ABC/247 - The Architecture of Robert and James Adam 1758-1794, vol 1

ABC/247

The Architecture of Robert and James Adam 1758-1794, vol 1

1 volume

The first of two volumes giving a Detailed Overview of the Architectural Works of Robert and James Adam. It begins with an introduction of the brothers' Personal and Professional History, followed by Descriptive and Critical Texts for the plates that depict photographs, elevations and plans of their work. Buildings included: Kinross House; Drum House; Blair Adam; Tomb of William Adam Senior; David Hume's Tomb; Plan Studies and Ideas; Student Designs; Sketch by Piranesi; Roubillac's Statue of Garrick as Shakespeare; High Down, Hitchin; Admiralty Screen in Whitehall; Goodwood, Sussex; The Queen's Transparency; Great Saxham House, Suffolk; Moor Park, before the removal of the Adam Colonnades; High Wycombe, Design and Plan of Shambles and Butter Market; West Wycombe, within the West Portico; Lord Holland's House, Picadilly; Edinburgh Riding House; Kimbolton Castle; Luton Park, Beds.; Kedleston; Sketch for a Bridge; Compositions; Design for a Pavilion and Garden Buildings; Detail of a Tea Room at Moor Park; Green Park, Deputy Ranger's Lodge; Architectural Details, Kenwood; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; Stable Block at Culzean, Ayrshire; Hagley, 'Athenian' Stuart's First Greek Doric Building; Sanderson Miller's Ruinous Castle at Culzean, Ayrshire; Lauder Castle; King's College Castle; Mrs. Montagu's House in Portman Square; 15 St. James's Square; 20 St. James's Square; House in Whitehall; Wormleybury, Herts.; Weald Hall, Essex; Stowe; Map of Herts.; Stratford Place; Soho Square, no. 32, the House of Sir Joseph Banks; Caldwell; Hatchlands Park, Surrey; Admiral Boscawen's House; Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire; Harewood House, Yorkshire; Croome Court, Worcestershire; Bowood, Wiltshire; Compton Verney, Warwickshire; Kedleston, Derbyshire; Syon House, Middlesex; Osterley Park, Middlesex; Kenwood, Hampstead, Middlesex.

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