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)
NOTE.--The following Guide conducts the visitor up the Colonnade from
the Railway Station, through the South Wing into the building. Passing
through the nearest section of the Natural History Illustrations, he
proceeds direct to the front of the _Screen of the Kings and Queens of
England_, from whence he walks up the Nave to the _Great Central
Transept_, and then commences the series of _Fine Arts Courts_ with
the _Egyptian Court_, continuing it with the _Greek Court_, the _Roman
Court_, and, through the division for the Tropical End, the _Alhambra
Court_, and the _Assyrian Court_. Then crossing this end of the
building, he continues the series of Courts on the other side with the
_Byzantine Court_, the _German Mediæval Court_, the _English Mediæval
Court_, the _French and Italian Mediæval Court_, the _Renaissance
Court_, the _Elizabethan Court_, the _Italian Court_, and the _Italian
Vestibule_. The _Court of Monuments of Art_ is next, from which the
visitor crosses the Central Transept to the west, and explores the
_Stationery Court_ and the adjacent departments, then the _Birmingham
Court_, the _Sheffield Court_, and the _Pompeian House_, from which he
crosses the South Transept, and enters the _Natural History
Department_, having inspected which, he returns up the building on the
other side, through the _Foreign Glass Manufactures Court_, the
_British Porcelain Manufactures Court_, the _Ceramic Court_, and the
_Court of Fancy Manufactures_. Returning then to the Screen of the
Kings and Queens of England, the visitor examines the collections of
the _Nave_, the _South Transept_, the _Great Central Transept_, the
_North Transept_, and the _Tropical End of the Building_. The _Botany
of the Palace_ is then described. The _Main and Upper Galleries_, in
which will be found the _Picture Gallery_, the _Naval Museum_, the
_Engineering Models_, the _Indian Court_, the _Industrial Museum and
Technological Collection_, and the _Industrial Exhibition_ (described
in the Exhibitors’ Descriptive Catalogue, page 175), should be next
visited; and, after them, the _Agricultural Machinery_, and the
_Machinery in Motion_, which are exhibited in the basement story next
the Gardens: the basement is reached by descending the stairs from
either of the Transepts.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
THE ENTRANCE.
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