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Title: More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Malan, Alfred Henry, comp
Subjects: Historic buildings Country homes Dwellings
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, London, The Pall Mall magazine
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f Carlisle. But the picture of the house is next door, in the Music-room—Mabuses Adoration: a marvellous example of detail, finish,and brilliance. A passage, forming a museum, with some original sketchesby Van der Velde, has now to be crossed, to reach the Library,cased and coved with light oak, with tapestry above ; a galleryat either end, approached by little staircases within the panel-ling, serving the upper shelves. Here will be noticed over thechimneypiece a decorative treatment of Flodden in gesso duro,modelled by Sir E. Boehm, designed and painted by Sir E. Burne-Jones, in the manner of the bas-reliefs on the sarcophagus ofMaximilian at Innsbruck. In the centre of the panel is ThomasHoward, Earl of Surrey, commander of the English troops : onthe right James IV. falling; on the left Lord Dacres Horse ;in the background Sir Edward Stanleys archers ; and in thedistance the Scottish camp burning. This Library was theChapel, and it was this Chapel which furnished Sir Walter Scott
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291 2Q2 IHawortb Castle with his description of the chapel at Inverary Castle, in theLegend of Montrose. A water-colour gives such an interestingdepiction of it, that the ravages of the fire, in this direction at any rate, are much tobe regretted. Then upstairs,leaving the doorof the Gallery onthe left, to get upon to the leads otDacre Tower andinspect the quaintwarders turret,rising above theelevated look-outs at the othercorners; the lasttime watch andward was keptbeing probably in1640, when afterN e w b u r n theScots threatenedCarlisle, and LordWilliam, in his last illness, was removed to Greystock for safety,where he died. The Gallery, to which we may now return, was evolved byreducing the outer wall from seven to two feet in thickness.Here are several pictures of the Dutch school, a bust (Dalow)and portrait (Sephton) of Lord Carlisle, and three curious oakfigures, evidently old, which came from the minstrels gallery inthe Hall. It is not at all likely they were ever set up on th

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