Identifier: literaryhistoryo00brer (find matches)
Title: The literary history of the Adelphi and its neighbourhood
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Brereton, Austin, 1862-1922
Subjects: Literary landmarks -- England London English literature -- England London London (England) -- Intellectual life
Publisher: New York : Duffield
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and disposition of niches, lunettes, reliefs,festoons, and other classical ornaments. It wastheir custom to design furniture in character withtheir apartments, and their works of this kind arestill greatly prized. Amongst them may bespecially mentioned their side-boards with eleganturn-shaped knife-boxes, but they also designedbookcases and brackets, pedestals and cabinets,clock-cases and candelabra, mirror frames andconsole tables, of singular and original merit,adapting classical forms to modern uses with asuccess unrivalled by any other designers of furniturein England. They designed, also, carriages andplate, and a sedan chair for Queen Charlotte. Oftheir decorative work generally it may be said thatit was rich but neat, refined but not effeminate,chaste but not severe, and that it will probablyhave quite as lasting and beneficial effect uponEnglish taste as their architectural structures. In 1773, the brothers Robert and James com-menced the publication of their Works on Archi-96
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•< X 5 r. r- x JAMES ADAM tecture, in folio parts, which was continued atintervals till 1778, and reached the end of thesecond volume. In 1822, the work was completedby the posthumous publication of a third volume,but the three bound up together do not make athick book.1 Robert Adam also obtained some reputation asa landscape painter. As an architect, he wasextensively employed to the last. In the yearpreceding his death he designed no less than eightpublic works and twenty-five private buildings.He died at his house in Albemarle Street, fromthe bursting of a blood-vessel in his stomach, onMarch 3, 1792. Of the social position he attained,and the estimation in which he was held, no greaterproof can be afforded than the record of his funeralin Westminster Abbey. His pall-bearers werethe Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Coventry,the Earl of Lauderdale, Viscount Stormont, LordFrederick Campbell, and Richard Pulteney (thebotanist). His younger brother, James, died in the samestreet, on

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