Delineations of Fonthill

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Delineations of Fonthill

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James Wyatt
In John Rutter’s Delineations of Fonthill (1823), however, one can still experience some of the building’s grotesque, spectacular quality that made it architecturally notorious in the Romantic period. Other notable examples of Wyatt’s Gothic country houses include Lee Priory, Kent (1783–90), and Ashridge, Hertfordshire, completed (1808–18) by his…
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In John Rutter’s Delineations of Fonthill (1823), however, one can still experience some of the building’s grotesque, spectacular quality that made it architecturally notorious in the Romantic period. Other notable examples of Wyatt’s Gothic country houses include Lee Priory, Kent (1783–90), and Ashridge, Hertfordshire, completed (1808–18) by his…
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