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Identifier: otherfamoushomes00mala (find matches)
Title: Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Malan, A(lfred) H(enry), (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Historic buildings Country homes Dwellings
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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pavU OJ Beyond this bedroom is a room decorated by Angelica Kaufmannin the Pompeian style, which found so much favour in theeighteenth century. Angelicas husband, Zucchi, contributed twolarge panel paintings to the Dining-room, and the handiwork ofboth husband and wife may be observed in several other rooms. The Entrance Hall is somewhat original in design, beingdecorated andcoloured to re-present a largepiece of Wedge-wood china. Horace Wal-poles descriptionof the wholeplace, i n fl a t e dand exaggeratedas it certainly is,gives an idea ofthe effect pro-duced on his con-temporaries. Hewrites thus tothe Countess ofOssory : On Fridaywe went to see— oh, the palaceof palaces ! —and yet a palace sjiis crown, sjiis coronet, but suchexpense ! such taste ! such profusion ! and yet half an acre pro-duces all the rents thai furnish such magnificence, it is a Jaghiregot without a crime. In short, a shop is the estate, and OsterleyPark is the spot. The old house 1 have often seen, which was
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THE STATE BED 134 ®5tcrle^ pari? built by Sir Thomas Gresham ; but it is so improved and en-riched, that all the Percies and Seymours of Sion must die of envy. There is a double portico that fills the space between thetowers of the front, and is as noble as the Propyleum of Athens.There is a hall, library, breakfast-room, eating-room, all chefscVceirore of Adam, a gallery a hundred and thirty feet long, and adrawing-room worthy of Eve before the fall. Mrs. Childs dress-ing-room is full of pictures, gold filigree, china and Japan. So isall the house ; the chairs are taken from antieiue lyres, and makecharming harmony ; there are Salvators, Caspar Poussins, and toa beautiful staircase, a ceiling by Rubens. Not to mention a kitchen garden that costs /1400 a year, amenagerie full of birds come from a thousand islands, which Mr.Banks has not yet discovered ; and then, in the drawing-room Imentioned, there are door-cases and a crimson-and-gold friezethat 1 believe were borrowed from the Pa

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