HUGIJENOT ARTISTS DESIGNERS AND CRAYPSNEN IN GREAT ...

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ecplains that they were built by the corporation of Trinity House in
1696 for '28 decayed masters of Ship & Pylots or the widows of such.'
The prints were an advertisement for the good works of Trinity House.
Gribelin also produced a plan of Lincoln's Inn Fields as laid out
according to Mr. Cavendish Weldon. 22 Fourdrinier's engravings of London
topography included the rejected design for the Temple Bar by Inigo
Jones; 'The North West Prospect of Westminster Abby with the Spire
as design'd by Sir Christopher Wren'; 'The West Front & Steeple of
St. George's church in Southwark'; the section of St. Giles Church;
'His Majesty's New Building near White-hall Intended, for the Treasury
etc. As design'd by W.Kent 173k'; 'Her Majesty's Library in St.James
Park Finish'd Oct 29th, 1737', designed by the same architect, and a
'Design for the Mansion Rouse of the Rt. Honble the 14 Mayor by I.Ware,
1737.'
Fourdrinier alao worked for the Huguenot engineer Charles Labelye
(1705-1781) producing prints of Labelye's designs for the first
Westminster Bridge. Fourdrinier's prints record the gradual progress of
the bridge. The earliest, the design of the Timber Superstructure of
the Bridge, was published by James King in 1738. This was followed
by 'A Plan of Part of the Ancient city of WESTMINSTER from College Street
to Whitehall and from the Thames to St. Ja.nes' Park in which are delin-
eated the New Streets laid down and intended to be built by order of
the Right Honorable..the COMMISSIONERS for BUILDING a BR]IGE at
WESTMINSTER' published in 17k0. In 17k3 Fourdrinier engraved 'One of the
five Ribs of the Center on 'hich the Middle Arch of Westminster Bridge
was turned extending 76 feet Designed and Executed by James Ki .g.' This
was followed in 1751 by 'The Geometrical Elevation of the Norti Front of
Westminster Bridge', which included a plan of the foundations and a plan
of the superstructure, now of stone.(Plate 18).
Both Fourdrinier and Gribelin produced engravings of contemporary
events. Gribelin produced an engraving of the Mausoleum, erected in
Westminster Abbey to Wren's designs for the funeral obsequies of Queen
Mary, March 5th, 169k/5. Fourdrinier engraved the 'triumphal Arch Erected
and Painted on the West end of Westminster Hail for the Coronation of
his Majty King George the Second and Queen Caroline, October 11th, 1727
With the Ceremonie of the King's Champion attended by the Lord High
Constable and Earl Marshall'. The arch was designed by William Kent.
Even John Rocque advertised in 17k9 the publication of 'the fireworks made
at Paris, an account of the late peace concluded at Aix-.la-Chapelle, and -
having just received from Paris a plan of the same, with the platform,
which having the proper references will make the whole very plain. It