. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. inscription to the right is August von Bismarck, that on theleft is Dorothea Sophia Katte, anno 1700. Round the corner, by a door leading to the garden, the housecan be entered through a handsome and spacious garden ceiling of this room is decorated with the armorial bearings. This ground-floor leads into a large hall, whence there is aheavy, broad, and dark staircase to the upper rooms. The 86 BISMARCKS MOTHER. next room is the comparatively low-ceilinged dining-room, hungwith white tapestry; and here we also found the ceiling
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. inscription to the right is August von Bismarck, that on theleft is Dorothea Sophia Katte, anno 1700. Round the corner, by a door leading to the garden, the housecan be entered through a handsome and spacious garden ceiling of this room is decorated with the armorial bearings. This ground-floor leads into a large hall, whence there is aheavy, broad, and dark staircase to the upper rooms. The 86 BISMARCKS MOTHER. next room is the comparatively low-ceilinged dining-room, hungwith white tapestry; and here we also found the ceiling bordersand the two fireplaces richly ornamented with carving. On theside-tables stand busts of Frederick William III. and FrederickWilliam IV., the latter as Crown Prince. The furniture isplain. From the dining-room the door to the left leads into two hand-some reception-rooms, the one ornamented with oil paintings, theother decorated in the Japanese style. Here are, in the corners,casts of Kisss Amazon, and Eauchs Walburga riding on To the right of the dining-room is situated the sitting-room ofCountess Bismarck, tapestried in green. The pictures and litho-graphs are of the time of Frederick William III., and over thechimney-piece is the medallion portrait of a woman, probably anantique beauty. The principal object in this room is the portraitof the Minister-Presidents mother. Farther on again to the right we enter the bed-chamber; in THE LIBRARY. 87 yonder alcove, now divided from the room by a red curtain, Ottovon Bismarck was born, on the 1st of April, 1815. In this al-cove his cradle stood, but it is now only occupied by the bed inwhich his father died. It is a simple apartment, presenting a comfortable and cosy as-pect. The third door in the background of the green sitting-roomleads to the library, a spacious chamber painted red, having in
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