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dc.coverage.spatialSite: London, England, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1832-1850 (creation); redesigned 1913 (alteration)en_US
dc.creatorWebb, Astonen_US
dc.creatorBlore, Edwarden_US
dc.date1832-1850en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-09T19:23:21Z
dc.date.available2013-01-09T19:23:21Z
dc.date.issued1832-1850en_US
dc.identifier181806en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2108en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/88424
dc.descriptionView of the formal gardens terminating The Mall; Blore’s best-known but least characteristic work was the completion of Buckingham Palace in 1832-1850 following the dismissal of George IV’s architect, John Nash, for extravagance. Blore was given the Buckingham Palace commission by the Office of Works because of his reputation for cheapness. The Builder (28 Aug 1847) remarked of his new front ‘[it] does not pretend to grandeur, and magnificence, scarcely to dignity’ and few regretted its refacing by Aston Webb in 1912-1913. Albert, the Prince Consort, entrusted the south-west wing to James Pennethorne. One of Webb’s most prominent urban-planning schemes in London was the Queen Victoria Memorial Scheme, won in limited competition in 1901, in which he widened and replanted the Mall in the fashion of a Parisian boulevard. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/16/2010)en_US
dc.format.mediumstoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectNeoclassicalen_US
dc.titleBuckingham Palaceen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-E-L-BP-A4en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktyperoyal palaceen_US
dc.contributor.displayAston Webb (British architect, 1849-1930); Edward Blore (British architect, 1787-1879)en_US


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