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Title: The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Weale, John, 1791-1862
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Publisher: London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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our of expression. A three-quarters length portrait of ;a lady, by Rembrandt, a matchless Canaletti, and two pictures byGuido, are among the greatest ornaments. In the early Italianschool, an extraordinary picture, by Crivelli, formerly belonging to jMr. Coningham, and an altar-piece in three compartments, by thesame painter, grace the collection, with other specimens of fine artworthy of the association. THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORDS COLLECTION. This collection bids fair to surpass in importance any other formingat the present time, or even to equal any other pre-existing. It con-tains the rarest Works that unbounded wealth could obtain duringthe few past years, from the galleries of Cardinal Fesch, the Salt-marshe collection, Lord Ashburnham, the late King of Holland, and GALLERIES OF PICTURES. DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 439 many others. They remain unplaced until his lordships new man-sion in Piccadilly shall be completed to receive them. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, APSLEY HOUSE, HYDE-PARK CORNER.
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APSLEY HOUSB Many works of art of high importance decorate this mansion in thevarious apartments, the principal of which is a magnificent saloon,occupying the entire western side. On the walls are hung many ofthe finest pictures; and it is in this room the grand annual banquetis given by his Grace, on June 18, the anniversary of the Battle ofWaterloo, to the principal officers of the army who fought on theoccasion. In the inner-hall stands the colossal statue of Napoleon, by Canova.The figure is nude, holding a winged Victory in the right hand. Onthe entrance of the allied armies into Paris, after the battle of Wa-terloo, it became a trophy of war, and was presented by the congre-gated sovereigns of Europe to the illustrious hero in whose mansionit is now placed. There is also a bronze copy of the monument, byRauch, at Berlin, dedicated to the veteran Blucher. The collection of pictures is not extensive, but exceedingly choice;several of them were presented to the Duke by the King of

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