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3 unusual facts about Edward Rooker


Edward Rooker

Among Rooker's early works are a view on the Thames from Somerset House (1750), and a view of Vauxhall Gardens (1751), both after Canaletto; a view of the Parthenon for Dalton's 'Views of Sicily and Greece' (1751), and a section of St. Paul's Cathedral, decorated according to the

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The headings of the 'Oxford Almanacks' from 1769 to 1775 were all the joint work of Edward and his son Michael.

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Art historian Horace Walpole termed him the "Marc Antonio" of architecture.



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