Sujet

Seventh Prize Design for the War and Foreign Offices (John Dwyer, Architect): Premium, £100, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Seventh Prize Design for the War and Foreign Offices (John Dwyer, Architect): Premium, £100, 1857. Government buildings in Whitehall, London. 'The...Offices have been united so as to form externally one important building...The War Office has five entrances, each communicating with spacious, lofty, and well-lighted corridors; the principal entrance being from Parliament-street...The Official Residence is placed fronting the parade in St. James's Park...Upon the first floor is placed a grand ball-room...with five reception-rooms en suite, with various approaches, the chief approach being through a circular conservatory, surmounted by a glass dome. Two drawing-rooms are reserved for the private use of the family...Mr. Dwyer met with able and important assistance in his labours from Mr. Henry Parsons...architect'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_474

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

21,9Mo (1,7Mo) / 32,0cm x 17,2cm / 3777 x 2028 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building London England government architecture politics British color political war century Britain newspapers press concept B&W office building Whitehall engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century City of Westminster The Print Collector Foreign Office Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN outside ministry of defence war department newspaper landscape Unknown John War Office 19th-century Department of War War and Foreign Offices John Dwyer Dwyer