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(fee Didus,) the only one in Europe, and moll probably 
in the world, the lpecies being fuppofed to be entirely 
extindl. 
The next colledlion, after that of the Tradefcants, ap¬ 
pears to have been Dr. Woodward’s, which fublequently 
came to be included in the fuperb and fplendid one of 
fir Hans Sloane, and, of courfe, now conditutes a part of 
the Britijh MuJ'eum. We have nothing to add to our ac¬ 
count of that national collection given under the article 
London, vol. xiii. p. 582-5. except to notice the intro¬ 
duction of what are now called the Elgin Marbles, which 
were purchafed by the parliament lalt year (1816) for the 
fum of 35,000k 
The noble collection which formed the Mufeum of the 
duchefs of Portland, was collected at an incredible ex- 
penfe by herfelf, and increafed by fome valuable prefents 
from her friends ; to which were added various curiofities 
inherited from her family. It comprifed every thing rich 
and rare in the vegetable, animal, and foffil, kingdoms ; 
and the articles dialled under the head of Conchology 
were fo numerous and fcarce, that even the celebrated 
Linnaeus had not feen very many of them. Moll unfor¬ 
tunately this fplendid collection was fcattered upon her 
grace’s deceafe, whole aCting executrix ordered it to the 
fatal hammer of the aCtive didributor of the goods of in¬ 
heritors, Mr. Alderman Skinner, who was thirty-feven 
days employed in the i'ale at the duchefs’s houie in Privy 
Garden, commencing his labours on the 24th of April, 
s 7 86. 
Mr. Richardfon having noted the prices of fome of the 
.richelt articles on a Catalogue, we lhall give a feleCtion 
from them. 
Hollar’s Works, 13 vols. folio, 3S5I. This was a col¬ 
lection of the belt impreilions, proofs, and variations, 
extant. 
A portrait of Louis XIV. finely enamelled by Pettitot. 
311. 10s. 
A miniature of Shakefpeare by Humphreys. 27 1 . i6s.6d. 
A very fine miniature of the infant Jefus, lleeping, 
painted upon lapis lazuli, an oClagon of four and a half 
by three and a half inches, fuppofed to be painted by one 
of the fchool of Guido. The child lies on a carpet and 
culhion of gold, with abalket behind the head, containing 
the inilruments of Crucifixion. 24I. 3s. 
Two miniatures in a locket, gold enamelled, of the great 
fir Walter Raleigh, and his fon captain Walter Raleigh, 
finely executed. The father dreffed in black and gold 
armour with a red lafli, in the fixty-fiftli year of his age. 
The fon in white and gold armour with a white falh; he 
wears a gold ear-ring, and the ruff and whilkers of the 
time ; his age about twenty-four. 44I. 2s. 
Portrait of the duchefs de la Valiere, when in the height 
of her beauty, enamelled by Pettitot, extremely fine, in 
an ebony frame. 84k 
Portrait of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, by 
Iiaac Oliver, 1616 ; very fine, and highly finilhed. nl. 5s. 
Portrait of lady Frances Cecil, ccuntefs of Cumberland, 
by John Holkins. 10L 
Two miniatures of Milton and his mother, in the drefs 
of the times; undoubted originals, admirably painted, in 
a tortoife-fhell cafe. 33I. 12s. 6d. 
A remarkably fine miniature head of our Saviour, by 
Ifaac Oliver, fet in gold. Nothing can exceed the grace- 
fulnefs, benevolence, and meeknefs, expreffed in this 
picture. 21I. 
Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer-book, which contains fix 
prayers compofed by her majefty, and written by her own 
hand, in the neateil and moll beautiful manner, upon vel¬ 
lum. Two of the prayers are in Englilh, one in Latin, 
one in Greek, one in Italian, and one in French. On 
the infiae of the covers are the pictures of the duke 
d’Alen$on and the queen, by Hilliard: the binding, black 
lhagreen, with enamelled clafps, and in the centre of each 
is a ruby. 106I. is. 
Vol. XVI. No. mi. 
