English: Lansdowne House
Identifier: robertadamhisbr00swar
Title: Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Swarbrick, John, b. 1879
Subjects: Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 Adam, James, d. 1794 Architecture
Publisher: London : B.T. Batsford
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto
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Fig. 132. -DiNING-ROOM, BOWOOD. i86 Til]-. LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM beiii.L; the w^rk of Sir Charles Eastlake, and the others that ofStanfield : iiut there can be no doubt that pictures were originallyintended to be introduced in the wall-panels. When the present Lansdowne House was purchased fromthe Earl of Bute in the year 1765, some information regardingthe house fountl its wav into the columns of the press, and in
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Fig. 133.—Lansuowne House. the London Chronicle of ()clober 1765 it was stated that theconsideration ])aid was / 22,000, an amount which was believedto be ^_^,ooo less than the cost price. Yet the house was un-finished at the time when this transfer was effected. Theillustrations of Lansdowne House occur in the second volume ofthe Works, and upon the jjlan, elevation, and e.Ktcrnal detail, pub-lished in this \cilunie, the inscription: R- Adam, Architect, 1765, x^
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