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Sir John Vanbrugh, Blenheim Palace (1704-20) partial front elevation in Vitruvius Brtiannicus.

"How Did This Happen Revisited"
2008.08.06 15:09

by chance read last night...

6. The Blair Adam copy of Bartoli Picturae Antiquae (1750) was duplicated in the Adam sale of 1818, lot 117. The Blair Adam Montano, one volume, undated, had its counterpart in Robert Adam's Montani manuscripts, lot 33 of the 1818 sale. The trade in books was a two-way one, however, and in 1755 Robert Adam had Kent's Inigo Jones, Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus and Lord Burlington's Baths, all sent to him in Rome (London, Guildhall MS 3070 f. 11).

Calendrical Coincidence Revisited

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