Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)
Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 105
his diary : Went and paida visit to the Sicilian Abbe, CountDano, he wrote, and went alongwith him to the Palazzo Vecchio, wherethere are in the Cortile some columnswrought in the antique style in a mostsuperb manner. The apartments ofthis palace are full of grotesque orna-ments, luit of a kind… … Iig. 52.—-Ironwork from ihe.Staircase, HarkwoodHouse, Lonhox. (Nowdemolished.) (.Sci- Iii,.202.) sought in the design of ironwork, and,thouh these were usuallv severe, a and covered with fallen ruins, had been dug up and cleared by the modern Italians,who for these reasons give them the name of…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture
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