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Design for a tapestry reredos for the Church of All Saints, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, depicting two historical figures or kings

RIBA32529
Eden, Frederick Charles (1884-1944)
NOTES: The main body of the Church of All Saints, Weston-Super-Mare was designed by George Bodley and built between 1898 and 1902. The south aisle and Lady Chapel were built by F.C. Eden in 1925.

Design featuring stylized 'knight' motifs, possibly intended for a decorative book binding

RIBA32966
Auger, Boyd (1930-1998)
NOTES: This design appears on the same sheet as RIBA32965, RIBA32965 and RIBA32967.

Designs for two fireplaces featuring sculpted caryatids and telamones: elevations and sections of one in the style of the portico of the Temple of Pandrosus, Athens, andthe other inspired by the Incantada at Salonica (Thessaloniki)

RIBA35577
Wightwick, George (1802-1872)
NOTES: This design is one of a number of drawings bound into five volumes entitled 'Architectural works of George Wightwick', made between 1832 and 1850. Wightwick instructed his articled pupils to make this detailed set of retrospective drawings to illustrate every building of importance he had designed. The drawings were intended to serve both as a record of Wightwick's completed buildings and as a method of conveying to his students the design process from initial working design to finished structure.

Annotated studies of bearded male heads copied from Renaissance prints or paintings

RIBA35637
NOTES: This print appeared in a facsimile copy of Inigo Jones's Roman Sketchbook, which was lithographed by G.E. Madeley on the instruction of the 6th Duke of Devonshire (who owned the original sketchbook) and printed in London in 1831.

Annotated studies of male and female heads copied from Renaissance prints or paintings

RIBA35638
NOTES: This print appeared in a facsimile copy of Inigo Jones's Roman Sketchbook, which was lithographed by G.E. Madeley on the instruction of the 6th Duke of Devonshire (who owned the original sketchbook) and printed in London in 1831.

Annotated studies of male and female heads copied from Renaissance prints or paintings

RIBA35639
NOTES: This print appeared in a facsimile copy of Inigo Jones's Roman Sketchbook, which was lithographed by G.E. Madeley on the instruction of the 6th Duke of Devonshire (who owned the original sketchbook) and printed in London in 1831.

Studies of male and female figures copied from Renaissance prints or paintings

RIBA35640
NOTES: This print appeared in a facsimile copy of Inigo Jones's Roman Sketchbook, which was lithographed by G.E. Madeley on the instruction of the 6th Duke of Devonshire (who owned the original sketchbook) and printed in London in 1831.

Studies of male nudes copied from Renaissance prints or paintings by Michelangelo

RIBA35641
NOTES: This print appeared in a facsimile copy of Inigo Jones's Roman Sketchbook, which was lithographed by G.E. Madeley on the instruction of the 6th Duke of Devonshire (who owned the original sketchbook) and printed in London in 1831.

Studies of gargoyle faces: frontal and profile sketches

RIBA35992
NOTES: These sketches may be by Charles Robert Cockerell.

Montage of photographs demonstrating how poor sanitation, diet, living and working conditions cause ill health: images include slum dwellings, an outside toilet, factories, classrooms, unemployed men and two children - one healthy the other undernourished

RIBA36153
Goldfinger, Erno (1902-1987)
NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1943 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Health' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for improved housing, sanitation, working conditions, schools and diet. The image shown here was intended for use on an exhibition display board.

Frontispiece to P. Le Muet's translated edition of Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture

RIBA36260
Palladio, Andrea (1508-1580)
SOURCE: Andrea Palladio, Traicte des cinq ordres d'architecture (Paris, 1645), ed. Pierre Le Muet frontispiece NOTES: This French edition of Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura contains plates copied from the first Italian edition, published in 1570, and includes new designs by Pierre Le Muet.

Frontispiece to G. Leoni's translated edition of Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture, showing allegorical figures surrounding a portrait bust of Palladio himself

RIBA36275
Palladio, Andrea (1508-1580)
SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. The Architecture of Andrea Palladio in Four Books (London, 1715), ed. Giacomo Leoni, frontispiece NOTES: This English edition of Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura contains plates copied from the first Italian edition, published in 1570 and includes additional 'notes and observations' by Inigo Jones.
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