lady Dorothy Boyle, afterwards lady Euston; lady Burlington.

BED ROOM. Three flower pieces, BAPTISTE; Madame Van Tromp, half-length, BLOEMART; ruins of a temple; woman bathing, and cattle, RouSSEAU; ruins of a temple, with figures, ditto; Constantine's arch, G. C. PANINI; a man and vase, BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE; Jupiter and lo, FRANCESCO IMPERIALI.

THE LATE DUCHESS'S DRESSINO ROGM. View of Tivoli, S. ROSA; Christ and two Disciples, MICHAEL ANGELO; good Samaritan, BASSAN; Beggar's boy eating a pie, MURILLO.

The inside of the structure is finished with the utmost elegance; the ceilings and mouldings are richly gilt upon

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a white ground, which gives a chaste appearance to the whole; the principal rooms, chair-higb, are embellished with books, handsomely, but neatly bound, so arranged as not to appear an incumbrance, but ornamental: the tops of the book-cases are covered with white marble, edged with gilt borders. To mention every particular would exceed our limits; we can only add that Chiswick House is a beautiful assemblage of multum in parvo.

The gardens are laid out in the finest taste; the vistos are terminated by a temple, obelisk, or some similar orna ment, so as to produce the most agreeable effect. At the ends next the honse are two wolves in stone, by SCHEE MAKER; the opposite end exhibits a large lioness and a goat, and this view is terminated by three fine antique statues, dug up in Adrian's garden at Rome, with stone seats between them. The orangery is a charming object. Along the serpentine river we are led to an enclosure, where are a Roman temple and an obelisk; and on its banks, the exact model of the portico belonging to Covent Garden exhibits itself. Beside the statues in and about the gardens, those of Sampson, a Gladiator, Faunus, and Venus de Medicis, are in the finest preservation. The view from the house over the Thames affords a fine prospect of the adjacent country, which, when the tide is up, is greatly enlivened by the boats and barges passing the river in constant succession! On the banks of the Thames the view of the temples, lawn, house, &c. form a beautiful specimen of picturesque scenery.

The Church of Chiswick, which stands near the Thames, is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and is supposed to have been built about the beginning of the fifteenth century, when the tower was erected at the charge of William Bordall, vicar, who died in 1435. There have, however, been several additions to the structure, in brick; and the church was repaired and considerably enlarged in 1772.

The interior contains monuments to the memory of Sir Thomas Chaloner, and his family, 1615; Charles Hol

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