The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . e—The Orangery—A new Organ for the Chapel—OccasionalVisits of Inspection by William and Maiy—Decoration of the new Palace—Laguerres Paintings of the Labours of Hercules—Carvings by WilliamEmmett—Carvings in Stone by Grinling Gibbons—Sculpture by Gabriel Cibber—Two beautiful Vases in the Gardens—King Wilhams Taste for OrnamentalGardening—Beautiful Screens of Wrought Iron — Tijous Designs for artisticIronwork—Huntingdon Shaws Claim to their Workmanship—Death of QueenMary—King William in consequence forsakes the Palace—Whitehall destroyedby Fir
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . e—The Orangery—A new Organ for the Chapel—OccasionalVisits of Inspection by William and Maiy—Decoration of the new Palace—Laguerres Paintings of the Labours of Hercules—Carvings by WilliamEmmett—Carvings in Stone by Grinling Gibbons—Sculpture by Gabriel Cibber—Two beautiful Vases in the Gardens—King Wilhams Taste for OrnamentalGardening—Beautiful Screens of Wrought Iron — Tijous Designs for artisticIronwork—Huntingdon Shaws Claim to their Workmanship—Death of QueenMary—King William in consequence forsakes the Palace—Whitehall destroyedby Fire—William again turns his attention to Hampton Court—Wren and theKing Freemasons—The King presides over a Lodge at Hampton Court. N spite of the delays caused in the works by thewant of money and Portland stone, the buildingswere, by the beginning of 1691, sufficiently ad-vanced to enable William and Mary to judgewhat the general appearance of the new edificewould be. As we have already indicated, its form is a. 42 History of Hampton Court Palace, [1691 massive and imposing, rather than a beautiful block, in thedebased pseudo-classic style of the later Italian Renaissance,with windows, square, round and oblong, arranged uniformlyon horizontal lines. The material used in its construction is red brick for thesurface of the walls, relieved with Portland stone in the win-dows, doorways, coigns, string-courses, balustrades and otherornamental details, to harmonize with the older parts of thePalace. But the red brick, which invests the gables, para-pets, bay windows, turrets, and chimneys of the old irregu-larly-built Tudor structure with so charmingly picturesquean air, produces, when employed in these large uniformrectangular elevations, an impression of pretentious meannessrather than splendour or beauty. This, however, is due, notmerely to the architectural style of Wrens palace, but also,in a great measure, to the difference in colour of the
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