[273]. Hyde, H. M., ‘Wilde and his Architect’, Architectural Review, CIX (1951), 175-6.

[274]. It is characteristic of Shaw’s prestige in America and the rapidity with which architectural ideas crossed the ocean at this time that Shaw’s handsome perspective of the Alliance was published in America a few months earlier than in England.

[275]. White first approached Webb but, finding him too difficult to deal with, went to Shaw—a significant episode as regards both architects.

[276]. See Brandon-Jones, J., ‘Notes on the Building of Smeaton Manor’, Architectural History, I (1958), 31-59.


CHAPTER 13 - Notes

[277]. See Webster, J. C., ‘Richardson’s American Express Building’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, IX (1950), 21-4, and my article cited in Note 7 to Chapter [11].

[278]. See Richardson, H. H., Trinity Church, Boston, Boston, 1888.

[279]. 3 vols, Paris, 1868-73. It will be noted that the last volume of this appeared after the original competition drawings for Trinity Church were prepared.

[280]. The source was probably the book by Vogüé of which the second volume appeared only in 1877 (see Note [[196]], Chapter [8]). The motif first appeared in the North Easton Library, designed and begun in that year.