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YORK CATHEDRAL.
Letter XXIX.
LETTER XXIX.
York Cathedral.—Castle Howard, seat of the Earl of Carlisle : Collection
of pictures — Miscellaneous schools — Collection of sculpture. — Temple
Newsam, seat of Mr. Meynell Ingram : Collection of pictures.—Nostall
Priory, seat of Charles Wynn, Esq.: Collection of pictures.—Wentworth
House, seat of Earl Fitzwilliam : Collection of pictures.—Wentworth
Castle : Pictures. — Collections in Yorkshire.
On returning to England through the county of Northumberland,
I was not aware that at a place called Rock is a large picture o
a Holy Family, attributed to Raphael, and a St. John with the
Lamb, by Rubens, which is much praised. I also regretted very
much to leave the Cathedral of Durham, doubtless the finest spe-
cimen of Norman architecture in England, unvisited ; but a whole
day would have only sufficed for that, and the period of my leave
of absence from Berlin was coming to an end. I less unwillingly
relinquished a visit to Lumley Castle, in the same county, the seat
of the Earl of Scarborough, since I understand that the pictures
consist only in family portraits. I had intended to have visited
Duncombe Park, the seat of Lord Feversham ; but as I discovered
that it was sixteen miles from Thirsk, a small place in Yorkshire,
and was not certain that his Lordship was at home, or that I
should obtain admission, I thought it better not to risk a day. The
objects reported to me as most worth seeing in the house were a
fine antique marble of a dog, and Hogarth's picture of Garrick
as Richard III.
I proceed now to the neighbouring Cathedral of York, which
is considered the finest in England. Though not to be compared
in extent with the Cathedral of Strasburg, and still less with that
of Cologne, it exceeds in dimensions most of the other English
edifices of this class, and towers like a giant above all the other
buildings in the city. The proportions, too, are very noble and
pleasing ; and it has the advantage over those German cathedrals
externally, inasmuch as the roof does not rise high above the
walls, but is kept lower than the side wall. On the other hand, it is
far inferior as respects the towers to the Strasburg and the Frei-
burg cathedrals, for the two towers on the west front, and a third,
YORK CATHEDRAL.
Letter XXIX.
LETTER XXIX.
York Cathedral.—Castle Howard, seat of the Earl of Carlisle : Collection
of pictures — Miscellaneous schools — Collection of sculpture. — Temple
Newsam, seat of Mr. Meynell Ingram : Collection of pictures.—Nostall
Priory, seat of Charles Wynn, Esq.: Collection of pictures.—Wentworth
House, seat of Earl Fitzwilliam : Collection of pictures.—Wentworth
Castle : Pictures. — Collections in Yorkshire.
On returning to England through the county of Northumberland,
I was not aware that at a place called Rock is a large picture o
a Holy Family, attributed to Raphael, and a St. John with the
Lamb, by Rubens, which is much praised. I also regretted very
much to leave the Cathedral of Durham, doubtless the finest spe-
cimen of Norman architecture in England, unvisited ; but a whole
day would have only sufficed for that, and the period of my leave
of absence from Berlin was coming to an end. I less unwillingly
relinquished a visit to Lumley Castle, in the same county, the seat
of the Earl of Scarborough, since I understand that the pictures
consist only in family portraits. I had intended to have visited
Duncombe Park, the seat of Lord Feversham ; but as I discovered
that it was sixteen miles from Thirsk, a small place in Yorkshire,
and was not certain that his Lordship was at home, or that I
should obtain admission, I thought it better not to risk a day. The
objects reported to me as most worth seeing in the house were a
fine antique marble of a dog, and Hogarth's picture of Garrick
as Richard III.
I proceed now to the neighbouring Cathedral of York, which
is considered the finest in England. Though not to be compared
in extent with the Cathedral of Strasburg, and still less with that
of Cologne, it exceeds in dimensions most of the other English
edifices of this class, and towers like a giant above all the other
buildings in the city. The proportions, too, are very noble and
pleasing ; and it has the advantage over those German cathedrals
externally, inasmuch as the roof does not rise high above the
walls, but is kept lower than the side wall. On the other hand, it is
far inferior as respects the towers to the Strasburg and the Frei-
burg cathedrals, for the two towers on the west front, and a third,