The Chimneypieces of Isaac Ware
Chimneypieces from a Complete Body of Architecture.
Isaac Ware (1704 - 66).
Published 1756.
For the two busts of Isaac Ware by Roubiliac and Portraits by Soldi etc see -
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76 Drawings by Isaac Ware are kept at the Colombia University Library.
This website catalogue entry is rather Spartan and the drawings should be investigated
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The frontispiece is signed as drawn by S.Wale and engraved
by H. Roberts. A few numbered plates are signed 'I.W.' (pl. 32, 35, 39 bis,
'55.54', 62, 63), indicating that they are drawn or drawn and engraved by Isaac
Ware.
No other plates are signed by a draughtsman. Most are signed by their
engravers - H. Roberts, Boyce, Edw(d)s et Darly, J. (or I) Couse, I. Ware (pl.
20), P. Fourdrinier, R. Benning, W. Proud, B. Cole, (B.)Clowse (or Clowes), J.
Noual, F. Patton, J. Mynde, Grignion.
Of the last ten unnumbered plates some
are signed as engraved by W. Proud and one as engraved by J. Couse.
The title-page
vignette and the headpiece are signed as engraved by H. Roberts.
Literature:
Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural
Library ... Early printed books, 4 (2001), no. 3581, p.2355-9.
National Gallery of Art (Washington), Mark J. Millard
Architectural, 2 (1998), no.87, p.326-9
E. Harris and N. Savage, British Architectural Books and
Writers (1990), no. 906, p.468-476.
Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural
Collection (1961, repr.1991), no.436, p.339-40.
R. White, 'Isaac Ware and Chesterfield House', in The rococo
in England, ed. C. Hind (1986), p.175-92
R. Wittkower, 'Pseudo-Palladian Elements in English
Neo-Classical Architecture', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes,
6 (1943), p.156-163
All engravings illustrated here and the text below lifted from the Victoria and Albert Museum Website.
'The publication-date of 1756 is carried by the title page;
but the work was published serially between 29 November 1755 and 3 September
1757.
It formed part of a new series of publications being brought out by
Osborne and Shipton (who had earlier published Ware's translation of
Sirigatti's Pratica di prospettiva). Their Complete Body of Husbandry was
already in publication and would be followed by their A Complete Body of
Gardening.
Ware takes the scope of the project to embrace not only
architectural design but also the practicalities of engineering - including,
for example, a double plate to illustrate the drainage of a house (pl.
'30.31'). As was usual in his time, he tends to combine Palladian exteriors
(though, he says, neither Vitruvius nor Palladio should be taken as an
infallible guide) with more decorative, rococo interiors.
The text is divided
into ten books: 1. on terms and materials; 2. on location, functional parts of
a building, the orders; 3. house construction; 4. doors; 5. windows; 6.
interior ornament; 7. exterior ornament and garden buildings; 8. bridges; 9.
the construction of elevations on true principles (with some criticism of
modern practice); 10. mathematics and mensuration.
The plates include some of
Ware's own designs - rococo interiors of Chesterfield House (demolished in
1937) (pl. 60-61, 81-83, 85, 88); Amisfield House (pl.39, 45), Clifton Hill (pl.
40), Oxford Town Hall (pl.48-9), Wrotham Park (pl. 52-53), Eythrop House (pl.
104-105, 107), and several chimneypieces.
The frontispiece shows Minerva
directing an architect and builders. The title-page vignette shows the
Pantheon, Rome, and the headpiece of the first page of the text shows an
aqueduct.
A few plates are captioned as showing work of Inigo Jones; but these
are not now thought to be by him.'
Plate 90. Mr Pitt's Bruton Street.
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Plate 93. For a Dining Room.
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Plate 94, Thomas Fitch's, Danbury Place.
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Plate 92. For a Bed Chamber.
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Plate 95. John de Pester's, Bruton Street.
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Plate 96. John Byng's, Berkeley Square
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Plate 89. For Drawing Room, Wrotham Park.
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Plate 86. James Lumley's, South Audley Street.
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Plate 94. Thomas Fitch's, Danbury Place.
Plate 85. The Library Chesterfield House.
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Plate 96. James Lumley's, South Audley Street.
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Plate 95. Henry Fox's, Albermarle Street.
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Plate 95. William Bristow's Dover Street
Plate 90. Mr Pitt's, Bruton Street.
Plate 88. The Drawing Room, Chesterfield House
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Plate 84. Dining Parlour at George Byng's Wrotham Park.
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