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 . latial mansion; built byH. T. Hope, Esq., , in 1849-50, with remarkably handsomeexternal decorations in stone and metal, in the modern French style,displaying much fancy. The architects w
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 . latial mansion; built byH. T. Hope, Esq., , in 1849-50, with remarkably handsomeexternal decorations in stone and metal, in the modern French style,displaying much fancy. The architects were M. Dusillon and Pro-fessor Donaldson; the decorations executed chiefly by French iron railing is among the richest and best executed to be foundin London ; the founder, Mons. J. P. V. Andre, Rue Neuve Menil-montant, No. 12, Paris. The contract price for the casting andputting together was 400L This cost does not include the chargefor the carriage and duty. For the works of art noticeable within,see Galleries, Private (p. 411). Horse Guards, Whitehall.—A building containing the offices ofthe Secretary at War, and in which the chief business relating tothe army is transacted. It is a very solid structure broken into com-plex forms, much in the picturesque style of Sir John Vanbrugb,but the name of its designer is uncertain. It was built about 1753. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS. 731. THE HORSE GUARDS. Through the centre of this building is a thoroughfare into St. JamessPark, for foot passengers only. The clock in the turret is a standardtime-keeper for the western parts of the metropolis, as St. Paulsand the Exchange clocks are for the city. Houses of Parliament, or New Palace of Westminster.—Thebuildings devoted to the legislature of this empire have, till veryrecently, illustrated, even by their physical exterior, the chief pecu-liarity of our constitution; for as it is the unique excellence of this,and the main source of its stability, that it has been a wor
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