Castles in air. Buildings imagined up in living color by Sir Jeffry Wyatville. British. Living from 1766 to 1840, Wyatville was an architect and garden designer. He did design concepts for Windsor Castle, working for King George IV.

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“Design for a Mansion for the First Earl of Yarbrough, Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire.” 1824. English. Pencil, pen with black ink and colored washes on wove paper. Photo credit: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Collections of the Royal Academy of Arts. Image © Royal Academy of Arts. Artwork itself in the public domain. via https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/design-for-a-mansion-for-the-first-earl-of-yarborough-brocklesby-park
“Windsor Castle: The south front of the Upper Ward before and after the proposed remodelling”. 1824. English. Pen and ink with wash on paper. Royal Collection Trust. Image © Royal Collection Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/918431/windsor-castle-the-south-front-of-the-upper-ward-before-and-after-the-proposed
Two designs for a villa. 1799. Signed on the lower left. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/1000-ways-seeing-l14313/lot.890.html
Keeper’s Lodge, Windsor Park; view of lodge seen between two oak trees, palings on either side, two women walking along path leading to foreground. 1766-1840. British. On paper. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum. Fair use license. via https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/270526001
“The West Front of Chatsworth House.” ca. 1818-1838. English. Image © 2021 Chatsworth House Trust. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.chatsworth.org/news-media/news-blogs-press-releases/blogs-from-the-archives/the-6th-duke-s-diaries-building-work-at-chatsworth/

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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