. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . the door and window of white and gold ; the cornice of thefame, and the frieze green and gold, and very elegant. Theframes of the glafles, fcttees, chairs, &c. carved and richly the firft floor are three apartments ; the green velvet bed-chamber, 19 by 18. The chimney-piece, Corinthian pillars ofSiena marble, with gilt capitals. The crimfon damafk room,23 by 18 ; the cielin
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . the door and window of white and gold ; the cornice of thefame, and the frieze green and gold, and very elegant. Theframes of the glafles, fcttees, chairs, &c. carved and richly the firft floor are three apartments ; the green velvet bed-chamber, 19 by 18. The chimney-piece, Corinthian pillars ofSiena marble, with gilt capitals. The crimfon damafk room,23 by 18 ; the cieling white and gold in compartments, withfeifoons of gilding in them in a light and elegant tafte; thechimney piece, white and Siena marble; in the centre, doves inbas relief, very-fine. The ornaments of the bed gik carving;and the window curtains covered with fcrolls of the fame in anelegant tafte : Adjoining, is a fmall dreffing room, the cieling ofwhich is gilt in fcrolls on a lead white, and is light and chintz-room 25 by 18, the cieling in compartments withflight fcrolls of gilding, in a very pretty tafte. Here are twolarge and verv fine India figures, above a yard high, in glafs- THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 149 cafes. A dreffing-room, 18 by 12, neatly as well as richlyfitted up. The articles of carving and gilding are done through-out the houfe with great elegance j the doors, door cafes, win-dow frames, pannels, &c. are finely ornamented ; the ceilingsare in general very elegantly executed, the fcrolls of gilding, notcrowded, but light and neat as well as rich, and the furnitureequally well chofen. The houfe is not a large one, but it isupon the whole, much better furnifhed than moft of its fize inthe kingdom, and fuperior to many more capital ones. Castle-Howard, about five miles from Malton, isthtefeat of the Earl of Carlifle. It was built by Vanburgh, and ismuch vifited by travellers on account of the great collection ofantique bufts, ftatues, and marbl
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