The Builder's Companion, and Workman's General Assistant; Demonstrating, After the most easy and practical Method, All the Principal Rules of Architecture, from The Plan to the Ornamental Finish; Illustrated with a greater Number of useful and familiar Examples than any Work of that Kind hitherto published;...The Whole correctly engraved on 92 Folio Copper-Plates,...The Third Edition, With many Improvements and Additions by the Author.
published 1769
William Pain
Author, British, c. 1730 - c. 1794
Artwork overview
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Medium
1 vol: ill: 88 engravings (4 folding, rest full-page, versos blank), unsigned
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 38.6 x 24.1 cm (15 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
overall size (volume closed): 39.6 x 25.5 x 2.4 cm (15 9/16 x 10 1/16 x 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1983.49.39
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
bookplate of John Henry Warre; Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1983.
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Bibliography
1998
Middleton et al. 1998, no. 48.