The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . re and draw them, a step veryaccessary then in the absence of engraved collections (but not so neces-sary as the former). He is said to have combined the excellences of,/Iichael Angelo, Sanga
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . re and draw them, a step veryaccessary then in the absence of engraved collections (but not so neces-sary as the former). He is said to have combined the excellences of,/Iichael Angelo, Sangallo, Vignola, Palladio, Scammozzi, and other,ioman and Venetian masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ;lut we believe this really means nothing more than that he avoided,ie most glaring defects peculiar to each, especially in matters of detail,fhich were his forte; while, in general design/he cannot be placed3side any one of those masters. He also examined the best works[ the French architects—to one of whom, Perrault, his own style?ars considerable resemblance, probably from having been formeduch in the same way—and he studied under Clerisseau at Paris,overty is said to have finally driven him home, but he then soon>tamed, through a friend of the Earl of Bute, the situation of tutor architecture to the Prince, afterwards George III., who, on hiscession, made him royal SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS. 214 LONDON—ALMSHOUSES. His first and one of his best works was the villa of Roehampton,near Richmond. Others are scattered over the country, but theneatest, and that which fully exemplifies his general taste, is Somerset-house, London, begun in 1776*. Early in his career, he had publishedtwo works singularly opposite in character and tendency. Designsfor Chinese Buildings, which were soon deservedly forgotten, andA Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, which hasever since been a standard text-book to the architects of this country ;bein* the o
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