what It looks like now does show what it would have been like but the surroundings don't capture the way I imagine the victorians to have built it its too perfect and too white.
But I seem to love sketches just so much more, the colours and detail are really appreciated in pencil as it makes you more understanding of the amount of work and intricacy that goes into victorian architecture, how many individual beams and spindles that would have been carved into making the overall image look very regal.
this image clearly shows all the beautiful high dealings that were featured at the time, to maximise wall space as in large grand rooms like this the interior would be very different from the modern ways we would design it now, instead all the walls would be filled with painted imagery in large gold frame work of all the family and friends, to put it casually.
I love this image As well because to me this really sums up a huge difference in victorian architecture in comparison to todays. the amount of effort put into a library is gorgeous just as the workman ship would have been into the books. you can see similar shapes popping up in all of these images a very elegant arch. this is now seen to be very gothic and i believe thats due to its link with all the churches that were built in this time era with this architecture. therefor it is associated with old and 'creepy' things hence gothic. Truthfully looking at images like this makes me want to convert and old victorian library into my bedroom but maybe thats just me, we don't make buildings like this any more and it is a real shame that steal and glasswork took over from elaborately carved and furnished woodwork is no longer appreciated in the same way.
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