Strawberry-hill (1774) [ Places / Objects / People ]
… glass, representing saint John and saint Francis. This hall is united with the staircase, and both are hung with a gothic paper, painted by one Tudor, from the screen of prince Arthur's tomb in the cathedral of Worcester. The balustrade … of lord Orford's supporters] holding a shield. In the well of the staircase, by a cord of black, and yellow, hangs a gothic lanthorn of tin japanned, designed by Mr. Bentley, and filled with painted glafs j the door of it has an old pane … figure of a woman reading: beneath, an Etruscan vase, between two white old china beakers. The chairs are black, of a gothic pattern, designed by Mr. Bentley and Mr. Walpole. The table of Sicilian jasper, on a black frame designed by Mr. …
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