The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . ., from a de-sign of Inigo Jones, to which were added two beautiful quadranglesby Sir Christopher Wren (superintended gratuitously), and, in QueenAnnes reign, a repetition of Joness original
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . ., from a de-sign of Inigo Jones, to which were added two beautiful quadranglesby Sir Christopher Wren (superintended gratuitously), and, in QueenAnnes reign, a repetition of Joness original building; the whole fournow forming an architectural group unparalleled in modern , the forfeiture of the Earl of Derwentwaters estates on ac-count of the rebellion of 1715, and their appropriation to this Hospi-tal, brought it an accession of about 6000/. per annum, to which havebeen added numerous private donations. The Hospital now containsa very large additional number of inmates; and the officers consist of agovernor, lieutenant-governor, eight lieutenants, four chaplains, andabout 170 nurses. The in-pensioners receive, besides every necessary,from Is/to 2s. 6d. per week, and the out-pensioners from 4/. lis. 3d,to 27/. 7s. 6d. per annum, according to their rank, age, and the natureof their wounds. The buildings having been described under Archi- PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS. 725. GREENWICH HOSPITAL. 726 LONDON. tecture (pages 179,180), we need only here notice the chief objectsof interest they contain. The hall or gallery, entered from under Wrens western dome,with the vestibule leading to it, and the small upper hall beyond it,were painted by Sir James Thornhill, and occupied him nineteenyears, from 1708 to 1727. These decorations are fast disappearing,and could never have been very remarkable. The shadowing to re-present architecture and sculpture in relief betrays (like all falsepretences) at once a want of invention, and a most mean and tawdrytaste, which
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