Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . r Majestys Most Dutiful Servant, and Faithful Subject, Robert Adam. The plates of this book were engraved by five artists, FrancescoBartolozzi, Domenico Cunego, P. Santini, Zucchi,1 E. Rooker, , and F. Patton. Of these the three engravers first mentionedwere responsible for the large views of scenery and the perspectivedrawings of buildings. During the years 1762 and 1763, when Robert Adam wasengaged upon the work at Kedleston and other important com-missions, he was also emplo
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . r Majestys Most Dutiful Servant, and Faithful Subject, Robert Adam. The plates of this book were engraved by five artists, FrancescoBartolozzi, Domenico Cunego, P. Santini, Zucchi,1 E. Rooker, , and F. Patton. Of these the three engravers first mentionedwere responsible for the large views of scenery and the perspectivedrawings of buildings. During the years 1762 and 1763, when Robert Adam wasengaged upon the work at Kedleston and other important com-missions, he was also employed at both Fonthill, Wiltshire, andWitham House, Somersetshire, the seats of William Beckford, theLord Mayor of London. In the year 1762 he executed alterations at Witham House, and these were illustrated in the fifth volumeof the Vitruvius Britannicus, where he was described as thearchitect. It was, in all probability, about the year 1765 whenBoodles Club (Fig. 107) was erected. Possibly the alterations at 1 It is not stated which of the two brothers is here referred to. AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY WORK 153. Fig. 107.—Boodles Cluh, St Jamess Street. Eaton Hall, Chester, for Lord Grosvenor, and at Brodsworth for theArchbishop of York may have been carried out at about the sametime. As early as the year 1765, the practice of the brothers hadextended to Ireland, where work was then executed for them at 154 THE ALTERATIONS AT SYON HOUSE Summerhill House, Meath, on behalf of the Right Hon. Hercules-Langford Rowley, , an ancestor of the present Lord gentleman also secured their services in the decoration of histown house in Mary Street, Dublin. On the 30th of Aug-ust 1765,Robert Adam was appointed Clerk of the Works at the RoyalChelsea Hospital. In this office it was necessary for him to super-intend all the works of reparation that were needed, in order tomaintain the various buildings in a proper condition, and also toprepare estimates of the cost of such work from
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