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Travels in South Kensington; With Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England
Travels in South Kensington With Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England Author:Moncure Daniel Conway General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: Trübner Subjects: Architecture Decoration and ornament South Kensington (London, England) Art, Decorative Decoration and ornament, English Architecture / General Architecture / History / General Architecture / Interior Design / Genera... more »l Architecture / Regional Art / Design / Decorative Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ILLUSTRATIONS. The Statue of His Royal Highness the I'riuce Consort Frontispiece Sonth Kensiugton 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 Cuuliffe Owen, Director of South Kensington Museum .... 43 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 hy Giovaui Pisano, formerly in the Cathedral at Pisa . . 44 South Court, Showing the Prince Con- sort's Gallery 45 Chinese Potters at Work -- Window in the Ceramic Gallery 47 Italian Majolica (Urhino). Sixteenth Century 51 Lamp from an Arabian Mosque. Fourteenth Century 53 Palisny, the Potter -- Window in the Ceramic Gallery 54 Sevres Porcelain Vase. Modern ... 55 Henri Deux Candlestick 56 Henri Deux Salt-cellar 58 Michael Augelo's Eros fi2 Marble Cautoria. By Baccio D'Agnolo 65 Tabernacle. Andrea Ferrucci ... 66 Altar-piece -- the Virgin -with the Infant Saviour. -- Enamelled Terra-cotta, or Delia Robbia, in High Relief. By Andrea Delia Robbia 67 Hercules, the Duke of Ferrura . . . '.'D Ashantee Relics 72 The Cellini Sardonyx Ewer, Mounted iu Enamelled Gold, and Set with Gems -- Italian. Sixteenth Centnry ... 7...« less