Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . gs. 19 and191, pp. 29 and 255 respectively. In a letter to Sir Horace Mann,dated 8th June 1774, Walpole wrote: The Duke of Devonshire andGeorgiana Spencer were married on Sunday; and this month LordStanley marries Lady Betty Hamilton. He gives her a most splendidentertainment to-morrow at his villa (the Oaks) in Surrey, and callsit a Fete Champetre. It will cost ,£5,000. Everybody is to go inmasquerade but not in mask. He has bought all the orange treesround London, and the hay-cocks,
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . gs. 19 and191, pp. 29 and 255 respectively. In a letter to Sir Horace Mann,dated 8th June 1774, Walpole wrote: The Duke of Devonshire andGeorgiana Spencer were married on Sunday; and this month LordStanley marries Lady Betty Hamilton. He gives her a most splendidentertainment to-morrow at his villa (the Oaks) in Surrey, and callsit a Fete Champetre. It will cost ,£5,000. Everybody is to go inmasquerade but not in mask. He has bought all the orange treesround London, and the hay-cocks, I suppose, are to be made ofstraw coloured satin. For this occasion, General Burgoyne wrotea Sylvan Masque, which was entitled Maid of the Oaks, inhonour of the bride-elect. During the following November, this THE EVE OF THE AMERICAN WAR 257 masque was reproduced by Garrick, at Drury Lane Theatre, as anoperatic drama. About the year 1775, the brothers were engaged in directingthe work at No. 20 Portman Square, for Abigail, Countess of original working drawing for the present staircase is now in. Fig. 192.—Ground Floor Sittinc-Room, 20 Portman Square.(The armorial bearings of the Earl of Home are carved upon the chimney-piece.) vol. xiv. of the Adam Series in the Soane Collection. In additionto directing the structural work, the brothers also prepared a numberof designs for a variety of purposes, an organ-case, a clock bracket,a carpet and so forth. Another client of the brothers at about thistime was the Earl of Ashburnham, who obtained designs for workat his house, No. 30 Dover Street. The drawings in the Soane33 258 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM Collection, which were prepared for his lordship, represent achimney-piece, a ceiling, an entrance gateway, a table, a term, a mirror,and a scheme for the alteration of the Library. The whole of thesedesigns were prepared in the years 1773 and 1774. The illustrationsof this house here given comprise the Sitti
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