Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the House of Commons' Buildings
Title:
Report from the Select Committee on the House of Commons' buildings : with the minutes of evidence taken before them. Ordered, by the house of Commons, to be printed, 13 May 1833.
Published / Created:
[London : House of Commons, 1833]
Physical Description:
88 p., 22 leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., plans (some col.) ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Minutes of the evidence given before the Select Committee. Contains testimony given by 13 architects for a new House of Commons on the old site. Includes plans and illustrations of design proposals by John Soane, Benjamin Wyatt, James Savage, William Kent, John P. Gandy, Adam Lee, Edward Blore, John Wilson Croker, Francis Goodwin, Rigby Wason, Decimus Burton, George Basevi, Jeffry Wyatville, George Allen, and Charles Hanbury-Tracy Sudeley.
Subject Terms:
Westminster Palace (London, England) -- History. | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons -- Buildings. -- History. | Architecture -- England -- London. | Legislative bodies -- England -- London -- History. | Buildings -- England -- London -- Plans. | Public buildings -- England -- London -- Plans. | Liverpool Architectural Society -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1833. | Lithographs -- 1833. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1833.
Contributors:
Basevi, George, 1794–1845. | Basire, James, 1796–1869, lithographer. | Blore, Edward, 1787–1879. | Burton, Decimus, 1800–1881. | Croker, John Wilson, 1780–1857. | Gandy, John P. (John Peter), 1787–1850. | Goodwin, Francis, 1784–1835. | Kent, William, 1685–1748. | Lee, Adam, approximately 1772–1843. | Savage, James, 1779–1852. | Soane, John, Sir, 1753–1837. | Sudeley, Charles Hanbury-Tracy, Baron, 1778–1858. | Wason, Rigby, 1798–1875. | Wyatt, Benjamin Dean, 1775–1855. | Wyatville, Jeffry, Sir, 1776–1840.