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Hace 2 días · The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order 45 ft (14 m) high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.
Hace 2 días · This building was designed by Sir Robert Smirke and erected in 1833–6. In 1846–8 the club-house was considerably enlarged on the west side, the architect being Sydney Smirke; in 1854–6 the original building was taken down and rebuilt by Sydney Smirke.
Hace 4 días · The new building was designed by Robert Smirke. The front part, opening on Westgate Street by a tall Ionic portico said to be inspired by the temple on the river Ilissus in Greece, included a grand jury room, the office of the clerk of the peace (who had previously occupied a nearby house), and a large public room which was used for ...
Hace 3 días · Image: "The Road by Gadshill - Prince Henry, Poins, Peto, Falstaff, etc.” by Samuel Middiman after Robert Smirke (ca. 1803)
Hace 3 días · After 1815 the old house was pulled down, and a new house, of ashlar on a rectangular plan, was built on the site, to the design of Robert Smirke. The owners have occupied the house since 1819. The abbey of Gloucester had extensive lands in Hardwicke which afterwards passed to the bishops of Gloucester.
Hace 5 días · In the early 19th century, the museum moved into a new, larger building on the same site, designed by Sir Robert Smirke. This new building, with its grand Greek Revival architecture, opened in 1852. It included the famous Reading Room, where many famous writers and scholars, like Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, came to study.
Hace 2 días · Sworders’ Fine Interiors sale on June 11 included three Grand Tour-era plaster of Paris models of classical temples. Dated c.1820, they were attributed to Jean-Pierre and François Fouquet, best known as the makers of many similar models in the collection of the Sir John Soane’s Museum. Estimated at £6000- 8000 each, they sold to the same ...
