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98 relations: Abrams Books, Accademia di San Luca, Alexander Pope, Andrea Palladio, Annabel's, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Aske Hall, Badminton House, Berkeley Square, Blenheim Palace, Bridlington, Burlington House, Capability Brown, Caroline of Ansbach, Charing Cross, Charles Bridgeman, Chester Cathedral, Chiswick House, City of Westminster, Claremont (country house), Claremont Landscape Garden, Classical order, Colen Campbell, Country Life (books), Deal, Kent, Devonshire House, Ditchley, Easton Neston, English landscape garden, Esher Place, Euston Hall, Exedra, Florence, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Genoa, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, Giulio Romano, Gloucester Cathedral, Godfrey Kneller, Gothic architecture, Greenwich, Hampton Court Palace, Harvard University Press, Henry Pelham, Henry VII Chapel, Holkham Hall, Horace Walpole, Horse Guards (building), Houghton Hall, Inigo Jones, ..., Isaac Newton, James Gibbs, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, James Thornhill, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, John Michael Rysbrack, John Shackleton, Kensington Palace, Kirkthorpe, Landscape architect, Livorno, Matthew Brettingham, National Maritime Museum, Oatlands Palace, Palace of Westminster, Palladian architecture, Peter Scheemakers, Pope Alexander VIII, Prince Frederick's Barge, Principal Painter in Ordinary, Raphael, Raynham Hall, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, Richmond, London, Robert Walpole, Rousham House, Royal Mews, San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi, Sherborne House, Gloucestershire, Shotover, Shotover Park, St James's, St James's Palace, Stanwick Park, Stowe House, The Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc., Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon, Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation), Timothy Mowl, Twickenham, Vicenza, Wanstead House, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, William Hogarth, William Shakespeare, Wimbourne House, York Minster. Expand index (48 more) »
Abrams Books
Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery.
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Accademia di San Luca
The Accademia di San Luca, (the "Academy of Saint Luke") was founded in 1577 as an association of artists in Rome (under the directorship of Federico Zuccari from 1593), with the purpose of elevating the work of "artists", which included painters, sculptors and architects, above that of mere craftsmen.
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Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet.
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Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice.
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Annabel's
Annabel's is a London nightclub, located at 44 Berkeley Square, London.
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, often shortened to Ashby, is a small market town and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, within the National Forest.
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Aske Hall
Aske Hall is a Georgian country house, with parkland attributed to Capability Brown, north of Richmond, North Yorkshire, England.
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Badminton House
Badminton House is a large country house and Grade I Listed Building in Badminton, Gloucestershire, England, and has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century, when the family moved from Raglan Castle, which had been ruined in the English Civil War.
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Berkeley Square
Berkeley Square is a town square in Mayfair in the West End of London, in the City of Westminster.
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Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace (pronounced) is a monumental English country house situated in the civil parish of Blenheim near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
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Bridlington
Bridlington is a coastal town and civil parish on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea, situated in the unitary authority and ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire approximately north of Hull.
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Burlington House
Burlington House is a building on Piccadilly in Mayfair, London.
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Capability Brown
Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known with the byname Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect.
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Caroline of Ansbach
Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline; 1 March 1683 – 20 November 1737) was Queen consort of Great Britain as the wife of King George II.
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Charing Cross
Charing Cross is a junction in London, England, where six routes meet.
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Charles Bridgeman
Charles Bridgeman (1690–1738) was an English garden designer who helped pioneer the naturalistic landscape style.
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Chester Cathedral
Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester.
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Chiswick House
Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, west London, England.
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City of Westminster
The City of Westminster is an Inner London borough which also holds city status.
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Claremont (country house)
Claremont, also known historically as 'Clermont', is an 18th-century Palladian mansion less than a mile south of the centre of Esher in Surrey, England.
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Claremont Landscape Garden
Claremont Landscape Garden, just outside Esher, Surrey, England, is one of the earliest surviving gardens of its kind of landscape design, the English Landscape Garden — still featuring its original 18th-century layout.
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Classical order
An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform". Coming down to the present from Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civilization, the architectural orders are the styles of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic profiles and details, and most readily recognizable by the type of column employed.
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Colen Campbell
Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian style.
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Country Life (books)
Country Life books are publications, mostly on English country houses and gardens, compiled from the articles and photographic archives of Country Life magazine, usually published in the UK by Aurum Press and in the USA by Rizzoli.
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Deal, Kent
Deal is a town in Kent, England, which lies on the border of the North Sea and the English Channel, eight miles north-east of Dover and eight miles south of Ramsgate.
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Devonshire House
Devonshire House in Piccadilly was the London residence of the Dukes of Devonshire in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Ditchley
Ditchley Park is a country house and estate near Charlbury in Oxfordshire.
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Easton Neston
Easton Neston is a large grade I listed country house in the parish of Easton Neston near Towcester in Northamptonshire, England.
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English landscape garden
The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (Jardin à l'anglaise, Giardino all'inglese, Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Jardim inglês, Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical jardin à la française of the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.
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Esher Place
Esher Place is a Grade-II listed country house, since 1953 used as a college by the trade union Unite, in Esher, Surrey, United Kingdom.
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Euston Hall
Euston Hall is a country house, with park by William Kent and Capability Brown, located in Euston, a small village in Suffolk located just south of Thetford, England.
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Exedra
In architecture, an exedra is a semicircular recess or plinth, often crowned by a semi-dome, which is sometimes set into a building's façade or is free-standing.
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Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
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Frederick, Prince of Wales
Frederick, Prince of Wales, KG (1 February 1707 – 31 March 1751) was heir apparent to the British throne from 1727 until his death from a lung injury at the age of 44 in 1751.
