. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . ng arm in arm withRobert, a boy of about thirteen or fourteen. They are in acourt dress, both exactly alike, a sort of doublet and collar. Thecollar is just the boys collar of the present day, except thatit is fringed with lace. The doublet is buttoned down the frontwith close set buttons, it is fitted exactly to the body with veryclose sleeves, and turned up with lace cuffs. The colour of thedoublet is French grey. They have trunk-hose, very full indeed,of cri
. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . ng arm in arm withRobert, a boy of about thirteen or fourteen. They are in acourt dress, both exactly alike, a sort of doublet and collar. Thecollar is just the boys collar of the present day, except thatit is fringed with lace. The doublet is buttoned down the frontwith close set buttons, it is fitted exactly to the body with veryclose sleeves, and turned up with lace cuffs. The colour of thedoublet is French grey. They have trunk-hose, very full indeed,of crimson figured satin, stockings and garters of the same colour VTSIT TO PENSHURST. 35 as the doublet^ with roses at the knees, and on the shoes. Theirshoes are of leather, with tan-coloured soles, and are cut highin the instep; having much the look of listing shoes of thepresent day: their swords complete their costume. Their hairis cut short behind and turned aside on the forehead. Thereis a hat of white beaver lying on a table close to the elbow ofSir Philip, with a stiff upright plume of ostrich feathers withedges dyed The lads have a strong likeness as brothers, and bear thesame likeness to the portrait of Sir Philip in Queen Elizabethsroom. Philip has something of an elder-brother, patronisingair, and is full of a frank, ardent spirit, such as we may imaginemarked the boyhood of such a man. When we recollect, too, d 2 36 VISIT TO PENSHURST. the strong affection he always shewed to this brother, we seeplainly that the union of the two in one picture was rather theresult of that known affection, than the act of the painter. Thiscurious family and national picture bears about it every mark ofits authenticity, and has never yet been engraved. Amongst the remaining pictures, are—Philip, the fifth Earlof Leicester, by Kneller: Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Sidney,and wife of W. Perry, Esq., the same lady who figures in thelarge Perry family-piece just mentioned: Robert,
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