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CAMPBELL, Colen (1676-1729)
The Elevation of the Rt. Honourable the Lord Leimpster's house in Northamptonshire...
London: Published by Colen Campbell, 1725. Engraved. Laid paper. . Plate mark: 9 3/4 x 19 inches. Sheet size: 17 1/4 x 21 inches.
A notable facade by Nicolas Hawksmoor from Colen Campbell's "Vitruvius Britannicus."
Vitruvius Britannicus is one of the great eighteenth-century English architectural works. It illustrates, in a way, the social revolution that occured in the first half of the 18th century under the governance of Robert Walpole. Noble country estates as grand as any in continental Europe appeared throughout the land. These were buildings of Classical formality and grandeur, implying familial and imperial permanence and superiority.
Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736) worked under Sir Christopher Wren in the rebuilding of St. Paul's and was later one of the architects involved in the building of 50 churches in London as part of the great recovery from the Great Fire.
Colen Campbell (1676-1729) was a descendant of the Campbells of Cawdor Castle in Scotland. As an architect, he favored the Palladian style and through his own designs and withVitruvius Britannicus helped establish it as the dominant style in great houses, both public and private, in England.
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