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Definition of Robert Adam
1. Noun. Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Robert Adam
Literary usage of Robert Adam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Robert Adam was the second son of William Adam (see ... The screen on the Whitehall
front is by Robert Adam (see Adam), ..."
2. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1905)
"The presumption would rather be that his designs, during the earlier part of his
life, were even more influenced by Robert Adam than the later period with ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The art of Robert Adam was extraordinarily many-sided and prolific, ...
Robert Adam—with, there is reason to suspect, some help from his brother James—has ..."
4. Letters to Washington, and Accompanying Papers by George Washington (1902)
"FROM Robert Adam, ESQ. SIR ALEXANDRIA Decr 9"! 1774 The bearer hereof Mr Young
is a young man that came a perfet Stranger to me about three years ago, ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames: One by Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee (1814)
"LETTERS/TOOT Robert Adam, Esq. to Lord KAMES. London, 31st March 1763. My LORD,
I am ashamed to say I have had the honour of your letter of the 2d ult. so ..."
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