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 . Gallery; by Sir DavidWilkie, His Majesty George IV. entering the Palace of Holyrood,and the well-known picture of Blind Mans Buff; by Sir WilliamAllan, a picture called the Orphan Daughters;
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 . Gallery; by Sir DavidWilkie, His Majesty George IV. entering the Palace of Holyrood,and the well-known picture of Blind Mans Buff; by Sir WilliamAllan, a picture called the Orphan Daughters; and the Duenna, byG. S. Newton. THE COLLECTION OF SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ., AND ,NO. 22, ST. JAMESS PLACE. The house- which contains this distinguished gentlemans collec-tion is comparatively small; the interior is, nevertheless, overflowingwith the choicest examples of fine art, the result of a long gathering,guided by infinite taste and learning. With the most liberal feelingfor the enjoyment by others of these very select and rare perform-ances, Mr. Rogers readily grants permission to view them, by theintroduction of any known artist or connoisseur. A. Sacchi. Christ bearing the Cross; with the Doctors; from the Aldo- formerly in the Orleans collection. brandini Palace. Mazzolina di Ferrara. Christ disputing Titian. Noli me tangere; from the GALLERIES OF PICTURES. SAM. ROGERS, ESQ. 431. RESIDENCE OK SAXilUEL KOUiiKS, ESQ. Orleans collection. Barry says of thispicture, The mellow and gloriousunion of landscape and history, of thePoussin size, is the completest I haveseen, for all and every part. A. Watteau. Two figures in a gardenscene. P. P. Rubens. A triumphal procession,a celebrated work, composed from partof Montegnas procession at HamptonCourt, with additions by the greatFlemish master. From the BalbiPalace. Murillo. St. Joseph and the InfantSaviour ; from Mr. Hopes collection. Sir Joshua Reynolds. The renownedpicture of Puck in Shaksperes Mid-summer Nights Dream
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