ABSTRACT

This volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1760 to 1830. It contains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual buildings and will be of great interest to students of Art History and Architecture.

part 1|135 pages

1760–1790

chapter 4|4 pages

J. Gwynn, London and Westminster Improved

chapter 6|6 pages

S. Riou, Grecian Orders of Architecture

chapter 8|4 pages

P. J. Grosley, Tour of London

chapter 17|4 pages

Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting

chapter 19|4 pages

Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art

part 2|139 pages

1790–1830

chapter 31|4 pages

John Carter, Gentlemen's Magazine

chapter 38|8 pages

J. Rutter, Delineations of Fonthill (1823)

chapter 45|11 pages

Alfred Barry, Life of Sir Charles Barry