Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 64.—Rotunda, Couj. THE EARLY WORK OF ROBERT ADAM 83 Those in the Soane Collection, which relate to structural work, areundated, but the corresponding drawings at Croome bear, in somecases, both the signature of Robert Adam and the date. For instance,a design for a ceiling is dated 1760, and one for a chimney-piece, the most interesting of all the drawings at Croome Court isone representing the Banqueting or Statuary Room, which is inscribed,Robert Adam, 1763.
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 64.—Rotunda, Couj. THE EARLY WORK OF ROBERT ADAM 83 Those in the Soane Collection, which relate to structural work, areundated, but the corresponding drawings at Croome bear, in somecases, both the signature of Robert Adam and the date. For instance,a design for a ceiling is dated 1760, and one for a chimney-piece, the most interesting of all the drawings at Croome Court isone representing the Banqueting or Statuary Room, which is inscribed,Robert Adam, 1763. This apartment still remains unaltered, andappears to agree with the original design in almost every measures 62 ft. in length by 21 ft. in breadth, and is about 17 or18 ft. in height. Both the walls and the ceiling have been treatedwith stucco, the walls having been designed with plain surfaces andthe ceiling in a more elaborate manner, on a hexagonal basis (Fig. 65).In this room an entire entablature was introduced, although in hislater work Adam more frequently omitted the architrave. The Greekanthemion ornament of the
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