The drawings of Robert Adam and his office. (British architect)

The Magazine Antiques | April 1, 1994| | Copyright

The outstanding collection in Sir John Soane's Museum in London of some eight thousand drawings from the office of the British architect Robert Adam is unique by any standard since it shows how such an office went about its business in the second half of the eighteenth century. The drawings Adam made for his clients--usually eye-catching, colored elevations--are arranged in fifty-six volumes, mounted cheek by jowl with the thumbnail sketches and penciled doodles from which they were derived (see Figs. 1a, 1b).(1) The survival of the rough beside the smooth is not by chance, ...

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