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It is not known if this design for a chimneypiece was executed.
The current line of Pall Mall was laid out in 1661 across old Pall Mall Alley. The route replaced a parallel road to the south which led from Charing Cross to St. James’s Palace. This earlier highway may have been of Roman or Saxon origins and is mentioned in twelfth-century records. Robert Adam produced schemes for several Pall Mall properties including Carlton House, Cumberland House and 34 Pall Mall, the house of Andrew Millar, interestingly also a printer.
Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 43, 64; F.H.W. Sheppard, ‘Pall Mall’, Survey of London: Volumes 29 and 30, St. James Westminster: Part I, 1960, pp. 322-24; The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume 3: July 1774-June 1778, 1961, p. 429; D. King, The complete works of Robert and James Adam & unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume I, p. 264; ‘William Byrne –printmaker’, www.britishmuseum.org (accessed February 2021)
Anna McAlaney, 2021
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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