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INDIAINDIA
Cathedral of S. Thomé, Madras, India, C16thJ F Butler, 'India and the Far East', in Gervis Frere-Cook [ed], The Art and Architecture of Christianity
(Cleveland [Ohio] 1972 [British edition, 1972, as The Decorative Arts of the Christian Church]), p 256, fig 2
Holy Cross Church, Verna, Goa (1568)
Later reredos
BB & H Lewis
St Alex, Curtorim,
rebuilt 1647 (1597)
BB & H Lewis
Church at Quilon, Kerala, south of Cochin, pre-1600Church near Ajengo, south of Cochin, C18th
BB & H Lewis
detail of the Schoolhouse in Admiralgade, Tranquebar,
completed 1741
Sten Nilsson, European Architecture in India 1750-1850 (London 1968), pl 4
Factory of the United East India Company in Bengal, painting by H Van Schuylenburg, 1665
Dutch Arts, June 1990, no page
MACAUMACAU
view of the central part of Macau from Penha Hill, anonymous painting, late C18thG C C Tsang, Historical Pictures (2nd ed, [Hong Kong Museum of Art] Hong Kong 1994 [1991]), p 54
Church of St Paul, Macau, 1602 (destroyed by fire 1835)Tsang, Historical Pictures, p 66
St Paul, Macao
the surviving façade
Change, December 2002 – January 2003, p 35
LATIN AMERICALATIN AMERICA
Sao Francisco de Assis, Ouro Preto, Brazil, by Antonio Francisco Lisboa, 2nd half of C18thSao Joao d'el Rei, Sao Francisco, by A F Lisboa and F de Lima Cerqueira, 1774-1804
Toman, Baroque, p 121; Kubler, Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal, pl 62
Sao Francisco de Assisi,
Salvador de Bahia, Brazil,
1710
the chancel
MUAS 1,881
the World in 1715Colin McEvedy, Penguin Atlas of
Modern History, pl 61
Antigua University, Guatemala: courtyard, 1763Miles Lewis
Antigua University, Guatemala
courtyard, 1763detail of arcading
Miles Lewis
Santa Clara, Antigua, Guatemala, rebuilt 1734, close view of the façade
Miles Lewis
Santa Clara, Antigua, Guatemala, rebuilt 1734, detail of the façadeMiles Lewis
Convent of La Recoleccion, Antigua,
1701-25detail of ‘Mayan false
arch’ vaulting
Miles Lewis
Xecul, Guatemala: San Andres and upper churchMiles Lewis
San Andres Xecul: detail of the façadeMiles Lewis
Church of Ocotlan, Puebla, Mexico, C18th
Colóquio Artes, 60 (March 1984), p 33
S Francisco de Asis, Ranchos de Taos, 1772Church at Taos Pueblo,
New Mexico, ?1704
Jeff TurnbullMUAS 14,456
adobe building near San Miguel de la Escalada, Spain
Miles Lewis
oldest House in Santa Fé, New Mexico, ?C16thJeff Turnbull
Governor's Palace, Santa Fé, New Mexico, 1610-1614Jeff Turnbull
Governor's Palace, San Antonio, Texas, 1749MUAS 14,464
San Xavier del Bac, south of Tucson, Arizona, 1776-97
Rexford Newcomb, The Franciscan Mission Architecture of
Alta California (1916), pl V
missions on the Californian coast
based on Newcomb, Franciscan Mission Architecture, pl I
San Luis Rey de Francia, Oceanside, California, 1811-15, dome finished 1829; ]San Diego de Alcalá, 1808-13; San Miguel, Arcangel, 1816-18, the 'corridor'
Newcomb, Franciscan Mission Architecture, pl XXVI; MUAS
14,461; Newcomb, pl II
adobe house, California, 1846MUAS 14,471
Nahant Hotel, Massachusetts, 1822-3
Thomas Larkin house, Monterey, 1835-7
Harold Kirker, 'The Role of Hispanic Kinships in Popularizing the
Monterey Style in California, 1836-1846', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XLIII, 3
(October 1984), p 251
Alpheus B Thompson house, Santa Barbara,
completed 1836Lugo adobe, Los
Angeles county, 1844Sanchez adobe, Pacifica, 1846
Kirker, 'The Role of Hispanic Kinships', pp 254, 252
THE DUTCH EAST INDIESTHE DUTCH EAST INDIES
CHRISTCHURCH MISSING
MalaccaDutch Fort, St John’s Hill, c
