[PDF] A New Guide To Blenheim eBook

Author : William Eccles
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 2012-07
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ISBN : 9781458994608

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of Blenheim; the whole monument is splendid. His Grace died at Windsor, 16th June, 1722; and on 9th of August ensuing, after lying in state at Marlborough House, his corpse was, with very great magnificence, interred in Westminster Abbey, from whence upon the death of his Duchess, it was afterwards removed to the vault underneath this Chapel. The Titian Gallery, together with its invaluable collection of Paintings, known as Hercules and Dejaneira; Pluto and Proserpine; Cupid and Psyche; Jupiter, Juno, and lo; Bacchus and Ariadne; Apollo and Daphne; Yulcan and Ceres; Mars and Venus; Neptune and Amphitrite; and the Eape of Proserpine, by Rubens, were entirely destroyed by the conflagration which took place at Blenheim Palace on the morning of the 5th February, 1861. The Gardens. The Gardens of Blenheim are deservedly reckoned among its principal attractions. They are of great extent, occupy a most happy situ- tion, and are, perhaps as perfect a specimen of picturesque, or landscape gardening, as can be conceived. Art may do much to supply natural deficiencies, but where the space is limited to, perhaps a couple, Or even half a dozen acres, the most consummate art can effect but little in the way of landscape gardening, and the result will commonly be contemptible from its minuteness. The Gardens of Blenheim, however, are on a scale of sufficiently grand extent, and the nature of their surface such as to invite embellishment, which has here been bestowed in profusion; and, at the same time, with such admirable skill, taste and judgment, that while its influence is scarcely suspected, its excellent effects are every where manifest. These Gardens, including under the term the grounds, to which the public are admitted, either with or without tickets, lie chiefly to ...