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The Crystal Palace And The Arts
Adjoining the edifice at each end , but detached , is a lofty tower , formed by galleries of iron-Avork round a chimney . This structure is , we believe , to support a water-tank . The towers haA r e as yet no great merit . One of them was originally intended to form the terminus to the branch railway , and was to be united by a covered way with the palace .
Standing upon one of the upper galleries in the building , the scene beloAv is interesting to one who would continue the parallel Avhich we suggested at the outset . Instead of progressing , with often a cessation of years , and then with Avorks resumed in a new st 3 de of architecture , this great work groAvs steadily into realization . No workprobablyhas given
employ-, , ment to a greater number of indiAaduals , and yet in none haA'e the mechanical resources for saving labour been developed to so great an extent . Amongst the objects of interest in the interior , the principal are the courts representing separate styles of architecture , and filled Avith casts and objects of interest in the respective styles .
The Egyptian , Assyrian , Greek , Roman , Moorish , Byzantine , and Norman , Mediajval , Renaissance , and Italian styles , have their respective localities . The collection of casts from statues
and groups m all parts of Europe , and from architectural ornaments , —in extent , variety , and instructive A ^ alue , is beyond the power of any description that we can here afford . The collection of busts of individuals of every age and country is the most extraordinary and interesting ever brought together . In another part of the building a complete fac simile of
part of a Pompeian house , Avith most elaborate and beautiful decorations , approaches completion . It is worthy of remark , as a matter which is highly suggestive , that the workmen employed , both here and in putting together the casts , are almost all foreigners . But , art is not receiving exclusively , attention . Valuable
statements of desiderata for the collection , in the departments of Ethnology , Raw Materials , and Natural History , have been issued , and much has already been got together . Life-sized representations of men of all countries are to be given , Avith the dress , arms , implements and utensils appertaining to them . Quadrupedsbirdsreptilesfish and mollusca
, , , , are all to appear , as near as possible , in their natural state , — the fish as though in water . Representations of extinct animals , as the Megatherium , and Plesiosaurus , of then- original dimensions , are in progress . The directors are engaged upon a great design , one which , Ave believe , they sincerely put forth as something far beyond a
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Crystal Palace And The Arts
Adjoining the edifice at each end , but detached , is a lofty tower , formed by galleries of iron-Avork round a chimney . This structure is , we believe , to support a water-tank . The towers haA r e as yet no great merit . One of them was originally intended to form the terminus to the branch railway , and was to be united by a covered way with the palace .
Standing upon one of the upper galleries in the building , the scene beloAv is interesting to one who would continue the parallel Avhich we suggested at the outset . Instead of progressing , with often a cessation of years , and then with Avorks resumed in a new st 3 de of architecture , this great work groAvs steadily into realization . No workprobablyhas given
employ-, , ment to a greater number of indiAaduals , and yet in none haA'e the mechanical resources for saving labour been developed to so great an extent . Amongst the objects of interest in the interior , the principal are the courts representing separate styles of architecture , and filled Avith casts and objects of interest in the respective styles .
The Egyptian , Assyrian , Greek , Roman , Moorish , Byzantine , and Norman , Mediajval , Renaissance , and Italian styles , have their respective localities . The collection of casts from statues
and groups m all parts of Europe , and from architectural ornaments , —in extent , variety , and instructive A ^ alue , is beyond the power of any description that we can here afford . The collection of busts of individuals of every age and country is the most extraordinary and interesting ever brought together . In another part of the building a complete fac simile of
part of a Pompeian house , Avith most elaborate and beautiful decorations , approaches completion . It is worthy of remark , as a matter which is highly suggestive , that the workmen employed , both here and in putting together the casts , are almost all foreigners . But , art is not receiving exclusively , attention . Valuable
statements of desiderata for the collection , in the departments of Ethnology , Raw Materials , and Natural History , have been issued , and much has already been got together . Life-sized representations of men of all countries are to be given , Avith the dress , arms , implements and utensils appertaining to them . Quadrupedsbirdsreptilesfish and mollusca
, , , , are all to appear , as near as possible , in their natural state , — the fish as though in water . Representations of extinct animals , as the Megatherium , and Plesiosaurus , of then- original dimensions , are in progress . The directors are engaged upon a great design , one which , Ave believe , they sincerely put forth as something far beyond a