. Shakespeare's home at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. bable that he inventedthe margin of the furvey made by orderof Baron Carew,in order to impofe uponMalone, particularly as the exiftence of fuch 46 New Place, fuch a furvey or plan of a noblemanseftate was moft likely to exift. But was Malone impofed upon ? Didhe believe Jordans ftatement, and regardthe drawing as a genuine copy of an ori-ginal reprefentation of Shakefperes houfe ? Malone may have been predifpofed tobe deceived; he may have received thedrawing with credence at firft, as Wal-pole did Chattertons records of ancientpainters ;
. Shakespeare's home at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. bable that he inventedthe margin of the furvey made by orderof Baron Carew,in order to impofe uponMalone, particularly as the exiftence of fuch 46 New Place, fuch a furvey or plan of a noblemanseftate was moft likely to exift. But was Malone impofed upon ? Didhe believe Jordans ftatement, and regardthe drawing as a genuine copy of an ori-ginal reprefentation of Shakefperes houfe ? Malone may have been predifpofed tobe deceived; he may have received thedrawing with credence at firft, as Wal-pole did Chattertons records of ancientpainters ; but when Jordan got to im-proving the houfe, and adorning it withvery probable coats-of-arms, it is hard tobelieve that Malones faith was blindand unfufpeffing; while it feems ftillharder to condemn him as particepscriminis in an attempt to pafs off uponthe public, as a great Gothic houfe ofthe time of Henry VIL, renovated in thetime of Queen Elizabeth (when houfeswere ftill built in exactly the fame ftyleand manner—the only difference being in the. Stratford-upon-Avon. 47 the debafed details of ornamentation,pinnacles, tracery, &c), a drawing whichonly needs to be glanced at, and it isinftantly felf-condemned. A fac-fimile of this drawing will befound in Knights Biography of Shake-fpere (note on New Place, p. 501). Ithas been repeatedly copied and prefentedto the public, fo that it feems unnecefTaryto give it one more laft appearance inthis place. It and the drawing givenby Ireland may be called arcades plate on the oppofite page, whichaccurately reproduces Irelands, may fafelybe regarded as twin-brother to the Jordan-Malone picture, the details being the famein both, with the fingle variation alreadynoticed. The barge-boards, as feen inthe accompanying plate, which Irelandfurbifhed up and added to the foiled im-position of Jordan, may well be comparedto the fwaggering attempt of a gentleman, out New Place, out at elbows and deftitute of a change oflinen, who feeks
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