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Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
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George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English soldier and politician, and a key figure in the Restoration of the monarchy to King Charles II in 1660.
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Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano, also known as Giulio Pippi, (c. 1499 – 1 November 1546) was an Italian painter and architect.
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Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn.
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Godfrey Kneller
Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723), was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I. His major works include The Chinese Convert (1687; Royal Collection, London); a series of four portraits of Isaac Newton painted at various junctures of the latter's life; a series of ten reigning European monarchs, including King Louis XIV of France; over 40 "kit-cat portraits" of members of the Kit-Cat Club; and ten "beauties" of the court of William III, to match a similar series of ten beauties of the court of Charles II painted by his predecessor as court painter, Sir Peter Lely.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.
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Greenwich
Greenwich is an area of south east London, England, located east-southeast of Charing Cross.
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Hampton Court Palace
Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England, south west and upstream of central London on the River Thames.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Henry Pelham
Henry Pelham (25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 until his death.
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Henry VII Chapel
The Henry VII Lady Chapel, now more often known just as the Henry VII Chapel, is a large Lady chapel at the far eastern end of Westminster Abbey, paid for by the will of Henry VII.
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Holkham Hall
Holkham Hall is an 18th-century country house located adjacent to the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England.
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Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.
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Horse Guards (building)
Horse Guards is a historic building in the City of Westminster, London, between Whitehall and Horse Guards Parade.
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Houghton Hall
Houghton Hall is a country house in the parish of Houghton in Norfolk, England.
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Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones (15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant English architect (of Welsh ancestry) in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
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James Gibbs
James Gibbs (23 December 1682 – 5 August 1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects.
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James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (c. 16735 February 1721) was a British statesman and soldier who effectively served as Chief Minister between 1717 and 1721.
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James Thornhill
Sir James Thornhill (25 July 1675 or 1676 – 4 May 1734) was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition.
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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs.
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John Michael Rysbrack
Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack, original name Jan Michiel Rijsbrack (27 June 1694 – 8 January 1770), was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor.
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John Shackleton
John Shackleton (? - 14 or 16 March 1767, London) was a British painter and draughtsman who produced history paintings and portraits.
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Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England.
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Kirkthorpe
Kirkthorpe is a village within the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.
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Landscape architect
A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.
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Livorno
Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy.
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Matthew Brettingham
Matthew Brettingham (1699 – 19 August 1769), sometimes called Matthew Brettingham the Elder, was an 18th-century Englishman who rose from humble origins to supervise the construction of Holkham Hall, and become one of the country's best-known architects of his generation.
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National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, London, is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world.
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Oatlands Palace
Oatlands Palace is a former Tudor and Stuart royal palace which took the place of the former manor of the village of Oatlands in Surrey, England.
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Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Palladian architecture
Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from and inspired by the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).
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Peter Scheemakers
Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (16 January 1691 – 12 September 1781) was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London, Great Britain where his public and church sculptures in a classicist style had an important influence on the development of sculpture.
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Pope Alexander VIII
Pope Alexander VIII (22 April 1610 – 1 February 1691), born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was Pope from 6 October 1689 to his death in 1691.
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Prince Frederick's Barge
Prince Frederick's Barge is a British state barge.
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Principal Painter in Ordinary
The title of Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King or Queen of England or, later, Great Britain, was awarded to a number of artists, nearly all mainly portraitists.
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Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
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Raynham Hall
Raynham Hall is a country house in Norfolk, England.
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Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, (25 April 1694 – 4 December 1753) was an Anglo-Irish architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl".
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Richmond, London
Richmond is a suburban town in south-west London, The London Government Act 1963 (c.33) (as amended) categorises the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames as an Outer London borough.
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Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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Rousham House
Rousham House (also known as Rousham Park) is a country house at Rousham in Oxfordshire, England.
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Royal Mews
The Royal Mews is a mews (i.e. combined stables, carriage house and in recent times also the garage) of the British Royal Family.
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San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi
The Church of St.
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Sherborne House, Gloucestershire
Sherborne House is a large house in the village of Sherborne, Gloucestershire, England.
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Shotover
Shotover is a hill and forest in Oxfordshire, England.
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Shotover Park
Shotover Park (also called Shotover House) is an 18th-century country house and park in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England.
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St James's
St James's is a central district in the City of Westminster, London, forming part of the West End.
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St James's Palace
St James's Palace is the most senior royal palace in the United Kingdom.
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Stanwick Park
Stanwick Park (also known as Stanwick Hall) was a palladian country house at Stanwick St John in Yorkshire.
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Stowe House
Stowe House is a grade I listed country house in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England.
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The Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc.
The Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc. (CPSA) engages in research and other activities relating to the work of architect Andrea Palladio.
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Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon
Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon (12 November 1696 – 13 October 1746) was the son of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon and Mary Frances Fowler.
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Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation)
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, KB (17 June 1697–20 April 1759) was an English land-owner and patron of the arts.
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Timothy Mowl
Professor Timothy Mowl FSA (born 1951) is an architectural and landscape historian.
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Twickenham
Twickenham is a suburban area and town in Greater London, lying on the River Thames 10.2 miles west-southwest of the centre of London.
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Vicenza
Vicenza is a city in northeastern Italy.
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Wanstead House
Wanstead House was a mansion built to replace the earlier Wanstead Hall.
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.
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Whitehall
Whitehall is a road in the City of Westminster, Central London, which forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.
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William Hogarth
William Hogarth FRSA (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Wimbourne House
Wimbourne House (also known as Wimborne House or the William Kent House) is a large detached town house at 22 Arlington Street in St. James's, a district of the City of Westminster in central London.
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York Minster
The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, commonly known as York Minster, is the cathedral of York, England, and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe.
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