Tour the Castle's First Floor After its First Fifty Years

A full length portrait, (about one-fourth size,) in oil, of Smithson, representing him in the costume of an Oxford student.
His miniature in oil, on ivory, painted by Johns on the 11th of May, 1816, at Aim la Chapelle.
Smithson's library, consisting of 123 volumes and 88 pamphlets.
Original draft of his will.

A paper in his handwriting on the cause of a shipwreck in the English Channel.
His visiting and dinner-invitation cards.
Memoir by Smithson, on " Zoolite," from the Philosophical Transactions, London, 1811. (Extra pamphlet copy.)
Memoir by Smithson, on " Calamines," from the Philosophical Transactions, London, 1803. (Extra pamphlet copy.)

Series of notes addressed to him by Oersted, Arago, Biot, Lester, Tennant, Iilaproth, and other savans.
Portrait of Smithson's father, Hugh Percy, the Duke of Northumberland.

Miniature likeness of his half brother, Col. Henry Louis Dickinson.
Commission from George III of Henry Lewis Dickinson as Lieut. Colonel, 1st January, 1800.

Commission from George III of Henry Lewis Dickinson as Lieutenant Colonel of the Eighty-Fourth Regiment of Foot, 4th August, 1808.
Portrait of Henry James Dickinson, his nephew. Engraved visiting card of his nephew.

An oil painting, landscape, by Bergham.
Photograph of his tomb at Genoa, Italy.

Return to start of the First Floor of the Castle's Main Hall in 1886