Identifier: robertadamhisbr00swar (find matches)
Title: Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Swarbrick, John, b. 1879
Subjects: Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 Adam, James, d. 1794 Architecture
Publisher: London : B.T. Batsford
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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othink of that work at present, though my inclination had been ever sogreat. On the 20th October, Adam and Clerisseau returned to \enice,where they remained until the Sth of November. This second sojournat X^enice was uneventful. Nothing very remarkable happened tome, the diary states, during my stay at this place. 1 settled affairswith my engravers and others, and ;)repared everything for my journeyforward. The engravers and others were probably those whoprepared the plates for Robert Adams book on Spalato ; but somearrangements were also made for the drawings of Clerisseau to beengraved, at the expense of the brothers, by Domenico Cunego, under Girolamo, Count Pozzo, an Italian artist, born at Verona in 1718. He publishedtwo works, Sur Iarchitecture civile and Sur les theatres des anciens. - It seems probable, judging from the Avant-propos of the Monumens de Nismes,that Clerisseau may have encouraged Adam to check the measurements of Desgodetz. THE CONTINENTAL TOLR OE JAMES ADAM 119
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Fig. 91.—The Interior of the Round Room at the \illa Rotonda, nearViCENZA. (See Fig. 5.) Andrea Palladio, Architect. I20 TIIK LI\F.S AM) WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM the direction of Piraiiesi. yet it seems probable that the detailsregardin*;- this undertaking would be agreed upon subsequently atRome. I left Xenice, lames Adam recorded, in a piotta. carryingmy coach along with me. and sent George and Joseph by the courierdirectly to Florence. The wiml ))roving contrary for going directly toRavenna, we went up the Po to the Ponte del Lago Oscuro, andfrom thence by land to Ferrara, where we got before dinner. Duringthis portion of the journey, Adam was evidently accompanied byClerisseau alone, as he seems to have been on the occasion of theexcursion to \icenza and \erona. The Joseph mentioned wasprobably Joseph or Giuseppe Zucchi, as we have already surmised,while the George may have been George Richardson, the designerof the Entrance Hall ceiling at Kedleston. At Ferrara, Adam encou

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