Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . chitect,but no date appears. The omission of the word architect, upon thedrawing of the north elevation, suggests that possibly the work of the Counties of Nottingham, Essex, Wilts, Derby, Hertford, Suffolk, Salop, Middlesex,and Surrey. By James Paine, Architect. London, Published 1767. k ? -d*_ in fe iut-o_o-i I THE EARLY WORK OF ROBERT ADAM 87 Paine may have progressed so far upon this facade, and that thedesign may have been determined to such an extent by him, thatAdam could
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . chitect,but no date appears. The omission of the word architect, upon thedrawing of the north elevation, suggests that possibly the work of the Counties of Nottingham, Essex, Wilts, Derby, Hertford, Suffolk, Salop, Middlesex,and Surrey. By James Paine, Architect. London, Published 1767. k ? -d*_ in fe iut-o_o-i I THE EARLY WORK OF ROBERT ADAM 87 Paine may have progressed so far upon this facade, and that thedesign may have been determined to such an extent by him, thatAdam could not consistently describe himself as the architect, althoughhe eventually became responsible for the completion of this, togetherwith the remainder of the work ultimately executed. The original house at Kedleston was built during the reign ofQueen Anne, by the ancestors of the present Lord Scarsdale. Apainting of this residence is still preserved in the east wing of theexisting mansion, together with a plan of the house, which is inscribed, Kedleston built by Smith. According to the precise dimensions. Fig. 70.—Section of Kedleston through Saloon andGreat Hall (Vit. Brit.). Scale uniform with the elevations, Figs. 68, 69. on the plan, the building measured 104 ft. 5^ in. in extent, or less thanhalf of that of the present central building alone, omitting the flankingcorridors and projecting wings. The present central building measures126 ft. in extent, and is flanked on the north side by two pavilions68 ft. long, which are connected with the main building by curvedcorridors. Robert Adam designed two other pavilions for the southfacade, and these were to have been connected with the mainbuilding, in a somewhat similar way, by means of curved corridors(see Fig. 71). The complete scheme developed by Adam wasillustrated in the fourth volume of the Vitruvius Britannicus(Figs. 68-71). The two southern pavilions and corridors were, how- 88 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM
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