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  • image Adam vol.9/36

Reference number

Adam vol.9/36

Purpose

Academic study for three plans. At the top is an unfinished plan for a pavilion with a projecting five-bay portico, opening onto a longitudinal corridor, either side of which is a circular hall, joined at one side by a quadrant leading to two smaller pavilions. Below this is a plan for a small symmetrical pavilion with four projecting porticoes leading to a circular hall. A small part of a wall plan appears at the bottom of the sheet.

Aspect

Plans

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink on drawing 36

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 - 56

Medium and dimensions

Pen, grey wash; pencil (lower plan)183 x 201

Hand

Robert Adam (attributed to)

Watermark

horned crown

Notes

The unfinished plan at the top of the sheet is a detailed form of one of the pavilions that appears in the top quadrant of the large scheme shown in Adam vol.9/39. The composition of the corridor of the pavilion is similar to that in Adam vol.9/27. The lower plan of a circular pavilion is a variation on the one in Adam vol.9/23. The drawing technique is similar to that found in Adam vol.9/27, 35, 37 and 38.

Level

Drawing

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