Principal Buildings by Sir Christopher Wren

Principal Buildings by Sir Christopher Wren

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-277

Artist: Richardson, William

Date: 1841

State: 1/1

Size: 41.9 x 55.9 cm

Medium: Etching

Details Etching. Black ink on chine collé. Published by Alexander Hill, Edinburgh, 1841. Label on back: ‘Doig, Wilson and Wheatley. Fine Art Dealers and Printsellers Picture Restorers and Framers to His Majesty the King. 90 George Street, Edinburgh. Established 1840 ‘.
Description The print was usually sold with a key to the print numbered 1 to 62 (see below). The British Museum impression is lettered with the following information: ‘Christophoro Wren,/D.D.D./Carolus Robertus Cockerell.’, latin inscription and a note on the image over a further four lines, with production detail: ‘Drawn by C.R. Cockerell, R.A. & Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy of London.’, ‘Etched by William Richardson, 1841’ and publication line: ‘Published by Alexr. Hill, Publisher to the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Princes Street, Edinburgh.’The British Museum also adds: ‘The watercolour after which this print was made was acquired by the RIBA library in 2006. It already had 136 of his preliminary drawings for the project, which it acquired in 1994. Cockerell began gathering his material for this print as early as 1825. According to the notice in the 2006 Review of the Art Fund (NACF), p.109, only three impressions of the print are known, of which two are in the RIBA collection.’Cockerell (1788-1863) was a noted architect and archaeologist. In 1819 he was appointed the surveyor of St Paul’s Cathedral and his body is buried in the Cathedral’s crypt.
Other Collections
  1. British Museum: Prints and Drawings Collection. London, UK
  2. RIBA, British Architectural Library, London, UK
References
  1. Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionary of Artists. Paris, Gründ, 2006
  2. Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979

Key to buildings in Principal Buildings by Sir Christopher Wren

  1. St Paul’s Cathedral
  2. Chichester
  3. St Brides Church
  4. Westminster Church
  5. St Vedast, Foster Lane
  6. Christ’s Church
  7. All Souls College, Oxford
  8. All Souls College, Oxford
  9. St Benet, Gracechurch
  10.  Christ’s Hospital
  11. St Bartholomew-by-the- Exchange
  12. St Magnus
  13. St Peter’s, Cornhill
  14. St Michael’s Wood Street
  15. All Hallows, Bread Street
  16. Tower of St Michael, Queenhithe
  17. Marlborough House
  18. St Martin’s Ludgate
  19. Royal Hospital at Greenwich
  20. Winchester Palace
  21. St Dunstan-in-the-East
  22. St Lawrence, Jewry
  23. St Stephen’s, Walbrook
  24. Tower of Eden
  25. St Michaels, Queenhithe
  26. Buildings in Laurence Pountney Hill
  27. St James’ Westminster
  28. St Benet, Paul’s Wharf
  29. Buckingham House
  30. Hampton Court Palace
  31. St Nicholas, Cole Abbey
  32. Colonnade at Hampton Court
  1. St Michael Royal
  2. Entrance to Doctors’ Commons
  3. Temple Bar
  4. St Margaret Pattens
  5. St Mary Alderney
  6. St Mary-le-Bow
  7. Great Pillar or Monument
  8. Observatory at Greenwich
  9. St Anthony’s, Watling Street
  10. St Albans, Wood Street
  11. St Andrew’s Holborn
  12. St Michael’s Cornhill
  13. St George’s, Botolph Lane
  14. Morden College
  15. Old Custom House
  16. Chelsea Hospital
  17. St Margaret’s, Lothbury
  18. Tower of Christ Church College, Oxford
  19. St Edmund the King
  20. College of Physicians
  21. St Austin
  22. St Benet Fink
  23. Old Mansion House,  Cheapside
  24. St Matthews, Friday Street
  25. St James’s, Garlickhythe
  26. Theatre at Oxford
  27. Trinity College Chapel, Oxford
  28. St Mary Somerset
  29. Trinity College Library, Cambridge
  30. Buildings in Doctor’s Commons

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