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)
We have now completed our survey of one of the most interesting features
of the Crystal Palace. We have performed our promise to guide the
visitor through the various Fine Art Courts, bringing before his notice
some of the principal objects that have adorned his road, and
endeavouring, by our brief remarks, to heighten the pleasure he must
necessarily have experienced from the sight of so noble an assemblage of
architectural and sculptural examples. Much however requires patient
examination and study--examination that will yield fresh beauty, and
study that will be rewarded by permanent and useful knowledge. For
guidance and help we refer the visitor to the handbooks of the several
Courts. The mission of this little work, as far as the Fine Art Courts
are concerned, is accomplished: and “THE GUIDE BOOK” now only waits
until the visitor has sufficiently recovered from his fatigue, in order
to resume, in other parts of the building, the part of cicerone.
COURT OF MONUMENTS OF ART.
We enter this Court (which is formed in one angle of the Great Transept
with the Nave), as with the other Courts, from the Nave. The first
objects that attract our notice are some beautiful statues of the
Italian school, amongst which will be found many of Canova’s, several
beautiful works by Richard Wyatt, and some from the chisel of Gibson.
The statues at the garden end of the Court are mostly French. Some of
the most conspicuous objects however in the Court are the very
interesting crosses of the early Irish Church, and the richly sculptured
bronze column from Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany, a fine example of
the Byzantine period. Also a very interesting cross, from Pocklington,
in Yorkshire,--a fine example of the monumental art of the latter part
of the 15th century. This specimen has been liberally presented by
Samuel Leigh Sotheby, Esq.
Beyond these are monuments of the Gothic period, amongst which are
conspicuous the Cantilupe shrine from Hereford Cathedral, and the effigy
of Edward III., from Westminster; the central tombs, of Bishop Wakeman,
from Tewkesbury, and of Bishop Bridport, from Salisbury (the last-named
being that to the left).
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