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Art in Great Britain and Ireland (1913)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 126

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^Hi -i FIG. 201.—ELEVATION OF BLENHEIM. (\ANBRUGH.) 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… … no. 202.—BLENHEIM, PLAN. (vANBRuGH.) Scale ; about 230 feet to an inch. the College (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 Mansion—now,…

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