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This page continues the article entitled Blackheath, which started on Page 313.
The next article is entitled Black Horse alley, and starts on Page 323.

This engraving faces Page 314.  It depicts "Sir Gregory Page's Seat".   Click the thumbnail for the full size version, which will open in a popup image viewer.  (Size: 186Kb)
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piece of water before it.  The back
front has an Ionic portico of four
columns, but having no pediment does
not make so agreeable a figure as could
be wished.
This is one of the finest seats in
England belonging to a private gentle-
man; it is adorned with many capi-
tal pictures, a list whereof is here given;
and the gardens, park, and country
around, render it a most delightful
seat: yet this fine edifice was begun,
raised, and covered, in the space of
eleven months.  At a small distance
is the College erected by Sir John
Morden, Bart. for a particular account
of which see Morden College.












A Cata-
     
A Catalogue of the Pictures of Sir Gregory Page, Baronet, at his
House at Blackheath.
Height. Breadth. Painted by
Feet Inc. Feet Inc.
Sampson and Dalilah       -     -     -     - 5 6 8 3  Vandyke.
St. Cyprian a ¾ length    -     -     -     - 4 3 3  Ditto.
The three royal children ½ lengths  - 2 0 3 8  Ditto.
Juno and Ixion     -     -     -     -     -     - 6 0 8 0  Rubens.
Rubens and his mistress       -     -     - 6 8 6 3  Ditto.
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Rubens, two figures, fowls and fruit 5 3 8 0  Ditto and Snyders.
Figures by Rubens, a landskip    -     - 2 3 3 1  Ditto and Brughel.
David and Abigail      -     -     -     -     - 6 2 6  Ditto.
A maid milking a goat     -     -     -     - 4 10 6 7  Jordans of Antwp.
The good Samaritan        -     -     -     - 7 0 7 8  Systi Baldelochi.
The return of the prodigal son    -     - 7 0 9 0  Chev. Calabreze.
Moses striking the rock    -     -     -     - 7 0 9 0  Valerio Castello.
The woman taken in adultery     -     - 3 8 5 2  Paul Veronese.
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