Architectural water-colours & etchings of W. Walcot (1919)
Walcot, William, 1874-1943 · London, New York, H.C. Dickins [etc.] · leaf 33
Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspende in the air.” Ina letter, written just a hundred years ago, Shelley gives an exquisitely poetic descrip- tion… … beauty, as his mind’s eye sees it, with the living character of its purpose ; and so he creates for our vision live buildings of the past in actual use. Not for him to be content that ‘‘ never was any desolation more sublime and lovely.” ‘‘ Those enormous halls, those towers and labyrinthine…
Walcot, William, 1874-1943 · Architecture -- Pictorial works · Etching, British · Watercolor painting, British · Architecture
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