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3 unusual facts about Edward Rooker


Edward Rooker

Among Rooker's early works are a view on the Thames from Somerset House (1750), and a view of Vauxhall Gardens (1751), both after Canaletto; a view of the Parthenon for Dalton's 'Views of Sicily and Greece' (1751), and a section of St. Paul's Cathedral, decorated according to the

The headings of the 'Oxford Almanacks' from 1769 to 1775 were all the joint work of Edward and his son Michael.

Art historian Horace Walpole termed him the "Marc Antonio" of architecture.



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