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540 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
fixteen fluted columns, which, as well as the reft of the body of the theatre, which
forms a demi-circle up to the ftage of forty feetin diameter, are gilt. In the apartment
of the Princefs, the late King’s filter, is the buft of awoman veiled, compofed of three
different kinds of marble. In that of the Queen is a {mall copy of the Borghefe her-
maphrodite. In the reading-room, two vafes of Ruflian marble. “The moft remark-
able contents of this chateau are its numerous collection of portraits of the Princes
and Princefles of Europe, fince the time of Guftavus Vafa ; it is very confiderable, yet
not complete. In a long gallery, which ferves as a diming-room, are the portraits of the
different Sovereigns contemporary with Guftavus Vafa ; and in the faloon, which is a
large rotunda of more than forty feet in diameter ; in the great tower are thofe of the
Sovereigns who reigned at the time Guftavus II. afcended the throne. The firft, that
is to fay thofe of the time of Gultavus Vafa, are Francis I. King of France, taken in
1542, when forty-eight years of age. Sigi/mund 1. King of Poland, who died in 15485
eighty-one years of age. The Emperor Maximilian, 1519 (the year of his death,) fifty-
nine years old. Charles V. Emperor and King of Spain when thirty years of age, in
1530; he died in his fifty-eighth year. Ferdinand 1. King of Hungary and Bohernia,
aged twenty-nine years, 1531, he died in 1564. Lewis Il. King of Hungary and Bo-
hemia, killed in battle in the year 1525, in his twentieth year. Frederic, Duke and
Elector of Saxony, 15253 he died aged fixty-two. John, Duke of Saxony, died in
1532, in his fixty-third year. Joachim, Margrave of Brandenburg, died 1571, fixty-fix
years old; was painted in 1547. Henry, Duke of Brunfwick and Lunenburg, died in
1578, feventy-nine years old. William, Count Palatine of the Rhine, died in 1550,
fitty-feven years old. George, Duke of Saxony, died in 1539, fixty-eight years old, his
likenefs taken when fifty-nine. L£ric, Duke of Brunfwick ; he died in 1540; feventy
years of age, painted when 63. Henry, Duke of Saxony, died in 1541, fixty-eight
years old, painted when fifty-eight. Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin, died
in 1572, ninety-three years old, painted in 1534. _-d/bert, Duke of Mecklenburg,
died in 1547, fixty years old. Andrew de Greti, Doge of Venice, died at the begin-
ning of the 16th century, painted in 1533. Stephen Schlick, Count of Baffau. George,
de Fronfberg, eques auratus. Philippe, Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin, died in 1557,.
at forty-three years, painted when twenty. Chriftopher, Duke of Wirtemberg, died in
1568, painted when eighteen. John II. junior, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Deux.
Ponts, died in 1534, fifty-one years of age. John, fenior, Count Palatine of the Rhine-
and Deux Ponts, died in 1604, fifty-four years old. Wolfgang, Count Palatine of the-
Rhine, died in France in 1569, forty-three years of age. John, Margrave of Braden-
burg and Pomerania, died in 1571, fifty-eight years old, was painted when eighteen.
René, Count de Naflau, Prince of Orange, painted when thirteen years old. Erne/t,
Duke of Brunfwick and Lunenberg, died in 1546, forty-nine years old. Philip, Land-
grave of Hefle, he died in 1567, aged fixty-three years, painted when thirty. Ulric,
Duke of Wirtemberg, Count de Montbéliard, died in 1550, aged fixty-three years,
painted when forty-fix. Joachim, Margrave of Brandenburg, Duke of Pomerania, died
in 1535, aged fifty-one years. John Frederic, Duke of Saxony, died in 1534, aged
fifty-one years. Henry VIII. King of England, who died in 1547, aged fifty-fix years,
painted when fifty-one. Gu/avus I. takenin 1542. ric XIV. Thofe of the grand
rotunda, are Gufavus III.; Jofeph Il.; Catharine, of Ruffia; George II. King of
England; Ferdinand IV. King of Naples; Maria Frances Mabella, Queen of Portugal ;
Chriftian VII. King of Denmark ; Lewis XV. King of France; Charles Ill. King of
Spain; Abdulhamid, the Turkifh Emperor; Staniflaus Auguftus, King of Poland ;
Frederic II. King of Pruffia; Victor Amadius, King of Sardinia; the Emprefs Maria
Therefa 3.
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