Crystal Palace Stereoview sale #4

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Crystal Palace Stereoview sale #4

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Another bumper auction from the folks at http://www.worldofstereoviews.com

This is the 4th of these huge sales.

First sale Thread

http://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1570

Second sale thread

http://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2082

Third sale.

Too ill to do anything about it

Fourth sale.

It's this thread!

The whole point of these 150 year-old double images is that seen through a viewer they become three-dimensional, perspectives recede, and even individual leaves stand out.

Will add all the listing urls when I finish.

My justification in posting these is so they can be seen before they all disappear into the collection of 1924lineone, who seems to be willing to pay over £70 for each individual view!

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Handel Orchestra 1859

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Handel Orchestra, post 1862 with the proscenium arch.

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Court of Greek and Roman Sculpture.

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#14 Entrance to the Egyptian Court - Remarkable for the dedication on the frieze, to the Queen, as the "Ruler of the Waves, the Royal Daughter Victoria, Lady Most Gracious," &c., in hieroglyphics." London Stereoscopic Company

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Egyptian Court, Main entrance.

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Egyptian Court, Main entrance.

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Egyptian Court. Looking south from the Greek vestibule.

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Egyptian Court. Looking North along the back of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman Courts. The Parade is to the left.

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From the Greek Vestibule looking north, into the main Greek Court and on to the Roman Vestibule.

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Inside the Greek Court, looking south. #13 London Stereoscopic Company.

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Greek Court, looking east.

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Greek Court.

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Greek Sculpture Gallery, which ran along the back of the Greek and Roman Court, parallel to the Parade.

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Roman Court, looking north into the Alhambra Court.

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Junction between the Roman Court and the Alhambra Court, from the Nave.
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Alhambra Court #3 London Stereoscopic Company.


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Alhambra Court from the Nave.

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One of two fountains created by Raffaelle Monti representing the four continents of the world. One disappeared after the fire of 1866, the other after the fire of 1936.

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Interior of the Alhambra Court looking north, the base of the Aboo Simbel figures visible throught he arches to the left.

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Unusual view of the fountain working.

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And flowers when they weren't!
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#1 London Stereoscopic Company.

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#22 London Stereoscopic Company.

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South end of the facade of the Byzantine Court.

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Noth end of the facade of the Mediaeval Court. #25 London Stereoscopic Company.

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Doorway to Mediaeval Court. #9 London Stereoscopic Company.

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Walsingham Font, Mediaeval Court from the Nave.

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Same point from the opposite view looking into the nave.

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Mediaeval Court Interior.

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French & Italian Medieval Vestibule looking south into the Renaissance Court.

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The same doorway, from the opposite direction.
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To the left of the previous view, looking north within the Renaissance Court, one of the windows of the façade of the Certosa in the centre of the back wall.

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Similar view, again looking north, taken a little more to the right of last view.

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And again!

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East wall of Renaissance Court. "In the centre, two Colossal figures (Caryatides), from the Louvre, by Jean Goujon, support a large cast of the Nymph of Fontainebleau, by the celebrated Benvenuto Cellini." 1854 Guide.

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Entrance to the Renaissance Court from the Nave.

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And again. #6 London Stereoscopic Company.

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Looking south, past the facades of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Court. The hundreds of portrait busts are already displaced by the creation of the Handel Orchestra in 1857.
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Facade of the Italian Court from the Nave.

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Italian Court, looking North into the Elizabethan Vestibule.

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And again, taken further to the right.

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And again, better view of the fountain of the Tartaughe, or “of the Tortoises” at Rome, designed by Gicomma dell Porta, minus the bronze statues by Taddee Landini, which were placed outside the Elizabethan Vestibule.

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Looking south, and beyond to the Italian Vestibule.

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Pieta by Antonia Montauti, and NOT Bernini!

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Italian Vestibule, looking west across the nave to the Egyptian Vestibule, and beyond to the Parade.

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View taken from the first floor, looking backover the [from left to right] Elizabethan Vestibule, Italian Court and Vestibule.
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Court of Christian Monuments, before it was converted to a theatre.

Crossing over the Central Transept to the South East quarter of the Nave . . . .

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Looking south, cast 259 of Michel L'Hopital, beyond across the Court of French and Italian Court of Sculpture. The Foreign - French Industrial Court is just visible in the background.

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Ouside the French - Foreign Industrial Court, designed by Joseph Paxton and built by Pugin's contractor. To the left Duret's creepy "Neopolitan Improvisatore" and to the right "Eurydice" by Nanteuil Le Boeuf, now in the Musee D'Orsay, Paris.

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And again!

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The most mobile and photographed cast in the building, "The Mourners" by John Graham Lough, a hit at the 1851 Exhibition.

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Outside the Mixed Fabrics [later Ceramic] Court, designed by German architect and political refugee, Gottfried Semper.

This is the start of the English "Modern" sculpture, arranged alphabetically by sculptor, how typically empirical of the Victorians! We start with A for George Gamon Adams, and his "Ancient Briton as a Scout" his submission for the sculpture exhibition for that other big building project of Victorian London, the new Palace of Westminster.

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The works of sculptor James Legrew, who commited suicide, a few years after the Palace opened. From left to right, "Massacre of the Innocents," "Musidora" and his "Samson" exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition. Going by view #40 Brian May's website this is between the Mixed Fabrics and Printed Fabrics Courts [Falkor used to love all that detail . . . sniff]

http://www.londonstereo.com/trwilliams/ ... lace1.html

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Cast #47 Andromeda by Lawrence Macdonald, "originally executed for the Marquess of Abercorn" and exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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Musidora outside the West facade of the Musical Instrument Court, both designed by John Thomas. Just behind is his "Night" the original at Somerleyton House.

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And again in "Living Colour."

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Andromeda by John Bell, exhibited in Bronze at the great Exhibition and bought by Queen Victoria for Osborne House. Taken along the south side of the Musical Instruments Court.

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Bit further to the right is "First Whisper of Love" by William Calder Marshall.

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Two similar views taken a little further back, with the base of the back of the Gutenburg Monument by Schmidt von der Launitz. This is in the east end of the South Transept.

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Looking a little to the left and towards the Parade, "The Eagle Slayer" and "Una and the Lion" by John Bell, Pompeian Court in the distance.
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And again!

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Screen of Kings and Queens of England.

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Looking north towards Osler's Fountain and beyond, easily the most popular view of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

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Exterior of the Pompeian Court, with Sheffield Court beyond, this is where the buses wait.

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Atrium of the Pompeian Court. Looking east towards the Nave. This image demonstrates the glare that probably made many of the courts too dark to photograph properly.

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Atrium of the Pompeian Court. Looking west toward the Parade. #5 London Stereoscopic Company.

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"Hunter" by M. Wittich, taken outside the Birmingham Court.

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The Stationery Court, with Stags by Christian Rauch from the Wildpark at Potsdam.

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And again. #16 London Stereoscopic Company.

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Court of British and German Sculpture looking east, Ludwig Schwanthler's "Maiden of the Rhine" in the foreground.

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Same again, looking the other way, with Bertel thorwaldsen's "Three Grace prominent, through the murk, and beyond Rauch's Frederick the Great monument from Berlin.
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