Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists by Horace Walpole. With additions by James Dallaway, and Vertue's catalogue of engravers who have been born or have resided in England. (1888)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 · London, S. Sonnenschein and Lowrey · leaf 368
CHAPTER XVIII. ARCHITECTS AND OTHER ARTISTS IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE 1. THE stages of no art have been more distinctly marked than those of architecture in Britain. It is not probable that our masters, the Romans, ever taught us more than the construction of arches. Those, imposed on clusters of…
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