Lot 153050: Vitruvius Britannicus 1771 - Pl 77 Section of County Hall, Nottingham
This original copperplate engraving of the County Hall in Nottingham is from Vitruvius Britannicus Vol 5 published in 1771.
The plates were drawn by Woolfe or Gandon apart from plates 94-98, which were signed as drawn by T. Milton. The engravers werer T. White, C. Ebdon, H. Mackworth, J. Gandon, T. Miller and J. Roberts.
Colen Campbell’s Vitruvius Britannicus is considered one of the greatest eighteenth-century English architectural works. Campbell published the first three volumes between 1715 and 1725, but the work was continued in two subsequent volumes by Woolfe and Gandon in 1767 and 1771.
The work is comprised of large, finely engraved illustrations, plans, and cross-sections of English country houses and parks in the Palladian style.
Size : approx 21.5 in x 28in (54cm x 70cm).
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