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is a vast difference in both respects between them and the drawings 

 prepared by Inigo Jones and John Webb, which will presently be 

 described. There are comparatively few details in the Thorpe and 

 Smithson collections, especially in the former. The designers con- 

 cerned themselves primarily with the mass of the building rather than 

 with its particular features. The plans in all the collections, both 



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early and late, are drawn with much care and many of them with 

 singular neatness. But the elevations and perspective views are not 

 of equal excellence. The latter are generally drawn by Thorpe as 

 bird's-eye views. They are in the nature of diagrams. There are, it 

 is true, hardly any perspectives among the architectural drawings of 

 Jones and Webb, but in the one notable instance the view of a front 

 for Whitehall Palace, at the British Museum the spectator is supposed 

 to be standing on the ground and not floating in the air (Fig. 19). In 

 Jones's designs for the scenery of masques there are many interesting 



