The National Gallery, by William Wilkins. 1832-38. London. Photograph 2005 George P. Landow. [You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
According to H. R. Hitchcock, "The long facade . . . extending across the top of Trafalgar Square, is excessively episodic" (p. 67).
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References
Henry Russell Hitchcock. Architecture Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Penguin, 1963.
Last modified 30 July 2005