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 . ol. So limited anumber of pictures cannot fairly represent the great artists of pasttimes ; many of the highest fame not having a single specimen placedherein, and several are represented by
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 . ol. So limited anumber of pictures cannot fairly represent the great artists of pasttimes ; many of the highest fame not having a single specimen placedherein, and several are represented by very second-rate is there much appearance of the national collection becomingworthy of Englands greatness, from the apathy of the public autho-rities in acquiring really fine works when opportunities arise; threepictures only having been purchased by government during the lastfive years. In the vestibule is placed a marble vase sculptured by Sir RichardWestmacott, , from a colossal block of marble, taken at Paris,when entered by the British troops. The principal relief commemo-rates the battle of Waterloo. In the hall stands a statue of Sir There are 8 pictures by Annibal Caracci; 3 by Ludovico Caracci ;10 by Claude, among which are some of his very finest works, in-cluding the famous ones painted for the Due de Bouillon; by Cor- GALLERIES OF PICTURES. NATIONAL GALLERY. 421. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. regio, 6: three of them—an Ecce Homo, Mercury instructing Cupid?and the Holy Family, called La Vierge au Panier— are renownedperformances. By Domenichino, 4; by Francia, 2 capital pictures;by Guido, 8; by Murillo, 3; by Parmegiano, a celebrated picturecalled the Vision of St. Jerome; by Gaspar Poussin, 6; by NicholasPoussin, 8; by RafFaelle, 4 secondary works; by Rembrandt, 8, in-cluding his chef-doeuvre, the Woman taken in Adultery; by Ru-bens, 9, some of them excellent, particularly the Judgment of Paris,and the Peace and War; by Sebastian del Piombo, the
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