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ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
only look at the dowdy figures of Lucretia and Cleopatra, in the present design.
This specimen marks the taste of 1619 : compared to which, it will afford us some
pleasure to contrast the works of art in the present era. Then, such productions
were deemed fine, and beautiful embellishments in the house of the Leycester's;
now, the present proprietor of Tabley, Sir John Fleming Leycester, has manifested
a more enlightened taste and laudable patronage, by enriching his mansions in
London, and Cheshire, with paintings, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Wilson, Gainsborough,
Romney, Opie, Moreland ;—West, Turner, Hoppner, Northcote, Shee, Sir Francis
Bourgeois, Ward, Owen, Thomson, Calcott, &c. What an astonishing change and
improvement is hereby displayed in the course of two hundred years! 1
Cretoe ©alt,
CHESHIRE,
The seat of Lord Crewe, appears to have been originally built by Sir
Randolph Crewe, who was Chief-Justice of the King's-Bench, in the 22d year
of James I. and from which office he was discharged in 1626, for opposing the
levying of ship-money. This Sir Randolph, according to Fuller, "first brought
the model of excellent buildings into these remoter parts; yea, brought London
into Cheshire in the loftiness, sightliness, and pleasantness of their structures."—
It is said that Inigo Jones gave designs for this mansion, but the stair-case,
represented in the accompanying print, does not appear to correspond with the
style of that great artist.
Bortugoon House,
COLEBROOKE, NEAR PLYMPTON, DEVONSHIRE,
Is the property of Lord Boringdon; whose seat is at Sal tram, in the vicinity.
The oldest parts of the present mansion are said to have been built about the
middle of the fourteenth century: but the principal entrance door-way, with
ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
only look at the dowdy figures of Lucretia and Cleopatra, in the present design.
This specimen marks the taste of 1619 : compared to which, it will afford us some
pleasure to contrast the works of art in the present era. Then, such productions
were deemed fine, and beautiful embellishments in the house of the Leycester's;
now, the present proprietor of Tabley, Sir John Fleming Leycester, has manifested
a more enlightened taste and laudable patronage, by enriching his mansions in
London, and Cheshire, with paintings, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Wilson, Gainsborough,
Romney, Opie, Moreland ;—West, Turner, Hoppner, Northcote, Shee, Sir Francis
Bourgeois, Ward, Owen, Thomson, Calcott, &c. What an astonishing change and
improvement is hereby displayed in the course of two hundred years! 1
Cretoe ©alt,
CHESHIRE,
The seat of Lord Crewe, appears to have been originally built by Sir
Randolph Crewe, who was Chief-Justice of the King's-Bench, in the 22d year
of James I. and from which office he was discharged in 1626, for opposing the
levying of ship-money. This Sir Randolph, according to Fuller, "first brought
the model of excellent buildings into these remoter parts; yea, brought London
into Cheshire in the loftiness, sightliness, and pleasantness of their structures."—
It is said that Inigo Jones gave designs for this mansion, but the stair-case,
represented in the accompanying print, does not appear to correspond with the
style of that great artist.
Bortugoon House,
COLEBROOKE, NEAR PLYMPTON, DEVONSHIRE,
Is the property of Lord Boringdon; whose seat is at Sal tram, in the vicinity.
The oldest parts of the present mansion are said to have been built about the
middle of the fourteenth century: but the principal entrance door-way, with