Works in Architecture Robert Adam
4 Engraved plates from 'The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam' 1728-92. Robert and his brother James Adam forever changed the face of British architecture by introducing innovative Classical design ideas. Together, they designed and built some of the most famous buildings in England, including Kenwood House, Kedleston Manor, and Syon House. This scarce set of engravings have been finished in hand colour. As a set complete with line and wash colour double mounts set within gold and maple veneer frames ready for display.
1 Design of a bridge in imitation of the aqueducts of the ancients proposed to be built over the Lake at Bowood Park, in Wiltshire, during Adam's work on the interiors as well as creation of an orangery, menagerie and mausoleum. One of the Seats of the Earl of Shelburne. Robert Adam: R.t Adam Architect 1768. Bened: Pastorini incidit. Published as the Act directs 1778. Vol II No III Plate VII. Dimensions: Visible image to mount edge aperture: Height 12.5” x Width 17.5” (Frames external dimension: Height 23” x Width 27.5”
2 Design for a ruinous bridge for the garden at Sion. Robert Adam: R.t Adam Architect 1768. Published as the Act directs 1778. T. Vivarez, Sculpt. From Vol II No IV - Plate VII. Dimensions: Visible image to mount edge aperture: Height 12.5” x Width 17.5” (Frames external dimension: Height 23” x Width 27.5”)
3 Perspective View of the Bridge at Sion. Robert Adam's unrealized plan for a bridge at Syon House. Plate from the Adam brothers' "Works in Architecture". At the time the work was published, Adam was presumably confident that the plan would go ahead, as his accompanying text ('the whole is new and is reckoned fanciful and picturesque') suggests that the bridge in fact already existed. R.t Adam Architect 1768. S Rooker sculpt. Dimensions: Visible image to mount edge aperture: Height 14” x Width 18” (Frames external dimension: Height 24” x Width 28 1/4”).
4 View of the South front of Kenwood, with the terrace and rising bank. Robert Adam: R.t Adam Architect 1768. Published as the Act directs 1774. Vitalba & Pastorini Sculpt. Volume 1, Plate II. Kenwood, the Middlesex home of Lord Mansfield, was a typical example of Adam's way of working neoclassicism into an existing building. The interiors were renovated in the Adam style, while the north front was fitted with a giant portico and the south with the Corinthian columns and pediment shown in this engraving. The Adam brothers' work appealed to fashionable society, and many clients wanted their homes remodelled in the new style.Dimensions: Visible image to mount edge aperture: Height 14” x Width 18” (Frames external dimension: Height 24” x Width 28 1/4”).
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