150 VISIT TO DENMARK [1799. 



there is also porphyry. On the balustrades along 

 the garden, between the wings of the quadrangle, 

 there are some china vases, belonging to Charles XII. , 

 with his cipher on them. 



There is a court for the parades of the Guards. It 

 was here that the late king addressed them on the 

 morning of the Revolution.'* They are paraded here 

 every morning, and the king frequently attends him- 

 self/ 



There is in the palace a very fine collection. After 

 two or three rooms full of pictures, chiefly by Flemish 

 masters, and several by Swedes, thrown together in 

 confusion but some of them very good you are led 

 into the long room where the drawings are kept. 

 These are indeed extremely valuable. They arc in 

 ten large volumes in the whole, between three and 

 four thousand by the first masters of all the schools. 

 There are also several fine pictures in this room as 

 Venus blinding Cupid, after which the common 

 print (Strange's)t is engraved. There are two gal- 

 leries of statues, brought from Italy by the late king, 

 disposed with great taste and effect. The most 

 remarkable of these is a Sleeping Fawn, placed at the 

 bottom of one of the galleries, and the principal figure 

 in it. It is of very great value. The remark which 

 struck us all on viewing it was the masterly repre- 



* The Revolution accomplished by Gustavus III. in 1772, when he 

 overthrew the constitution and became absolute. He charmed the 

 soldiers and people by addressing them in their own language. 



f Sir Robert Strange, a distinguished engraver, born in one of the 

 Orkney Islands in 17^1. 



