(Yet another) present to self. I remember coveting Adam’s drawing for this many years ago when it appeared in Christie’s from Edward Croft Murray’s collection. It made £50,000 or so back then and was beyond me. The large engraving from The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam 1777, Vol II part I plate V dill suffice.
The house was demolished in 1862 and most of the interiors were destroyed. This was perhaps one of Robert Adams’ finest interiors.
Adam himself wrote of his Third and Great Withdrawing Room: 'The ornaments of the ceiling and entablature are chiefly stucco, gilt, with a mixture of paintings. The frames for glasses, the pedestals and vases in the niches, and the girandoles on the piers, are of wood gilt. This room is hung with satin, and is undoubtedly one of the most elegant in Europe, whether we consider the variety of the richness or the decoration'.
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