The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . in the older building, besides being of a deeperand richer prevailing tone, varies, in different bricks, fromlight pinks to deep crimsons and purples, so that in afew square feet of wall space we may sometimes find a dozenor more different shades, while every brick in the new build-ing is of an exactly similar tint of glaring scarlet, still re-maining as raw and untoned as ever after the lapse of exactlytwo centuries of time. Of this only a visit to HamptonCourt can convey an adequate idea. But of the stiffness ofoutline and the sameness of
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . in the older building, besides being of a deeperand richer prevailing tone, varies, in different bricks, fromlight pinks to deep crimsons and purples, so that in afew square feet of wall space we may sometimes find a dozenor more different shades, while every brick in the new build-ing is of an exactly similar tint of glaring scarlet, still re-maining as raw and untoned as ever after the lapse of exactlytwo centuries of time. Of this only a visit to HamptonCourt can convey an adequate idea. But of the stiffness ofoutline and the sameness of architectural feature in the newPalace, the reader can form some conception from the an-nexed facsimile of an engraving of the East Front, executedabout the time of its completion by Sutton Nicholls for theKing and Queen. The main idea of Wrens design here, as also in the southfront and within the quadrangle, was evidently borrowedfrom some of the palaces he had seen during his travels inItaly and France ; and in regard to this facade to the east,. View of the East Front of William New Palace of Hampton Com an engraving by Sutton
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