Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . THE EVE OF THE AMERICAN WAR 255. U3; 63 0> E £ fa 256 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM this we can only do in our country houses, where our space isunconfined. The largest of the reception rooms was the thirdDrawing-Room, an apartment 33 ft. long by 22 ft. wide. Intheir description of this room, the brothers wrote : The ornamentsof the ceiling and entablature are chiefly of stucco gilt, with amixture of paintings. The grounds are coloured with various frames for
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . THE EVE OF THE AMERICAN WAR 255. U3; 63 0> E £ fa 256 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM this we can only do in our country houses, where our space isunconfined. The largest of the reception rooms was the thirdDrawing-Room, an apartment 33 ft. long by 22 ft. wide. Intheir description of this room, the brothers wrote : The ornamentsof the ceiling and entablature are chiefly of stucco gilt, with amixture of paintings. The grounds are coloured with various frames for glasses, the pedestals and vases in the niches, andthe girandoles on the piers, are of wood gilt. This room is hungwith satin, they added, and is undoubtedly one of the most elegantin Europe, whether we consider the variety or the richness of itsdecoration. Fig. 190 is a reproduction of an engraving from theWorks. Among the engravings in the Works, illustrations willbe found of the Etruscan dressing-room for Lady Stanley (afterwardsthe Countess of Derby), to which reference has already been is recorded that it was owing to the
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