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Reference number

Adam vol.55/180

Purpose

Academic study showing a view and two plans for a symmetrical building composed as three-bay porticoes on steps, with colonnade and apse above supporting a pediment and shallow dome. Below on the sheet are two plans, one an enlarged version of the other, which show a central circular hall surrounded by rooms and porticoes arranged symmetrically.

Aspect

Perspective, plans

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink on drawing 180

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 - 56

Medium and dimensions

Pen344 x 257

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

coat of arms

Notes

These pavilion plans and elevation belong to a group of exercises in Adam vol.55/168-70 and 174/5, although this scheme may also relate to the ink perspective in Adam vol.55/155 verso and that at 55/51. The two symmetrical plans can be compared with that on the verso of 55/170, and similar exercises in 55/142. The composition can also be seen to have developed from the sketch plan in 55/28, and also several in volume 9 (see Adam vol.9/23).

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004

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