Stowe. a Description of the House and Gardens of Richard Grenville Nugent Chandos Temple, Marquess of Buckingham

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ...to the States General. 49. An unknown Portrait, in the Costume of a French nobleman of the reign of Louis XIII. 50. James Craggs the younger, Secretary of State. 51. King George the lid.--a small whole length. 52. Lady Jane Grey. 53. Le Due de Longueville, brother-in-law of the great Prince de Conde. 54. King James 1st. in his crown and robes. 55. The Lady Mary Curzon, Countess of Dorset--whole length. Vandyke. 56 Barbara Villiers, Dutchess of Cleveland. Sir Peter Lely. Upon pedestals of white marble, are two very fine Antique Vases, found in the Villa Adriana, and engraved by Piranesi; the one is decorated with young Bacchanals and Foliages, the other is divided into compartments containing figures of Bacchantes. The mouldings are very rich, and the decoration of one of them, in which four serpents form the handles, is very bold and curious. Upon a white marble pedestal in the passage east of the Hall, stands an ancient Sarcophagus, found on the road to Tivoli, and engraved by Piranesi. It was brought from Rome by George Marquess of Buckingham. It is a Chest of white marble about three feet long, by twenty inches high, the covering to it is a mattress or bed, upon which lies a snake, within the folds of which is a human figure recumbent, of very capital workmanship: at one end is the following inscription, viz. D. M. Antonia Pacuvio filia fecit sibi et Erennio filio suo piissimo, Imperatoris Trajani Csesaris Augusti Germanici servo. dispensatori Montaniano. On two marble tables on each side of the pedestal are two other Sarcophagi; one remarkably fine, adorned with the boldest Alto-rilievo, representing a Boar Hunt: it was discovered by Richard Marquess of Chandos, in the year 1817, close to the Appian Way, near the tomb of Cecilia...