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The polychromatic ornament of Italy / by Edward Adams, architect.
Record number:
50145
Call No:
RBQ 745.4 ADA
Author/s:
Adams, Edward, 1814-1875.
Subject:
Decoration and ornament - Italy. ;
Decoration and ornament, Architectural. ;
Polychromy.
Notes:
On half-title page: The polychromatic ornament of Italy. Part I.
Binder's sticker inside back board: Bound by / Burn / Hatton Garden.
Edward Adams was born in Walsall, Staffordshire in June 1814 and began his professional career as a pupil to William Parsons, architect and surveyor to the county of Leicester. He moved to London in 1836 where for some years he worked for the eminent builder Thomas Cubitt. In the early 1840s he travelled in Italy, Sicily and Greece 'improving himself in the artistic part of his profession'. He died in London in March 1875. [ref: Grace's guide to British Industrial History]
Provenance: Ffep carries inscription: Alfred H. Browne Esq. / with the author's compts.
Inner front board has small bookplare: NH /LT
Year:
[1847]
Publication details:
London : G.W. Nickisson ; New York : Wiley & Putnam
Description:
iv, 16 pages, 11 plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Type:
monograph
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This book is described on the half-title as 'Part 1'. A notice of the publication in The Westminster Review for April-July 1847 reported that 'Mr Adams proposes to give a connected illustrated history of decorative art in Italy, from the Roman period
... down to the middle of the sixteenth century. The present volume illustrates the state of art in the early part of that century, after the school formed by Raphael upon the models of ancient art." Other press reports of the publication noted that the plates had been drawn from the originals by Edward Adams and 'painted in colours by Owen Jones'. No further parts were published.
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