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Catalogue of t!)c pictures at l^artUDtcft 



IN THE POSSESSION OF 



His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. 



1903. 



To which is appended a short account of the Heraldry in the 



various rooms and on the Tapestry at Hardwick. 



By The Right Hon. Lord Hawkesburv, F.S.A., F.R.G.S. 





HIS Catalogue is copied, with necessary corrections 

 and additions to bring it up to date, from one made 

 in i860 by Lady Louisa C. Egerton (then Lady 

 Louisa C. Cavendish), the only daughter of William, 

 seventh Duke of Devonshire, and sister of the present Duke ; 

 and that Catalogue was taken from one made by the late Lord 

 Dover. During the sixth Duke of Devonshire's last visit to 

 Hardwick, the Catalogue made hy Lord Dover was cut up 

 and pasted on to the frames of the pictures. This being 

 insecure. Lady Louisa re-wrote the Catalogue, adding dates and 

 other information, which she obtained chiefly from Collins's 

 " Peerage." The Catalogue made by her, being the only one 

 now in existence, it seems advisable to place it on record in 

 some more permanent form, so that it may be more easily 

 accessible to all who are interested in this very valuable 

 collection of historical portraits, and the offer of the Derbyshire 

 Archaeological and Natural Historj' Society to print it in their 

 forthcoming volume, in reply to my suggestion, made with the 

 present Dukes api:)roval that this should be done, seems an 



