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Design
Chambers, William - Enlarge image
Design
- Date:
ca.1598-1603 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Chambers, William (Sir), born 1723 - died 1796 (drawn by)
- Materials and Techniques:
Pencil
- Museum number:
7078:10
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case A, shelf 229
Sketch of a bracket ornamented with a ram's head by leading architect and designer Sir William Chambers (1723-1796). On the verso, a sketch plan of a circular building on a square plinth with buttresses at the corners.
Chambers moved to London in 1755 and published his influential Treatise on Civil Architecture in 1759. Chambers demonstrated the breadth of his style in buildings such as Gower (later Carrington) House and Melbourne House, London, in such country houses as Duddingston, Scotland, and in the garden architecture he designed for Wilton House, Wiltshire, and at Kew Gardens. He became head of government building in 1782, and in this capacity built Somerset House, London.
