My account
Search
Palaces
Design for the water stairs, Somerset House, Strand, London: elevation of a low gateway flanked by obelisks
RIBA126512
NOTES: A pencil rendering of the design seen in RIBA22795 with slight variation.
Design for a screen wall, Somerset House, Strand, London: pencilled over recto design (see RIBA22784) with variant treatments
RIBA126515
NOTES: Possibly associated with the palace design of 1638, monumental in elevation, of nine bays with three alternative treatments: arcaded, with a blocked order and square openings and with square windows set in channelled, rusticated walls. This large palace with extensive mezzanine accomodation was intended for a monumental rebuilding of the Strand front of old Somerset House, tied in to the 16th century courtyards behind it.
Patio de los Leones (Court of the Lions), Alhambra, Granada: perspective
RIBA126599
SOURCE: James Cavanah Murphy. The Arabian antiquities of Spain (London, 1815), vol. 1, pl. XXXIII
Unexecuted design for additions to St James's Palace, London: elevation to the Mall
RIBA127096
NOTES: This drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1838 ('A Design for adding to St James;s Palace formerly approved', no. 1163).
Designs for the restoration of the Palacio de Liria, Madrid, for the Duque de Alba: basement plan
RIBA127219
NOTES: This palace was built for the 3rd Duke of Berwick and Liria, James Stuart Fitz-James, to designs by Ventura Rodriguez. The palace was almost completely destroyed by a bombing raid in 1936. Its faithful reconstruction, which lasted twenty years and involved Sir Edwin Lutyens (for interior rebuilding, circa 1950-1955), commenced once the Civil War was over.
Designs for the restoration of the Palacio de Liria, Madrid, for the Duque de Alba: sketch plan and sections of the chapel
RIBA127220
NOTES: This palace was built for the 3rd Duke of Berwick and Liria, James Stuart Fitz-James, to designs by Ventura Rodriguez. The palace was almost completely destroyed by a bombing raid in 1936. Its faithful reconstruction, which lasted twenty years and involved Sir Edwin Lutyens (for interior rebuilding, circa 1950-1955), commenced once the Civil War was over.
Designs for the restoration of the Palacio de Liria, Madrid, for the Duque de Alba: transverse section through the grand staircase
RIBA127221
NOTES: This palace was built for the 3rd Duke of Berwick and Liria, James Stuart Fitz-James, to designs by Ventura Rodriguez. The palace was almost completely destroyed by a bombing raid in 1936. Its faithful reconstruction, which lasted twenty years and involved Sir Edwin Lutyens (for interior rebuilding, circa 1950-1955), commenced once the Civil War was over.
