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Survey of London
… by some critics who obviously preferred the customary giant order of the English Palladians.) Only the two northern … 17956, he retained the rusticated arcade as a base for the giant Ionic order with which he intended to dress the …
Survey of London
… house rests; the ground and first floors embraced within a giant Florentine motif of pilasters carrying entablatures … with Jack supporting the mantelshelf whilst the giant's head and hands appear to tear through the stonework …
Survey of London
… (Plate 58a, 58b). Here each of the central houses has a giant unfluted Doric order of engaged columns, tetrastyle in …
Survey of London
… and 45 Clarendon Road. This unusual pair of villas has a giant Corinthian order of stucco pilasters carrying an … of two-storey houses with basements and attics. Here the giant stucco strips support large consoles which carry wide …
Survey of London
… the Oratory House is in a very restrained Italianate (a giant haystack petrified, according to one contemporary …
Old and New London
… public view." Here, too, was exhibited O'Bryen, the Irish giant, whom we have already mentioned; and here he died. MILK …
Old and New London
… a balloon turned topsy-turvy. There they stand, like giant spectral watchmen guarding the silent city, whose … fire doth break forth and appear abroad, and like a mighty giant refresht with wine doth awake and arm itself, quickly …
Survey of London
… been an oblong with an apse at one end, decorated with giant Corinthian pilasters in the corners, supporting a … a ring of coffers. The other view shows the stage, with giant Corinthian pilasters flanking the ellipticalarched …
Survey of London
… were refaced with stucco above the arcade and dressed with giant Tuscan pilasters, obviously copied from the portico of … with cement, having two main storeys dressed with a giant order of Corinthian plain-shafted pilasters, and an …
Survey of London
… bandcourse at first-floor level, and for quoining the giant pilasters that mark the party walls. Here, these …