The Palace and Park: Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian CourtLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Palace and Park: Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian Court
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England)
China Grass and other fibres which are manufactured, will, with some
other interesting articles in the cases opposite, conclude our rapid
survey of the vegetable division, although we must not omit to notice a
rich collection of the various woods, British, foreign, and Colonial,
especially the large polished sections from Tasmania, collected and
presented by the Royal Society of the Colony, arranged on stands at the
North End.
The northern extremity of the gallery is occupied with the last division
of the Museum--the Animal. Here will be found Furs of all kinds. Wools
of British and imported varieties, Woollen and Worsted manufactures,
Silk, illustrations of the preparation of different kinds of Leather,
Feathers, Horn, Bone, and Tortoiseshell manufactures, &c., &c. Specimens
of most of the animals from which these articles are derived are
arranged in the middle of the division.
The whole Museum has been arranged by Dr. David S. Price, who has care
of this department. The collection is constantly increasing, and may be
expected before long to assume one of the most important positions
amongst the settled features of the Crystal Palace.
In the Main Gallery on the North Eastern side of the Mediæval Court are
placed four hundred French and Italian photographs, illustrative of the
architectural and sculptural arts of the periods represented by the
several Fine Art Courts on this side of the Nave; the photographs being
arranged in the order of the courts beneath, and as nearly as possible
over those which they serve to illustrate. Here also will be found the
main portion of the busts constituting the
PORTRAIT GALLERY,
One of the most ennobling and instructive as well as interesting of the
collections in the Crystal Palace. These busts give us the speechless,
yet how eloquent, countenances of the great ones who have moved the
current of the world’s life, from early times till the present moment.
Each one of these busts is inscribed with the name and dates of whomever
it represents; but for a notice of the lives and general information as
to the claims to renown of the several notabilities, we refer the
visitor to the Handbook of the Portrait Gallery. A fine collection of
small works of art, consisting of statuettes, mediæval pottery and
wood-work, church vessels, old English seals, medals, and architectural
ornaments, exemplifying the various styles from the Byzantine down to
the Italian, is also arranged here.
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