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MEMOIRS

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LIFE, WRITINGS, AND DISCOVERIES

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SIR ISAAC NEWTON.

By SIR DAVID BREWSTER, K.H.

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THE CRYSTAL PALACE, SYDENHAM, Shewing the various Courts and points of greatest interest, with descriptive letter-press at the back of each slide.

The following are mounted on Card, at 3s. each Slide, and are of the choicest description.

1. The Byzantine Court-Interior View, with the black marble fountain (an exact copy of one at Heisterbach on the Rhine), and the celebrated effigies of Henry II. and his queen Eleanora, and of Isabella, wife of King John, from Fontevrault Abbey.

2. The Egyptian Court-Entrance to, with Avenue of Lions. The different styles of columns, &c., during the Ptolemaic period, about 300 years B.C., and the outlines in low relief on the walls are beautifully delineated.

3. The Court of the Lions-One of the most gorgeous in the Alhambra, remarkable for its graceful fretwork and the fairy-like slightness of its columns. It derives its name from the stone fountain seen in its centre, surrounded by lions.

4. The Italian Court-From a portion of the Farnese Palace at Rome, with the figure of Lorenzo de' Medici, and Dawn and Twilight, from the celebrated monument in the Church of San Lorenzo at Florence.

5. The Pompeian Court-A wellchosen view from that beautiful Court, being an actual representation of the "Atrium," or hall of a Roman mansion, with its "impluvium" at the time of the great eruption, A.D. 79.

6. The Renaissance Court-A correct epitome of that architecture which superseded the florid Gothic of the 15th century, and returning to a chaster style, is now known as the renaissance.

7. The Two Colossal Statues-Of Rameses, from the Temple of Abou Simboul, in Nubia, sculptured in the solid rock. From hieroglyphics in the interior the date of their construction is ascertained to have been 1560 B.C.

8. The Elizabethan Court-Both façade and arcades of which are from Holland House, Kensington, together with two bronze figures by Landini, from the Tartarughe fountain at Rome, and busts of Shakespeare, &c.

9. Entrance to English Mediæval Court Showing the western doorway of Tintern Abbey, and the two statues from the west front of Wells Cathedral. The celebrated Walsingham font is seen within the Court.

10. The Egyptian Hall of Columns-This hall exhibits a combination of columns from various buildings; some from the Tomb of Ozymandias, and others crowned with the head of Athor, the Egyptian Venus.

11. The Telescope Gallery - So named from the curious effect produced by its apparently interminable repetition of rings, when seen from either extremity.

12. The Assyrian Court-With representations of the human-headed bulls which formed the entrance to the palace at Khorsabad, and of some of the figures on its walls, as also of the Sphinxes, cast from one in the Louvre, dated 1000 years before Christ.

13. View in the Greek Court-Containing some of the finest examples of Greek sculpture; a portion of the Egyptian Court is also visible, with one of the figures of Amenoph, restored from the black granite statue in the British Museum.

14. Entrance to the Egyptian Court-Remarkable for the dedication or the frieze, to the Queen, as the "Ruler of the Waves, the Royal Daughter Victoria, Lady Most Gracious," &c., in hieroglyphics.

15. Interior View of the Crystal Palace--Looking towards the north end, and comprising nearly the whole length of the nave. Osler's crystal fountain occupies the centre of the foreground, surrounded by the colossal statues of Lessing and Huskisson, Lord Chatham, and Dr. Johnson.

16. The Stationery Court - This View comprises three life-like figures by Rauch of Berlin, pupil both of Canova and Thorwaldson. The character of the Court is composite, with cinque-cento ornamentation.

17. Gallery of Greek SculptureThe statues seen in this view are of different periods of Greek art, but all of the highest class, from the collections at Rome, Naples, Paris, and Berlin.

18. Gallery of Greek Sculpture-A continuation of the preceding, and comprising statues and busts in no way inferior to it in any of the qualities of high and refined art.

19. Gallery of Greek SculptureRemarkable principally for the authenticated busts of Numa Pompilius, and various Roman Emperors, clustered round the termination of the gallery looking towards the Court of the Lions.

20. Gallery of Greek SculptureAmongst the statues in this continuation of the Greek Court, is the far-famed Venus de' Medici, and it is remarkable for the massive antæ or square columns, in the recess between which is a small statue of Euripides.

21. The Byzantine Court - Two arches of the arcade from the cloisters of St. Mary in Capitolo, an ancient church of Cologne, with examples on the spandrils of the costume and style of the Byzantine period, and recumbent figures of the Earls of Pembroke and Essex.

22. The Byzantine Court-A continuation of the same façade, with portraits of the Emperor Nicephorus, and of Theodora, wife of Justinian.

23. The Italian Court - Constructed after the model of the Farnese Palace with the statue of Guliano de' Medici, and the figures of Light and Night, from San Lorenzo, Florence. In the centre is seen the fountain of the Tartarughe, from Rome.

24. The Italian Court--The original design of the Farnese Palace, the model from which this court is taken, was by Sangallo, but it was completed under the

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