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Reverend Dovey: unexecuted designs for ceilings, chimneypieces, and a temple, 1774-75 (8)
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Reverend Dovey: unexecuted designs for ceilings, chimneypieces, and a temple, 1774-75 (8)
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- 1774-75
Notes
Reverend Dovey is unknown. We know from the surviving drawings that Dovey commissioned Robert Adam to make designs for ceilings, chimneypieces, and a temple in 1774, but these are not known to have been executed, and their intended location is unknown.
Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 53, 68; D. King, The complete works of Robert & James Adam and unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume II, pp. 179, 226
Frances Sands, 2013
Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 53, 68; D. King, The complete works of Robert & James Adam and unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume II, pp. 179, 226
Frances Sands, 2013
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Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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Contents of Reverend Dovey: unexecuted designs for ceilings, chimneypieces, and a temple, 1774-75 (8)
- Alternative finished drawings and a record drawing for a ceiling for the eating parlour, 1774, unexecuted (3)
- Design for a chimneypiece for the eating room, 1774, unexecuted (1)
- Finished drawing for a ceiling for the dressing room, 1774, unexecuted (1)
- Design for a chimneypiece for the dressing room, 1774, unexecuted (1)
- Preliminary design and design for a garden temple, 1775, unexecuted (2)