Robert Morris born in Twickenham

Twickenham

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, was one of the most influential 18th-century English

England

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writers on architecture. His patternbook plates have been identified as the principal design sources for several prominent houses of colonial America, including Brandon (begun 1765) in Prince George County, Virginia, and Battersea (begun 1768) in Petersburg, Virginia.

Essays

• An Essay in Defence of Ancient Architecture (1728)
• Lectures on Architecture (1734-6)
• An Essay on Harmony. As it Relates Chiefly to Situation and Building (1739)
• The Art of Architecture, a Poem. In Imitation of Horace's ‘Art of Poetry (1742)

Pattern books

• Rural Architecture (1750), retitled Select Architecture in later editions
• The Architectural Remembrancer (1751), retitled Architecture Improved in later editions