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| CENTRAL COURT, DUBLIN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART. -The accompanying sketch shows a portion of the Central Court, with statuary and archaeological specimens, of the Museum of Science and Art, situated on Kildare Street. This very useful institution was built in 1885, and has a main facade 200 feet in extent, facing the National Library, which was built about the same time. Both structures are from the plans of T. N. Deane & Sons, native architects. The Museum consists of a central building and two wings-the former crowned by a dome. Many statues, and casts of statues, ancient and modern, beautify the court. One of the most striking of the figures is that representing Lieutenant W. R. Pallock Hamilton, who is shown gallantly defending the British embassy at Cabul, in 1879. Many of the classical figures which appear in the sketch are models from the collection of the late gifted and prolific, J. H. Foley, whose genius, by the way, is scarcely recognized in America, although his reputation is well established in England. Among the many historical treasures here preserved is a collection of musical instruments used by Thomas Moore, when the poet was engaged on his "Irish Melodies." The relief map of Ireland, having a scale of 11 inches to the mile, and colored so as to display the geological formation of the island at a glance, gives an objedt lesson in Irish geography that every visitor will appreciate. The Hamilton statue is the design of C. B. Birch, A. R. A. |
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