Volume 1

The Farington diary / edited by James Greig.

  • Joseph Farington
Date:
[1922?-1928]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Farington diary / edited by James Greig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    August 24.—Much conversation abt. the abilities of Architects. —Sir Wm. Chambers seems to be rated lower than I expected : an artist of less talent than Adam,—and confined in his ideas to certain forms & embellishments to which He made everything submit.—Somerset Place [House] condemned as a proof of want of appropriate contrivance for the respective purposes for which it was intended.—