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DEVONSHIRE HOUSE.
Letter XV.
LETTEE XV.
Devonshire House : Liber Veritatis — Italian schools — French school —
German. Flemish, and Dutch schools — English school. — Miniatures
in possession of Miss Burclett Coutts. — Lord Ashburton's collection :
Spanish school — Flemish and Dutch schools — Paibens' Wolf-hunt ■—■
German school. — Collection of Henry Thomas Hope, Esq. : Antique
sculpture — Italian school — Flemish and Dutch schools. — Mr. Barker's
collection : Tuscan school — Venetian school — School of Bomagna. —
Objects of art belonging to Baron Lionel Bothschild. — Mr. Munro's
collection : Florentine school — Umbrian-Bornan school — Baphael's
" Madonna dei Candelabri" — Lombard and Venetian schools — Bolognese
school — Spanish and French schools — Flemish and Dutch schools —
English school — Later English school. — Turner's drawings.
DEVONSHIRE HOUSE.
On calling at Devonshire House with the intention of waiting on
the Duke, I found that his Grace was at his villa at Chiswick, near
London ; I therefore left my letters from their Royal Highnesses
Princess Louisa and Prince Charles of Prussia. A few days after
I received a very polite note from the Duke, in which he invited
me to call on him the following day. He received me with great
kindness, and conducted me himself about his mansion. It is
situated in a courtyard, surrounded with high walls, and has a
large garden behind. The arrangement of the apartments is very
convenient; though the house has only one story besides the
ground-floor; and the exterior is by no means striking. On the
other hand, the treasures of art and literature which it contains
are of extraordinary value. Besides the rich gallery of paintings,
I saw in the Duke's sitting-room a glass case over a chimney-
piece, containing a collection of engraved gems, with some
medals, 564 in number, among which I observed several of
great value. But how great was my joy when the Duke, at my
request, took down the celebrated Liber Veritatis, and allowed
me to look it over at my leisure. This was the name given by
Claude Lorraine to a book containing drawings, by his own hand,
of the pictures which he had painted. The extraordinary esteem
in which his pictures were held, even during his lifetime, induced
many painters to execute compositions in his style, the spurious-
ness of which might be detected by their not being entered in his
DEVONSHIRE HOUSE.
Letter XV.
LETTEE XV.
Devonshire House : Liber Veritatis — Italian schools — French school —
German. Flemish, and Dutch schools — English school. — Miniatures
in possession of Miss Burclett Coutts. — Lord Ashburton's collection :
Spanish school — Flemish and Dutch schools — Paibens' Wolf-hunt ■—■
German school. — Collection of Henry Thomas Hope, Esq. : Antique
sculpture — Italian school — Flemish and Dutch schools. — Mr. Barker's
collection : Tuscan school — Venetian school — School of Bomagna. —
Objects of art belonging to Baron Lionel Bothschild. — Mr. Munro's
collection : Florentine school — Umbrian-Bornan school — Baphael's
" Madonna dei Candelabri" — Lombard and Venetian schools — Bolognese
school — Spanish and French schools — Flemish and Dutch schools —
English school — Later English school. — Turner's drawings.
DEVONSHIRE HOUSE.
On calling at Devonshire House with the intention of waiting on
the Duke, I found that his Grace was at his villa at Chiswick, near
London ; I therefore left my letters from their Royal Highnesses
Princess Louisa and Prince Charles of Prussia. A few days after
I received a very polite note from the Duke, in which he invited
me to call on him the following day. He received me with great
kindness, and conducted me himself about his mansion. It is
situated in a courtyard, surrounded with high walls, and has a
large garden behind. The arrangement of the apartments is very
convenient; though the house has only one story besides the
ground-floor; and the exterior is by no means striking. On the
other hand, the treasures of art and literature which it contains
are of extraordinary value. Besides the rich gallery of paintings,
I saw in the Duke's sitting-room a glass case over a chimney-
piece, containing a collection of engraved gems, with some
medals, 564 in number, among which I observed several of
great value. But how great was my joy when the Duke, at my
request, took down the celebrated Liber Veritatis, and allowed
me to look it over at my leisure. This was the name given by
Claude Lorraine to a book containing drawings, by his own hand,
of the pictures which he had painted. The extraordinary esteem
in which his pictures were held, even during his lifetime, induced
many painters to execute compositions in his style, the spurious-
ness of which might be detected by their not being entered in his