Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . a fewyears later ; but it is possible that he may have visited them also atother times. From Southern France Robert Adam passed into Italy. Inthe volumes of the Soane Collection, entitled Original Sketches,there occurs a note from which it is evident that on the 18th ofJanuary 1755 he was at Portofino, near Genoa. The next clue to hisitinerary is afforded by No. 3 of the Gothick Sketches in vol. liv.:this is inscribed, Section and front view of the Ballustrade of St (San)Lorenzo or Dom
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . a fewyears later ; but it is possible that he may have visited them also atother times. From Southern France Robert Adam passed into Italy. Inthe volumes of the Soane Collection, entitled Original Sketches,there occurs a note from which it is evident that on the 18th ofJanuary 1755 he was at Portofino, near Genoa. The next clue to hisitinerary is afforded by No. 3 of the Gothick Sketches in vol. liv.:this is inscribed, Section and front view of the Ballustrade of St (San)Lorenzo or Domo (Duomo) of Florence, 14th Febry. 1755. 3 After 1 A charcoal sketch, No. 55 in vol. viii. of the Adam Series at the Soane Museum,bears the inscription, Sketch taken from an Ancient Pavement in France. 2 Antiquites de la France—Monumens de Nismes—Premiere Partie, by C. Paris, 1778. 3 An accidental error in description. THE CONTINENTAL TOUR OF ROBERT ADAM S3 the date of the sketch at Florence there appears to be no extantinformation concerning his wanderings until 1756, when he prepared. Fig. 33.—The Dome and East End of the Cathedral, Florence. a plan of a large building which has the inscription, Robt. AdamInt. Roma 1756. 1 1 Sketch No. 1, vol. x. of the Adam Series, Soane Collection. 54 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM While at Rome in the year 1757, Robert Adam made a designof a most elaborate character for a Royal Palace, which is now pre-served in vol. xxviii. of the Adam Series in the Soane Collection (). In this study the young designer allowed no limitations to fetterhis imagination, and we find presented to us a scheme, rivalling in extentthe Vatican, the Palace of Versailles, and even those vast villasof the Roman emperors. One of the qualities of the design for thePalace, which is specially worthy of note, is the employment of recedingplanes, a means by which many magnificent effects have been pro-duced. From this circumstance, it
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