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Title: Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Swarbrick, John, b. 1879
Subjects: Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 Adam, James, d. 1794 Architecture Decoration and ornament, Architectural Furniture
Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford, ltd., New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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m left Edinburgh in order to studyarchitecture on the Continent. He was then twenty-six years ofage, and had spent some time upon architectural work with hisfather and brothers, after studying at the Edinburgh University.Abroad, he visited France and Italy, and finally returned homedown the Rhine, on account of the hostilities in which England andFrance were then engaged. Like most travellers, Adam appearsto have spent a considerable part of his time in Rome, where hemade the acquaintance of Piranesi, the distinguished engraver. Healso met his subsequent friend, Charles Louis Clerisseau, an architectwho had been awarded the Grand Prix de Rome. The mostremarkable incident of Adams sojourn was the expedition which heconducted to Spalato, where he contrived to make the survey andobtain the drawings of Diocletians palace, that were published afterhis return, to England. In this undertaking he was assisted byClerisseau and Antonio Zucchi, in addition to another artist. INTRODUCTORY NOTE 23
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24 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM The importance of the research conducted by Adam at Spalato waswidely recognised, and the Academy of Saint Luke at Rome, theSchool of Design at Florence, and the Institute of Bologna werepleased to enrol him among their members. Shortly after RobertAdams return, in the year 1760, his younger brother, James, travelledin Italy in company with Clerisseau, Zucchi, and others, in orderto enjoy similar facilities for study, and also with a view to conductingspecial research in Southern Italy or Sicily, and, if possible, in Greece,the Levant, and Egypt. An adequate impression of the nature ofthe task undertaken by James Adam, and the thoroughness withwhich it was conducted, may be formed from the extracts from the Journal of his tour, which appear in the text of the present book (pp.114-142). Whilst abroad James purchased, on behalf of George III.,the large collection of drawings and prints in the possession of CardinalAlbani, and it is not impr

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