The Shaper of Things to Come; At the Octagon, Robert Adam's Original Drawings From: The Washington Post | Date: July 25, 1998| Author: Benjamin Forgey | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

An exhibition of drawings by the prolific 18th-century British architect Robert Adam could hardly find a better home in America than the Octagon, the beautiful Adamesque mansion near the White House, built nearly 200 years ago.

Sensitively restored over the past decade at a cost of more than $5 million, the Octagon is a sparkling host for the show of 66 drawings by Adam and his talented friends and employees -- "Robert Adam, the Creative Mind: from the sketch to the finished draw...

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