. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1845. J THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL 241 ROYAL EXCHANGE: WINDOWS OF PORTICO. Were it not that the time for publications of the class is now, ap- parei tly, quite pono bv, we miglit perhaps expi'ct to see an architco tural moiicgraph on the Royal Exchange, it being a structure that would require at U-ast two dozen phites to ilhislrate it at all satisfac- torily. Hut either there is so little demand for such works in this country that they would be attended with a
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1845. J THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL 241 ROYAL EXCHANGE: WINDOWS OF PORTICO. Were it not that the time for publications of the class is now, ap- parei tly, quite pono bv, we miglit perhaps expi'ct to see an architco tural moiicgraph on the Royal Exchange, it being a structure that would require at U-ast two dozen phites to ilhislrate it at all satisfac- torily. Hut either there is so little demand for such works in this country that they would be attended with a certain and positive loss, or our architectsâeven those who have been employed upon monu- mental edificesâshrink from the imputation of vanity which they miglit incur, were they to follow the example of some of their con- tinental brethren who have published plans and other drawings of their princi().il buildingsâi7/HS/ra//o«s cf what they now are, and me- morials hereafter of what they (nee were, when time or accident shall have destroyed the fabrics themselves. We do not, indeed, re- commend publication to t^ir Robert Smirke, because any collection of his designs would only render more glariigly obvious than ever the utter barrenness of liis imagination, and the poverty and paucity of his ideas. Happily there are otiiers who would extend their own fame, and also promote the cause of art and good taste, by exhibiting some of their productions to the world in a shape that would render them accessible as studies to every oneâabroad as well as at home ; studies that really answer to their name, because they can be referred to wheneverWe want,âexamined as minutely as we please; and because thev supply accurate information as to a variety of particulars not to be learnt by vipwing or going over the buildings them«plves. There are beauties of planâskilful combinations either for ell'ect or for sur- mounting inconveniences, which cannot be fully understood and ap- precia
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