[Illustration: THE STATUE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT. _J. H. FOLEY_, Sculptor.] TRAVELS IN SOUTH KENSINGTON WITH Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England BY MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY AUTHOR OF “THE SACRED ANTHOLOGY,” “THE WANDERING JEW,” “THOMAS CARLYLE,” ETC. _ILLUSTRATED_ LONDON TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL 1882 [_All rights reserved_] Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM DECORATIVE ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND BEDFORD PARK CONTENTS. PAGE THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM 19 DECORATIVE ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND 115 BEDFORD PARK 215 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE The Statue of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort _Frontispiece_ South Kensington Museum 21 Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B. 36 South Kensington Museum--Ground Plan 39 Diagram showing Glitter Points in a Picture-gallery 40 Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen, Director of South Kensington Museum 42 North Court, North-west Corner, Showing Casts of the Biga (or Two-horse Chariot), from the Original in Marble at the Vatican, and of the Pulpit by Giovani Pisano, formerly in the Cathedral at Pisa 44 South Court, Showing the Prince Consort’s Gallery 45 Chinese Potters at Work--Window in the Ceramic Gallery 47 Italian Majolica (Urbino). Sixteenth Century 51 Lamp from an Arabian Mosque. Fourteenth Century 53 Palissy, the Potter--Window in the Ceramic Gallery 54 Sèvres Porcelain Vase. Modern 55