The Royal Pavilion
From the Brighton Aquatints suite. Hand coloured edition of 55.
Notes by the artist: The Royal Pavilion.
Built for George IV when Prince Regent. First he enlarged a villa on the site, till it became a prepossessing Regency house. Then he commissioned Porden to build stables (now the Dome) and a riding house in Indian style, and soon found that these overpowered his charming seaside villa. Then he saw Cockerell's wonderful new house at Sezincote, in Gloucestershire, and envied its Hindu fancifulness. Repton laid out the gardens there. The Regent commissioned Repton to design the new Pavilion, but money ran out. It was completed in 1823 by John Nash, who designed Regent Street, Regent's Park crescents and terraces, and a good many other London buildings. It has been called all kinds of rude names by generations of residents and visitors, but most people start by laughing and later develop a great affection for it. It has an extravagant beauty, and in some ways reflects exactly the effervescent spirit of the great holiday resort itself in its most hilarious and human moods. It is at once acutely vulgar and extremely sensitive. It now belongs to the Brighton Corporation, and is carefully preserved. (You can go into it for 6d.) Inside, there is a fine collection of early prints and pictures of Brighton, and it has not been shorn of all its internal beauties - such as the palm-leaf dome decorations and the Chinese wallpapers. A good deal of its original furniture is now in Buckingham Palace. During the war it was used as a hospital for wounded Indian troops, who must have found it only vaguely like home.
Notes by the artist: The Royal Pavilion.
Built for George IV when Prince Regent. First he enlarged a villa on the site, till it became a prepossessing Regency house. Then he commissioned Porden to build stables (now the Dome) and a riding house in Indian style, and soon found that these overpowered his charming seaside villa. Then he saw Cockerell's wonderful new house at Sezincote, in Gloucestershire, and envied its Hindu fancifulness. Repton laid out the gardens there. The Regent commissioned Repton to design the new Pavilion, but money ran out. It was completed in 1823 by John Nash, who designed Regent Street, Regent's Park crescents and terraces, and a good many other London buildings. It has been called all kinds of rude names by generations of residents and visitors, but most people start by laughing and later develop a great affection for it. It has an extravagant beauty, and in some ways reflects exactly the effervescent spirit of the great holiday resort itself in its most hilarious and human moods. It is at once acutely vulgar and extremely sensitive. It now belongs to the Brighton Corporation, and is carefully preserved. (You can go into it for 6d.) Inside, there is a fine collection of early prints and pictures of Brighton, and it has not been shorn of all its internal beauties - such as the palm-leaf dome decorations and the Chinese wallpapers. A good deal of its original furniture is now in Buckingham Palace. During the war it was used as a hospital for wounded Indian troops, who must have found it only vaguely like home.
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From the Brighton Aquatints suite. Hand coloured edition of 55.
Notes by the artist: The Royal Pavilion.
Built for George IV when Prince Regent. First he enlarged a villa on the site, till it became a prepossessing Regency house. Then he commissioned Porden to build stables (now the Dome) and a riding house in Indian style, and soon found that these overpowered his charming seaside villa. Then he saw Cockerell's wonderful new house at Sezincote, in Gloucestershire, and envied its Hindu fancifulness. Repton laid out the gardens there. The Regent commissioned Repton to design the new Pavilion, but money ran out. It was completed in 1823 by John Nash, who designed Regent Street, Regent's Park crescents and terraces, and a good many other London buildings. It has been called all kinds of rude names by generations of residents and visitors, but most people start by laughing and later develop a great affection for it. It has an extravagant beauty, and in some ways reflects exactly the effervescent spirit of the great holiday resort itself in its most hilarious and human moods. It is at once acutely vulgar and extremely sensitive. It now belongs to the Brighton Corporation, and is carefully preserved. (You can go into it for 6d.) Inside, there is a fine collection of early prints and pictures of Brighton, and it has not been shorn of all its internal beauties - such as the palm-leaf dome decorations and the Chinese wallpapers. A good deal of its original furniture is now in Buckingham Palace. During the war it was used as a hospital for wounded Indian troops, who must have found it only vaguely like home.
Notes by the artist: The Royal Pavilion.
Built for George IV when Prince Regent. First he enlarged a villa on the site, till it became a prepossessing Regency house. Then he commissioned Porden to build stables (now the Dome) and a riding house in Indian style, and soon found that these overpowered his charming seaside villa. Then he saw Cockerell's wonderful new house at Sezincote, in Gloucestershire, and envied its Hindu fancifulness. Repton laid out the gardens there. The Regent commissioned Repton to design the new Pavilion, but money ran out. It was completed in 1823 by John Nash, who designed Regent Street, Regent's Park crescents and terraces, and a good many other London buildings. It has been called all kinds of rude names by generations of residents and visitors, but most people start by laughing and later develop a great affection for it. It has an extravagant beauty, and in some ways reflects exactly the effervescent spirit of the great holiday resort itself in its most hilarious and human moods. It is at once acutely vulgar and extremely sensitive. It now belongs to the Brighton Corporation, and is carefully preserved. (You can go into it for 6d.) Inside, there is a fine collection of early prints and pictures of Brighton, and it has not been shorn of all its internal beauties - such as the palm-leaf dome decorations and the Chinese wallpapers. A good deal of its original furniture is now in Buckingham Palace. During the war it was used as a hospital for wounded Indian troops, who must have found it only vaguely like home.
