. Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty. i*. p s? WESTMINSTER ABBEY. JK^hool, &c. &c. This piece of painting was finished in 1/35, and has a grandand brilliant effect. Under the towers of both aisles are lancet-shaped windows; in the point ofeach arch blank trefoils. The lower part of that to the north is fi
. Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty. i*. p s? WESTMINSTER ABBEY. JK^hool, &c. &c. This piece of painting was finished in 1/35, and has a grandand brilliant effect. Under the towers of both aisles are lancet-shaped windows; in the point ofeach arch blank trefoils. The lower part of that to the north is filled by afigure of a bearded old man in a crimson vest, and blue and yellow colours of the drapery and canopy are extremely clear. Under him are aportcullis and a double triangle. This is generally said to represent Edwardthe Confessor. In the south window is a king completely armed (of the house of Lan-caster, it should seem, by the red rose): under him the arms of Edward theConfessor. The architecture of the sides, over tlie pillars, is exactly the same withthat of the north transept before described. Many of the key-stones are adornedwith rich foliage, ^» j^, ^, cross keys, a Catherine wheel, and other of the pillars of the choir to the third in the nave are filletted with brass;the rema
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