Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures of Althorp : the residence of George John Earl Spencer to which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . man, and general. Cardinal Pole, By Perino del Vaga.—^A valuable and ori-ginal picture. It represents this celebrated character before hehad obtained the Cardinals hat. The fingers of the right handare charged with rings, most brilliantly touched. The whole israther a dark picture; in the style of the Roman school. The preceding magnificent Series of Portraits, which abun-dantly justifies what has been said
Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures of Althorp : the residence of George John Earl Spencer to which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . man, and general. Cardinal Pole, By Perino del Vaga.—^A valuable and ori-ginal picture. It represents this celebrated character before hehad obtained the Cardinals hat. The fingers of the right handare charged with rings, most brilliantly touched. The whole israther a dark picture; in the style of the Roman school. The preceding magnificent Series of Portraits, which abun-dantly justifies what has been said of this Gallery by Walpole,covers the eastern side, or the entire wainscot which faces thewindows; and affords an inexhaustible subject of reflection, aswell as objects of contemplation, for the pensive spectator. Thejourney round the other divisions, or portions of the Gallery, iscomparatively short; and yet the following three Portraits—which occupy the extremity, or south end of the Gallery, areperhaps—as objects of Art—superior to all that have precededthem. Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, by Sir Jo-shua REYNOLDS.—This is the celebrated whole-length From (! ?;gl»v Sir .foshtra Hcynolds, THE PICTURE GALLERY. 267 from which a large mezzotint was pubhshed by Valentine Green,and of which two-thirds, on a smaller scale, and with greater de-Hcacy of execution, are presented to the reader in the oppositePlate. The Original is full of all the excellences, with none ofthe defects, of the great artist by whom it was painted. Thecomposition is full of grace ; while the colours are yet warm andfresh, and the drawing is deficient neither in correctnes nor Grace was sister to the present Earl Spencer, and died in1806, in the 49th year of her age. The present subject wasexecuted when she was in her 18th year. George Digby, Second Earl of Bristol ; and William,Earl, and afterwards First Duke, of Bedford, by Vandyke.—A most magnificent performance
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