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Art in Great Britain and Ireland (1909)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 128

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FIG. 20I.—ELEVATION OF BLENHEIM. (VANBRUGH.) are frequently over-bold, exercising a mistaken ingenuity in forcing amonumental gloss upon a frivolous structure, and driving half adozen little features under some great mask with which they arenot in sympathy. From this it results that their most… … Clou n d r fig. 202.—Blenheim, plan, (vanbrugh.) Scale : about 230 feet to an inch. the College M (Fig. 203), to which an excellent finish has been givenwithin recent years by the addition of Sir Rowand Andersonsdome. In the south, the best examples, perhaps, are Kenwood,Luton House, and the old…

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