Arthur Stratton · Series VIII. Vestibules, Vaulted Loggias and Covered Approaches
Plate XLIX. The Vestibule at Somerset House
Plate XLIX. This shows the fine vestibule at Somerset House, London, and its relation to the inner halls and staircases can be seen in the key plan. Such a treatment has much to commend it from an architectural standpoint, as it is productive of fine perspective effect and the coupled columns combine strength with lightness.
Public-domain text (1925), transcribed from the archive.org OCR of the first edition and cleaned for reading: line-end hyphens rejoined, running heads, page numbers and the captions of the text figures removed, and obvious misreadings corrected. Stratton’s hundred plates are not reproduced, nor their engraved captions or the index to the illustrations; each Series is divided at his commentary on each plate, and the chapter titles follow the plate headings. The live figures are this book’s own.