Chronology Entry
Year
1772
Text
Brief von Horace Walpole an William Mason. (25 May).
Walpole's response to the Dissertation by William Chambers within weeks of its publication : "I have read Chamber's book. It is more extravagant than the worst Chinese paper, and is written in wild revenge against Brown". The book "is laughed at and it is not likely to be adopted, as I expected, for nothing is to tempting to fools, as advice to deprave taste".
Walpole's response to the Dissertation by William Chambers within weeks of its publication : "I have read Chamber's book. It is more extravagant than the worst Chinese paper, and is written in wild revenge against Brown". The book "is laughed at and it is not likely to be adopted, as I expected, for nothing is to tempting to fools, as advice to deprave taste".
Mentioned People (2)
Chambers, William (1)
(Göteborg 1723-1796 London) : Architekt, Gartenarchitekt, Autor
Walpole, Horace
(London 1717-1797 London) : Schriftsteller, Kunsthistoriker, Politiker, Gelehrter
Subjects
Art : Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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Literature : Occident : Great Britain
Documents (2)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1950 | Bald, R.C. Wir William Chambers and the Chinese garden. In : Journal of the history of ideas ; vol. 11, no 3 (1950). | Publication / Cham4 |
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| 2 | 1999 | Porter, David. From Chinese to Goth : Walpole and the gothic repudiation of chinoiserie. In : Eighteenth-century life ; vol. 23, no 1 (1999). | Publication / Walp2 |
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