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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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g collection, from an artistic aswell as an historic j>oint of view, and embraces the 168 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (South Kensingtoil. • counterfeit presentment of many of Englandsgreatest worthies, whether as sovereigns, statesmen,warriors, poets, authors, &c. Here are the famousChandos portrait of Shakespeare, several of QueenElizabeth, and between three and four hundredlikenesses of some of the most remarkable menand women in English history, many of themexecuted by the first painters of the periods. Be-sides the portraits, there are a few highly interesting looking the gardens on the eastern side was made,in 1875, the receptacle of the Indian Museum.This collection of objects was originally formed bythe East India Company, and after its removalfrom Leadenhall Street, was for a time stowedaway in Whitehall Yard, and in various cellars andwarerooms, and in the topmost storey of the newIndia Office. In the lower gallery are arrangedthe vegetable products, agricultural implements,
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THE INTERNATION.\L EXHIEITION OF 1S6: casts of effigies from monuments in WestminsterAbbey, Canterbury Cathedral, and other places;and also an interesting collection of autographs. In 1868 was deposited in the building the Mey-rick collection of arms and armour, from GoodrichCourt, Herefordshire, formed by the late Sir SamuelMeyrick, the author of A Critical Inquiry intoAncient Armour, and lent to the Museum by itsthen owner. Colonel T^Ieyrick. It was arrangedfor exhibition here by Mr. J. R. Planche. Thecollection of naval models, and of the munitionsof war, lent by the War Department, and on viewhere, contains examples of British ship-building,Trom the earliest period down to the constructionof the turret-ship of the ill-fated Captain Coles. That portion of the Exhibition galleries over- models, and domestic appliances, illustrative ofnative life and habits, together with some interest-ing specimens of the zoology of India. The uppergallery contains the art manufactures and ornitho-l

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