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regarded as the work of Jones himself. Aubrey mentions them 

 as his ; Kent published many of them as his ; Campbell 

 attributed to him those which he used, presumably on the 

 authority of Emmett. All subsequent writers have taken the 

 authorship for granted, although some have agreed that Jones's 

 hand is not visible in the finished designs of the palace, preserved 

 at Worcester College. This acquiescence in established opinion 

 is not surprising. The drawings had not been thoroughly 

 examined and catalogued, and in particular those at one library 

 had not been collated with those at the others. But when 

 recently the various collections came to be catalogued and 

 definitely arranged, when, by the aid of photographs, they were 

 brought together and compared one with another, very interesting 

 results were obtained. It soon became easy to differentiate 

 between Jones's draughtsmanship and Webb's. The result was 

 that it became apparent that nearly the whole of the drawings 

 should be assigned to Webb and very few to Jones. Nor would 

 logic allow a halt to be called there, and suffer us to say that 

 Webb may have been the draughtsman, but Jones was still the 

 designer. For many of the drawings are sketches with notes in 

 Webb's writing, which go to show how he developed his ideas as 

 he went along. It would be impossible in the space at command 

 to indicate fully which drawings are by Jones, which are by 

 Webb inspired by Jones, and which are of Webb's own design. 

 But in the latter category the evidence constrains us to place 

 the designs for the palace at Whitehall, the designs in the 

 second volume of Kent, and those for King Charles's block 

 at Greenwich. 1 



Although the pursuit of truth compels us to credit Webb 

 rather than Jones with the bulk of the designs in both of Kent's 

 volumes, admirers of the great master will probably not only 

 survive the shock, but will eventually be grateful to find that 

 the indifferent pieces of design which mar many of those 

 excellent conceptions need not be attributed to him. 



It would be impossible to pursue the subject fully here, but 

 the branch of it which refers to the palace of Whitehall is 

 sufficiently curious to justify a brief account. 



1 Those who desire to pursue the subject more fully are referred to two 

 papers by the author " The Burlington-Devonshire Drawings,' 1 in the 

 Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Third Series, vol. xviii., 

 No. 10, and " The Original Drawings for the Palace at Whitehall, attributed 

 to Inigo Jones," Architectural Revieit', June 1912. 

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