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Title: Letters of British architects
Date (inclusive): 1793-1921
Number: 860525A
Creator/Collector:
Getty Research Institute. Research Library
Physical Description:
84.0 items
(1 box)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: An assembled collection of letters written by 34 British architects between 1793 and 1921, most of them from the second half
of the 19th century.
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Letters of British architects, 1793-1921, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 860525A.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa860525a
Received in many acquisitions circa 1983-1990.
Processed and cataloged by Onica Busuioceanu. The items in this collection were formerly part of the British artists letters
collection (accession number 860525). They were separated when that collection was cataloged.
Scope and Content of Collection
An assembled collection of 80 letters from 34 British architects, written between 1793 and 1921, most of them from the second
half of the 19th century.
The letters address a large variety of subjects, from appointments and excuses to information about work in progress, plans
for the future, lectures and courses, considerations about architectural design and criticism. Among the most significant
are letters from Alfred Ainger (1), George Frederick Bodley (4), Arthur Thomas Bolton (1), Charles Robert Cockerell (2), Nockalls
Johnson Cottingham (2), Owen Carter Jones (7), Sir George Gilbert Scott (8), Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1), Sidney Smirke (6),
Sir John Soane (7), Sir William Tite (6), and James Wyatt (3).
John Soane's letters are accompanied by three prints: his portrait engraved by T. Blood after a painting by S. Drummond; the
elevation of Soane's house in Lincoln Fields, London; and the New Treasury, Whitehall, engraved by M. Fox after a drawing
by Thomas H. Shepherd.
Also included is a seating diagram for the 1907 RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) annual dinner.
The collection is organized alphabetically.
Ainger, Alfred, 1797 or 8-1859
Bodley, G.F. (George Frederick)
Bolton, Arthur T. (Arthur Thomas), b. 1864
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863
Cottingham, Nockalls Johnson, 1823-1854
Jones, Owen, 1809-1874
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878
Scott, Giles Gilbert, Sir, 1880-1960
Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837
Tite, William, 1798-1873
Wyatt, James, 1746-1813
Architects--England--Correspondence