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The Georgian Group
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The Georgian Group is the charity for the protection and promotion of Georgian architecture and landscapes in England and Wales.
GG Short Talks: A Lady and her London Town House: Mrs Montagu's house at 23 Hill Street
Rosemary Baird Andreae discusses the London town house of Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800), 'Queen of the Bluestockings'. Her house at 23 Hill Street was famous as the setting for her renowned salons, which were attended by such figures as Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and Hannah More.
Rosemary Baird Andreae is an art and architectural historian who has published three books on eighteenth-century houses and their owners, collections and gardens.
Georgian Group Short Talks are a series of ten- to twenty-minute talks on a variety of subjects relating to the Georgian period. The Georgian Group promotes and protects the architecture and culture of the Georgian period in Engl...
Rosemary Baird Andreae is an art and architectural historian who has published three books on eighteenth-century houses and their owners, collections and gardens.
Georgian Group Short Talks are a series of ten- to twenty-minute talks on a variety of subjects relating to the Georgian period. The Georgian Group promotes and protects the architecture and culture of the Georgian period in Engl...
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GG Short Talks: The Architectural Picturesque
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Dr Rosemary Yallop discusses the 'architectural picturesque', a style which developed in the late eighteenth century as part of the Picturesque movement. Described by the architectural historian David Watkin as 'the major English contribution to European aesthetics', the architectural picturesque saw the shift from rational, measurable, cerebral ideas of beauty in architecture to the primacy of...
GG Short Talks: Carshalton House and a Luxury Bathroom
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Caroline Knight explores the history and architecture of the late seventeenth-century Carshalton House, Surrey, and its early eighteenth-century Water Tower, which houses among other things a fascinating Delft tile-lined plunge bath. Caroline Knight is an architectural historian and author of 'London's Country Houses'. She is a Trustee of the Georgian Group. Georgian Group Short Talks are a ser...
GG Short Talks: Verdmont: an (un)typical Bermudian Georgian house
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Harriet Wennberg explores the fascinating history of Verdmont, a fine eighteenth-century house in Bermuda. Built for the privateer John Dickinson, it is a rare example of the transitional type, retaining some features of an earlier seventeenth-century house while also anticipating the classicism of the eighteenth century. The house remains largely unchanged since it was built c.1710. Harriet We...
GG Short Talks: The Architectural Patronage of the Remarkable Teresa Cornelys
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Dr Amy Boyington explores the life of the remarkable eighteenth-century adventuress and businesswoman Teresa Cornelys (1723-97), who lived an exciting, but scandalous, life as an opera singer and impresario. She hosted lavish subscription balls at Carlisle House in Soho Square, London, where she also undertook substantial refurbishment of the house. Amy Boyington is an architectural historian a...
Georgian Group 2018 Lord Crathorne Lecture
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The Georgian Group's Annual Lord Crathorne Lecture for 2018, given at our AGM on 26th July 2018, was delivered by Dr Adriano Aymonino. Entitled 'Robert Adam and the birth of the 'True style of antique decoration'', Dr Aymonino's lecture considered the principles, sources and overall modus operandi of Adam's varied interior style.