ABSTRACT
Nuneham Park occupies a distinguished place among English country seats. The position of the house, with the ground sloping from it on one side, has been most judiciously chosen. The flower-beds next the house are beautifully laid out, richly filled, and excellently kept. The pleasure-grounds, with a view of Oxford, and picturesque groups of trees, have a charming effect. The apartments in which the pictures are distributed are of agreeable proportions, and several of them stately in size. The pictures consist chiefly of the Netherlandish, French, and English schools, including also specimens of Italian, Spanish, and German masters. The wings of an altarpiece of the old Swabian school, with Cornelius, the papal saint, with a horn of consecrated oil in his right hand, and the episcopal staff with the double cross in his left, and St. Catherine and her wheel, and the king who caused her martyrdom under her feet.
