Hospital Gardens
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Pine Fresh: From the Therapeutic Pine Forest to Toilet Duck
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, A View of the Pine Woods Above Cannes, 1869 (Watercolour and gumming with pen in brown and blue ink, and scraping out, over graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection) You read a more detailed account of this which was published by the Continue reading
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Leeds Infirmary Winter Garden
As with many other hospitals, by the mid-nineteenth century the old Leeds hospital was no longer able to cater for the city’s rapidly increasing population. To solve this problem George Gilbert Scott was appointed as the architect for a new hospital. In 1864, plans and an etching of Gilbert Scott’s designs were published in The Continue reading