
City Street
1876 · Black crayon and graphite on tan wove paper
19.5 × 12.3 cm (7 11/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago

William Burges was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoclassical architectural style and re-establish the architectural and social values of a utopian medieval England. Burges stands within the tradition of the Gothic Revival, his works echoing those of the Pre-Raphaelites and heralding those of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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