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Preliminary design for the Banqueting House, Whitehall, London: preliminary plan for the basement
RIBA126221
NOTES: This drawing formed part of Lord Burlington's sequence of Palladio drawings. This preliminary plan must belong to the very earliest stage of conception. The great hall is flanked by narrow anterooms as shown in elevation on the preliminary design at Chatsworth which is accompanied by a plan of the ground floor (Chatsworth 52-53). However, this basement plan is probably an even earlier idea, for the elevation is completely pilastered, with paired pilasters at the angles of the main front and pilastered centrepiece. Both plans are renditions of the Star Chamber project of 1617.
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.
