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                                  THE
                   COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT
                           IN TWELVE VOLUMES


                              VOLUME NINE




                         _All rights reserved_




                         THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
                            WILLIAM HAZLITT


                         EDITED BY A. R. WALLER
                           AND ARNOLD GLOVER

                        WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

                              W. E. HENLEY

                                   ❦

                             The Principal

                      Picture-Galleries in England

              Notes of a Journey through France and Italy

                 Miscellaneous Essays on the Fine Arts

                                   ❦

                                  1903

                       LONDON: J. M. DENT _&_ CO.
                  McCLURE, PHILLIPS _&_ CO.: NEW YORK




        Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty

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                                CONTENTS


                                                        PAGE

            THE PRINCIPAL PICTURE-GALLERIES IN ENGLAND     1

            NOTES OF A JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY   83

            MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS ON THE FINE ARTS        305

            NOTES                                        439

            APPENDIX                                     489




SKETCHES OF THE PRINCIPAL PICTURE-GALLERIES IN ENGLAND WITH A CRITICISM
                        ON ‘MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE’




                          BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


_Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England. With a
Criticism on ‘Marriage a-la-mode,’_ appeared in a small 8vo. volume (6½
in. × 4 in.) in 1824, ‘Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet-Street,
and 13, Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall.’ The last page bears advertisements
of the _Characters of Shakspeare’s Plays_, _Lectures on the English
Poets_, and _Lectures on the English Comic Writers_. The printer’s name,
given behind the half-title, is ‘T. Green, 76 Fleet-street.’

Four pages of Taylor & Hessey’s announcements (‘Booksellers to H.R.H.
the Prince Leopold’) are bound up with the volume.

The present text is that of the 1824 volume.

The _Sketches_ formed part of the two volumes of ‘Criticisms on Art,’
collected and edited by his son in 1843–4, and of the one volume of
‘Essays on the Fine Arts,’ edited by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in 1873.




                             ADVERTISEMENT


It is the object of the following little work to give an account of the
principal Picture-Galleries in this country, and to describe the
feelings which they naturally excite in the mind of a lover of art.
Almost all those of any importance have been regularly gone through. One
or two, that still remain unnoticed, may be added to our _catalogue
raisonnée_ at a future opportunity. It may not be improper to mention
here that Mr. Angerstein’s pictures have been lately purchased for the
commencement of a National Gallery, but are still to be seen in their
old places on the walls of his house.




                                CONTENTS


                                                   PAGE

                 Mr. Angerstein’s Collection          7

                 Dulwich Gallery                     17

                 The Marquis of Stafford’s Gallery   27

                 Pictures at Windsor Castle          36

                 Pictures at Hampton Court           42

                 Lord Grosvenor’s Collection         49

                 Pictures at Wilton and Stourhead    55

                 Pictures at Burleigh House          62

                 Pictures at Oxford and Blenheim     69


                                APPENDIX

                 Criticism on Marriage a-la-Mode     75




                      PICTURE-GALLERIES IN ENGLAND


MR. ANGERSTEIN’S COLLECTION

Oh! Art, lovely Art! ‘Balm of hurt minds, chief nourisher in life’s
feast, great Nature’s second course!’ Time’s treasurer, the unsullied
mirror of the mind of man! Thee we invoke, and not in vain, for we find
thee here retired in thy plentitude and thy power! The walls are dark
with beauty; they frown severest grace. The eye is not caught by glitter
and varnish; we see the pictures by their own internal light. This is
not a bazaar, a raree-show of art, a Noah’s ark of all the Schools,
marching out in endless procession; but a sanctuary, a holy of holies,
collected by taste, sacred to fame, enriched by the rarest products of
genius. For the number of pictures, Mr. Angerstein’s is the finest
gallery, perhaps, in the world. We feel no sense of littleness: the
attention is never distracted for a moment, but concentrated on a few
pictures of first-rate excellence. Many of these _chef-d’œuvres_ might
occupy the