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Inigo Jones grand gate posts, Rustic Peers c1727

Inigo Jones grand gate posts, Rustic Peers c1727

by Jones, Inigo

Inigo Jones design. Rustic Peers with Niches for English country estate.

Original copperplate engraving by Henrik Hulsbergh after a drawing by Henry Flitcroft The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings. Publifh'd by William Kent, With some Additional Designs published in London in 1727. Considered as the 'father of classical English architecture', Inigo Jones (1573-1652), was the first to introduce classical Italian Renaissance architecture to Gothic Britain, and believed strict mathematical proportion should control plan, elevation and all structure. The width of the opening is twice the height of each peer.

Dutch engraver Henrik Hulsbergh worked in London and flourished as an engraver between 1709 and 1729.
Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) was born in Twickenham. As the son of a labourer in the employ of William III, in the gardens of Hampton Court Palace, Henry was apprenticed to a joiner and worked as a carpenter at Burlington House - until he fell from a scaffold, broke his leg, and came to the attention of Lord Burlington who became his patron and managed his training as an architect. 'Burlington Harry' became Master Carpenter between 1746 and 1748, and went on to become Deputy Surveyer and then succeeded Thomas Ripley as Comptroller of the Works and lived in the former Master Mason's House.

Page size is 35cm x 50cm (13.3/4 x 19.3/4 inches). Size to plate mark is 250mm x 355mm (9.75 inches x 14 inches).

Stock Number: apIJarch61.1Price: $195.00

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