This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... the whole ground floor of the east front, has a lovely view over part of the Sound, and is a very bright and charming room. The Library, separated from the Saloon by the Billiard-room, is large and well proportioned: it was built by George, first Earl; and his son added the Dining-room, ingeniously fitting it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... the whole ground floor of the east front, has a lovely view over part of the Sound, and is a very bright and charming room. The Library, separated from the Saloon by the Billiard-room, is large and well proportioned: it was built by George, first Earl; and his son added the Dining-room, ingeniously fitting it into a limited space, which obliged him to make it oval. The effect is unusual and good. On the walls hang family portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Peter Lely, and Mascall, going back in unbroken succession to Colonel Piers Edgcumbe of the Civil Wars. The house has no pretensions to magnificence, nor has it any great beauty or regularity of design; yet it is a dignified and very "livable" home, not unworthy of its situation and surroundings. The old arched granite entrance doorway, however, deserves special mention, being a fine specimen of sixteenthcentury architecture. Among the portraits mentioned, three generations are by Reynolds, who was often a guest at the house. As a boy of twelve he and the artistic young " Dick," afterwards second Lord Edgcumbe, painted a clever portrait of Parson Smart, Vicar of Maker, in Cremyll Boathouse on a piece of sailcloth. In 1749, Lord Edgcumbe introduced him to Commodore Keppel, who gave him a passage to Italy in the Centurion, thus enabling him to study in Rome, where he purchased the fine marble busts of Roman Emperors now in the Saloon. Sir Joshua's receipt for the payment of the expenses he incurred is preserved. The family being staunch adherents of the Stuarts suffered much for their loyalty. The Parliamentarians, during the siege of Plymouth, unsuccessfully assaulted the house, May i, 1644, and two summonses for its surrender are extant, one signed by Lord Warwick; but it...
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