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Design for the entrance front of Wyreside, Lancashire by Office of Robert and James Adam (c.1790)


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Design for the entrance front of Wyreside, Lancashire by Office of Robert and James Adam (c.1790)
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Office of Robert and James Adam (1728-1792) Design for the entrance front of Wyreside, Lancashire. About 1790 Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour. The Adam brothers' task at Wyreside was to alter and enlarge an existing small farm or manor house for John Fenton Cawthorn, MP. In design it is characteristic of the brothers' late villas, with its four-columned proch, the domed wings and the windows in the wings formed as tripartite aedicules under a single arch. All these features, as well as the way in which the centre pedimented section of the house is presented as a distinct 'tower', show the Adam brothers producing their own special interpretations of English neo- Palladian ideas. The house survives, although greatly altered. 3329
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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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