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Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3)

Note 106 — DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINTS, Etc.

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To this architectural ornament he has an unquestionable right. His Lordship (besides other buildings) designed the Dormitory at Westminster School, the Assembly Room at York, Lord Harrington's at Petersham, and General Wade's in Cork Street. The latter, though ill-contrived and inconvenient, had so beautiful a front, that Lord Chesterfield said, "As the General could not live in it at his ease, he had better take a house over against it, and look at it."

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