. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. WiJlshire, forMr. Dawkins. .517. The chasteness and ])iuity which the two last-named architects had, with somesuccess, endeavoured to introduce into the buildings of England, and in which their zealhad enlisted many artists, had to contend against the opjjosite and vicious taste of IlobeitAdam, a fashionable architect, whose eye had been ruined by the corruptions of theworst period of Roman ait. It can be scarcely believed, the ornaments of Diocleti
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. WiJlshire, forMr. Dawkins. .517. The chasteness and ])iuity which the two last-named architects had, with somesuccess, endeavoured to introduce into the buildings of England, and in which their zealhad enlisted many artists, had to contend against the opjjosite and vicious taste of IlobeitAdam, a fashionable architect, whose eye had been ruined by the corruptions of theworst period of Roman ait. It can be scarcely believed, the ornaments of Diocletianspalace at Spalatro should have loadid our dwellings 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 man who was contentto draw his supplies from so vitiated a source will here require a Itngtheiud notice. Yet hadlie his hap])y moments ; and th:it we may do him strict justice, we not only mention, but. present to the reader, 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 age of ninety-four, in 1792 ; and, besides the Adelphi,in the Strand, which he erected on speculation, he was engaged at Luton Park, in Bedford-shire, for the Earl of Bute ; at Caenwood, near Hampstead, for Lord Mansfield ; at Sliel-burne House, in Berkeley Stjuare, now Lord Lansdownes, well idanned, but ill meagre aflair ; the disgraceful gateway at Sion, near Brentford ; and on ])art of theRegister OHice at FJdiiiburgh. None, however, would now do credit to a mere tyro in theart except the first named (^lAP. rii GEORGE III. 227
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