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New light on Wyatt at Fawley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Eileen Harris  and
John Martin Robinson
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Two drawings have recently appeared at Christies for Fawley Court in Buckinghamshire. They are not signed or dated, but their stylistic technique (not to mention stains of claret) combined with the statement of MrsLybbe Powys in 1771 that Wyatt had recently worked at Fawley makes it almost certain that they are by James Wyatt. One of the drawings is for a ceiling and the other for the interior of the temple on an island in the Thames (Plsia and b).

Type
Section 3: The Stuart and Georgian Country House
Information
Architectural History , Volume 27: Design and Practice in British Architecture , 1984 , pp. 263 - 267
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1984

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Notes

1 Christies, London. 30 November 1983, lots 173, 174.Google Scholar

2 Mrs Powys, P. Lybbe Passages from the Diaries, ed. Climenson, E.J. (1899), pp. 145-48.Google Scholar

3 Ibid., p. 148.

4 R. and Adam, J. The Works in Architecture, 11 (1777)Google Scholar, preface.

5 Volume 1 is dated on the title-page 1766, the other three, though dated 1767, were published respectively in 1770, 1766 and 1766.

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