1670; Stadthuys warehouses, c 1670; Christchurch, 1753,
C19th porch MUAS 16,197, 16,198, 16,201
typical Malacca house, Bandar Hilir, Malacca
typical Dutch house, C18th),
Malacca
MUAS 16,174, 16,200
typical house, near the Government Centre, Jakarta, IndonesiaMUAS 8,754
SINGAPORESINGAPORE
Fu Kien Temple, South Bridge Road, Singapore, 1841Miles Lewis
Fu Kien Temple, Singapore: detail of the roof carpentryMiles Lewis
Fu KienTemple,
Singaporeinterior
Miles Lewis
Fu Kien Temple, Singapore: encaustic tile pavingMiles Lewis
Tan Yeok Nee'shouse, Singapore,
1885view &
interior courtyard
MUAS 16,222,16,224
Sri Mariammam Temple,Singapore
detail of main tower
Miles Lewis, MUAS16,185
Sri MariammamTemple
pavilion details
Miles Lewis
Jamae Mosque, South Bridge Road, Singapore (1826)
rebuilt 1830s
Miles Lewis
St Andrew's Anglican
Cathedral, Singapore, by McPherson & McNair, 1856
Miles Lewis
St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore
interior
Miles Lewis
SOUTH AFRICASOUTH AFRICA
Baroque farmhouse at Illmitz, Burgenland,
Austria'Meerlust' homestead, South Africa, C18th
'Vergelegen', Hottentot's Holland, South Africa, 1701
MUAS 14,734; 5,918; 16,749
'La Provence' farmhouse, Fransch Hoek, 1756
'Rhone' farmhouse, Simondium, 1795
MUAS 16,756; 16,753;16,754; 16,755
'Kronendaal', Hout Bay, Cape, c 1800MUAS 15,903
High Street, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1820s, with St George's Anglican Church, c1824
Ronald Lewcock, Early Nineteenth Century Architecture in South Africa (Cape Town 1963), pl VIII
CANADACANADA
Château Vaudreuil, Québec (residence of the French Governor), by Gaspard Chaussegros de Léry, 1723, destroyed 1805: view in 1802
Alan Gowans, Looking at Architecture in Canada (Toronto 1958), p 47
streets in Montreal
unspecified
Notre Dame Street, view by John Lambert, 1810
MUAS 3,969; M K Cullen, 'Highlights of Domestic Building in Pre-
Confederation Quebec and Ontario as seen through the Travel
Literature from 1763 to 1860', APT Bulletin, XIII, 1 (1981), p 82
Barn St Pierre, Île d'Orléans, PQ, C19thMUAS 3,982
Ralph Earl, 'Houses and Shop of Elijah Boardman’, Milford Green,
Connecticut, 1795-6: details Elizabeth Johns et al, New Worlds from Old:
19th Century Australian and American Landscapes (Canberra 1998), p 222
NORTHNORTH--EASTERN UNITED STATESEASTERN UNITED STATES
the Capitol, Williamsburg,
Virginia (founded 1699), 1701-1705, recreated 1930s
MUAS 5,014
the Capitol, Williamsburg: plans
Morrison, Early American Architecture, p 459
Governor's house, Williamsburg, 1706-20, recreated 1930s
front & rear
Jeff Turnbull; MUAS 1,743
College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg (founded 1693)
1695-1702, since changed
old view with Brafferton Building
and President's house, engraved
c1740modern photo
MUAS 5,013 Country Life, CL, 3877 (30
September 1971), p 810
Longfellow House, Massachusetts, 1759-
Eltham Lodge, London, by Hugh
May, c1664
MUAS 1756; John Summerson, Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (4th ed, Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1963
[1953]), pl 70
Brick Market, Newport, RI, by Peter
Harrison, 1761-2
Gallery of Somerset House, London, by
Jones & Webb, 1661-2
Robert Fermor-Hesketh [ed], Architecture of the British Empire
(London 1986), p 111Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus,
1715
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, by Andrea Palladio, from 1566
design from Edward Hoppus, Andrea Palladio's Architecture, 4th book, 1736
garden building for Sir Charles Hotham, by William Kent
Kent, Designs of Inigo JonesBridenbaugh, Peter Harrison, fig 16.
