Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 60.—Dining-Room Chimney-piece, 20 St Jamess Square. (See Fig. 1S1.) Robert prepared designs for the Temple, or Greenhouse, in the parkat Croome Court, for George William, the sixth Earl of temple seems to be the first commission entrusted by the Earlto Robert Adam, but, simple as the task was, it probably gave satis-faction, for other commissions continued to follow. In fact, from 1759until 1791, the year before his death, Robert Adam was instructed 8o THE LIVES AND


Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 60.—Dining-Room Chimney-piece, 20 St Jamess Square. (See Fig. 1S1.) Robert prepared designs for the Temple, or Greenhouse, in the parkat Croome Court, for George William, the sixth Earl of temple seems to be the first commission entrusted by the Earlto Robert Adam, but, simple as the task was, it probably gave satis-faction, for other commissions continued to follow. In fact, from 1759until 1791, the year before his death, Robert Adam was instructed 8o THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM. ig. 61.—Grate in the Drawing-Room at Kedleston. (See Fig. 80.)


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