The History of Henry Esmond
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The History of Henry Esmond is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852. The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of
First edition title page
Beatrix Knighting Esmond by Augustus Leopold Egg (1857, Tate)
William Makepeace Thackeray by Jesse Harrison Whitehurst crop
British Queen Anne Revival architecture, also known as Domestic Revival, is a style of building using red brick, white woodwork, and an eclectic mixture of decorative features, that became popular in
The History of Henry Esmond
…grandsons, brothers George and Henry Warrington. Although popularised by British architects George Devey and Richard Norman Shaw, the anachronistic "Queen Anne" design style created in the latter part of the 19th century, for both buildings and furniture, won its Victorian nomenclature via readers' enthusiasm for Thackeray's…
Norman Shaw Buildings, Victoria Embankment, Westminster. North Building, 1887 (right); South Building, 1902 (left)
Red brick and tile-hung detail, "a little genuine Queen Anne"
"curly pedimented gables ... a little Dutch"
"small window panes, ... bay windows, wooden balconies"