Isaac Ware, Designs of Inigo Jones (London 1735), pl 43
Redwood Library, Newport RI, by Harrison, 1749: front & back
design from Hoppus
Fermor-Hesketh, Architecture of the British Empire, p 112; Bridenbaugh,
Peter Harrison, fig 19
Redwood Library, Newport RI, by Harrison, 1749Toman, Neoclassicism, p 57
St Michael's Church, Charles Town, South Carolina, probably by Peter Harrison, 1752-61; St Bride’s, Fleet Street, London, steeple by Christopher Wren, 1701-3
MUAS 1,757; Miles Lewis
rotunda, by James Gibbs summerhouse on Abraham Redwood's estate, Newport, RI, by Peter Harrison
James Gibbs, Book of Architecture, 1728, pl 80; Bridenbaugh, Peter Harrison, pl 21
Derby house, Salem, Massachusetts, unexecuted design by Charles Bullfinch, 1795Desmond Guiness & J T Sadler, Palladio: a western Progress (New York 1976), p 79
Derby house, SalemGeneral Wade's house, Piccadilly, by Lord Burlington,
1723Guiness, Palladio, pp 79, 78
JAMES GIBBSJAMES GIBBS
Design of a house for gentleman in Dorsetshire, by James GibbsMount Airey, Virginia, probably by John Ariss, c 1755-8: south front & plan
James Gibbs, Book of Architecture, 1728, pl 58;Morrison, Early American Architecture, p 354; Summerson, Architecture in Britain, p 337
the White House, Washington, DC, by James
Hoban, 1792-1800
Geoffrey Broadbent [ed], Neo-Classicism(London 1980), p 16; MUAS 4,505
elevation of a proposed house, Seacombe Park, Hertfordshire, by James Gibbs, before 1739the White House, Washington
James Gibbs, A Book of Architecture containing Designs of Buildings and
Ornaments (London 1739), pl 35; Broadbent, Neo-Classicism, p 16
St Gregory the Illuminator, Armenian Church, Singapore, by
G D Coleman, 1835
Miles Lewis
St Martin-in-the-Fields, round
design, by Gibbs, c 1720-
1721section & plan
Gibbs, Book of Architecture, pl 71
Church of St Andrew, Madras, Indiaby Thomas Fiott de Havilland, 1818-20
B B & H Lewis
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, round design, by James Gibbs, 1721
Gibbs, A Book of Architecture, pl 14
Church of St Andrew, Madras, erected by de Havilland, 1818-1820: contemporary view by John Gantz, from De Havilland's book on the church
Country Life, 17/24 December 1970, p 1191
St Andrew, Madrasdetail of portico
Nilsson, European Architecture in India, pl 58
St Andrew, Madras
east end & detail of a lion
Nilsson, European Architecture in India,
pls 59B, 59A
Church of St Andrew, Madras, Indiaby Thomas Fiott de Havilland, 1818-20
B B & H Lewis
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, round design, by James Gibbs, 1721
Gibbs, A Book of Architecture, pl 14
St Martin-in-the-Fields: designs for the steepleLittle, Life and Works of Gibbs, pls 9, 29
Independent Presbyterian Church, Savannah, GA, by J H Greene 1817-19 (rebuilt)First Baptist Meeting House, Providence, RI, by Joseph Brown, 1774-5
Country Life, CLVII, 4044 (2 January 1975), p 6; Morrison, Early American Architecture, p 462
First Baptist Meeting House, Providence, RI
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Morrison, Early American Architecture, p 463
Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 146B
St Mary's, Fort St George, Madras,
1680, with spire of 1759
one of the steeple designs for St
Martin-in-the-Fields, by Gibbs, c 1721
.B B & H Lewis Gibbs, Book of
Architecture, pl 29
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, by Gibbs, 1721-6Cathedral of St George, Madras, by Colonel James Caldwell, consecrated 1816
Miles Lewis; B B & H Lewis
St Martin-in-the-FieldsCenter Church, New Haven, Connecticut, 1812-15
Little, James Gibbs, pls 10, 11
St John's Church, Calcutta, by James Agg, 1784-7St Andrew's Church, Tank Square, Calcutta, 1815
Nilsson, European Architecture in India, pl 55; MUAS 10,348
Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore, by Denis McSwinney, 1843
MUAS 16,214
BUNGALOWS & VERANDAHSBUNGALOWS & VERANDAHSDakDak bungalow, Lower Himalayas, 1847bungalow, Lower Himalayas, 1847
R W Winter,R W Winter, The California BungalowThe California Bungalow (Los Angeles 1980), p 19(Los Angeles 1980), p 19
Bungalows, Bangalore, by Janet PottMUAS 17,951
guest bungalow attached to the residence of the
Governor of Maharashtra, Malabar Point,
Bombay
Bungalow in Fraser Road, Patna, early
C19th
Nilsson, European Architecture in India, pls
92A, 92B
Bungalow at Bangalore, mid-C19thFermor-Hesketh, Architecture of the British Empire, p 61
'A Canadian Residence' by J E Alexander, 1833Cullen, 'Domestic Building', p 27
'American Cottages‘
John Plaw, Ferme Ornée,1795
Experiment Farm, Parramatta, New South Wales, c 1835Miles Lewis
cottages at Kumarhati in the Himalayas, Punjab
MUAS 8866, 8,867
THE CONCEPT OF EMPIRETHE CONCEPT OF EMPIRE
High Court, Calcutta, by Walter Granville, completed 1872
Victoria Terminus, Bombay, by F W Stevens, 1887
Morris, Stones of Empire, p 112, 135
Moore Market, Madras, India, by R E Ellis of the Public Works Department, late C19th
Fermor-Hesketh, Architecture of the British Empire, p 120
St John's College, Agra, India, C19th
Government Secretariat Building,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by A C
Norman of the PWD, 1896
MUAS 10,346; 6,658
Railway Station and
Administrative Building, Kuala
Lumpur
Fermor-Hesketh, Architecture of the British
Empire, p 26
inclusive colonisers (Portuguese) v exclusive colonisers (Dutch, British)
all colonisers adapt to local materials and climate
the founding style becomes dominant
intercolonial characteristics
the late C19th concept of empire