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This book attempts to explain how the great eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam went about the business of design. It therefore deals with Adam's drawings rather than the buildings themselves, and tries to show that these pen, wash and watercolour 'inventions', of which he was an acknowledged master, were the ideal vehicle for his architectural ideas. It was to this end that Robert and his brother James studied drawing and composition in the most advanced drawing schools of Rome. The Adam p
- Author
- Alan Andrew Tait; Robert Adam
- Publisher
- Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521433150
- Subjects
- Architecture, Art, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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