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Title: The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Law, Ernest, 1854-1930
Subjects: Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
Publisher: London : G. Bell and Sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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View of the East Front of William III.s New Palace of Hampton Com an engraving by Sutton
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1691) General Aspect of the New Building, 43 he and his royal master, who supervised the works through-out, intending it to be the principal front of the new building—facing as it does the Great Fountain Garden and thecanal and avenues of the House Park—resolved that itshould be decorated with more lavishness than the rest ofthe new structure. On this account the compartment inthe centre, which includes five out of the twenty-one bays,is all faced with stone, very richly ornamented and carved.On the ground floor, the entrance gates, occupying the threecentral bays, and leading from the cloisters of the new quad-rangle into the garden, are flanked by four rectangular stonepiers supporting a stone plinth, on which stand four flutedcolumns of the Corinthian order. These columns themselvesflank the three middle windows of the first floor, and sustaina large triangular pediment, finely sculptured in bas-relief.On each side are two pilasters of the same order supportinga continuation of

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