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Carlton House, sometimes Carlton Palace, was a mansion in Westminster, best known as the town residence of King George IV, particularly during the regency era and his time as prince regent. It faced the south side of Pall Mall, and its gardens abutted St James's Park in the St James's district of London.
Carlton House; Localización; País: Reino Unido: Ubicación: ciudad de Westminster: Coordenadas: Información general; Estilo: arquitectura georgiana: Diseño y construcción; Arquitecto: Henry Holland
Carlton House. L.W. Cowie takes the reader on a visit to London's Carlton House; an architectural gem with many royal connections and which was converted into a palace for the future George IV. The history of Carlton House, the shortest-lived and yet the most tasteful and exquisite of London’s vanished royal residences, began in 1709 when the ...
7 de may. de 2013 · The walled gardens at Carlton House had originally been the work of William Kent, the great Architect, Designer, Painter, and Gardener, being completed in 1734. Carlton House Gardens as it appeared in a coloured engraving
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A Classical Design for Carlton House c.1814. Mixed media | 70.4 x 142.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 406951. Description. The Prince of Wales (later George IV) ‘took up’ John Nash in 1813 in the same year that his previous favourite architect, James Wyatt (1746-1813) died.
Carlton House Terrace was built in 1831. The overall responsibility for design lay originally with John Nash, but he was notorious for delegating details. The terraces as a whole were conceived as a scenic backdrop to St James's Park.
Designed as an architectural entity, facing the Park, they represent with their range of detached Corinthian columns, a pleasing example of comprehensive street architecture; an effect greatly enhanced by the freshness of their façades, which are maintained at a uniform stone colour by periodical paintings.
