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 * Article title: Adam, Robert
 * Author: Monkhouse, William Cosmo
 * LEAD: ADAM, ROBERT (1728-1792) architect, was the most celebrated of the four brothers Adam, John, Robert, James, and William, whose relationship is commemorated in the name Adelphi, given to the buildings erected by them between the Strand and the Thames on an estate known before as Durham Yard.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2
 * LEAD: ADAM, ROBERT (1728-1792) architect, was the most celebrated of the four brothers Adam, John, Robert, James, and William, whose relationship is commemorated in the name Adelphi, given to the buildings erected by them between the Strand and the Thames on an estate known before as Durham Yard.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2

Works

 * his journal was printed in the ‘Library of the Fine Arts' (of a 1754 trip to Diocletions Palace)
 * in 1764 he published a folio volume with numerous engravings by Bartolozzi and others, after his drawings of the palace.
 * In 1773 the brothers Robert and James commenced the publication of their ‘Works in Architecture,’ in folio parts, which was continued at intervals till 1778 and reached the end of the second volume. In 1822 the work was completed by the posthumous publication of a third volume, but the three bound up together do not make a thick book.

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

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 * Lead: (1728–92). One of the most celebrated of British architects, decorators, and interior designers in the later part of ...

A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.)

 * Article Title: Adam, Robert
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 * Lead: Adam, Robert (1728–92). Scottish architect&hellip;

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

 * Article Title: Adam, Robert
 * Author:
 * Lead: Adam, Robert (1728–1792), architect. Adam was the most famous of the four sons of the Scottish architect William Adam...

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
MLA (from publisher):
 * Article Title: Adam, Robert
 * Lead: Adam, Robert (b Kirkcaldy, Fife, 3 July 1728; d London, 3 March 1792).Architect and designer, second&hellip;

The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.)

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 * Lead: Adam, Robert (1728–92). Scottish architect who, with his brothers John (1721–92) and James (1730–94), trained in ...

The Oxford Companion to the Garden

 * Article Title: Adam, Robert
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 * Lead: Adam, Robert (1728–92), Scottish architect, son of William Adam.

An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

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 * Lead: Adam, Robert (1728–92), architect and designer.

World Encyclopedia

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