Volume 1
Desiderata curiosa: or, a collection of divers ... pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history : consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters ... etc / Transcribed ... and illustrated with ample notes ... By Francis Peck.
- Francis Peck
- Date:
- 1779
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Desiderata curiosa: or, a collection of divers ... pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history : consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters ... etc / Transcribed ... and illustrated with ample notes ... By Francis Peck. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![many other rooms, ■painted by Verrio. 15. ‘The painting of the great ft air-cafe, a reprefentation of the poetical hell of the antients. 16. Verrio put a girl who affronted him into hell. 17. A bite of his in painting. 18. Venus & Mars, Vulcan id the Cyclops ; Verrio's own pidiure. 19. Bacchus-, very like a certain quondam dean. 20. The fine eye-deceiving card-table. 21. Ori¬ ginal paintings. 22. Jupiter id Danae. 23. Venus & Adonis. 24. deneca, bleeding to death ; id fix other pictures: by Lucas Jordano. 25. The nativity by Rubens, or fame of his fchool. 26. Saul id the witch of Endor, by Titian. 27. Sampfon id Dalilab. Jeptha id his daughter. Solomon id his wives. 28. Lazarus carried by angels into Abraham's bofom. 29. Jefus Chrift, bleffing the elements, by Giovanni Baptifta. 30. A Madona id the holy family; by Annibal Carr ache. Many other hiftorical paintings; land]'capes heads by Sir Anthony Vandyke id Sir Peter Lely. 31. Many night-pieces by Skolken. Pieces of flowers id fruits by Michael Angelo of Carravagio, Simon Vareltz, id Baptifl. Two pieces of fifhesly Suyder. Several of beafts, by Abraham Hongesid divers of birds, by Barlow of Lincolnfire, id other famous artifts. 32. Many pill are frames, chimney pieces id door-cafes, all carved by Grimlin Gibbons id other great mafters. 33. Tapeftry. 34. The cartoons of Francifcus Albanus in tapeftry. 35. One of them described. 36. The cartoons of Raphael XJrbin in tapeftry. 37. A moft excellent little piece of tapeftry, reprefenting a ball at the French court. 38. The incomparable ftatue of Andromeda. 39. Other rich furniture. 40. My lord's fine cabinet of medals. 41. Account of two medals given the lord treafurer Burghley by the famous Roger Afcham, with the Latin epiftle Afcham fent with them. 42. Many curious natural id artificial rarities in my Lady Exeter's two clofets, particu¬ larly divers miniatures by Couper id Mrs. Car life. 43. Several Roman altars. Choice books in the library. 44. The juft praife of my lord’s grandfather. 45. King William the third goes to Burghley. 46. The reported talk between him id one of his lords about it. 47. He goes thither again. 48. Burghley how rich in furniture, id how much valued by foreigners. 49. Aperfort very lately alive near Stanford, who fell naked from the top of Burghley houfe, id yet came off tinhurt. S I R, 'AVING a moft agreable fummons to meet my honored friend, your very learned & beft of fathers, on the 31. of Auguft laft at my friend the reverend Dr. William Stukelev’s houfe in Stanford ; I had the farther pleafure of finding the reverend Dr. Samuel Knight, Mr. Pemberton of Catherine Hall, & you there ; all of you juft then returned from Burghley, but balked, as I perceived, of feeing much of that celebrated houfe, by reafon you went thither from Stanford, where we had then a very malignant fort of the fmall-pox reign¬ ing. To make you fome amends therefore for that difappointment, 1 have brufhed up my memory, & fent you an account of fome of the fine things you would otherwife have been fhewn there. To mention all were impoffible. 2. The fhell of Burghley Houfe is a moft lofty, ftately pile. It is built all of free-ftonej & the chimnies, which are very numerous, are all huge Doric pillars. 3. The fouth front, towards the gardens, is fine & regular. There is a print of this view, done from the drawing of the late Mr. John Lungton. But I think he has not done itjuftice. The realon whereof I take to be, that he fat upon the ground when he made his draught; whereby, of courfe, the chapel fpire, & other towers & pinnacles about the houfe, muft needs appear fhorter than they fliould. 4. I have feen another drawing, from the fouth weft gate of the park, in the hands of my late friend John Bridges, elq. done by Mr. Tillemans j wherein he takes in the gardens as well as the houfe, & hath done juftice to both. 5. The four towers upon the gate-houfe in the middle of the weft front, give a grandeur to the houfe in that view. 6. But the north front, towards the park, with the fine court & afcent thence into the houfe, furpafles both. 7. In the inner court all thefe are exceeded by the beautifull fpire of the chapel & the other ornaments on each fide of it, which (if you ftand under the gate-houfe at the weft end, & look tip to theeaft) prefent you with a view furprifingly entertaining.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3045637x_0001_0276.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
