British Architecture 1760-1914 (eBook, ePUB)

Volume I: 1760-1830
Redaktion: Tyack, Geoffrey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1760 to 1830. It contains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual buildings and will be of great interest to students of Art History and Architecture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000848830
• Artikelnr.: 67561913

Autorenporträt

Dr Geoffrey Tyack is an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College in the University of Oxford and a member of the University's Faculty of History. He has taught architectural history and the history of urban planning for many years, both in Britain and the United States, and continues to lecture widely and to teach Oxford postgraduate and undergraduate students. He is President of the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society, a Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust, a council member of the London Topographical Society and a long-standing member of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Victorian Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1 General Introduction Part 1: 1760-90 1. Isaac Ware
'On Common Houses in London'
Complete Body of Architecture (1756)
pp. 345-7. 2. William Chambers
Treatise on Civil Architecture (1759 [1791])
pp. xlviii-xl
119-121
127-9. 3. J. Stuart and N. Revett
preface to Antiquities of Athens (1762)
pp. i-viii. 4. J. Gwynn
London and Westminster Improved (1766)
pp. 4-6 5. Correspondence between Sir Thos. Robinson and Lord Verney re Claydon House
1768
Architectural Review
1966-8. 6. S. Riou
Grecian Orders of Architecture (1768)
pp. 66-68 7. Arthur Young
Six Weeks' Tour of the Southern Counties (3rd. ed.
1772)
pp. 5-7
13-15. 8. P. J. Grosley
Tour of London
vol. 1 (1772)
p. 40; Vol 2
p. 96 9. Horace Walpole
journal of visits to Painshill
Stourhead
Kedleston Hall and Castle Howard 1761 and1766
Walpole Society
vol. 16 1928
pp. 36-7
43
64-5
72-3 10. 10.1 'Friday 19th September 1777'
James Boswell
Life of Dr Johnson
1791
pp. 844-5 10.2 'Letter from Dr Johnson 1777'
A. T. Bolton
Architecture of Robert and James Adam
1922
vol. 1
p. 101 11. The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam
esquires
vol. 1 (1778)
pp. 45-9 and pl. 5. 12. Horace Walpole
'Letters on Osterley House' 1773
W. S. Lewis (ed.)
Horace Walpole's Correspondence (1773) (reprinted in the Osterley Guidebook). 13. E. Climenson (ed.)
Passages from the Diaries of Mrs Lybbe Powys
(1771)
pp. 145-8 14. John Wesley
'Harewood House
Yorkshire in 1777'
Journals (Everyman ed.
vol. 4)
p. 154. 15. James Paine
'Preface'
in Plans
Elevations ... of Noblemen and Gentlemen's houses (1783)
pp. v-vii. 16. 'Description of Houghton'
in Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A Frenchman in England [1784] (Marchand & Roberts
1933)
pp. 222-224. 17. Horace Walpole
Anecdotes of Painting (1762-71)
pp. 70-71. 18. 'On Strawberry Hill'
Horace Walpole
Letters [1753] (Everyman ed.
1926)
pp. 144-7. 19. Joshua Reynolds
Discourses on Art (13th discourse 1786)
(ed. E. Wark
1975)
pp. 141-144. 20. John Soane
'Introduction'
in Plans
Elevations and Sections of Buildings (1788)
p. 1-11. 21. John Byng's descriptions of Matlock and Haddon Hall
Derbyshire in 1789 in C. B. Andrews (ed.)
The Torrington Diaries
(1954)
pp. 178-180. 22. J. Carter et al. 'Gothic Architecture'
Builder's Magazine
1788
p. 221. 23. Sale catalogue of George Dances's books
in D. Watkin (ed.)
Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons
vol. 4
1972
pp. 1-10. Part 2: 1790-1830 24. W. Reveley (ed)
The Antiquities of Athens
vol. 3 (1794)
pp. xiii-xiv 25. W. Gilpin
Observations on the Western parts of England (1792)
pp. 126-7
157-60 26. Uvedale Price
Essay on the Picturesque vol. 1 (1794)
pp. 52
197; vol. 2
pp. 265-9 27. Uvedale Price
letters to Sir George Beaumont 1798
and Lord Aberdeen 1810
re Castle House Aberystwyth. 28. 28.1 R. Payne Knight
extracts from The Landscape (1794)
lines 254-275. 28.2 R. Payne Knight Analytical Enquiry into Principle of Taste (1805)
pp. 222-5. 29. 29.1 Humphry Repton
extracts from Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1795)
pp. 52-56. 29.2 Humphry Repton
extracts from Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1803)
pp. 288-89. 30. 30.1 Robert Lugar
Architectural Sketches for Cottages
Rural Dwellings and Villas (1805: 1825 ed.)
pp.10-12
14-16
30.2 Robert Lugar
'Preface'
in Plans and Views of Buildings (1811) 31. John Carter
Gentlemen's Magazine
vol. 81/1 (1811)
pp. 28-9 32. Louis Simond
'Description of Terraced Houses in 1810-11'
in C. Hibbert
ed
An American in Regency England (1968)
pp. 36-7. 33. Humphrey Repton
'Report on Sheringham Hall
Norfolk'
in Fragments on the Theory of Landscape Gardening (1816)
457-461
582-586
570-79 34. John Soane
'Lecture 8'
in D. Watkin (ed.)
Lectures on Architecture (1815)
pp. 173-174
187-194. 35. J. B. Papworth
'Plate VII
A Cottage Orne'
in Rural Residences (1818)
pp. 29-32. 36. John Nash's reminiscences 1821
from Garlick & Macintyre (eds.)
Joseph Farington's Diary
pp. 5744-5747 37. C. R. Cockerell on Lowther Castle
Westmoreland and Grange Park
Hants
1823
in David Watkin
The Life and Work of C.R. Cockerell (London: Zwemmer
1974) pp. 78-79 38. J. Rutter
Delineations of Fonthill (1823)
pp. 61-65
108-111. 39. A. C. Pugin
extract 'Preface'
in Specimens of Gothic Architecture (1825). 40. W.F. Pocock
Designs for Churches and Chapels (1824)
pp. 7-11 41. John Britton and Augustin Pugin
'Waterloo Bridge'
in Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London (1825)
pp. 392-396. 42. E. W. Brayley
'Drury Lane Theatre'
Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Theatres of London (1826)
pp. 8-11 43. Prince Puckler-Muskau
descriptions of Regent Street and Penrhyn Castle in Tour in England
Ireland and France in 1828 and 1829 by a German Prince (1828-9). 44. Karl Friedrich Schinkel
descriptions of Lancashire cotton mills
London docks and John Nash's house in London
English Journey (1826
trans. 1993). 45. Alfred Barry
Life of Sir Charles Barry (1867
2nd ed.1870)
pp. 6-14
48-53
60-63.