A Passion for Building: The Amateur Architect in England, 1650-1850 : an ExhibitionSir John Soane's Museum, 2007 - 48 páginas In England more than in any other country, every man would fain to be his own architect, remarked the Swiss J.A. Rouquet in 1755. He was referring to a unique European situation, where a growing number of English gentlemen, having found inspiration in architectural books and Continental travel, were turning their hands to design. This exhibition and catalogue celebrates the most gifted, inventive and eccentric amateurs of the 18th and early 19th centuries with a selection of drawings, engravings and portraits gathered from Soane's collection and other museums, archives and private houses around the country. |
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1st Earl 2nd Baron Grantham amateur architect Ambrose Phillips Andrew Fountaine antique Arbury Hall architectural design Baroque Bentley Buckinghamshire built Chiswick Christ Church Colen Campbell coloured washes death drawings Duchess Street Earl de Grey Earl of Mar Elementa Architecturae elevation England English engraved executant Fawley Fletcher Foundling Hospital Fountaine's French garden buildings Garendon Gothic Revival Henry Aldrich Herbert Howard Colvin inherited interest in architecture Italy James John Chute Kingsgate Kingston Lacy Lady Wilbraham Lodge London Lord Burlington Moyser Narford Newborough Newby Norfolk Oxford Palladian Palladio Peckwater Quadrangle Pen & ink portico Private Collection professional Ranelagh Richard Roger Pratt Rokeby Roman Sanderson Miller Sir Andrew Fountaine Sir Roger Pratt Sir Thomas Robinson Sir William Strawberry Hill Stukeley style Talman taste tecture Temple Theodore Jacobsen Thomas Pitt Thomas Worsley tour Trevor Twickenham villa Vitruvian Vyne Walpole Warwickshire Weston Park Worcester College Worsley's Wreay Wrest Park Wright Yorkshire