Hampton Court Palace <East Molesey> [Hrsg.]; Wren Society [Hrsg.]; Wren, Christopher [Bearb.]: The ... volume of the Wren Society (Band 4): Hampton Court Palace, 1689 - 1702: original Wren drawings from the Sir John Soane's Museum and All Souls collections (Oxford, 1927)

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GRINLING GIBBONS TABLET, AT CLIFTON-ON-TEME, 1689
Facsimile of Original Drawing for the Tablet, with Contract and Receipt on Back

which can be traced back to the work that Wren wouid remember seeing at Paris and
the Vilias that he visited while in France in the year 1665.

On the Park front elevation, it will be noticed that Wren has four windows in the
advanced wings, a peculiarity which exists in the Privy Garden front as built. The
clumsy pediment cutting across the attic windows also mars the Park front as actually
built. The statement in the T*%7^72/%/2%, ' being a part only of the Surveyor's Design for a
new Palace there', is fully borne out. A glance at the plan, as existing, shows how
cleverly the old Tudor Palace has been masked by two sides of a square, as if Wren had
cut his original design on the diagonal and used one half of it.

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The two line drawings on page 13 from the Soane CoIIection refer to the alterations
made by Wren to the Tudor Chapel in the Palace. It is unfortunate that no further
record of this part of the work appears to exist, as there are a number of items relating
to it in the early Building Accounts.