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New light on Wyatt at Fawley
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2016
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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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