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Plate XVII.
Plate XVII.
Plan and Elevation in the Corinthian Order
Plan and Elevation in the Corinthian Order
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: With text relating to materials to be used.
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: With text relating to materials to be used.
Chippendale: Chamber Organs. c1760. An original antique copper engraving. 14" x 10". [DECp77]
Russian Imperial Collection: Four coordinating painted interior patterns.
Russian Imperial Collection: Four coordinating painted interior patterns.
Mercury and Apollo.
Mercury and Apollo.
Baroque Wall Design: Long side of a main walk in a central hall.
Baroque Wall Design: Long side of a main walk in a central hall.
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: Fresco of Apollo at Olympus with figures for the constellations of Ursa Major, Leo, Scorpio and Taurus for a King's audience chamber.
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: Fresco of Apollo at Olympus with figures for the constellations of Ursa Major, Leo, Scorpio and Taurus for a King’s audience chamber.
Design for a Chimney piece: Fishing scene on mantle. No. CLXXXIII:
Design for a Chimney piece: Fishing scene on mantle. No. CLXXXIII:
Baroque Wall Design: An antechamber to an audience room.
Baroque Wall Design: An antechamber to an audience room.
Ormolu mounted Red Marble Mantle Clock with Bronze classical figures.
Ormolu mounted Red Marble Mantle Clock with Bronze classical figures.
Fountain of Don John of Austria, Victor of the Battle of Lepanto: Garden of Aranjuez.
Fountain of Don John of Austria, Victor of the Battle of Lepanto: Garden of Aranjuez.
Designs of 3 Chairs. Plate XXV.
Designs of 3 Chairs. Plate XXV.
Picart: Facade. 1715. An original antique copper engraving. 10" x 13". [ARCHp950]
Russian Imperial Collection: Painted interior capital with three details.
Russian Imperial Collection: Painted interior capital with three details.
Carlton House Dining room with Ionic columns looking towards the west end conservatory.
Carlton House Dining room with Ionic columns looking towards the west end conservatory.
Bed: Design for a State Bed: No.XLVII:
Bed: Design for a State Bed: No.XLVII:
Cole: Architectural Elevation. c1720. An original antique copper engraving. 22" x 12". [ARCHp902]
Vanity mirror with elaborate marble decoration.
Vanity mirror with elaborate marble decoration.
With Zeus and the Nemean dragon.
With Zeus and the Nemean dragon.
Corinthian Order: Chapel exterior.
Corinthian Order: Chapel exterior.
Russian Imperial Collection: Boule inlay Side Chair with blue damask seat.
Russian Imperial Collection: Boule inlay Side Chair with blue damask seat.
Baroque Ewer: With a putti and winged female figure handle.
Baroque Ewer: With a putti and winged female figure handle.
Russian Imperial Collection: Iron, Brass and Painted Campaign Table. Front and side perspectives.
Russian Imperial Collection: Iron, Brass and Painted Campaign Table. Front and side perspectives.
Cole: Carew Manor, Sutton. c1720. An original antique copper engraving. 22" x 12". [ARCHp904]
Diane D'Ephese: Statue of the goddess Diana, 1st century Roman copy of the lost Diana by Leochares.
Diane D’Ephese: Statue of the goddess Diana, 1st century Roman copy of the lost Diana by Leochares.
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: Illustrating the life of Aeneas, prince of Troy, protagonist of Virgil's Aeneid.
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: Illustrating the life of Aeneas, prince of Troy, protagonist of Virgil’s Aeneid.
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: Fresco of the gods Athena (Minerva), Apollo, Artemis (Diana) and Hermes (Mercury) at Olympus for a bedroom.
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: Fresco of the gods Athena (Minerva), Apollo, Artemis (Diana) and Hermes (Mercury) at Olympus for a bedroom.
The Lower Vestible. The original Henry Holland design has been recently altered, and the original wall replaced with scagliola corinthian columns.
The Lower Vestible. The original Henry Holland design has been recently altered, and the original wall replaced with scagliola corinthian columns.
