Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)
Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 92
HERS AIMS AND PRINCIPLES 67 execute, we havenot only met withthe approbation ofour employers, butev^en with theimitation of otherartists, to such adesfree as in somemeasure to havebrought about inthis country akind of revolutionin the whole sys-tem of this usefuland elegant art.After making-some… … Fig. 42.—Dkawing-Room Chimnev-piece, 20 Mansfield Street. praise. bition is to share with others, not to appropriate to ourselves, the applause of the public, and, it we have had any claim to approbation, we found it on this alone : that we flatter 68 TlIK LIVKS AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture
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