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CAMPBELL, Colen (1676-1729)
The Elevation of one Wing of the Great Court of Greenwich Hospital...
London: Published by Colen Campbell, 1725. Engraved. Laid paper. . Plate mark: 9 1/2 x 25 inches. Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches.
Greenwich Hospital by Wren and 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 are buildings of Classical formality and grandeur, implying familial and imperial permanence, vast, symmetrical palaces that preside over their surroundings.
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 buildings, both public and private, in England.
Greenwich Hospital was founded in 1694 and called the Royal Naval Hospital for Seamen. Queen Mary II seeing wounded sailors returning from the Battle of the Boyne was the inspirational force for it. Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor donated their services, Sir John Vanbrugh participated in the completion of the work.
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