Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 58.—Lead F- tght from Harewood House, London. (Now in theA7ictoria and Albert Museum.) backs with their plaques,amorini, and lightfestoons, and the familiarhob-grates, that arenow so highly prizedby the owners of Adamhouses. Adam gratesare illustrated in , 61, /$, 180, 186, andelsewhere. During the yearafter Robert Adamsreturn from the Con-tinent he prepared adesign which was in-scribed, Building whichmay be contrived to An-swer for the Fireworks ata General Peace——


Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 58.—Lead F- tght from Harewood House, London. (Now in theA7ictoria and Albert Museum.) backs with their plaques,amorini, and lightfestoons, and the familiarhob-grates, that arenow so highly prizedby the owners of Adamhouses. Adam gratesare illustrated in , 61, /$, 180, 186, andelsewhere. During the yearafter Robert Adamsreturn from the Con-tinent he prepared adesign which was in-scribed, Building whichmay be contrived to An-swer for the Fireworks ata General Peace——Doorway, 5 Mansfield Street. R. This subject 1 Vide Soane Collection, Adam Series, vol. ix., 3rd Series, No. THE EARLY WORK OF ROBERT ADAM 79rho may have been suggested to Adam by Lord Bute,might have been looking forward to the termination, which heultimately contrived to secure, in the hostilities between England,France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal. During the years 1759-60


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