Goodwood.

 

Chimneypiece by John Bacon.

1776.

Sir Robert Taylor - Part 2 Drawings in an Album in the Taylorian Institute, Oxford.

Sir Robert Taylor (1714 - 88).

Sculptor and Architect.

At Mermaid Court, Charing Cross, Westminster, London.

Drawing c. 1750/60.

Born at Woodford, Essex, Taylor followed in his father's footsteps and started working as a stonemason and sculptor, spending time as a pupil of Sir Henry Cheere. 

Early commissions, including a bust of London merchant Christopher Emmott (died 1745) today held in the church of St Bartholomew, Colne, Lancashire, and another of William Phipps (died 1748), now in the parish church of Westbury, Wiltshire.

For an interesting article on speculative building by Henry Cheere and Robert Taylor see -

https://georgiangroup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GGJ_2002_13-GARNIER.pdf

 

 

For Part 1 see -

https://englisheighteenthcenturychimneypiece.blogspot.com/2019/08/sir-robert-taylor-and-his-architectural.html

Traité du Beau Essentiel dans les Arts - Charles Etienne Briseux - 1752

Traité du Beau Essentiel dans les Arts : 

appliqué particulièrement à l'architecture, et démontré phisiquement et par l'expérience ...

1752.

by Briseux, Charles Étienne, d. 1754; 

Wille, Johann Georg, 1715-1808; 

Marvie, Martin, 1713-1813.

https://archive.org/details/traitedubeauesse00bris/page/n7



From the online Getty Research Institute Archive:



https://archive.org/details/getty?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Architecture%2C+Gothic%22&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Architecture%22&sort=-downloads&page=5

The Chimneypieces

Abraham Swan - A Collection of Designs in Architecture - 1757

A Collection of Designs in Architecture.

Abraham Swan.

1757.

Original engravings from the authors collection.