Baroque Wall Design: Parade Hall with pastoral frescos.
Baroque Wall Design: Parade Hall with pastoral frescos.
Russian Imperial Collection. Gilded Cabriolet chair with floral tapestry.
Russian Imperial Collection. Gilded Cabriolet chair with floral tapestry.
Comparative view of buildings by height including the Pyramid of Cheops, St Peters, St Pauls with key. Framed.
Comparative view of buildings by height including the Pyramid of Cheops, St Peters, St Pauls with key. Framed.
Oddy: Doric & Tuscan Orders. c1800. An original antique copper engraving. 10" x 8". [ARCHp910]
Plan and Elevation of an entrance in the Ionic Order.
Plan and Elevation of an entrance in the Ionic Order.
Russian Imperial Collection. Iron and Brass Campaign Chair.
Russian Imperial Collection. Iron and Brass Campaign Chair.
Russian Imperial Collection: Six coordinating painted interior patterns.
Russian Imperial Collection: Six coordinating painted interior patterns.
Orders: Diagrams of capitals, shafts and bases of the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Composite and Corinthian orders with key and ornamental details.
Orders: Diagrams of capitals, shafts and bases of the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Composite and Corinthian orders with key and ornamental details.
Heracles and Aigle. Heracles retrieves the golden apples guarded by Aigle nymph of the west and the dragon Ladon.
Heracles and Aigle. Heracles retrieves the golden apples guarded by Aigle nymph of the west and the dragon Ladon.
With Neptune and his sea horses.
With Neptune and his sea horses.
Campbell: Plumptre House, Nottingham. 1720. An original antique copper engraving. 10" x 15". [ARCHp913]
Russian Imperial Collection: Five coordinating painted interior patterns.
Russian Imperial Collection: Five coordinating painted interior patterns.
St. Paul's Cathedral, Prospect of the East End.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, Prospect of the East End.
Plan and Elevation of an entrance in the Doric Order
Plan and Elevation of an entrance in the Doric Order
Architectural Elevation: Corps de Logis with Carytides and Atlantes by Inigo Jones.
Architectural Elevation: Corps de Logis with Carytides and Atlantes by Inigo Jones.
Two chairs and a bench. Plate XXIV.
Two chairs and a bench. Plate XXIV.
Picart: Facade. 1715. An original antique copper engraving. 10" x 13". [ARCHp942]
Ionic, Corinthian and Composite Orders. Diagram of columns' base, shaft and capital.
Ionic, Corinthian and Composite Orders. Diagram of columns’ base, shaft and capital.
Baroque Wall Design: Third side of the Parade room with pastoral frescos and ornate mirror.
Baroque Wall Design: Third side of the Parade room with pastoral frescos and ornate mirror.
Baroque Wall Design: A side of a parade chamber.
Baroque Wall Design: A side of a parade chamber.
Architectural Elevation: Design by the great seventeenth-century architect Inigo Jones.
Architectural Elevation: Design by the great seventeenth-century architect Inigo Jones.
Wansted House, Essex: Profiles of interior and exterior sections.
Wansted House, Essex: Profiles of interior and exterior sections.
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: Fresco of Zeus, Ares, Athena, Hephaestus and Hades with father Time at Olympus with Apollo, Artemis, Hera and Poseidon at the corners.
Baroque Ceiling Decoration: Fresco of Zeus, Ares, Athena, Hephaestus and Hades with father Time at Olympus with Apollo, Artemis, Hera and Poseidon at the corners.
Apollo with a lyre and Pan with pipes.
Apollo with a lyre and Pan with pipes.
Plate XVIII.
Plate XVIII.
Seaton Delaval, Northumberland: Plan and elevation of one the North's great Halls designed by Sir John Vanbrugh.
Seaton Delaval, Northumberland: Plan and elevation of one the North’s great Halls designed by Sir John Vanbrugh.
Baroque Wall Design: Grand salon fenestration looking onto a garden.
