COMMITTER’S ADDRESS. 17 
Or 
DESCRIPTION OF ALNWICK CASTLE. 
PRINCIPAL FLOOR PLAN IN 1861. 
1. Library in Prudhoe Tower, 2. Ante-room. 3. Saloon, with ceiling partly 
taken from St. Peter’s, Rome. 4. Drawing-room, with ceiling from St. Peter’s, 
Rome, and friezes from paintings by Giulio Romano, in the Commendante’s apart- 
ments in the Castel Sn. Angelo. 5. Dining-room, an exact reduced copy, from 
ceiling in the choir in the basilica of Sn. Loronzo, outside the walls of Rome. 
6. Chapel, with mosaics taken from the pulpit in the same basilica. 7. Ducal 
pew or Gallery. 8. State Bed-room. 9. Dressing-room. 10. State Bed-room. 
11. Dressing-room. 12. Breakfast-room, the ceiling and decorations remain as 
placed by Sir Hugh Smithson, as a specimen of the period. 138. Vestibule and 
Grand Stairs. 14. Corridor. 15. Serving-room. 16. The Duchess’s Boudoir, 
with ceiling taken from the Camera Borgia in the Vatican. 17. The Duchess’s 
Dressing-room, with rich plaster ceiling. 18. The Family Bed-chamber. 19. 
The Duke’s Dressing-room. 20. The Duke’s Sitting-room facing the south, 
with Ball-room adjacent, and private passage to the Commissioner’s Offices. 21. 
Dinner Lifts. 22. Dinner Corridor. 
In the third plan, the new works are illustrated. The two faults 
indicated above, are here obliterated. The new Prudhoe Tower, 
built on the site of one of the uniform towers mentioned, rises 
above the rest of the grouping of the keep; and a corridor, lining 
the inner ward, and supported on arches and corbels, furnishes 
convenient access to the new state rooms. The decorations of 
these apartments have introduced a period of foreign art into this 
country, of which little was previously known. They have also 
introduced a controversy as to the propriety of disturbing associa- 
tions of ideas, connecting the ancient Percies with their ancestral 
home, which as forming part of the history of the present restora- 
tion, need not be altogether ignored. The theme of the chosen 
decorations is a reproduction of the phase of decorative art desig- 
