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Little is known for certain of Halfpenny's life, but he seems to have been based in Richmond, then in Surrey, and nearby London, perhaps also spending a period based in Bristol.
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The country gentleman's pocket companion, and builder's assistant, for rural decorative architecture. Containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and ... in the Augustine, Gothick and Chinese taste,
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William Halfpenny
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Few buildings can certainly be ascribed to Halfpenny, and no major ones; then and now his main importance lies in his books, which were often reprinted, and copied by other authors. They reached British North America and were also influential there. He wrote and probably built in collaboration with his son John Halfpenny in the later years of his career. His books, of which he published a score, deal almost entirely with domestic architecture, and especially with country houses in those Gothic and Chinese fashions which were so greatly in vogue in the middle of the 18th century. His most important publications, from the point of view of their effect upon taste, were New Designs for Chinese Temples, in four parts (1750-1752); Rural Architecture in the Gothic Taste (1752); Chinese and Gothic Architecture Properly Ornamented (1752); and Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste (1750-1752). New Designs for Chinese Temples is a volume of some significance in the history of furniture, since, having been published some years before the books of Thomas Chippendale and Sir Thomas Chambers, it disproves the statement so often made that those designers introduced the Chinese taste into this country. Halfpenny states distinctly that "the Chinese manner" had been "already introduced here with success. " The work of the Halfpennys was by no means all contemptible. It is sometimes distinctly graceful, but is marked by little originality.
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Magnum in Parvo, or the Marrow of Architecture: Shewing How to Draw a Column With Its Base, Capital, Entablature, and Pedestal (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Magnum in Parvo, or the Marrow of Architectu...)
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The country gentleman's pocket companion, and builder's assistant, for rural decorative architecture. Containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and ... in the Augustine, Gothick and Chinese taste,
( The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration...)
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New designs for Chinese bridges, temples, triumphal arches, ... by Will. and John Halfpenny, ... Part II. ...
( The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration...)
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The Country Gentleman's Pocket Companion, and Builder's Assistant, for Rural Decorative Architecture
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- Art of Sound Building
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Magnum in Parvo, or the Marrow of Architecture: Shewing How to Draw a Column With Its Base, Capital, Entablature, and Pedestal (Classic Reprint)
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