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 . l, though not the earliest work in Londonby this master, is the only one in which he imitated (by the desireof his employers) the old national style. The interior, which isesteemed for its gl
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 . l, though not the earliest work in Londonby this master, is the only one in which he imitated (by the desireof his employers) the old national style. The interior, which isesteemed for its glass painting, has been so altered by the additionof a later ceiling (see illustration page 176) and end windows, thatit cannot be viewed as Joness work; but the side elevation ofthe exterior plainly partakes of the boldness, stateliness, and harmonyof his other designs; and though the petty exactness of laterimitators may yet find it convenient to make faults of every varia-tion from precedent in the details, this fragment has some rarequalities. We know of no mediceval work even, in which aperturesof so low and broad a proportion produce, as here, no ungracefulor mean effect; and though most of the works of this scenic archi-tect differ from his masques only in being composed of moredurable materials, there is an uncommon verisimilitude arising from 176 REPRESENTATIVE ARCHITECTURE—THIRD IH 1 ! ! ilfllKI1 LINCOLNS INN CHAPEL. every deception being carried out as if it were a reality. Thus thebuttresses here are as prominent and massive as if they sustained areal vaulting. To this, and the concavity of their outline, seems duemuch of the stately effect of this building. The Banqueting House> Whitehall [wow used for a chapel), was thefirst structure from which all vestiges of Gothic forms were banishedby the imported Italian taste, and is the chief work erected by InigoJones in London, though a very small portion of the vast palaceprojected by him and his patron Jam
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