British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
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12 February 1992 to 19 April 1992
An English Arcadia, 1600-1990: Designs for Gardens and Garden Buildings in the Care of the National Trust with Selected Objects from the CCA Collections
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British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
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DR1974:0002:011:001-089
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- This album contains mostly design development and presentation drawings for the conversion or renovation of several Parisan hôtel particuliers by Hubert Rohault de Fleury, and for the Rohault de Fleury family house, 12-14 rue d'Aguesseau, Paris. Also included are four prints of British country seats. The drawings - mostly plans - for hôtel particuliers include: alterations to the Hôtel du ministère de la Guerre, perhaps the initial conversion of the Hôtel du Maine into government offices (DR1974:0002:011:003 - DR1974:0002:011:005); alterations to Hôtel de Rothelin-Charolais (Hôtel de Conti) as offices for the Ministère de l'intérieur (DR1974:0002:011:006 - DR1974:0002:011:009); the conversion of Hôtel de Soyécourt into gendarmerie barracks (DR1974:0002:011:017 - DR1974:0002:011:027 and DR1974:0002:011:089); and the alterations to Hôtel de la Colonnade (Grand and Petit Hôtels de Wagram) as offices for the Ministère des affaires étrangères (DR1974:0002:011:028 - DR1974:0002:011:042). Letter DR1974:0002:011:037 R/V apparently concerns the alterations to Hôtel de la Colonnade. The album contains drawings for several other hôtels - Hôtel de Lorge, Petit hôtel de Nivernais, Hôtel de Bouillon, and an hôtel on rue des Quatre-Fils. The purpose of these drawings has not been determined. Drawings for the Rohault de Fleury family house include: 22 graphite design development drawings with dimensions, calculations and notes - mostly plans and elevations; seven finished watercolour presentation drawings - plans, sections and elevations; two interior perspectives; and one drawing for the roof structures (DR1974:0002:011:050 - DR1974:0002:011:083). The coloured sections and the interior perspective drawings show the Empire style interior decoration, including furnishings (DR1974:0002:011:080 - DR1974:0002:011:082 R and DR1974:0002:011:083 R). The four prints are part of a series of views of English country seats by William Henry Toms after Thomas Badeslade and William Winstanley printed during the mid 18th century: Hawarden Castle and the adjacent Broadlane Hall, Wales, seat of Sir John Glynne; Erddig (house), Wales, seat of Simon Yorke; Hather Thorpe (house), Lincolnshire, England, seat of Sir Michael Newton; and Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, England, seat of Viscount Cullen (DR1974:0002:011:085 - DR1974:0002:011:088). The album also includes: three drawings for a château for M. le marquis de la Sainte-Aulaire, designed by Perrot, the first of which is possibly for proposed additions by Hubert Rohault de Fleury (DR1974:0002:011:013); an elevation for a temporary altar; a cost estimate for a country cottage; six drawings for an unidentified country house; and a site plan of the village [?] and vicinity of Chailly, France for Mr. Pierre Jacques Le Roy.
architecture, landscape architecture, temporary architecture, interior design, military, topographic
1755-1849, manuscripts written between 1792-1849, printed between ca. 1740-1849
Album of drawings for alterations to several Parisian hôtel particuliers and the Rohault de Fleury family house, rue d'Aguesseau, Paris, and of prints of English country seats
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DR1974:0002:011:001-089
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- This album contains mostly design development and presentation drawings for the conversion or renovation of several Parisan hôtel particuliers by Hubert Rohault de Fleury, and for the Rohault de Fleury family house, 12-14 rue d'Aguesseau, Paris. Also included are four prints of British country seats. The drawings - mostly plans - for hôtel particuliers include: alterations to the Hôtel du ministère de la Guerre, perhaps the initial conversion of the Hôtel du Maine into government offices (DR1974:0002:011:003 - DR1974:0002:011:005); alterations to Hôtel de Rothelin-Charolais (Hôtel de Conti) as offices for the Ministère de l'intérieur (DR1974:0002:011:006 - DR1974:0002:011:009); the conversion of Hôtel de Soyécourt into gendarmerie barracks (DR1974:0002:011:017 - DR1974:0002:011:027 and DR1974:0002:011:089); and the alterations to Hôtel de la Colonnade (Grand and Petit Hôtels de Wagram) as offices for the Ministère des affaires étrangères (DR1974:0002:011:028 - DR1974:0002:011:042). Letter DR1974:0002:011:037 R/V apparently concerns the alterations to Hôtel de la Colonnade. The album contains drawings for several other hôtels - Hôtel de Lorge, Petit hôtel de Nivernais, Hôtel de Bouillon, and an hôtel on rue des Quatre-Fils. The purpose of these drawings has not been determined. Drawings for the Rohault de Fleury family house include: 22 graphite design development drawings with dimensions, calculations and notes - mostly plans and elevations; seven finished watercolour presentation drawings - plans, sections and elevations; two interior perspectives; and one drawing for the roof structures (DR1974:0002:011:050 - DR1974:0002:011:083). The coloured sections and the interior perspective drawings show the Empire style interior decoration, including furnishings (DR1974:0002:011:080 - DR1974:0002:011:082 R and DR1974:0002:011:083 R). The four prints are part of a series of views of English country seats by William Henry Toms after Thomas Badeslade and William Winstanley printed during the mid 18th century: Hawarden Castle and the adjacent Broadlane Hall, Wales, seat of Sir John Glynne; Erddig (house), Wales, seat of Simon Yorke; Hather Thorpe (house), Lincolnshire, England, seat of Sir Michael Newton; and Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, England, seat of Viscount Cullen (DR1974:0002:011:085 - DR1974:0002:011:088). The album also includes: three drawings for a château for M. le marquis de la Sainte-Aulaire, designed by Perrot, the first of which is possibly for proposed additions by Hubert Rohault de Fleury (DR1974:0002:011:013); an elevation for a temporary altar; a cost estimate for a country cottage; six drawings for an unidentified country house; and a site plan of the village [?] and vicinity of Chailly, France for Mr. Pierre Jacques Le Roy.
