. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. oor arefragments of Gothic corbels from ancient buildings, Lincolns Inn Fields,] THE SOANE MUSEUM. 49 erected, probably, about the close of the twelfthcentury. Upon each side of the gallery of thesecond floor are copies in terra-cotta from theCaryatides in front of the Temple of Pandrosus, atAthens. The walls of the entrance-hall are coloured toimitate porphyry, and decorated with casts in plasterafter the antique, medallion reliefs, and other sculp-tures. The dining-room and library, which may beconsidered as one r
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. oor arefragments of Gothic corbels from ancient buildings, Lincolns Inn Fields,] THE SOANE MUSEUM. 49 erected, probably, about the close of the twelfthcentury. Upon each side of the gallery of thesecond floor are copies in terra-cotta from theCaryatides in front of the Temple of Pandrosus, atAthens. The walls of the entrance-hall are coloured toimitate porphyry, and decorated with casts in plasterafter the antique, medallion reliefs, and other sculp-tures. The dining-room and library, which may beconsidered as one room, being separated only by Pantheon, and the Tower of the Winds ; and thereis also a large model in cork of part of the ancientcity of Pompeii. The next room contains a considerable collec-tion of marble fragments of Greek and Romansculpture, of antique bronzes, and some curiousnatural productions. In what is called the Monu-ment Court, the walls of which are enriched withvarious fragments of ancient buildings and piecesof sculpture, is an architectural group about thirty. Lincolns inn chapel. two projecting piers formed into book-cases, is thefirst apartment entered. The ceiling is formed intocompartments, enriched by paintings by the lateHenry Howard, Over the chimney-piece is aportrait of Sir John Soane, painted by Sir ThomasLawrence, in 1S29, almost the last picture paintedby that distinguished artist; and beneath this is ahighly-finished model in plaster of the Board ofTrade and Privy Council Offices, Sec, at AVhitehall,being a design for completing the buildings northand south of Downing Street, made by Sir JohnSoane in 1826, This room contains a largenumber of plaster models of ancient Greek andRoman buildings, such as the Parthenon, the101—Vol. III. feet high, comprising works of various fomis andnations. One of the principal apartments in the basementof the building is called the Sepulchral Chamber;and in the centre of it is the splendid ancientEgyptian sarcop
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