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Chap. LV.
THE CHAPEL.
379
tain many objects, embroidered screens, &c., of her
handiwork. The portraits are good; none wanting
save that of the Reventlow Queen, who seldom appears
out of Jutland. Of Caroline Matilda there hangs a
good specimen. Vemmetofte in its day was the
property of the Brahe family, and in one of the
reception-rooms there exists a fine old chimney-piece with
the arms and device of Tycho carved thereon. In a
small turret-chamber leading from the great saloon
hang the portraits of the ten first-elected ladies of the
chapter, attired in black, bearing on their breasts the
badge and star of the order—ten prettier creatures I
have seldom seen.
The convent of Vemmetofte is about to undergo a
thorough restoration, rendered necessary by the
contrast of its whitewashed walls with the admirable courts
recently erected. Our reverend cicerone conducted us
to the chapel — a low vaulted building, hung with
numerous pictures, chiefly collected by Prince Charles
when at Rome ; some appeared to be of the Bolognese
school, but light was insufficient. I can only retain a
confused idea of a Last Judgment by Krock, of
Flensborg—a miniature copy of the larger altarpiece
consumed in the conflagration of Christiansborg Palace in
1794.
We had lingered so long over the tapestries and
ancient furniture, the queer old gilded stones, the
Chinese scent-bottles of the Princess Hedvig, the
portraits, and various souvenirs of royalty treasured up and
connected with the place, that daylight had fast closed
in ere we quitted for our destination. We are still
some ten or twelve miles’ distance from the little town
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