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Triumphal arch, Orange: elevation

RIBA95436
NOTES: The triumphal arch was built during the reign of the emperor Augustus to honour the veterans for whom the city was founded. It was later altered during the time of Tiberius. This comes from a sketchbook put together by Ambrose Phillipps containing measured drawings and engravings of French and Roman buildings as well as designs for the house and garden buildings at Garendon Park, Leicestershire, the compiler's home.

'The Professor's Dream': a symposium of the principal architectural monuments of ancient & modern times, drawn to the same scale

RIBA95743
NOTES: This is the preliminary pencil study of a collection of buildings of the world drawn to scale which was later the basis for a chromolithographic print entitled 'The Most Famous Buildings in the World' published by the Boy's Own Paper (see RIBA31368).

Album of theoretical designs: elevation of a triumphal arch

RIBA96479
Chambers, Sir William (1723-1796), Office of
NOTES: This drawing is found in an album which was formerly attributed to Sir William Chambers. It contains over 100 theoretical designs, mostly by Edward Stevens but with some by John Yenn and some from the office of William Chambers. Stevens was a pupil of Chambers from 1760 to 1766. The drawings in the album date from between 1762 and 1777.

Album of theoretical designs: elevation of a triumphal arch with pedimented aedicules in a garden setting

RIBA96508
Stevens, Edward (1744-1775)
NOTES: This drawing is found in an album which was formerly attributed to Sir William Chambers. It contains over 100 theoretical designs, mostly by Edward Stevens but with some by John Yenn and some from the office of William Chambers. Stevens was a pupil of Chambers from 1760 to 1766. The drawings in the album date from between 1762 and 1777.

Wet copy of a letter by Decimus Burton to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests regarding the equestrian statue on the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, London, dated 24 July 1846 (page 1)

RIBA97736
Burton, Decimus (1800-1881)
NOTES: The Arch was first built, in 1826-1827 to designs by Burton, as an entranceway to Buckingham Palace which was at the time being remodelled by Nash for George IV. Although intended to have a sculpture atop it, the building works for Arch and Screen and Buckingham Palace were such that money for the sculpture was denied. It was not until 1846 that a statue of Wellington designed by Matthew Cotes Wyatt was created and placed atop the Arch - to much controversy as the statue was considered out of proportion to the Arch. The Wyatt statue remained until the Arch was moved to the south-east for a new road to relieve traffic - the equestrian statue was then re-erected in Aldershot. The present quadriga atop the Wellington Arch by Adrian Jones was added in 1912.

Designs for Admiralty Arch, The Mall, London: preliminary design for new buildings and arch: front elevation towards The Mall

RIBA97953
Webb, Sir Aston (1849-1930)
NOTES: The central archway is higher than the two flanking ones, the ends of the curving wings not defined but capped by shallow cupolas.

Designs for Admiralty Arch, The Mall, London: variant preliminary design for new buildings and arch: plan showing layout of buildings around the arch

RIBA97954
Webb, Sir Aston (1849-1930)
NOTES: This design shows the three archways of equal height, the ends of the curving wings defined by aedicules and surmounted by cupolas capped by lanterns.

Designs for Admiralty Arch, The Mall, London: variant preliminary design for new buildings and arch: elevations towards The Mall and Charing Cross

RIBA97955
Webb, Sir Aston (1849-1930)
NOTES: This design shows the three archways of equal height, the ends of the curving wings defined by aedicules and surmounted by cupolas capped by lanterns.

Designs for Admiralty Arch, The Mall, London: variant preliminary design for new buildings and arch: elevation showing one alternative treatment of the upper part and of the lower part of the wings

RIBA97956
Webb, Sir Aston (1849-1930)
NOTES: This design shows the three archways of equal height, the ends of the curving wings defined by aedicules and surmounted by cupolas capped by lanterns.
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