A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1877 - 156 pages |
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... ( Monuments of the Roman dominion in Egypt - Remains · 107 of the Ptolemaic or Greek period - The Rosetta stone - Monuments of the 30th , 26th , 22nd , and 19th dynasties ) Central Saloon ( Monuments of the age of Rameses II ...
... ( Monuments of the Roman dominion in Egypt - Remains · 107 of the Ptolemaic or Greek period - The Rosetta stone - Monuments of the 30th , 26th , 22nd , and 19th dynasties ) Central Saloon ( Monuments of the age of Rameses II ...
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... monuments , and the Mandrill or Rib- nosed Baboon , from West Africa , one of the specimens being the identical " Happy Jerry , " which used to amuse the visitors at Old Exeter Change . Cases 13-18 contain the American Monkeys ...
... monuments , and the Mandrill or Rib- nosed Baboon , from West Africa , one of the specimens being the identical " Happy Jerry , " which used to amuse the visitors at Old Exeter Change . Cases 13-18 contain the American Monkeys ...
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... monuments of the Egyptian Pharaohs down to the latest memorials of the Roman dominion in this country . The peculiar form of the galleries has made it necessary to place the most ancient remains at the North- western extremity , which ...
... monuments of the Egyptian Pharaohs down to the latest memorials of the Roman dominion in this country . The peculiar form of the galleries has made it necessary to place the most ancient remains at the North- western extremity , which ...
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... monuments of Roman sculpture found in this country , exhibits , more or less , the rudeness of provincial art . Within the Sarco- phagus in Compartment IV . ( which was discovered in London ) was found a leaden coffin , the lid of which ...
... monuments of Roman sculpture found in this country , exhibits , more or less , the rudeness of provincial art . Within the Sarco- phagus in Compartment IV . ( which was discovered in London ) was found a leaden coffin , the lid of which ...
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... monuments of the autonomous or præ - Roman period of Greece , afterwards transported by the conquerors to their own country , but the majority were certainly executed in Italy during the Imperial times , though generally by Greek ...
... monuments of the autonomous or præ - Roman period of Greece , afterwards transported by the conquerors to their own country , but the majority were certainly executed in Italy during the Imperial times , though generally by Greek ...
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Africa ancient animals Antiquities arranged Asia Assur-bani-pal Assyrian Athens Australia bas-reliefs belonging Birds Bony Pikes British Museum bronze bust called casts Chalybite chariot chiefly collection colossal colour Compartment contains specimens Corals crystallised crystals Cyrene Devonian Dicotyledonous discovered division edifice Egyptian Eningen exhibited extinct Farnese Palace feed feet female figures fish Fossil fragments frieze fruit Full Face Gallery gigantic Greek head Iguanodon India inscribed inscriptions insects iron Islands king Kouyunjik lions living lower Lycian male marble Mastodon metals minerals monuments natives nests Nimroud North occupied Oolitic ornaments orthorhombic oxide Parthenon placed plants portion probably quadrupeds relief remains remarkable representing reptile rhombohedral rocks Roman Saloon sculptures Sennacherib Shelf shells shelves side silicates skeleton slabs South America species statue stems stone sulphide Table tail teeth temple terracotta Tertiary tomb torso trees tribe tropical upper various vases Wall
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Page 25 - Hudson, from an original by Richardson. Oliver Cromwell, by Walker (bequeathed, 1784, by Sir Robert Rich, Bart., to whose great-grandfather, Nathaniel Rich, Esq., then serving as a Colonel of Horse in the Parliament Army, it was presented by Cromwell himself). Mary Davis, an inhabitant of Great Saughall in Cheshire, taken 1668, "cetatis 74...
Page 144 - Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character, discovered on the site of Carthage, during Researches by Nathan Davis, Esq., 1856-58. 1863, fol. £1 5*.
Page 95 - Part of a series of sculptures which originally lined the two walls of a long narrow gallery, leading, by an inclined plane, from Kouyunjik towards the Tigris.
Page 96 - The next six (Nos. 51-56) formed originally part of a series illustrating the architectural works of that king, including, probably, the construction of the very edifice from which the slabs were obtained. On Nos. 51 and 52 is seen the conveyance of a colossal human-headed bull, lying sideways on a sledge, which is propelled, over wooden rollers, partly by ropes in front, partly by a lever behind. On one side...
Page 83 - Greeks heroon, and so greatly excelled all other sepulchral monuments in size, beauty of design, and richness of decoration, that it was reckoned one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, and the name Mausoleum came to be applied to all similar monuments.
Page 138 - Pelion, and Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus, in the presence of Poseidon and Eros. On the bottom of the vase, which is detached, is a bust of Atys.