. Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin . ey are now applied ; fince histime, which is about fifty years, their numberhas been confiderably augmented, yet there areftill feveral vacancies in the fhelves on the op-pofite fide. The Printing-Office, is a neat ftructure, builtin the modern tafte. The Anatomy-Houfe, isworthy of inflection, as it contains, among othercuriofities, a fet of figures in wax, reprefent-ing females in every ftate of pregnancy. Theyare done upon real fkeletons, and are the la-bours of almoft the whole life of a Fr
. Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin . ey are now applied ; fince histime, which is about fifty years, their numberhas been confiderably augmented, yet there areftill feveral vacancies in the fhelves on the op-pofite fide. The Printing-Office, is a neat ftructure, builtin the modern tafte. The Anatomy-Houfe, isworthy of inflection, as it contains, among othercuriofities, a fet of figures in wax, reprefent-ing females in every ftate of pregnancy. Theyare done upon real fkeletons, and are the la-bours of almoft the whole life of a FrenchArtift. They were purchafed by the late Earlof Shelburne, who prefented them to the Uni-verfity. To the eaft is the Park, for the re-laxation of the Students, and a bowling-greenis provided for their amufement, at proper pe-riods: The former, we are of opinion, exceeds,not only in extent, but rural beauty, many ofthofe public gardens, which are looked uponby the gay and diflipated, as earthly Fellows have alfo an elegantly-laid-outgarden, which is appropriated to themfelves. THE. The PROVOSTs HOUSE, IS ere&ed on the eaft fide of Grafton-flreet,near the College : The plan is chiefly takenfrom a Houfe in Great Burlington-ftreet, Lon-don, defigned by the Right Honourable RichardEarl of Burlington and Cork, and to be feenin Campbells Vitruvius Brittanicus. In pointof architectural elegance, it may be ranked inthe firft clafs of ftrudhires in this front is built of free-ftone, and is richlyembellifhed, in the firft ftory, by ificle andrufticated work, and in the fecond, by a rangeof pilafters in the Doric order, with their en-tablature, and pedeftals; between each of them,under the windows, are handfome balluftrades,and in the center, a Venetian window of theTufcan order ; the apartments are judiciouflydifpofed and elegantly decorated. The Offices,which are detached from the Houfe, and ap-pear as wings, are in a fine tafte, and verycommodious ; indeed,
Size: 1389px × 1799px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1700, bookdecade1780, booksubjectarchitecture, bookyea
