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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... THE HYDE (Essex). In this country house, the residence of the late John Disney, Esq., near Ingatestone (Gt. Eastern Ry., not far from Chelmsford), are still preserved the bronzes, terra-cottas, glass objects, vases, &c. of his collection, chiefly collected by Thomas Hollis and Thomas Brand in Italy, while the marbles have been bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, with the exception, as it appears, of a few specimens (see Cambridge, after no. 101). Those small articles are sketched in the Museum Disneianum, Lond. 1848, Vol. II. and ill., PI. 59--127; cf. Gerhard, Arch. Anz., 1849, pp. 55 ff., 125 ff. Conze, Arch. Anz., 1864, p. 169. ICKWORTH (Suffolk). For the collection, which Frederick Augustus, Fourth Earl Of Bristol, Bishop of Deny (1730-1803), had laid the foundation of in Rome with a view to the adornment of his magnificent mansion at Ickworth, cf. Introd. 62. This collection having been dispersed, only a very few antiques seem to exist at Ickworth. J. Gage Hist, and Antiq. of Suffolk, Thingoe Hundred, Lond. 1838, p. 307) mentions as being in the dining-room: 1. Bust of Hercules, colossal scale, 2. Bust of Lucius Verus, the same; in the library: 3. A frieze of Bacchanalian figures, presumably, if antique at all, a relief from a sarcophagus. INCE BLUNDELL HALL (Lancashire). An Account of the Statues, Busts, Bass-relieves, Cinerary Urns, and other Ancient Marbles, and Paintings, at Ince. Collected by H. B. Liverpool: printed by McCreery, 1803, 4to. (332 pages).--Engravings and Etchings of Sepulchral Monuments, Cinerary Urns, Gems, Bronzes, Prints, Greek Inscriptions, Fragments, cv. in the Collection of Henry Blundell, Esq., at Ince, 1809. 2 vols. fol. (158 plates and 3 frontispieces). Dallaway, pp. 357 f. (11. pp. 107 ff. He only g...
