Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . WILLIAM CAVENDISH, FIRST DUKE OF NEWCASTLE BY DOBSON Among them are Gainsboroughs Beggar Boys ; the Portraitof an Orator by Rembrandt; Sigismunda Mourning over theHeart of her Murdered Lover, by Correggio. The story goes thatHogarth, seeing this picture, backed himself to paint a better ofthe same subject ; 1 understand that his critics considered that hefailed to do so. The other pictures include a Guido, Poussin,Vander Meulen, Rubens, and several Canalettos. Out of this is the. i65 i66 dlumber small Dining-room. Here also the pictures a
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . WILLIAM CAVENDISH, FIRST DUKE OF NEWCASTLE BY DOBSON Among them are Gainsboroughs Beggar Boys ; the Portraitof an Orator by Rembrandt; Sigismunda Mourning over theHeart of her Murdered Lover, by Correggio. The story goes thatHogarth, seeing this picture, backed himself to paint a better ofthe same subject ; 1 understand that his critics considered that hefailed to do so. The other pictures include a Guido, Poussin,Vander Meulen, Rubens, and several Canalettos. Out of this is the. i65 i66 dlumber small Dining-room. Here also the pictures are very good, par-ticularly the large Van Dyck — painted presumably for an Altarpiece — of The Descent from the Cross; three Claude Lor-raines; The Battle of the Boyne, by Vander Meulen; aRubens, two Poussins, Feaiers, and Canalettos. Farther on we come to the Library, undoubtedly the finestroom in the house, decorated entirely in old Spanish mahoganyin the Empire style. The furniture includes two splendid escri-toires, which tradition says were formerly the property of LouisXIV. ; but surely, before talking of furniture, in a library weshould turn to the books. The bibliophile would delight inseveral Caxtons, a first folio of Shakespeare, a first edition ofDante, and a Book of Hours richly illuminated — in fact there isnot supposed to be a better example in the Bodleian. This endsthe rooms on the south side. On the east are two small libraries,the Dukes photographic rooms (where you will find every latestappliance in th
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