Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)
Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 146
ntry.Almost immediately after Robert Adams return from the Con-tinent, it appears that he was invited, together with WilliamChambers, Wilton the sculptor, and others, to join in a com-petition for a monument to be erected in Westminster Abbey tothe memory of General Wolfe. From the drawings in vol.… … iij TH1-: LIVES AM) WORK OF ROBERT AND jA.MES ADAM of Wilton, the sculptor, and therefore we may infer that his design wasconsidered to be the best, and was preferred to those of either Adamor Chambers. A reference to this monument occurs amongst thecorrespondence of Walpole, in a letter which he…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture
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