An architect's note-book in Spain : principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country (1872)
Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877 · London : Autotype Fine Art Company · leaf 133
gue of the MadridArmoury cite/ Pamplona as at the head of the trade at the close of thesixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and name as thechief rivals to Pamplona of the cities of Spain, in the manufacture ofsplendid arms and armour, Tolosa, Barcelona, and Calatayud.* * There is… … PLATE XXVII E SCORIAL. GENERAL VIEW OF THE ESCORIAL. IN all Spain I saw nothing which so ill-agreed with my preconceptionsas the Escorial. As for beauty, I could find none whatever init. The building appeared to me thoroughly unsatisfactory alike aschurch, palace, or monastery. Still, to omit it…
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