drawings, textual records, works of art
1755-1849, manuscripts written between 1792-1849, printed between ca. 1740-1849
architecture, landscape architecture, temporary architecture, interior design, military, topographic
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photographs
Our Old Home
PH1979:0602.02
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He started writing seriously in 1846 and spent the years 1853 to 1857 in England as the American Consul in Liverpool. The collection of essays that constitute 'Our Old Home' comes from the journals he kept during his stay in England. After spending two years in Italy he returned to the United States and completed his final novel, 'The Marble Faun' and 'Our Old Home'. This 594-page book comprises 14 photogravures, one engraving, a Title page and a Contents and list of illustrations and Index : Title page: Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne annotated with passages from the author's note-book, and illustrated with photogravures Volume II. Cambridge. Printed at the Riverside Press. MDCCCXCI. Verso of title page: Copyright, 1863 by Nathaniel Hawthorne Copyright, 1870 By Sophia Hawthorne Copyright, 1883, 1890 By Houghton, Mifflin & Co. All rights reserved Two Hundred and Fifty Copies Printed No. 69 Contents and list of Illustrations: [Photogravures executed by A.W. Elson & Co. Boston] Lord Nelson Frontispiece NEAR OXFORD Blenheim The Thames at Oxford from Folly Bridge Magdalen College, Oxford, from the Cherwell SOME OF THE HAUNTS OF BURNS Robert Burns Burn's Birthplace, Alloway Parish, near Ayr The Auld Brig o' Doon, Ayr Alloway Kirk A LONDON SUBURB A Country House The Houses of Parliament UP THE THAMES London Bridge Tower of London, showing Traitor's Gate St. Paul's Cathedral Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey OUTSIDE GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH POVERTY An English Almshouse CIVIC BANQUETS Index
architecture
1891
Our Old Home
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PH1979:0602.02
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He started writing seriously in 1846 and spent the years 1853 to 1857 in England as the American Consul in Liverpool. The collection of essays that constitute 'Our Old Home' comes from the journals he kept during his stay in England. After spending two years in Italy he returned to the United States and completed his final novel, 'The Marble Faun' and 'Our Old Home'. This 594-page book comprises 14 photogravures, one engraving, a Title page and a Contents and list of illustrations and Index : Title page: Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne annotated with passages from the author's note-book, and illustrated with photogravures Volume II. Cambridge. Printed at the Riverside Press. MDCCCXCI. Verso of title page: Copyright, 1863 by Nathaniel Hawthorne Copyright, 1870 By Sophia Hawthorne Copyright, 1883, 1890 By Houghton, Mifflin & Co. All rights reserved Two Hundred and Fifty Copies Printed No. 69 Contents and list of Illustrations: [Photogravures executed by A.W. Elson & Co. Boston] Lord Nelson Frontispiece NEAR OXFORD Blenheim The Thames at Oxford from Folly Bridge Magdalen College, Oxford, from the Cherwell SOME OF THE HAUNTS OF BURNS Robert Burns Burn's Birthplace, Alloway Parish, near Ayr The Auld Brig o' Doon, Ayr Alloway Kirk A LONDON SUBURB A Country House The Houses of Parliament UP THE THAMES London Bridge Tower of London, showing Traitor's Gate St. Paul's Cathedral Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey OUTSIDE GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH POVERTY An English Almshouse CIVIC BANQUETS Index
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1891
architecture
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100 plates 37 cm
Boston, Bates & Guild Co., 1898.
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Boston, Bates & Guild Co., 1898.
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303 pages : illustrations, plans 32 cm
Feltham, Country Life Books, 1970.
English country houses: Baroque, 1685-1715.
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303 pages : illustrations, plans 32 cm
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Feltham, Country Life Books, 1970.
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255 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits) plans 32 cm
London, Country Life, 1966.
English country houses: Caroline, 1625-1685 [by] Oliver Hill and John Cornforth.
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255 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits) plans 32 cm
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London, Country Life, 1966.
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3 volumes : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 32 cm
London : Country Life, [1955-58]
English country houses / Christopher Hussey.
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3 volumes : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 32 cm
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London : Country Life, [1955-58]
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46, [2] pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 23 cm.
London : William Collins of London, MCMXXXXI. [1941], London : Printed in Great Britain by William Brown and Co., Ltd, [1941]
English country houses / by V. Sackville-West ; with 12 plates in colour and 21 illustrations in black & white.
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46, [2] pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 23 cm.
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London : William Collins of London, MCMXXXXI. [1941], London : Printed in Great Britain by William Brown and Co., Ltd, [1941]
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19, [1] pages 22 cm
[London] Pub. for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, 1951.
English country houses; a reader's guide.
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19, [1] pages 22 cm
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[London] Pub. for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, 1951.