TY - JOUR
AU - MYLES, JANET
AB - across open ground . . . open and airy' researched and presented with a useful late 1850s for small houses or cottages and with fresh light colours. index, and a meticulous catalogue were very close to the fanciful mixture The work of these Spitalfields de- raisonne of the little-known buildings of of styles that characterized the Pictur- signers provides detailed stylistic the architect George Devey. Amongst esque. Here is an aspect of Devey that might have been analysed and information of very real importance to the 112 black and white illustrations the expanded because the evidence of his the student of eighteenth-century author includes photographs of his extant work, plans, watercolour eleva- work continually raises the question to design history. Miss Rothstein is able to highlight the precise stylistic differences tions and the boxed models that he what extent did he really move away between French and English design of made of houses, planned extensions, from the Picturesque approach to the this crucial period. Furthermore, she is stable blocks, and, most interestingly, vernacular to one that heralded the Arts able to show the exact nature of these photographs taken by Devey himself and Crafts approach that was rooted in 
TI - George Devey Architect, 1820–1886
JO - Journal of Design History
DO - 10.1093/jdh/5.1.98
DA - 1992-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/george-devey-architect-1820-1886-u2TejoP89e
SP - 98
EP - 99
VL - 5
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -