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Hele livet29 November 1752
Initiated as a Freemason with his brother James
Robert and James Adam were initiated into the Masonic Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No. 2 in Edinburgh.
3 October 1754
The Grand Tour begins: from Edinburgh via London
With his brother James, who went with him as far as Brussels, Robert set out from Edinburgh. In London they saw the Mansion House, St Stephen Walbrook and St Paul's Cathedral, and at Windsor Thomas Sandby showed them his landscaping in Windsor Great Park and at Virginia Water.
28 October 1754
Calais and Brussels: travelling with Charles Hope-Weir
Sailing from Dover, Adam landed at Calais and in Brussels joined Charles Hope-Weir, brother of the Earl of Hopetoun, who took him along at the suggestion of his uncle, the Marquess of Annandale; via Tournai and Lille, with Vauban's citadel, they reached Paris by 12 November. In Rome the companions fell out over travelling expenses and accommodation.
1754–1756
Rome: Piranesi, Cardinal Albani, Winckelmann
On the way to Italy Adam saw the Pont du Gard, the Maison Carrée and other ancient ruins of southern France; in Rome, with Clérisseau and the painter Antonio Zucchi, he immersed himself in antiquities, grew close to Piranesi and the collector Cardinal Alessandro Albani, and came to know the work of Winckelmann. Other accounts have him in Rome until 1757.
