Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.Phillimore, Lucy
History
Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.
Phillimore, Lucy
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Biography; Wren family; Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Alderman's Court, Guildhall. | Middle Temple, front of.
Archbishop Tenison's Library. | Monument, the.
Ashmolean Museum. | Monument { to Edward V. &
Bohun's Almshouses, Lee. | { Richard, Duke of York
Bushey Park, { Pavilion. |
{ Ranger's house at.| Observatory, Greenwich.
Chapter House, S. Paul's. | * Royal Exchange, London.
* Custom House, Port of London. | Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.
Deanery, St. Paul's, London. | Temple Bar.
Hospitals, { Chelsea College. | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
{ Greenwich. | Theatre in Salisbury Court.
London, City of. | Tower of London.
Merchant Taylors' Almhouses, | Windsor, Town Hall.
London.
_Private Houses._
Allaston's, Lord, London. | Fawley Court, Oxon.
Bloomsbury, two in. | Marlborough's, Duchess of, London.
Buckingham's, Duchess of, | Oxford's, Earl of, London.
London. | Sunderland's, Lord, London.
Chichester, two at. | Windsor, two at.
Cooper's, Madam, London.
This list, which is, I fear, imperfect, only professes to give such
buildings as were actually built or repaired; there are, besides, a
large number of unexecuted designs.
* Signifies that the building has been destroyed.
APPENDIX III.
Sir Christopher Wren left the rough drafts of four tracts on
architecture, which are printed in the 'Parentalia,' and a few notes on
Roman and Greek buildings, some of which Mr. Elmes transcribed in his
'Life;' they are for the most part very technical and are incomplete.
The copy of the 'Parentalia' now in my hands contains the autograph
draft of a Discourse on Architecture, which, as I think, has never been
printed; it appears to me to be of great interest. It is therefore given
entire, though I regret I cannot give the quaint prints of Noah's Ark,
the Tower of Babel, Babylon, &c., with which the original is
illustrated. The two former prints tally so exactly with the
descriptions in the 'Discourse'--the print of the ark containing a small
section, an elevation, and a vignette of a man feeding one of the
creatures, besides a large drawing of the floating Ark--that I incline
to think they were engraved, either by Wren himself, or from his
drawings. Engraving was an art he well understood. He divides with
Prince Rupert the honour of the invention of mezzo-tint. The prints are
numbered Pl. IV. and V. respectively, and have no signature.
_Discourse on Architecture._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account