CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ

OF TRE PI-CTURES

DELONGlNG TO THE MOST HONOURIDLE ,a

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GALLERY OF CLEVELAND HOUSE.

- Eu JOHN BRI'ITON, P.S. A.

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LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, IlEES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROM AND FOR TIIE AUTUOR. Y NOTICE

RESPECTING

TICKETS OF ADMISSION

TO THE CLEVELAND-HOUSE GALLERY.

WITHexemplary liberality the Marquis- of Stafford has appropriated one day in the week (Wednesday, from the honra of 12 to 5 dclock) during the months of May, June, and July, for the Public to view the pictures in his spacious Gallery. In consequence of almost innumerable applications, and in order to accommodate more pleasantly those per- sons who visit this splendid collection for the express purpose of exa- mining the paintings, his Lordship has found it necessary to adopt fille following REGULATIONS. No person can be permitted to view the Gallery without a ticket. To obtain which it is necessary that theapplicant be known to the Marquis, or to some one of the fhmily ; otherwise. he or she must have a recommendation from a person who is. Applications for such tickets are inserted in a book by the Porter, at the door of Cleveland-House, any day except Tuesday; when the tickets are issued, for admission OB the following day. Artists desirous of tickets for the season nus st be recommended by some member of the Royal Academy. It is expected? that ìf the weatller be wet, or dirty, that aU viaitom will go in carriages. THEextent and arrangement of the sdte of rooms which contain the picture usually exhibited, will be better understood by the annexed engraving2 than by any verbal description. AU that part of the house west of the Old &dlery, with the stairs, have been erected by tho - Marquis from designs by C. H. Tatham, Esq. The Old and New Gal- leries, marked B and H in the $Ian, 'are lighted fidm the 'top ; bnt the other apartments, %&g fitted up and appropriated for domestic pur- Poses, are lighted from the Pides. The wefitern end, hing the Green Paik, presents B plain, chaste, and silnple 'elevation : 'it is built of stofie: the windom fiom the draling and bininp-rodms, project iq 'hÓbom.

. REFERENCE TO THE APARTMENTS, &C. .NEW.GALLERY)No. lto 29, fiom pago 2 to 39. DKAW~G~~OO~,No.lSO to 67) from page 80 to 70. POUSS~N-ROOM,No. 68 to 75, from page 71 to 85. PASSAGE-ROOM,No. 76 to 83, pages 86 and 8T. DINIRG-ROOM,Mo, 84 to 104, from page 88 to 109. AXTI-ROOMto the Old GipUely, No. 105 to 113, from page 110 to 116. OLD-GALLERY,No. 114 to 228, from page 117 to 139. SFALL-ROOM,No. 239 to 852, from page 140 to 143. c l

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39. , to '70. 85. 37. ta 109. ii3, from page $10 PREFACE

a vi .PREFACJI., The nobility and gentry of England have long iorne the reproach of ibreigners, andof the native literatiin general, for a s&sh and haughty conduct respecting their picture galleries, and collections of curiosities. The complainants sa that tho possesors of rare and valuable works of art shorilJgive free adrnissiou at all times to the emulous artist, and to every per- son of laudable curiosity : and it is further urged, that thy manage these things better àn France; Italy, &c. It must, however, Le obvious, that a general system of policy, which may be unexceptionable in one country, a certain state of so- ciety, and with a particular class of people, would be highly improper in another count17 essentially different in habits and character. Thus B England,where ignorance, vulgarity, or sometbiug worse, aretho characteristicsof the lower orclers, mtl where frivolity, affectation, and insolerrce, are thc leadingtraits in a class of lounging persons, who hauut most public placcs, it would be the excess of folly for gentlemen who possess' w- luable museums, to give unlimited admission to the public *. Certain restrictions a.re necassary ; and these