Identifier: literaryhistoryo00brer (find matches)
Title: The literary history of the Adelphi and its neighbourhood
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Brereton, Austin, 1862-1922
Subjects: Literary landmarks -- England London English literature -- England London London (England) -- Intellectual life
Publisher: New York : Duffield
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of the rewards bestowed by the Society have been distributed to promote the polite arts of painting and sculpture, the artist has also most judiciously introduced a picture and statue. The subject of the picture is the Fall of Lucifer, designed by Mr Barry, when the Royal Academy had selected six of the members to paint pictures for St Pauls Cathedral; the statue is that of the Grecian mother dying, and in those moments attentive only to the safety of her child. In the corners of the picture are represented many articles which have been invented or improved by the encouragement of this Society. In the lower corner of this picture, next the chimney, are introduced two large models intended by Mr Barry as improvements of medals and coins. Elysium, or the State of Final Retribution.—In this sublime picture, which occupies the whole length of the room, the artist has, with wonderful sagacity, and without any of those anachronisms which tarnish the lustre of other very celebrated per-112
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tVY LANK, STRAND (THE BOUNDARY OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTERAND THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER). ; To/ace />. 112. - ELYSIUM formances, brought together those great and goodmen of all ages and nations, who have acted asthe cultivators and benefactors of mankind. Thispicture is separated from that of the Society distri-buting its rewards by palm trees ; near which, on apedestal, sits a pelican, feeding its young with its ownblood, a happy type of those personages representedin the picture, who had worn themselves out in theservice of mankind. Behind the palms, near thetop of the picture, are indistinctly seen, as immersedand lost in a great blaze of light, cherubims veiledwith their wings, in the act of adoration, and offer-ing incense to that invisible and incomprehensiblePower which is above them, and out of the picture,from whence the light and glory proceed and arediffused over the whole piece. By thus introducingthe idea of the Divine essence, by effect rather thanby form, the absurdity c

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