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glass-walled building that hangs just over the Thames. Named in homage to the Duke, the
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The parlour, which is the only room in it except the kitchen, is painted upon the ceiling in grotesque, with monkeys fishing, shooting etc., and its sides are hung with paper. When a person sits in this room he cannot see the water though the island is not above a stone's cast over: nor is he
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The Temple, 100 yards away, was originally open on the ground floor like a market stall. The Duke's fine and eclectic decorative taste is again evident in the first-floor room that was once a billiard room. Its grand ceiling – with
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prevented from this by shade: for, except for six or eight walnut trees and a few orange trees in tubs there is not a leaf upon the island; it arises entirely from the river running very much below its banks.
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moored on the banks of the River Thames. The property also features the Monkey Island
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to paint them – playing cards, shooting, fishing, smoking – and it is known they were completed before 1738. Other works of the artist were for
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