The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County; Middlesex (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...from their uaique character, are truly curious and estimable. The following are the principal works of Holbein in this room: A Lady, supposed by Venue to be Catherine, Duchess of Bar, sister of Henry IV. of France. This was in the collection f Sir Robert Walpole, and has been engraved among the illustrious heads, ai Cutltcrim: of Arragon, first wife of Kii.j Henry VIII. Edmund Montacute, a Judge; from Sir R. Walpole's collection. A very small head of a man, in a round. Frobenius, the printer, in a round; and Melancthon, mi lie Mine manner. Two beads (one that of a young man, ) names hot known. A man in black, from the collection of Mr. Jennings, of Shiplake Shiplake; and a man in black, holding a ring, a small halflength. A drawing of a Romish episcopal saint, whole-length; a large drawing of a chimney-piece, designed for one of the palaces of Henry VIII.; a fine whole figure, in terra cotta, of Henry VIII.; head of the same king, with a watch at his neck, carved in box. In this chamber is likewise a collection of portraits, taken off on oil paper, by Vertue, from some of the original drawings by Holbein, found by "Queen Caroline at Kensington Palace, and now preserved, we believe, at Buckinghamhouse. The amateur of the arts will observe with pleasure that here are also preserved those most valuable copies, supposed by Zuccbero, of the Triumphs of Riches and Poverty, from the originals of Holbein, formerly in the hall of the Steel-yard Company. These drawings, which are rendered so precious by the loss of the originals, were purchased from Buckingham-house when Sir Charles Sheffield sold it to the king. Among pictures by other masters must be noticed a fine piece, by Lucas de Heere, representing Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, mother of the Lady Jane Grey, ...