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C1756
Untitled
Artist:
Issac Ware (1704 - 1766)
Early architectural print from the English architect Isaac Ware’s famous A Complete Body of Architecture, printed in London.
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Full Title:
Untitled
Date:
C1756
Artist:
Issac Ware (1704 - 1766)
Engraver:
P. Fourdrinier
Condition:
In good condition. Folds as issued
Technique:
Original copper engraving
Image Size:
385mm
x 340mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1756
Description:
Early architectural print from the English architect Isaac Ware’s famous A Complete Body of Architecture, printed in London.
Biography:
Isaac Ware (1704-1766)
Ware was an English architect and translator of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.
He was apprenticed to Thomas Ripley, 1 August 1721, and followed him in positions in the Office of Works, but his mentor in design was Lord Burlington. Ware was a member of the St. Martin’s Lane Academy, which brought together many of the main figures in the English Rococo movement, among them Louis François Roubiliac, who sculpted Ware’s portrait bust about 1741. Although he held various posts with the Office of Works between 1728 and his death, including Secretary, a position previously held by Nicholas Hawksmoor, Ware’s major works were for private patrons. cuted works”.
