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Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)

Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 140

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epark, with the finest verdure, covered with deer, and cattle, andsheep, delighted me. Dr Johnson, Boswell continued, thoughtbetter of it to-da\-. than when he saw it before ; for he had latelyattacked it violently, .saying, It would do e.xcellently ft)r a town- THE EARLY WORK OF ROBERT ADAM 105… … Fig. 82.—Thk BouiioiK, Kkdlesto.v. ill lighted,^ and of no use but for dancing in ; and the bed-chambersbut indifferent rooms ; and that the immense sum which it cost was The entrance hall. - The saloon or rotunda. ■■ The room above to which Dr Johnson referred must be the corridor, which wasformed…

Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture

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