Architectural parallels; Or The Progress Of Architecture In England, Through The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Exhibited In A Series Of Parallel Examples, Selected From The Following Abbey Churches: Fountains. Kirkstall. Furness. Roche. Byland. Hexham. Jervaulx. Whitby. Rievaulx. Netley. Bridlington. Tintern. St. Mary's, York. Guisborough. Selby. Howden. By Edmund Sharpe, M.A., Architect, Formerly Travelling Bachelor Of Arts For The University Of Cambridge, And Scholar Of St. John's Coll.

Edmund Sharpe

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/2268

Author

Imprint

London:: John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row., MDCCCXLVIII.

Physical Description

[4] f., [121] pl.; 556 mm.

General Note

The plates carry no numbers but are assigned numbers 1-121 in the List Of Plates.

Contents

[T.p., dedic.] - Architectural Parallels. List Of Plates (A.) (B.) - [Plates].

Responsibility Note

Most plates are signed as drawn on stone by R.J. Withers, T. Austin, E.G. Paley, Haworth Fielding or Edmund Sharpe, and as lithographed by Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor under the direction of E. Sharpe. But some views are signed as drawn by E. Sharpe and lithographed by E.G. Paley; the first plate is signed as engraved by J.S. Heaviside; and one plate is signed as lithographed by Day & Haghe.

Each plate carries the imprint of the publisher, John Van Voorst.

The work is dedicated by Edmund Sharpe to the Earl of Derby.

References

R. Jolley, Edmund Sharpe (1809-77): a study of a Victorian architect [dissertation, Univy. Liverpool] (1966).

Summary Note

The plates show plans, elevations, sections, views, architectural details and sculpture. In the same year was published Sharpe's Supplement To "Architectural Parallels," Containing The Full-Sized Mouldings Of The ... Abbey Churches.

This was the first of several works which Sharpe published on Gothic architecture.

Binding Note

19th-century blue half morocco, blue watered-cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Architectural Parallels E. Sharpe' and 'R.A.'

Subject

Architecture - Architecture details - Sculpture - Churches - Abbeys - Great Britain - History - 12th century - 13th century - Gothic
Art history - Plans - Elevations - Sections - Views - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

Edmund Sharpe, draughtsman
R. J. Withers, draughtsman, lithographer
T. Austin, draughtsman, lithographer
Edward Graham Paley, draughtsman, lithographer
Haworth Fielding, draughtsman, lithographer
J. S. Heaviside, engraver
John van Voorst, publisher
Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, dedicatee
Maclure, Macdonald and Macgregor, lithographic printer
Day and Haghe (London), lithographic printer