. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIG. 100. BALCONY AT SEATON DELAVAL IN NORTHUMBERLAND. BUILT BYVANBURGH IN IJZO. ARTHUR STRATTON, del. panels (Fig. 100) at Seaton Delaval in Northumberland, built byVanburgh in 1720. In 1739 Batty Langley reproduced and pub-lished designs for balconies by the French artist S. Le Clere, foruse where the slightest balustrades would be too massive. Oftwo balcony designs by Gibbs, one is of heavy vertical bars fringedwith C scrolls, with lyre panels at the ends, and
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIG. 100. BALCONY AT SEATON DELAVAL IN NORTHUMBERLAND. BUILT BYVANBURGH IN IJZO. ARTHUR STRATTON, del. panels (Fig. 100) at Seaton Delaval in Northumberland, built byVanburgh in 1720. In 1739 Batty Langley reproduced and pub-lished designs for balconies by the French artist S. Le Clere, foruse where the slightest balustrades would be too massive. Oftwo balcony designs by Gibbs, one is of heavy vertical bars fringedwith C scrolls, with lyre panels at the ends, and the other ofscrolled panels between massive turned balusters at the -ends. Theexamples of balconies given by the Welldons and by Jores are chiefly. 26o English Ironwork oftheXVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries on French lines and French designs may have prevailed for a timesince there were several in Spring Gardens, and .a few remain in Mayfair, designed in the style of Frangois Babin, ?who worked in Paris about 1750. There was relatively littlechange till well after themiddle of the eighteenthcentury, as contemporarydesigns sufficiently demon-. strate. Two are reproducedhere from Part IV. of thebook oddly entitled CuriousNew Designs^ of HouseholdFurniture in Genteel Taste, bya Society of Upholsterers,Cabinet Makers, etc. ( and loz). The design ofthese, though poor, are onthe old lines .^ It was notuntil the , brothers Adam,began to effect their grea?change of style and taste that the light and graceful balconies,generally somewhat geometric in design, came into every house erected on the London estates during theirperiod, which lasted nearly to the plose of the century, and for afleast a decade af
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