The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14802210283)

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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts

Year: 1834 (1830s)

Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854

Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel

Publisher: London, Chidley

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

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grants were con-firmed by letters of inspeximus. Its present yearlyrevenue, which includes the benefactions of severalcenturies, amounts to upwards of £450. The entireestablishment includes a master, a reader, who is aclerk in orders, fifteen in-brothers, and the like num-ber of sisters, (one of the former being called theprior, and one of the latter the prioress,) and thesame number of out-brothers and sisters. The hospi-tal buildings, which are principally of brick, weremostly re-erected in the reign of James II., but the chapel or church, as it is styled, is the original Nor-man fabric, and must be regarded as curious, fromcontaining an intermixture of both circular and pointedarches. It is a small edifice, consisting of a nave,with side aisles, chancel, and a square tower at thesouth-western angle. In the window of the northaisle is a good painting, on glass, of St. John Baptist,with a banner, displaying the Agnes Dei. The Font,which is represented in the annexed wood-cut, and is

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probably of the time of Henry VI., is octagonal inform; and on the different faces of the lowest mouldingare sculptured eight figures of animals, roses, &c, inhigh relief. HISTORICAL PROPRIETY IN PAINTING. TUDOR ARCHITECTURE. The greatest master of colour amongst the paintersof the present day is at the same time the most re-markable for propriety in his architectural back-grounds, these frequently exhibit designs that may bestudied with advantage by the architect, and in ex-pressing my admiration of Turner, I wish to avoidthe appearance of advocating that servile imitation,which an antiquary is generally supposed to require.Much has been said about taste in domestic architec- 14 THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR. tare, and many attempts have been made to establisha character for it, from the time Lord Burlington builtChiswick House, after a design of Palladios VillaCapra, to the period of the erection of Fonthill Abbey,on the model of Ely Cathedral, and fifty old churches.I forbear to ment

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