Baroque Wall Design: Grand salon fenestration looking onto a garden.
Plate CV.
Plate CV.
Design for a Chimney Piece. Satyr & Woman flanking fireplace. Plate CLXXXIV.
Design for a Chimney Piece. Satyr & Woman flanking fireplace. Plate CLXXXIV.
The Repository. October 1815
The Repository. October 1815
Ionic Order: Anterior view of a portico with pedestals, and details of an impost and Palladian impost.
Ionic Order: Anterior view of a portico with pedestals, and details of an impost and Palladian impost.
Plate XXII.
Plate XXII.
Whitehall Palace: Horse and Foot Guards East Facade. Destroyed in the fire of 1698 and replaced by Royal Horseguards.
Whitehall Palace: Horse and Foot Guards East Facade. Destroyed in the fire of 1698 and replaced by Royal Horseguards.
de Neufforge: Facade. 1775. An original antique copper engraving. 9" x 14". [ARCHp933]
Bronze Caryatid Ormolu and Marble Candelabra.
Bronze Caryatid Ormolu and Marble Candelabra.
Three examples. Plate CLVIII.
Three examples. Plate CLVIII.
Composite Order: Anterior views of portico and pedestal, lateral view of a portico and detail of an impost and architrave.
Composite Order: Anterior views of portico and pedestal, lateral view of a portico and detail of an impost and architrave.
Ornate Bed: Plate XXXIX.
Ornate Bed: Plate XXXIX.
Shaving Table & Basin Stand. Plate LIV.
Shaving Table & Basin Stand. Plate LIV.
The Repository. October 1811
The Repository. October 1811
Campbell: Facade. c1720. An original antique copper engraving. 16" x 14". [ARCHp759]
Tuscan Order. Anterior view of a portico without pedestals.
Tuscan Order. Anterior view of a portico without pedestals.
Chap Book Thanksgiving Number. Cover for the short lived American Literary magazine.
Chap Book Thanksgiving Number. Cover for the short lived American Literary magazine.
Designed by Herbert McNair, Margaret and Francis MacDonald, who with Charles Rennie MacIntosh were known as 'The Four' of Scottish Art Nouveau.
Designed by Herbert McNair, Margaret and Francis MacDonald, who with Charles Rennie MacIntosh were known as ‘The Four’ of Scottish Art Nouveau.
Anonymous: Doric Order. c1855. An original antique steel engraving. 6" x 10". [ARCHp907]
Campbell; Bath-House, Chiswick Gardens. 1720. An original antique copper engraving. 10" x 15". [ARCHp914]
Duncomb Park, Yorkshire: The Seat of Thomas Duncomb, Esq., designed by William Wakefield in 1713.
Duncomb Park, Yorkshire: The Seat of Thomas Duncomb, Esq., designed by William Wakefield in 1713.
Red Marble and Ormolu Urn.
Red Marble and Ormolu Urn.
Doric Order: Anterior and lateral views of portico and pedestals.
Doric Order: Anterior and lateral views of portico and pedestals.
St James's Palace Guard Chamber.
St James’s Palace Guard Chamber.
Hampton Court Cartoon Gallery.
Hampton Court Cartoon Gallery.
Corinthian Order: Anterior view of portico and pedestal, lateral view of a portico and detail of an impost and architrave.
Corinthian Order: Anterior view of portico and pedestal, lateral view of a portico and detail of an impost and architrave.
Chelsea Arts Club Bal des Quat'z'Arts at the Royal Albert Hall. By the Australian WWI artist Fred Leist.
Chelsea Arts Club Bal des Quat’z’Arts at the Royal Albert Hall. By the Australian WWI artist Fred Leist.
Russian Imperial Collection. Carver with tressle back and inlay.
Russian Imperial Collection. Carver with tressle back and inlay.
Elevation after Inigo Jones.
Elevation after Inigo Jones.
Elevation and plans of the ground and principal stories.
Elevation and plans of the ground and principal stories.