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Philip Stanhope, Second Earl of Chesterfield (1633 - 1714)

Courtier and politician. In his travels through France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands in 1650 to 1650, he was accompanied by William Swan and, for part of his journey, John Bargrave as tutor. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26253/?back=,26252 Relevant locations: Title (royalty or holy order) Chesterfield, Derbyshire
 Relationships: Philip Stanhope was a employer of John Bargrave (1610-1680)
Philip Stanhope was a travelling companion of John Bargrave (1610-1680)

 Linked Objects: Owner - table
 References in Documents:
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a)

(29). Item, a gold ring, with the cutt of an ancient Graecian head on a garnet stone set in it. An° 1650, being the year of jubilee, I had the honour to conduct the Earl of Chesterfield, Phillip Lord Stanhop, into Italy; and at Rome he presented me with this stone, telling me that it was sold him not only for a Graecian head, but for Aristotle’s. I sett it in gold at Rome, as the jeweller advised me, in that transparent posture as it now hath, that so, the stone being pelluced, the head is much the plainer to be seen both ways. The side next to the finger will soil, and must sometimes be cleaned. The cutt is certainly a very very ancient intaglio, (as they use to call such cutts at Rome), melting away the g in the pronunciation, and pronouncing it almost with a ll—intallia.

Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) (a) Almandine garnet, oval convex; bearded bust, perhaps of Jupiter, in profile to left, hair bound in fillet, himation around shoulders. D: 19mm. Ano 1650. . ., I had the honour to conduct. . . Phillip Lord Stanhop into Italy; and at Rome he presented me with this stone, telling me that it was sold him not only for a Graecian head, but for Aristotle’s. I sett it in gold at Rome. . .. Set in a gold ring inscribed and dated "I B RO/MA 1650". c.50 B.C. B29.
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) (q) A large octagonal marble table, inlaid with scenes from Ovid. Another similar table, probably ordered for Lord Stanhope when Bargrave, his tutor, had this made was presented or bequeathed to the Library by Dr George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury from 1704 until his death in 1748.
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) (l) AN ASSISTANT OF GIOVANNI BATTISTA CANINI, oval half-length portrait of John Bargrave, aged 40, with the Bargrave arms on left. Painted while he was tutor to Lord Stanhope in Rome in 1650. Oil on copper, H: 9.5 cms. B68.