Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches)
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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marquis was outlawed by William and Mar>^ for his fidelity toJames II., whose exile he shared, and by whom he was created, after hisabdication, Duke of Powis. He was the father of the foundress of theConvent of Augustinian nuns at Bniges, and also of the Countess ofNithsdale, who so nobly effected the escape of her husband from theTower of London while under sentence of death. 48 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Lincolns Inn Fields. of St. Jamess Palace, and architect generally tothe Houses of Parliament, and other publicbuildings. He was subsequently elected Professorof Architecture to the Royal Academy. All hislife long he had been a collector of books, statues,pictures, coins, medals, and other curiosities mostly general public on every Wednesday, Thursday, andFriday in April, May, June, and on Wednesdays inFebruary, March, July, and August. Professionaland amateur students can obtain from the curator,or from any of the trustees, permission to copy anyof the pictures and other works of art.
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LINCOLN .S INN GA1 K, CH.VNCKRY LANE. anticjue, with which he stored tlie house where helived and died. The museum, filled from top tobottom with a beautifully arranged collection ofmodels of art in every phase and form, small as itis, may be said to be almost as useful to the artstudent as is the Louvre at Paris. And yet,standing in the centre of London, it is but littleknown, though open to the public gratuitously. Itis open always to students in painting, sculpture,and architecture; and (on application) to the In 1833 Sir John Soane obtained an Act ofParliament for settling and preserving his museum,library, and works of art for the benefit of thepublic, and for establishing a sufficient endowmentfor the due maintenance of the same. Thebuilding may be distinguished from the others inthe row in which it stands from the peculiar semi-Gothic style in which it is erected. Between thewindows of the ground and of the first floor arefragments of Gothic corbels from ancient buildings, Linc

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