Specimens of continental architecture / by Robert Smirke, Junr. F.A.S.
Published / Created:
London : Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court and sold by J. White, Fleet Street, and R. Faulder, Bond Street, 1806.
Physical Description:
[2], ii, 4 pages, VIII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 50 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2014 40 Copy 1Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionRare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2014 40 Copy 2Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3561024
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Announced by White in the Monthly Literary Advertiser for August 1806 as Part I, to be complete in four parts, but only this part seems to have appeared."--Abbey.Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 12BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in later red half leather and red cloth.BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in contemporary quarter brown calf and blue-gray boards.
Contents:
Royal Palace of Caserta and Plan -- Plan of principal story of no. 1 -- Plan of the principal story of the Doria Palace at Genoa -- Perspective elevation of no. 3 -- View of street near no. 3, and plan of entrance hall of Palace Durazzo -- Elevation of Palace of Prince Lichtenstein Vienna, and plan of principal story -- Examples of internal decoration.
