An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 247
wellings coiitem|ioraiieously with the use amongthe more refined few of the exquisite exeinplars of Greece, and even of Rome, in its betterdays. Yet such is the fact; the depraved coin|)ositioiis of Adam were not only tolerated,but had tlieir admirers. It is not to be supjiosed that the works of a… … present to the reader, \n Jigs. 221. and 222., the ground plan and elevation of Kedlestonc, iiiDerbyshire, which he erected for Lord Scarsdale. The detail of this is, indeed, notexactly what it ought to have been; but the whole is magnificently conceived, and worthyof any master. Adam died at the…
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