BRITISH GALLERIES

OF

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE,

COMPRISING A

GENERAL HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL

CATALOGUE,

WITH

SEPARATE NOTICES

OF

EVERY WORK Of fine art in THE PRINC
COLLECTIONS.

CA

BY

C. M. WESTMACOTT,

AUTHOR OF

"THE ANNUAL CRITICAL CATALOGUE TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY;" EDITOR OF
"THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS," &c. &c.

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ILLUSTRATED WITH

ENGRAVED PORTRAITS AND INTERIOR VIEWS,

BY

WAGEMAN, CATTERMOLE, HAWKSWORTH, LE KEUX,
FINDLAY, AND PHILLIPS

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, JONES, AND CO.,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCXXIV.

754

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES,

Northumberland-court.

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST PART.

METROPOLITAN GALLERIES:

The King's (Carlton House),

Buckingham House,

National Gallery (late Angerstein's),

Marquess of Stafford's (Cleveland House),

Kensington Palace,

St. James's Palace,

British Museum,

Mr. T. Hope's, Duchess-street.

Presentation Works of the Academicians at the Royal Academy of

Arts, Somerset House;

An Essay on the Marbles of the Parthenon.

ENGRAVINGS IN THE FIRST PART.

Portraits of HIS MAJESTY, the Marquess of Stafford, Earl Grosvenor,
and Sir J. F. Leicester.

INTERIOR VIEWS OF GALLERIES:

Carlton House, Cleveland House, with a plan of the Galleries, and Mr.
T. Hope's, in Duchess-street;

With numerous illustrative Vignettes on wood, embossed into the
Letter Press.