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‘Queen Anne’ and France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Donald Bassett
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Extract

The relationship between the ‘Queen Anne’ movement and the French Renaissance Revival in the late Victorian period has been insufficiently recognized. The Loire-château and ‘Queen Anne’ styles emerged together about 1870 as two different responses to one set of circumstances. Both had their roots in buildings of the previous two decades — very different buildings for the most part, though perhaps there was more common ground than is usually admitted.

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Research Article
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Architectural History , Volume 24 , 1981 , pp. 83 - 91
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Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1981

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Notes

1 House architecture (London 1880), 1, 215.

2 See Saint, Andrew, Richard Norman Shaw (London 1976), p. 217 Google Scholar.

3 Remarks with illustrations on the domestic architecture of France from the accession of Charles VI to the demise of Louis XII (London 1853).

4 British Architect, 26 April 1878, p. 195. See also British Architect, 10 and 24 May, 7 and 21 June 1878, pp. 218, 241, 264, 290; 20 September, 11 and 18 October, 27 December 1878, pp. 112, 142, 254.

5 Architect, 30 September 1871, p. 164.

6 building News, 16 April 1875, p. 441.

7 See Building News, 27 February, 3 and 10 April, 29 May 1874, pp. 228, 364, 396, 584.

8 House architecture, 1, 248-50. It is interesting to find Stevenson by 1897 doing distinctly French-château designs for houses in South Street, Mayfair (Builder, 11 December 1897, p. 496; the change was remarked upon in Building News, 7 May 1897, p. 658). Robson also sold out to the other side (additions to the School Board Offices).

9 Builder, 6 October 1855, pp. 474-75.

10 R.I.B.A. Drawings Collection, Arc III (99-104).

11 Illustrated London News, 31 December 1853, p. 601.

12 Builder, 21 October 1854, pp. 546-47.

13 R.I.B.A. Drawings Collection, W8/27 (1-9). First drawing by Salvin.

14 Architect, 18 April 1874, pp. 220-21. The Maison Jean d’Alibert was, he believed, the major source. He also took the sunflowers of Aestheticism to be the emblems of the Sun King, Louis XIV.

15 ’French Renaissance’ with ‘something of the air of a glorified Queen Anne style’ (Building News, 17 May 1872, p. 401); ‘a representative building’ of the ‘Queen Anne’ style (Building News, 3 July 1874, p. 45); ‘Italian’ (Architect, 4 May 1872, p. 222). Builder, 11 May 1872, p. 358, would not risk a label. DNB, XII, Supp., p. 33, says Lady Marion was herself the designer.

16 Sauvageot, C., Palais, châteaux, hôtels et maisons de France (Paris 1862-67), IV, 13–31 Google Scholar.

17 Building News, 3 March 1876, pp. 218, 220.

18 Architect, 13 September 1873, p. 128. For second article see Architect, 20 September 1873, pp. 142-44.

19 Architect, 31 July 1874, pp. 62-66.

20 Architect, 8 November 1873, p. 238. See also Architect, 15 November 1873, p. 260, where Hugh Stannus said the choice of the prize was his own.

21 Building News, 10 July 1874, p. 73.

22 Sauvageot, op. cit., 11, 5-22.

23 Berty, op. cit., 1, pl. 43.

24 Daly, Motifs historiques d’architecture et de sculpture d’ornement: 1er serie, Décorations extérieures, 1, 1. For the Assézat balcony see vol. 1, Henri III, pl. 11.

25 Building News, 4 June 1875.

26 IUus. in Building News, 19 December 1879; Builder, 25 December 1880.

27 Berty, op. cit., 11, pl. 37.

28 Daly, op. cit., 1, 11.

29 Building News, 26 June 1874, p. 691.