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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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of this extraordinary Company,and has been since enlarged at various times. Its front, thoughbelonging to a very hackneyed class, a mere portico with wings, isone of the best of its kind; but cannot be appreciated, from thenarrowness of the street, and the northern aspect—a disadvantagethat seems by a sort of fatality to attend all our best architecture.It is much to be regretted that the exteriors of buildings should nolonger be designed, as formerly, with some reference to the aspectand other circumstances of the site. The pediment was sculpturedby the younger Bacon, and represents, in the centre, Britannia andLiberty, to whom, from the east side, Mercury and Navigationare introducing Asia. On the other side appear Order, Justice,Religion, Integrity, and Industry. The recumbent figures in theextreme angles are the Ganges and the Thames ; the finials overthem, Asia and Europe ; and that on the apex, Britannia. Theh\ ilding contains a museum of eastern curiosities, which is open to
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THE EAST INDIA HOUSE. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS. 723 the public every Saturday from 11 to 3 oclock ; and to those whoobtain a directors order, on Mondays and Thursdays also ; but isclosed during the month of October. It contains some remarkableworks of rude art and industry, as Chinese ivory carvings, Brahmanand Buddhist idols and mythological paintings, armour, and trophies.Tippoos organ, representing a tiger devouring an European, is verycurious. The music, produced on turning the handle, consists ofshrieks from the man, after every four of which, comes a growl fromthe beast. In fine contrast with this truly barbaric piece of royalfurniture, is a specimen of Roman art found under the site of thepresent building, and representing, curiously enough (in tessellatedwork), a female riding on a tiger. There are also here a collectionof fossils, a very rich library of Oriental MSS., and several portraitsand statues of the most eminent servants of the company. Excise Office, Old Broad St

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