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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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‘a Cab) deposited at Montague House, they formed the nucleus of the British Museum. The growing population of London, the growing wealth of the upper classes, the growing taste for art, that began to be manifested, found their highest expression in the architectural progress of the day, to this the recent revival of what is termed Queen Anne’s architecture bears witness. If Sir Christopher Wren had built nothing else but St. Paul’s Cathedral, his claim to immortality would have been sufficient; but we owe to him the Monument, Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals, the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, besides a large number of other edifices. Most of our noted country-houses, Blenheim included, were built by Van Ambrugh. On his merits, however, the opinion of his contemporaries was divided, as is recorded by a facetious epitaph of the day :— ‘Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Layed many a heavy load on thee.’ Together with the taste of architecture the taste for music developed, and spread its humanising influence. The mere fact that in 1710 Handel arrived and was welcomed in England, and that his sublime compositions, ‘Judas Maccabeus,’ the ‘ Messiah,’ and ‘Samson,’ were performed before and
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