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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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PEOPLE AT CARDS BY LUCAS VAN LEVOEN and Primaticcio. Two enormous fossil elk-heads are fixed onthe high walls at each end of the room, and were brought fromIreland, where they were dug up from a bog. Returning to the south side, notice must be taken of some ofthe pictures in the rooms east of the Double Cube. In the firstof these is a very good specimen of Lucas Van Leyden, in Peo-ple Playing at Cards. An excellent portrait of Van Dyck, by
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97 198 Milton Ibouse himself, another of Philip, fifth Earl, and another of the Countessof Castlehaven, both by the same artist; three portraits by SirJoshua Reynolds, a sea piece by Vandervelt, and one or two otherpictures, complete the collection in this room. The next, the Colonnade Room, contains the famous FourChildren, by Rubens; a portrait of Edward VI., by Holbein ; aportrait of Titian, by himself; An Old Woman Reading, byRembrandt; two sea pieces by Vandervelt, and a small picture byGiulio Romano. Opening out of this is the Corner Room, which contains somany interesting pictures that 1 am unable to mention all. ButHolbeins portrait of Judge Moore, a beautiful landscape byRubens, a Madonna and Christ, by Andrea del Sarto (ofwhich there is a replica in the Wallace collection), Judith andHolofernes, by Andrea Mantegna, and a beautifully paintedportrait of Prince Rupert when a young man, ascribed to Hon-thorst, but probably by Van Dyck, are perhaps the most note-worthy. From the

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