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 the Palazzo St. Anthony holding the Infant Saviour in his Arms; from the Royal Collection of Watteau. Portraits of Two Young Ladies, known by the title of Les Deu
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 the Palazzo St. Anthony holding the Infant Saviour in his Arms; from the Royal Collection of Watteau. Portraits of Two Young Ladies, known by the title of Les Deux petites Marquises. A work of singular Caracci. The Toilet of Venus; from the Tanari Palace at Bologna. The above are but a few of the fine and numerous works com-posing this collection, which comprises a good specimen of most ofthe great painters of former times. The two pictures by Raffaellealone give a standard of consequence to it, and it is here alone thatTurners great ability in landscape composition can be best estimated,about a dozen of his performances being hung on the walls. KENSINGTON PALACE. The collection of Byzantine, early Italian, German, and Flemishpictures, forming the collection of his Serene Highness Prince LouisDOttingen Wallerstein. This collection is of great interest, beingthe only one of a similar class in England. It is placed in the state 410 KENSINGTON PALACE. apartments on the south side of the Palace, and occupies the roomsin which Her Present Majesty passed her youth. Admission is onlyobtained by Prince Alberts permission, for which purpose the keeper,Mr. Louis Gruner, No. 13, Fitzroy Square, may be 1 to 9, and No. 26, are paintings of the Byzantine School, and compriseproductions between the tenth and thethirteenth centuries. This portionelucidates the style adopted in theEast by the early Christian their introduction into WesternEurope we are indebted to Charlemagneand his successors, to
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