A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . andingback from the Maidan, which is heredignified by the Jubilee statue of theQueen - Empress Victoria, unveiledin 1902, and the statues of LordLawrence, Lord Canning, and LordHardinge. The Queens statue, thework of Mr Frampton, will ultimatelybe transferred to the Queen-EmpressMemorial Hall; and the statue ofKing Edward, entrusted to MrMackennal, will probably be placedhere. Government House was begun underthe Marquis of Wellesley (the architectbeing Captain Wyatt), and finished in1804, the design being copied fromthat of Kedlestone H
A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . andingback from the Maidan, which is heredignified by the Jubilee statue of theQueen - Empress Victoria, unveiledin 1902, and the statues of LordLawrence, Lord Canning, and LordHardinge. The Queens statue, thework of Mr Frampton, will ultimatelybe transferred to the Queen-EmpressMemorial Hall; and the statue ofKing Edward, entrusted to MrMackennal, will probably be placedhere. Government House was begun underthe Marquis of Wellesley (the architectbeing Captain Wyatt), and finished in1804, the design being copied fromthat of Kedlestone Hall, Derbyshire,built by Adam. In the breakfast-room at the head of the fine staircaseis a well - executed white marblestatue of the Marquis of Wellesley,with portraits of the same Governor-General, and of the Earl of Ellen-borough and Marquis of Diytiiig - room is of whitechunam, with a floor of veinedwhite marble. On either side are sixwell-executed marble busts of theCsesars, taken from a French ship atthe end of the l8th century. The E.
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