General Description of Sir John Soane's Museum: With Brief Notices of Some of the More Interesting Works of ArtH. Hart, 1905 - Всего страниц: 78 |
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ancient antique Bronzes antique marble Arch of Constantine Architect Bank of England Bas-Relief body-colours bookcases BREAKFAST-ROOM British Museum bronze figure Bust Canaletto Cast in plaster Ceiling centre Chamber chimney-piece Clérisseau collection coloured containing copy decorated Designs by Sir door Drawings in Indian East side Egyptian Emperor Entrance erected formerly fragments Francesco Frieze front Gallery George glazed Greek Hadrian's Villa Hall Hogarth House of Lords Indian ink Inigo Jones Interior J. M. W. Turner James John Flaxman King Library Lincoln's Inn Fields Medal Medallion Reliefs Monument movable Planes North side original marble Osiris Painted Glass Palace Paolo Cagliari pedestal picture PICTURE-ROOM Piranesi Plaster Cast Raffaelle d'Urbino RECESS representing Roman Rome Royal Academy sarcophagus Sculpture Sepulchral Shakespeare Sir John Soane Sir Thomas Lawrence Sketch SOUTH DRAWING-ROOM South side Statue sun-god Temple terra-cotta Tivoli Tomb Trustees Tuat Vases Vatican Venus View Villa walls West side Westminster William window
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Стр. 68 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Стр. 72 - I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs, Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul, And lap it in Elysium: Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause.
Стр. 72 - Culling their potent herbs, and baleful drugs, Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul, And lap it in Elysium; Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmur'd soft applause: Yet they in pleasing slumber lull'd the sense, And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself; But such a sacred, and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss I never heard till now.
Стр. 5 - On the decease of Sir John Soane on January 20, 1837, the Act came into operation ; the trustees named therein entered on their trust, and immediately took the necessary steps for carrying into effect the enactments thereof to the fullest extent of which the funds placed at their disposal by the founder would admit. As above stated, the Soane Library is rich in works relating to architecture ; but a very curious work in four volumes 410 is to be seen in Thomas Pennant's
Стр. 6 - June, and at such other times in the same or any other months as the said Trustees shall direct, to Amateurs and Students in Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, and to such other persons as shall apply for and obtain admission thereto...
Стр. 55 - Richly mounted pistol, said to have been taken by Peter the Great from the Bey, Commander of the Turkish army at Azof, 1696, and presented by the Emperor Alexander to Napoleon, at the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807 : Napoleon took it to St.
Стр. 12 - Zephyrs sporting in his train," appears to require space. The •visitor is not prepared to find himself so near the celestial group, supposed to be careering the elevated heavens. Not willingly would I run the risk of affecting to be overwise in such matters ; but to me it does appear that...
Стр. 3 - Act or any other law) in no other or more severe manner, that is to say, by — (a) imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement and with or without spare diet...
Стр. 38 - ... finest of all the orders, and was first adopted at Corinth, from whence it derives its name. Scamozzi calls it the Virginal Order, expressive of the delicacy, tenderness, and beauty of the whole composition. The most perfect model of the Corinthian Order, is generally allowed to be in the three columns in the Campo Vaccino at Rome, the remains of the Temple of Jupitor Stator. with a tile, gave occasion to the capital of this beautiful order in architecture : an Athenian old woman happened to...
Стр. 63 - This fine manuscript belongs to the latter part of the fifteenth century, and probably formed part of a series of historical books and romances executed in the Low Countries for Edward IV., whose arms are found in the margin of one of the pages. The...