Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)
Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 177
Great Britain, by Dr Adolf Michaelis, that, in the year 1762,James Adam purchased on behalf of King George III. the largecollection of drawings and prints which then belonged to CardinalAlessandro Albani, to whom the sum of fourteen thousand scudi,or about three thousand guineas, was paid. This… … l-ig. loo.—The riTi,K-PA<;E of Piranesis Campus AIartius, wiih Dedication to Robert Adam. 140 THE CONTINENTAL TOUR OF JAMES ADAM 141 or lost. While engas^ed upon the negotiations at the time of thepurchase, James Adam may, not improbably, have become acquaintedwith Winckelmann, who was then…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture
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