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Grotesque architecture, or Rural amusement consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, For huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, chinese, gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavillions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c. Many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The whole containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each. To which is added, an explanation, with the method of executing them. By William Wright, architect,
Wrighte, William.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Grotesque architecture, or rural amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and Natural Grottos, Cascades, Baths, Mosques, Moresque Pavillions, Grotesque and Rustic Seats, Green Houses, &c. Many of which may be executed With Flints, Irregular Stones, Rude Branches, and Roots of Trees. The whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs, beautifully engraved on Copper Plates, with Scales to each. to which is added, a full explanation, in letter press, and the true method of executing them. By William Wrighte, architect.
Wrighte, William.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The country gentleman's pocket companion, and builder's assistant, for rural decorative architecture. Containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and elevations of alcoves, floats, temples, summer-houses, lodges, huts, grotto's, &c. In the Augustine, Gothic and Chinese taste, with proper directions annexed. Also an exact estimate of their several amounts, which are from twenty-five to one hundred pounds, and most of them portable. Correctly engraved on twenty-five copper plates, from the designs and under the direction of William and John Halfpenny, architects.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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The builder's director, or Bench-mate: Being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, made easy to the meanest capacity by near 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient and modern, of pedestals, bases, shafts, capitals, columns, architraves, frizes, brackets, cornices, arches, imposts, key-stones, trussees, moldings of raking pediments, frontispieces, portico's, arcades, colonades, chimney-pieces, fretts, guilcohi's, groins, weatherings, moldings for tabernacles, frames, &c. proportioned by minutes and by equal parts. Engraved on 184 copper plates. Wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures. Written for the use of gentlemen delighting in true architecture; and for master and workmen to draw from work after. By Batty Langley, architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1790?]- Books
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The builder's director, or Bench-mate: Being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic order's of architecture, made easy to the meanest capacity by near 500 examples. Improved from the best authors. Ancient and modern, of pedestals, bases, shafts, captials, columns, architraves, freezes, brackets, cornices, arches, imposts, key-stones, trusses, moldings of raking pediments, frontispieces, portico's, arcades, colonades, chimney-pieces, fretts, guilochi's, groins, weatherings, moldings for tabernacles, frames, &c. proportioned by minutes and by equal parts, the like never before published. Engraved on 184 copper plates. Wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures. Written for the use of gentlemen delighting in true architecture; and for masters and workmen to draw from and work after. By Batty Langley, architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1763- Books
Compass and rule : architecture as mathematical practice in England, 1500-1750 / Anthony Gerbino and Stephen Johnston ; with a contribution by Gordon Higgott.
Gerbino, Anthony.Date: [2009], ©2009- Pictures
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A cat in "gothic" style. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.
Wain, Louis, 1860-1939.Reference: 38887i- Pictures
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Five men standing inside the ruins of a Gothic church, at night. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.
Date: 1800Reference: 573824i- Books
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An account of the chapel of Roslin; one of the most curious pieces of Gothic architecture in Scotland; built in the year 1446, by William ST Clare, prince of Orkney, Baron of Roslin, &c. To which is added, A particular description of the costly house-keeping, and grand retinue of servants, kept up by the said prince, and his princess, lady Elizabeth Douglas.
Forbes, Robert, 1708-1775.Date: [1790?]- Books
L'art gothique : l'architecture, la peinture, la sculpture, le décor / Louis Gonse.
Gonse, Louis, 1846-1921.Date: [1890]- Pictures
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Part of the Old Schools, Oxford. Wood engraving.
Date: 29 June 1850Reference: 20861i- Pictures
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Ludlow National Schools, Shrewsbury, England. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1855, after B. Sly after T. Nicholson.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 15 September 1855Reference: 20411i- Pictures
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Castle Acre Monastery, Norfolk, England: ruins. Line engraving by J. Wooding.
Wooding, J.Reference: 18560i- Pictures
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Chetham's Hospital, Manchester, England: with west side of cloisters, and a scale. Etching by P. Cruikshank after I.C. Gregan.
Gregan, I. C.Reference: 18290i- Pictures
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Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk: interior. Etching by B. Winkles, 1837, after R. Garland.
Garland, Robert, approximately 1808-1863.Date: 1 April 1837Reference: 20012i- Books
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The politics of the German Gothic revival : August Reichensperger / Michael J. Lewis.
Lewis, Michael J., 1957-Date: [1993], ©1993- Pictures
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St. Paul's College, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire: front quadrangle. Tinted wood engraving by H. Harpal after H.W.A.
A., H. W.Reference: 22859i- Pictures
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Architecture: a church doorway with wrought ironwork at Woking, Surrey. Watercolour painting by [R J G R], 1851.
Date: 1851Reference: 44393i- Pictures
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Architecture: a restored carved doorway at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin, 1853, after G. Godwin.
Godwin, George, 1813-1888.Date: 1853Reference: 44388i- Pictures
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Emigrants' Hospital, Ward's Island. Coloured wood engraving by Lossing-Barritt.
Lossing-Barritt.Reference: 18471i- Pictures
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Village School, Montacute, Somerset. Wood engraving, 1848.
Date: 29 January 1848Reference: 18391i- Pictures
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Wilson Hall, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria. Wood engraving.
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Cambridge Castle, Cambridge: King's College Chapel in the distance. Line engraving.
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The canal and Gothic tower in the garden of the Duke of Argyll at Whitton, Middlesex. Etching, 18th century.
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The interior of the library and the old bookcases, Cheltenham. Etching by Gertrude Hayes.
Hayes, Gertrude E.Reference: 16539i