The lives of the British architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London, Duckworth and Co.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 320
fice ; and it must be confessed that it is clumsy andits portico pretentious and out of proportion. Pope in-directly refers to it when he writes: See under Ripley rise a new Whitehall,While Joness and Boyles united labours fall. The cost of the work was estimated by the architect at;^22,400. The… … THOMAS RIPLEY 255 noticeable in the building, and which in the hands of reallygreat designers was a safeguard, if not an advance, forBritish architecture, is largely responsible for its heaviness.The screen which Adam subsequently put up does notgreatly improve it, but perhaps has the merit—at…
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