Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 41.—Ball-Room Chair, Harewood House, Yorkshire. THE BROTHERS AIMS AND PRINCIPLES 67 execute, we have not only met with the approbation of our employers, but even with the imitation of other artists, to such a degree as in some measure to have brought about in this country a kind of revolution in the whole sys-tem of this useful and elegant art. After making some further in-troductory re-marks, the bro-thers proceeded :We by no meanspresume to findfault with thecompositions or tode
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 41.—Ball-Room Chair, Harewood House, Yorkshire. THE BROTHERS AIMS AND PRINCIPLES 67 execute, we have not only met with the approbation of our employers, but even with the imitation of other artists, to such a degree as in some measure to have brought about in this country a kind of revolution in the whole sys-tem of this useful and elegant art. After making some further in-troductory re-marks, the bro-thers proceeded :We by no meanspresume to findfault with thecompositions or todecry the laboursof other authors,many of whomhave much meritand deserve greatpraise. Our am-bition is to sharewith others, not to appropriate to ourselves, the applause of the public, and, if we havehad any claim to approbation, we found it on this alone : that we flatter. -I >UA\VING-ROOM Chimney-pieck,20 Mansfield Street. 68 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM ourselves we have been able to seize, with some degree of success, thebeautiful spirit of antiquity, and to transfuse it with novelty and varietythrough all our numerous works. In order to elucidate their meaningmore clearly, they add in one of the footnotes of their Preface, Nothingcan be more noble and striking, when properly applied, than a fine
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