A catalogue of pictures, statues, busts, antique columns, bronzes, fragments of antique buildings, tables of Florentine and Roman mosaic scagliola and inlaid wood; Indian, Neapolitan and other china, with notices of the large collection of books in the various apartments at Hendersyde park, to which is added some particulars of the exterior of the house and adjoining buildings ... and of the island of Sharpitlaw ..

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Preface To The Present Edition

The lapse of 24 years since the First Edition of this Catalogue was printed, and the acquisition of several fine Pictures and Busts, especially since the year 1845, have made it necessary to make an entirely new Catalogue, as the arrangement of the former has unavoidably been changed, and a number of other articles have been added besides new Pictures, Busts, and Columns.

The noble and most striking Picture, for splendid effect of light and shade, of the Vision of Jacob by Guido, is placed in an excellent position for light, and the acquisition of this magnificent Work of Art has been quite a grand finale to the later part of this collection. The superb gem (of the School of RafFaelle) of the Virgin, Infant Jesus, and Joseph, hung close to the landing on the Staircase, and with fine light on it, was also added to this collection since 1851 ; and there is a finely-comvi.

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posed View of the Colosseum, &c., by Panini, in the Entrance Hall, which makes a good companion to the large View of the Foro Romano, also by Panini, before any excavations were made there. Both these Roman Views harmonize well with the brilliant colors of the Ducal Palace at Venice, always ascribed to Guardi, and for a number of Years the property of J. Waldie's kind friend, Mrs Hassells of Fox Earth, near Newcastle, Staffordshire.

Several Photographs and Miniatures have also been added to the collection of late years, and seven fine original Views, by Mr George Griffith, in oil colors, from his own Sketches, taken on the spot during several tours in France, Germany, and Italy, as well as in North Wales. They are very well finished and accurate, but scarcely equal in rich tone of color to many of the later ones of his Aunt, Mrs Admiral Watts, in the same room. It would be unnecessary to say anything more relative to the Pictures enumerated in the former Catalogue of 1835. Besides those since obtained, already mentioned, are Guido's fine Head of Santa Catarina, Murillo's Head of St Antonio, both painted for the Costaguti Palace at Rome, the Assumption of the City of Venice,

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(the original sketch for the Ceiling of the Council \ Chamber at Venice, and brought from thence by \ Sir Thomas Lawrence,) and the magnificent | Three-quarters length of St Sebastian, one of | the chef d'ceuvres of the Italian part of Cardinal

Fesch's large and beautiful collection at Rome, | sold there in 1845.

Many of the best Marble Busts were obtained \ at Rome in 1845 and in 1857, and are done \ by Mr Theed and Cavaliere Benzoni. The | former is now the favorite Artist of the Queen \ and Prince Consort, and is resident in London ; \ and the latter is certainly the best Italian \ Sculptor now living at Rome ; the four splendid \ Columns from the Villa Adriana support < nobly his four Busts of the Seasons, univer- \ sally allowed to be one of the best productions \ of the best Studio of Sculpture in Rome, and j they were much admired by the Empress of \ Russia, and Grand Duchess Olga, the King of

Bavaria, and Queen Christina of Spain, in the \ Spring of 1857. J. Waldie has mentioned

all the above new objects of Art in the Preface 5 to this new Catalogue for the benefit of those

long familiar to the older one, printed 24 years \ ago, and now embodied in this of 1859. J. i Waldie has thought it worth while to add to

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this new Catalogue a short account of the Exterior of the House, the Grounds, Park, &c, to which great additions and improvements have been lately made, more especially in the East and North Lodges and Approaches, and the Tunnel and Bridge to go to Skarpitlaw Island, and the Walks round it, and by the river side, between the South Wall of the Coldstream Turnpike Road and the Mill Stream of the river Tweed. There is also a light and pretty Oak Foot Bridge passing over the Gate for Carts from the Old Park to the West Park, to avoid descending from the Gravel Walk on the Sunk Fence, and ascending again. It was entirely constructed by Mr W. Cockburn from Oaks blown down, south of Tanlaw Wood, in February, 1855, during a severe gale of wind at that time. It is probable from the small time given for making this Catalogue that some things necessary to be inserted may have been omitted, but it is still more likely that others have been by mistake twice enumerated.

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The whole of the following Collection has been arranged with as much regard as possible to placing the best Pictures and Busts in good situations for the effect of light and shade ; but it is very difficult, where it is an object to form a general symmetrical arrangement, not to be obliged, sometimes, to sacrifice the best position of individual objects, in order to assist the general effect : as far, however, as the nature of the locale has allowed, the Pictures and Busts have been placed with reference to general symmetry and individual effect. The Pictures (with the exception of those painted by Mrs Watts and Mrs Potts, and of three painted for the late George Waldie, Esq., by Mr William Wilson, and also of a few modern copies which were bought by the late George Waldie, Esq.) were principally collected by J. Waldie, in London, or in Italy; and chiefly in Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan, and Naples. They

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are almost entirely the works, or of the Schools, of the ancient Masters. Nearly twenty pictures, chiefly of the Venetian School, were bought by Mr Waldie at Venice, in the Autumn of 1827, and were unfortunately sent, (together with a most valuable collection of Bronzes, Coins, Pictures, &c, belonging to Mr Ingram of Rome,) in the Spring of 1828, in an insufficient vessel, which was lost off Cape Ushant. Among the Pictures lost by J. Waldie, were some very fine specimens of the Venetian School, especially a Last Supper by Bonifazio. It is singular that this was the only instance in which J. Waldie had ever insured any effects going from Italy to England. J. Waldie' s pecuniary loss was, of course, trifling ; but Mr Ingram's valuable collection, the fruits of several years' continued residence in Venice, was not insured.

It is unnecessary to notice the merits and peculiarities of the various great painters whose names are found in this Catalogue, as they are all well known ; and a full account of their lives and works can be found on reference to the dictionaries of Bryant and Pilkington, in English ; to the works of Lebrun and Deschamps, in French ; to those of Vasari, Lanzi, and Ticozzi, in Italian ; and to many others.

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The enumeration of the Pictures in each room always begins with the East side, at its Northern extremity, and finishes at the Eastern extremity of the North side.

The Sculpture and Fragments of Marble which are enumerated after the Pictures, were entirely obtained in Italy, and chiefly at Eome ; a few of the Bronzes also are Roman, but the greater part of them are from Paris.

Near the conclusion of the Catalogue, a short notice has been added of the number and subjects of the large collection of Books in the Library and other Rooms.

All the Mantelpieces of the Rooms on the principal Floor are by Mr Ness of Leith Walk, Edinburgh ; and the six Pier Tables of the two Drawing-Rooms and Anti-Room, and all the furniture of the large Drawing-Room and Dining- Room, are by Mr Mein of Kelso, excepting the frames and legs of all the Marble Tables, which are done by Messrs Humble of Kelso.

It may here be observed, that a number of the articles enumerated (especially in the cabinets of the large Drawing-Room and Mr Waldie's Sitting-Room) may be considered as scarcely of sufficient consequence to be individually noticed; but they are mentioned xii.

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merely for the sake of enumeration, and not on account of their value or rarity, although the Mosaics and Cameos, and the Marble Fragments of Ruins, are certainly curious and valuable — the two former from their cost and beauty, and the latter from the association of the remembrance of the Antiquities of Italy and Greece.