William ChambersEscocia, 1723–1796Drawing
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Museo de Victoria y Alberto
Londres, Reino Unido
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- 25 sept 2026
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This drawing may be the one exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain in 1765, no.204, 'Plan and elevation of a villa, composed in the style of Balthazar Peruzzi, of Sienna'. The backing sheet may have been trimmed to remove the fictive frame, which would account for the three laminated sheets of paper.
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Chambers was born in Sweden and died in London. He travelled widely, visiting China, and studied architecture at the Ecole des Arts, Paris, from 1749 and in Italy from 1750 to 1755. Many of his drawings from this period are contained in his important 'Franco-Italian' album, held in the V&A. Chambers moved to London in 1755 and published his influential Treatise on Civil Architecture in 1759. Chambers demonstrated the breadth of his style in buildings such as Gower (later Carrington) House and Melbourne House, London, in such country houses as Duddingston, Scotland, and in the garden architecture he designed for Wilton House, Wiltshire, and at Kew Gardens. He became head of government building in 1782, and in this capacity built Somerset House, London.
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