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Survey of London
… the museum in 1870 he turned to James Fergusson and Sydney Smirke. 53 That first essay of Fowke's was the gallery for … had prepared a preliminary design and in July 1858 Sydney Smirke was commissioned as joint consultant, but not until … of a number of suggestive arcades, most of them classical: Smirke as a classicist based his northern crescents closely …
Magna Britannia
… drawn up from these have been kindly revised by Robert Smirke, Esq., jun., R.A., &c. For the Geology of the county, …
Survey of London
… August 1804, some two years before Holland's death, Robert Smirke, a relation of Copland's, was officially appointed … the present uniformity of the Building'. 96 In 1808 Smirke took a set in Albany. In 1819 the Trustees gave … of 30 or 40 being payable for some of them. 100 In 1811 Smirke took a twenty-one-year lease from the Trustees of …
Survey of London
… who was the oldest at sixtyseven, William Tite, Sydney Smirke, James Pennethorne, G. Gilbert Scott, M. D. Wyatt and … to point out that three of his fellows, including Tite and Smirke, had opposed his Gothic design for the Government … Charles and E. M. Barry in consideration of Tite's and Smirke's known unwillingness to participate. These nine …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 31, 6. pp. 307309.] Nov. 25. St. John's. 1190. William Smirke to [? William Blathwayt]. The French have taken and … once appear, I may say Dom. libera nos. Signed, William Smirke. Endorsed, Communicated to the Board by Mr. Blathwayt. …
Survey of London
… foundations at Millbank Penitentiary: devised by Robert Smirke and laid in 181722, these were the first of their kind … in this way was made in the same month (April 1825) that Smirke and Baker began to underpin the partially collapsed … vol.xcix, no.1, 1829, p.581 J. Mordaunt Crook, 'Sir Robert Smirke: A Pioneer of Concrete Construction', in Transactions …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… early style of English architecture, after a design by Mr. Smirke. This is a borough by prescription, and received a …
The Later Records relating to North Westmorland
… out by Sir William Wilson. See pages 66, 67. Sir Robert Smirke. He was the second son of Robert Smirke who was born at Wigton in 1752, became an R.A. in …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… in the development of the railways. He lived in Lewisham. Smirke, Sydney (1798 1877) Younger brother of Robert Smirke, the architect responsible for the British Museum. Sydney Smirke built the reading room between 1854 and 1857, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1783 Browne commissioned chiaroscuro paintings from Robert Smirke (d. 1845) for the library and dining room. 78 The Hall … kiln). Essex R.O., A 8403, box B misc., corresp. from Smirke to Browne; D.N.B. Salop.: short hist., with …