Wilts Illustrations, Pictures, fyc. 



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— Ditto, Carved Oak Fireplace — Mrs. Hyde, of Heale. There is also a 

 pedigree showing the connection between the Norton, Trenchard, Long, and 

 Penruddocke families. 



Beckhampton, Mr. Sam Darling at, by " z ," is a paper in 



The Idler for March, 1899, pp. 245 — 252, describing the racing stables, 

 with the following process illustrations : — Beckhampton House — Mr. Sam 

 Darling — Mr. J. Gubbins, owner of Galtee More — Graltee More after winning 

 the St. Leger, 1897— Kilcock— C. Wood and J. Watts— The Stables— The 

 Paddock. 



BeCkhamptOIl Racing Stables. The Illustrated Sporting and 

 Dramatic Neivs, May 6th, 1899, has a full-page illustration of " Racing 

 Stables — Mr. S. Darling — Beckhampton, Marlborough, Wilts." It contains : 

 Beckhampton House — Mr. S. Darling — Part of the Front Yard, General 

 View — Coming Home from Exercise — The Lawn— The New Yard. 



IiaCOCk Cloisters. Photo-process reproduction of photo taken by Mr. 

 Talbot in 1842 in The Photogram, Feb., 1899. 



Portrait Of Lady Betty Bel me by Sir Joshua Reynolds. A 

 paper on this picture, with notes on the Delme family, by the Rev. G. W. 

 Minns, LL.B., F.S.A., is given in Hampshire Field Club Papers and 

 Proceedings, vol. iii., p. 59. The Delme family owned Erlestoke for awhile 

 about 1740 to 1780, and intermarried with the Awdrys of Seend and Radcliffes. 

 Peter Delme was M.P. for Ludgershall in 1734. The portrait of Lady Betty 

 was little known or valued by the family, but it recently sold by auction in 

 London for 11,000 guineas, whereas the house from which it came, together 

 with the Manor of Cams Oysell, Hants, and 256 acres of park and agricultural 

 land realised in 1895 only £10,250. 



" On a Picture by Lorenzo Lotto at "Wilton House," 



by S. Arthur Strong. Art Journal, March, 1899, pp. 92—3, one ilhist,, 

 " The Temptation of St. Anthony, called a Correggio." 



A View of Salisbury Cathedral by J. Constable 



was amongst the pictures of the late Sir John Kelk, of Ted worth, sold at 

 Christie's on March 11th, 1899. This picture brought 1300 guineas, the 

 whole collection, sixty-six lots, fetching £17,128. Devizes Gazette, March 

 16th, 1899. 



Sale of the Corsham Court Pictures. On May 13th Messrs. 



Christie sold a number of the remaining pictures at Corsham Court,. Two 

 pastels by J. Russell, R.A., "Pig in a Poke," and "Incredulity," realised 

 the large sums of 750 and 180 guineas respectively. The Three Children of 

 Henry VII., by Mabuse, brought 530 guineas. Of the Italian pictures 

 Andrea del Sarto's portrait of himself went for 890 guineas \ "The Holy 

 Family," by Lorenzo di Crcdi, for 080; and the " Coronation of the Virgin."' 



