Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)
Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 285
elphi Build-ings were mortgaged, he wrote, for a loan of /70,000 previousto the late unhappy failures of the banks, and it is said that the 232 THP: lives and work of ROHKRT and JAMES ADAM Messrs Adam had laid out as much more upon them ; so that inthe course of five years, these gentlemen expended… … Fig. 170.—LiBRAUY .\T Goodwood Hou.se, by Sir William Chambers.(Showing the Influence of the iVdam Decoration.) prise, and to free them from embarrassment, an Act of Parliament(13 Geo. III., cap. j^. 1773) was pa.ssed, which empowered themto dispose of the buildings and other effects by means of a…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture
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