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Ground plan of the Treasury Building, and its environs

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Description: Ground plan of the Treasury Building, and its environs

TitleGround plan of the Treasury Building, and its environs

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1742–1763

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and ink, wash

DimensionsUnknown

LocationBodleian Library, University of Oxford

Accession numberGough Maps 22, fol. 27r

SubjectsArchitecture--Designs and plansPublic buildingsDrawing, British

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Description: William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain

William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain

WITH THESE WORDS, written in 1712, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the philosopher third Earl of Shaftesbury, aimed to condemn what he saw as the “grosly” unsuitable recent architecture of Sir Christopher Wren...

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Susan Weber (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2013 Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture

Related print edition pages: pp.315-355

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00218.013

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Chapter subject tags:Kent, William, 1685-1748Neoclassicism (Architecture)Architecture, British--18th centuryPublic buildings--England--18th centuryWhitehall (London, England)Decoration and ornament--Georgian stylePainted Chamber (Westminster Palace, London, England)Architectural drawing--England--18th centuryWestminster Palace (London, England)