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Design for the Northern Approach to the British Museum.
[1911].
Original watercolour and graphite drawing, signed in the title-cartouche, mounted on board, corners chipped.
441 by 684mm (17.25 by 27 inches).
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Charles Fitzroy Doll (1850–1929) English architect, was official Surveyor to the Bedford Estates in Bloomsbury and Covent Garden, from 1885. He designed the Hotel Russell (1898), which Pevsner described as a "vicious mixture of Art Nouveau Gothic and Art Nouveau Tudor". Doll also designed the "Flemish Franco-Gothic" terraces in Montague Place and Torrington Square (1907), shown here, leading to the Kind Edward (i.e. North) entrance to the British Museum. His son, Christian ...
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