Yale Center for British Art
Creator:
Smirke, Robert, Sir, 1780-1867
Title:
Specimens of continental architecture / by Robert Smirke, Junr. F.A.S.
Published / Created:
London : Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court and sold by J. White, Fleet Street, and R. Faulder, Bond Street, 1806.
Physical Description:
[2], ii, 4 pages, VIII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3561024
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Announced by White in the Monthly Literary Advertiser for August 1806 as Part I, to be complete in four parts, but only this part seems to have appeared."--Abbey.
Contents:
Royal Palace of Caserta and Plan -- Plan of principal story of no. 1 -- Plan of the principal story of the Doria Palace at Genoa -- Perspective elevation of no. 3 -- View of street near no. 3, and plan of entrance hall of Palace Durazzo -- Elevation of Palace of Prince Lichtenstein Vienna, and plan of principal story -- Examples of internal decoration.
Subject Terms:
Castles -- Architecture, Domestic -- Italy. | Castles -- Architecture, Domestic -- Austria. | Architecture, Domestic -- Italy. | Architecture, Domestic -- Austria. | Architecture -- Details.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1806. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1806. | Engravings -- 1806.
Contributors:
Bensley, Thomas, approximately 1760-1835, printer. | Faulder, Robert, 1747 or 1748-1815, publisher. | White, John, active 1792-1816, publisher.