General Description of Sir John Soane's Museum, With Brief Notices of Some of the More Interesting Works of Art
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Pine in 1779 ; and a lithographic print of Giovanni Belzoni, the dis- coverer of a variety of Egyptian Antiquities, including the Sarcophagus in the Basement of this Museum. In the centre, on the South side of the room, is a Picture by Henry Howard, R.A. — The Con- tention of Oberon and Titania for the Indian boy : Obekon.— Give me that boy, and I will go with thee. Titania.— Not for thy fairy Kingdom. Fairies, away ! We shall chide downright if I longer stay. Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. s...c. 1. At the sides of this Picture are two views of a Design, made in 1794 by Sir John Soane, for the interior of the principal entrance to a proposed new House of Lords; and another is that of the Entrance Vestibule to the Bank of England, from Princes Street, built in 1804. Beneath the Picture is the original Model, in terra-cotta, of the Relief in the Chapel at Blenheim Palace, by M. Rysbrack, representing the Surrender of the French Field-Marshal Tallard to the Duke of Marlborough after the Battle of Blenheim ; and a richly mounted Pistol, taken by Peter the Great E a 68 BREAKFAST-ROOM from the Bey, Commander of the Turkish Army, at Azof, 1696, and presented by Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, to the Emperor Napoleon at the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807.
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