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Letter IX. EAEL OF DUNMOEE'S COLLECTION.
453
Isaac van Ostade.—On the left the stump of a tree. Before
it a man holding a grey horse. On the right a view over a flat
country. On wood. Unfavourably hung, but apparently a good
picture.
Several French portraits in miniature and enamel. Some appear
to be by Petitot.
dining-room.
Sir Henry Raeburn.—Portrait of Helen Stirling, a little girl
seated in the open air. Of much truth of head, warm and clear
colouring, and soft treatment. The rest is very sketchily treated.
library.
Sir John Watson Gordon.—Portrait of Sir Walter Scott.
Almost half-length, but without hands. Of truthful conception,
clear colouring, and careful painting.
The Library at Keir is too remarkable a room not to be men-
tioned. It extends through three apartments in width, and two
stories in height, and is entirely lined with the most odoriferous
cedar. The cornice, ribs of the groining, and other parts of this
multiform apartment, as well as the furniture, are decorated with
carved mottoes in every European language, not excepting the
proprietor's native Scotch, the study of which would occupy an
ordinary length of life very profitably.
COLLECTION OF PICTUEES AT DUNMOEE PAEK,
Near Falkirk ; Seat of the Earl of Dunmore.
I was favoured by Lady Matilda Maxwell with a letter to Lady
Dunmore, the mother of the young Earl, and was agreeably sur-
prised when she introduced herself to me as an old acquaintance,
having seen me in 1835, on the occasion of my visit to her father,
the Earl of Pembroke, at Wilton House. I regretted that my
time was so limited as. only to permit of a hurried view of the
interesting collection.
billiard-room.
Alessandro Turchi, called L'Orbetto.—Psyche looking at
the sleeping Cupid by the light of a torch. I am inclined to con-
453
Isaac van Ostade.—On the left the stump of a tree. Before
it a man holding a grey horse. On the right a view over a flat
country. On wood. Unfavourably hung, but apparently a good
picture.
Several French portraits in miniature and enamel. Some appear
to be by Petitot.
dining-room.
Sir Henry Raeburn.—Portrait of Helen Stirling, a little girl
seated in the open air. Of much truth of head, warm and clear
colouring, and soft treatment. The rest is very sketchily treated.
library.
Sir John Watson Gordon.—Portrait of Sir Walter Scott.
Almost half-length, but without hands. Of truthful conception,
clear colouring, and careful painting.
The Library at Keir is too remarkable a room not to be men-
tioned. It extends through three apartments in width, and two
stories in height, and is entirely lined with the most odoriferous
cedar. The cornice, ribs of the groining, and other parts of this
multiform apartment, as well as the furniture, are decorated with
carved mottoes in every European language, not excepting the
proprietor's native Scotch, the study of which would occupy an
ordinary length of life very profitably.
COLLECTION OF PICTUEES AT DUNMOEE PAEK,
Near Falkirk ; Seat of the Earl of Dunmore.
I was favoured by Lady Matilda Maxwell with a letter to Lady
Dunmore, the mother of the young Earl, and was agreeably sur-
prised when she introduced herself to me as an old acquaintance,
having seen me in 1835, on the occasion of my visit to her father,
the Earl of Pembroke, at Wilton House. I regretted that my
time was so limited as. only to permit of a hurried view of the
interesting collection.
billiard-room.
Alessandro Turchi, called L'Orbetto.—Psyche looking at
the sleeping Cupid by the light of a torch. I am inclined to con-