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... ancient stables, but the present handsome range, he says, was built in ---- after a design by John Bennett Esq MP for Wiltshire (1773-1852). John Bennett earns an entry in Colvin's Dictionary of British Architects 1600- 1840 as an amateur architect of ...
... is the second set of criteria that are the hardest to meet . Daphne Bennett's Margot should be considered in their light. Margot is, of course, Margot Asquith, second wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, Liberal politician and British Prime Minister from 1908 ...
... similar association of textile with painting occurs in the Early Italian Room, where the of Hercules by Piero della Francesca hangs piece of Bargello work.) On one of tables in front of the painting is Van watercolour sketch after Titian, and there is also ...
... was, although the furniture survives. In 1921 the bed with its old moreen hangings stood against the west face opposite a tapestry, but now the bed with its conserved hangings has to go against the tapestry. A somewhat similar problem occurred in the ...
... In the Village, with its black- smith's shop where things hang up in the shadows and shadows hang up in the things are more than half poetry. Elizabeth Bishop does what admired Geor?.e Herbert for doing; she expresses 'a very deep emotion without straining ...
... Britain: and opinions on their trade from the likes of Bennett, Bradbury, Forster, Galsworthy, Geld- ing, Lessing, Pritchett, Shaw and Wells. What do authors talk about to one another? Money (Bennett and Wells are sure-footed about that), censorship (splendid ...
... Visitors can also visit the several hides that line the Laguna Acebuche, a 36ha artificial lake constructed on the advice of Herbert Axell, the former warden of the RSPB's Minsmere reserve. Those who want to see more of the area can do so by taking one of ...
... purpose and heart of this most unusual and imaginative travel-book. PAULINE FLICK THE WORLD OF THE NURSERY. By Colin White (The Herbert Press, £14.95) THE title is perhaps rather misleading, for this book is predominantly a review of art in the nursery; it covers ...
... with flowers, masks and scrolls, with ropework swing handle, the base engraved with a coat-of-arms 11~ in. diam., by Samuel Herbert & Co., London, 1755. 47 ozs. The arms are those of Reynes of Co. Buckingham impaling Audley or Cobham SUPPLEMENT -117 TO H ...
... big Palladian rooms added on to either end of the farmhouse, giving one big drawing room and another, marble-floored room to hang pictures. Between them runs an enfilade along the whole length of what became, for architectural effan exaggeratedly long Figure ...
... only two or at the most three crews were racing abreast? Over the stairs in the HQ building at the National Watersport Centre hangs a large colour rhotograph which, from the rowing point o view, is both intriguing and depressing. It is an aerial view of powerboat ...