Late 20th Century Architectural Engraving Prints from Vitruvius Britannicus After C. Campbell, Framed - a Pair

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Set of two C. Campbell architectural prints, exquisitely framed in a lightly distressed silver frame. In excellent condition.
Both frames … Read more Set of two C. Campbell architectural prints, exquisitely framed in a lightly distressed silver frame. In excellent condition.
Both frames have the same measurements but they run in different directions, one hangs horizontally and the other verticaly.

Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian style. For most of his career, he resided in Italy and England. As well as his architectural designs he is known for Vitruvius Britannicus, three volumes of high-quality engravings showing the great houses of the time.

His major published work, Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect... appeared in three volumes between 1715 and 1725. This was the first architectural work to originate in England since John Shute's Elizabethan First Groundes. In the empirical vein, it was not a treatise but basically a catalogue of design, containing engravings of English buildings by Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren, as well as Campbell himself and other prominent architects of the era. See less