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The Adam brothers in Rome : drawings from the Grand Tour

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection D002

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Type of record: Book

Title: The Adam brothers in Rome : drawings from the Grand Tour

Other titles: Drawings from the Grand Tour

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection D002

Creator(s): Tait, A A (1938-)

Additional creator(s): Pisano, Sandra (Editor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Sir John Soane's Museum (Issuing body)

Related people: Adam, Robert, 1728-1792; Adam, James, 1732-1794; Adam, Robert, 1728-1792; Adam, James, 1732-1794; Adam, James, 1732-1794; Adam, Robert, 1728-1792

Publisher: Scala : In association with Sir John Soane's Museum

Publication city: London

Date(s): 2008

Language: English

Size and medium: 160 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/706547

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019594647805181

Description

Editorial statement from title page verso.


Works executed by or collected by the Adam brothers, now in the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum.


Includes bibliographical references (page 158) and index.


"Robert and James Adam dominated British architecture for the second half of the eighteenth century. The key period in the development of the Adam style was their time as Grand Tourists in Italy. The way in which they composed their architecture and even the manner in which they drew in watercolour and wash was the achievement of these years. As architects they studied and drew after the Antique, as Grand Tourists they formed a vast collection of paintings and drawings. It was this collection that was sold during the years 1765-1821. The drawings themselves were acquired by Sir John Soane in 1833 for his new Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. These drawings, together with the brothers' fascinating letters and James's journal, form a unique picture. This book gives an account of the brothers' aspirations and achievements in making their Grand Tours, tracing James's role as well as Robert's. It was James, during his four years in Italy, who amassed an outstanding collection of paintings,
drawings and sculpture and, moreover, arranged the purchase of the huge Albani collection for George III. Much of this was displayed in the brothers' house and office at 75 Lower Grosvenor Street, in a casino in the garden, before the first Adam sale of 1765."--BOOK JACKET.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at D002: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: AS/55.

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