...eminent for Architecture, a great geometrician, and in designing with his pen (as Sir Anthony Vandike used to say) not to be equalled by whatever great masters in his time, for boldness, softness, sweetness, and sureness of his touches."1 Of the buildings ascribed by Webb to Inigo Jones there remain...

...was perfectly right when he said that in designing with his pen, as Vandyke phrased it, Jones was " not to be equalled by whatever great masters in his time, for boldness, softness, sweetness and sureness of his touches." No doubt all his efforts in connection with the masques are...