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Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect, Volume III

Print
1725 (made)
Artist/Maker
Colen Campbell (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Engraving print on paper

Object details

Categories
Prints
Architecture
Object type
Print
TitleVitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect, Volume III (series title)
Materials and techniques
printer's ink, paper, engraving
Printer's Ink
Paper
Engraving
Brief description
From Vitruvius Britannicus by Colen Campbell: Amesbury House, Wiltshire: elevation and plans. Plate 7 of Volume III. Engraving by Hendrik Hulsbergh, London, 1725
Physical description
Engraving print on paper
Dimensions
    Marks and inscriptions
    Inigo Jones Invt: Ca: Campbell Delin: H: Hulsbergh Sculp: (Lettered)
    Gallery label
    Henry Hulsberg, after Colen Campbell (1676-1729)
    Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, designed by John Webb
    Etching and engraving from Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol 111, 1725

    Amesbury, like Wilton, was believed by Campbell to have been designed by Inigo Jones, and it therefore joined the pantheon of great exemplars admired by the neo-Palladians of the eighteenth century. It was the perfect example of the 'temple front' house, formed by adding a pedimented temple portico to a domestic block. This revolutionary idea had originally come from Palladio, but Webb was also following Inigo Jones's Prince's Lodging at Newmarket of 1619, the first building of this type in Britain. Amesbury, built about 1659, inspired the first house of the neo-Palladian movement, William Benson's villa called Wilbury, of about 1708. Amesbury Abbey survives, but as rebuilt by Thomas Hopper in the 1830s.
    Credit line
    Acquired from B. Weinreb Ltd., London in 1967.
    Place depicted
    Amesbury
    Association
    Inigo
    Bibliographic reference
    Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1967
    Collection
    Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
    Accession number
    CIRC.97-1967

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    Record createdJune 30, 2009
    Record URL
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