E U M. 277 
A very fine illuminated Miffal, which was prefented by 
the duchefs of Bedford (filter to the duke of Burgundv, 
and wife of John duke of Bedford, regent of France) to 
king Henry VI. in the year 1430. Upon the back of the 
leaf (on which are the original portraits of the duke and 
duchefs of Burgundy) is her deed of gift to the king. 
The lize of the book is eleven inches long, feven and a 
half wide, and two and three-quarters thick; bound in 
crimfon velvet, with gold clafps, on which are engraved 
the Harley, Cavendilh, and Holies, arms, quartered. 203 
guineas. 
A moll beautiful Miffal, illuminated in a fuperior de¬ 
gree of elegance by the famous Don Julio Clovio, which, 
in richnefs and harmony of colouring, as well as the tafte 
and judgment of the defigns and ornaments, is perhaps 
fuperior to any thing of the kind. The book is in the. 
liighelt (late of prefervation, and the colours retain their 
original brilliancy. It isinfcribed to the duke d’Alemjon, 
by Clovio, anno 1537; and from him came into the pof- 
feilion of the earl of Arundel and Surrey, from whofe col¬ 
lection it was purchafed by Edward lord Harley, earl of 
Oxford and Mortimer. The lize, five inches three-eighths 
long, four inches wide, and two and a half thick ; bound 
in black leather, ornamented with gold plates, covers, and 
clafps. 1611. 
An ivory tankard, on which is finely carved, in alto- 
relievo, a bacchanalian proceffon, with a filver-gilt bot¬ 
tom, the edge engraved, with a border of leaves, enriched 
with various precious Hones, fuch as rubies, topazes, lap-, 
phires, jacynths, emeralds, See. the handle and lid are fil¬ 
ver-gilt, and decorated with jewels ; and on the top is a boy 
fculptured in ivory. The height is fix inches and a half, 
the width at bottom five inches, and the top three and a 
quarter. The infide of the lid is enamelled, with a garnet 
in the centre. 19I. 8s. 6d. 
A very curious gold enamelled antique cup, of extra¬ 
ordinary workmanlhip and elegant form ; weight twenty- 
three ounces, two penny-weights, and twenty-one grains. 
85]. 
A very curious rofary, by Benvenuto Cellini, faid to 
be the rofary of Henrietta Maria, queen of king Charles I. 
who in her neceffities pawned it to the duke of Orleans. 
It con fids of fix plum and fifty cherry Hones; the firff 
moH curioufly carved with parts of hidory, the latter with 
heads of emperors ; and on the reveries emblems and 
mottos. 46I. 4s.—Another, remarkably fine, laid to have 
been the property of pope Clement VII. confiding of 
thirty-two plum-dones of exquifite workmanlhip 3 of 
feuiptures on both lides, in relievo; and between each 
done is a pearl, thirty-two in number, with a larger one 
on the top of the tafl'el. 81I. 18s. 
A piece of carving in wood, reprefenting landfcapes, 
with views, in which is introduced water with veffels tail¬ 
ing, and on land various reprelentations of hunting, with 
boar, dag, dogs, and men on horfeback: the whole exe¬ 
cuted in a manner that is beyond defeription, and in the 
highed prefervation. 15I. 15s. 
A gold box, with an exceeding curious mofaic top and 
bottom. 7I. 7s. 
A fmall Chimera of fine antique mofaic, fet in gold as 
a ring, and turns upon a fwivel. The figure has the wings 
and feet of a bird, with a human face, and feems to be 
an hieroglyphic. 13I. 2s. 6d. 
A precious fragment of an antique intaglio, in an ex¬ 
ceeding fine cornelian, fet in gold for a ring. It repre- 
fents Hercules as low as the waid, fitting in a (kill', with a 
lion’s Ikin for a lail, one of the paws is fadened by a dring, 
which hangs over the head of Hercules, whofe drength in 
neck and back is wonderfully expreffed in fo fmall a com- 
pafs. 47I. 5s. 
A cameo of the head of Augudus Cselar, upon a re¬ 
markably fine onyx ; the head white, upon a jacynth 
ground ; the workmanfhip of fuperlative excellence. It 
was found at Malta. 237I. 5s. 
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