Wimbridge, Edward

Designs for London's law courts, town halls and theatres show Victorian architecture as the profession saw it in the prints ...

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Designs for London's law courts, town halls and theatres show Victorian architecture as the profession saw it in the prints of Edward Wimbridge. A lithographer active in London and New York in the later nineteenth century, Wimbridge is represented by architectural plates of the late 1860s, many credited to Whiteman and Bass and The Building News. Schools and churches in Britain and Ireland appear beside the competition designs, and medieval buildings at Caen, Loches and Beauvais provide historical precedents. He usually drew or lithographed the work of named architects rather than designing the buildings himself, and his elevations, details and perspectives show how new proposals were presented to professional readers.

Designs for London's law courts, town halls and theatres show Victorian architecture as the profession saw it in the prints of Edward Wimbridge. A lithographer active in London and New York in the later nineteenth century, Wimbridge is represented by architectural plates of the late 1860s, many credited to Whiteman and Bass and The Building News. Schools and churches in Britain and Ireland appear beside the competition designs, and medieval buildings at Caen, Loches and Beauvais provide historical precedents. He usually drew or lithographed the work of named architects rather than designing the buildings himself, and his elevations, details and perspectives show how new proposals were presented to professional readers.

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