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Reverend Dovey: unexecuted designs for ceilings, chimneypieces, and a temple, 1774-75 (8)

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  • 1774-75

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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

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Contents of Reverend Dovey: unexecuted designs for ceilings, chimneypieces, and a temple, 1774-75 (8)