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Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works (Dover Architecture) (1888)

by Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, Henry Hobson Richardson (Contributor)

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Here is the first important study of the leading 19th-century architect, a pioneer of Romanesque Revival. The work is filled with plans, photographs, drawings, and detailed discussions of all of Richardson's major buildings, including Trinity Church in Boston, Harvard Law School, and others. Written by the first female architectural critic, it is the foundation of all later research on Richardson.… (more)
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Richardson, Henry HobsonContributormain authorall editionsconfirmed
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To the pupils of Henry Hobson Richardson this book is dedicated, as a tesimony to the value of the assistance which they gave their master in his work and an expression of the belief that their own works will show, more convincingly than any words, the greatness of his qualities as an artist and a teacher.
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Henry Hobson Richardson was born at the Priestley Plantation in the Parish of St. James, Louisiana, on the 29th of September, 1838.
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Here is the first important study of the leading 19th-century architect, a pioneer of Romanesque Revival. The work is filled with plans, photographs, drawings, and detailed discussions of all of Richardson's major buildings, including Trinity Church in Boston, Harvard Law School, and others. Written by the first female architectural critic, it is the foundation of all later research on Richardson.

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