Design for the Northern Approach to the British Museum.
Chas FitzRoy Doll RBA Arch.t. [n.d., c.1911.] Pen & ink, pencil & watercolour. Sheet 440 x 680mm (17¼ x 26¾"). Laid on card, chips to edges. A very impressive architect's visualisation of his plan for the development of Bloomsbury between Torrington Square and the British Museum, with terraces designed in ''Flemish Franco-Gothic'' style in 1907. Chas FitzRoy Doll (1850-1929) was appointed Surveyor to the Bedford Estates in Bloomsbury and Covent Garden in 1885. He built the Russell Hotel and the Imperial Hotel, both Russell Square in 1898 & 1905.
[Ref: 63935] £750.00