Author:George Wightwick

George Wightwick
(1802–1872)

Works

Architectural writings

• Select Views of the Roman Antiquities (1827)
• "A Few Observations on the Reviving Taste for Pointed Architecture, with an Illustrated Description of a Chapel Just Erected at Bude Haven, Under the Direction of the Author" in The Architectural Magazine, 2 (1835) (external scan)
• "A Consideration of the Exclusive Cultivation Heretofore Awarded to Greek and Roman Architecture; with Remarks upon the Present and Prospective Condition of Architectural Science" in The Architectural Magazine, 3 (1836) (external scan)
• Nettleton's Guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse, Devonport, and to the Neighbouring Country (1836) (external scan)
• The Palace of Architecture: A Romance of Art and History (1840) (external scan)
• "Ancient English Gothic Architecture" and "Modern English Gothic Architecture" in Weale's Quarterly Papers on Architecture, 3 (1845) (external scan)
• Hints to Young Architects (1846) (external scan)
• The Life of an Architect (autobiography), serialized intermittently in Bentley's Miscellany between March, 1852, and January, 1858 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
• "On the Architecture and Genius of Sir Christopher Wren," paper read at the Royal Institute of British Architects, published in The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, 22 (1859) (external scan)
• "The Question of Classic and Gothic Architecture Dispassionately Considered by a Retired Architect" in The Builder, 20 (1862) (external scan)

Verse and humorous writings

• The Life and Remains of Wilmot Warwick (1828) (external scan)
• Author of most or all of the "Blue Friar Pleasantries" published in Fraser's Magazine 1837-40, some of which were reprinted in The Blue Friars: Their Sayings and Doings by W. H. K. Wight (1889) (external scan). Other unpublished papers read at meetings of the Blue Friars society were collected in Pleasantries: From the "Blue Box", edited by Wight (1891) (external scan).
• The Budleigh Ballad: A Tale of Threatened Woe and Merciful Deliverance (1845) (external scan)
• "Under an Elm" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 9 (1863)

Plays and writings on theater

• "My Acquaintance with the Late Charles Mathews" in Fraser's Magazine, 13 (1836) (external scan)
• Richard the First: A Romantick Play (1848) (external scan)
• Henry the Second: A Tragedy (1851) (external scan)

Works about Wightwick

• The Blue Friars: Their Sayings and Doings, pp. 76-77 & passim, London: Simpkin, Marshall (1889) (external scan)
• "Wightwick, George," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.