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 . der Heyden, P. de Hooge, and other celebrated painters. By Englishartists there are the well-known picture, painted for the Duke by SirDavid Wilkie, representing Chelsea Pensioners reading th
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 . der Heyden, P. de Hooge, and other celebrated painters. By Englishartists there are the well-known picture, painted for the Duke by SirDavid Wilkie, representing Chelsea Pensioners reading the Gazetteof the Battle of Waterloo. The Battle of Waterloo, by Sir WilliamAllan, By Sir Edwin Landseer, two pictures—one portrayinga Highland Family, and the other, Van Amburgh, the Lion Tamer,in the cage with the wild beasts; and also, by Sir David Wilkie,a whole-length portrait of George IV., in Highland costume; Wil-liam IV., whole length, in a naval uniform; and the bust only ofLady Lyndhurst. The collection is strictly private, and can only beviewed by especial permission, which is very difficult to be obtained. WHITEHALL CHAPEL. The ceiling of this chapel, formerly the banqueting house, waspainted by Rubens, at the command of Charles I., in 1630. It con-sists of nine compartments, each of which contains a picture alludingto the prosperity and reign of James I. The central compartment,. BANQUETING HOUSE, WHITEHALL. GALLERIES OF PICTURES. WINDSOR CASTLE. 44 J which is of oval form, represents the king seated on clouds, with hisfeet resting on a globe, grouped with various allegorical figures; thisis usually called the Apotheosis of James I. A second central com-partment exhibits the king seated on his throne, habited in the royalrobes, and attended by figures emblematical of the happiness of hisreign in banishing discord and the evils of war. The third grandpicture has also the king enthroned, extending his sceptre towards aninfant, afterwards Charles L, borne by fem
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