NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
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Both James Boswell and Sir John Hawkins briefly discuss Johnson's relations with Gwynn in their biographies of Johnson. The fullest accounts of Gwynn's life and professional activities are those in the DNB and in H. M. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of English Architects, 1660-1830 (London, 1954), pp. 254-256. Both attribute the poem to him. I am much indebted throughout this introduction to Colvin for information on the architects mentioned in the poem.
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For an estimate of the significance of Gwynn's perceptions see chapter nine of John Summerson's Georgian London, rev. ed. (Harmondsworth, 1962). His perceptiveness was recognized by the early nineteenth century. Gregg International published a facsimile reprint of London and Westminster Improved in 1969.
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A work which shows Gwynn's awareness of the differences between the casual and perhaps well-read dilettante and the dedicated professional is his essay The Qualifications and Duty of a Surveyor (London, 1752). For discussions of the development of the architectural profession in eighteenth-century England, see Colvin, pp. 10-25, and, in spite of his excessively narrow definition of "profession," Barrington Kaye, The Development of the Architectural Profession in Britain, A Sociological Study (London, 1960), pp. 39-67.
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One indication of Gwynn's admiration for Robert Morris is the title page of The Art of Architecture. The elevation used as an ornament is not just modelled on a design by Morris; the plate used to print the elevation is the very plate, slightly reworked, which printed the design facing p. 209 in Morris's Lectures. Most of the original dimension lines have been obliterated, and the original pyramidal roof has been truncated.
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Epistle to Burlington, II. 17-18; Imitations of Horace, II, i, 185-186; The Dunciad in Four Books, III, 327-328.
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C. H. Collins and Muriel I. Baker, The Life and Circumstances of James Brydges, First Duke of Chandos (Oxford, 1949), pp. 115-120, 146, 300, 387-389.
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Colvin, p. 342.