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View from the north wing, looking south. Illustrated London News.

Well done! And well spotted about the model of Aboo Simbel.

I do think this view and the one below are from the same standpoint though.

The view in question, must have been taken between the collapse of the North Wing in 1861, and the fire that destroyed the south transept, interesting as it provides proof that these glass views were made/issued after paper stereoviews were availiable. It must show the first rationalisation of the N...

Don't be disheartened, I think you are just coming up to the limit of what can be done with static 2D images, and as I said, with an interior which could be accessed from all sides, it's hard to choose a linear route for description. I have tried myself with isometric drawings, (very rough sketch of...

Map from the Handbook.

Proof of my shame, from my photocopied catalogue of my collection, just where did I lose it?

I knew I had an "original" copy of this view, and have nearly given myself a nervous breakdown looking for it, before accepting that I have lost it. :oops: In the process I have found the original source and perhaps why it was able to be "pirated." http://i242.photobucket.com/alb...

The BYZANTINE COURT https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L58Q6W7K4Ok/WslwD4W31jI/AAAAAAAADKM/0qFRkA-UTy83DlxbRsxDyIxCVRPGc5TEwCLcBGAs/s1600/byzantine%2BCourt%2BCrystal%2BPalace%2BSydenham%2BMathew%2BDigby%2BWyatt.jpg The architect/designer of the Byzantine Court, Matthew Digby Wyatt, own drawing of the facad...

Having crossed the building under the gallery, the visitor will find on his left the NORTH WING: the site appropriated for the extensive collection of Raw Produce, now forming under the hand of Professor Wilson. Any ideas who Professor Wilson was, anyone? EDIT: John Wilson - F.R.S.E [Fellows of the...

THE ASSYRIAN COURT. http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/eh2.jpg Assyrian Court. Source: English Heritage This Court is larger than any other appropriated to the illustration of one phase of art. It is 120 feet wide, and has an elevation of 40 feet from the floor line. Its chie...

I lied, turns out I do have the missing view, but it's so nicely framed, not sure if I want to take it apart. As to the Museum, Ken Kiss never got back to me, and experiences like that are the reason I started my own collection. Anyway, managed without so far, I suppose. How do you think he feels ab...

THE COLOSSAL EGYPTIAN FIGURES Which are from the temple of Rameses the Great at Aboo Simbel; in Nubia. These immense seated statues towering to the roof of the transept afford us some adequate idea of the stupendous magnitude and passive grandeur which characterize the monuments of ancient Egyptian...

FOUNTAINS BY RAFFAELLE MONTI 1818 - 1881. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YEONkdT1Lic/WslrpAEiE_I/AAAAAAAADJE/faFmUxiZeKwsAJmy-AsOBMSMFlTIkRqLQCLcBGAs/s1600/monti.jpg Carte de Visite - Negretti & Zambra. Source: eBay Passing the façade of the Alhambra Court, we arrive at the Fountains, which at this...

ALAHAMBRA COURT The architectural sequence is now interrupted. We have arrived at one of those offshoots from a parent stem which flourished for a time, and then entirely disappeared; leaving examples of their art which either compel our wonder by the extraordinary novelty of the details, as in the...

Camera Obscura!

Que?

These went for peanuts, ebay June 2006

that flower pot was never down that end. I have aq picture somewhere, but not on my hard drive, will have a look. Haven't seen one of the general walkway until 1911, when trees were tiny, have you looked through my Campbell Gray thread? Cp museum? No idea what they have, don't think I'll ever be gr...

1 http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/CawnporeStreet.jpg This is Cawnpore Street 2 The parade with extension post 1866, now a bus garage. 3 South Nave, who is that man who's lost the roll of lino? 4 Screen of Kings and Queens, by Photochrom 5 South Nave again. 6. Monti's Founta...

ROMAN COURT. In the wall now before us we have a model of a portion of the outer wall of the Coliseum at Rome, pierced with arches and ornamented with Tuscan columns. The Coliseum is one of the most wonderful structures in the world, and the Pyramids of Egypt alone can be compared with it in point ...