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Robert Adam

(1728—1792) architect

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Bowood

Bowood  

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Calne, Wiltshire, England, has one of the most beguiling of Capability Brown's landscapes. The estate at Bowood is very ancient; part of it was a royal deer park in the ...
fishing house

fishing house  

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The fishing house, usually combined with a boathouse, is found in many English 18th-century gardens frequently occupying a position of prominence in the landscape. Robert Adam designed a beautiful ...
Newby Hall

Newby Hall  

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Near Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, was built in the 1690s and added to by Robert Adam in 1767. Celia Fiennes visited Newby in 1697 and described the garden in detail ...

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