Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [151] Preliminary design for the building, c1769-76, unexecuted

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 10/64
Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image
Print this image in A4 view  (icon indicating printer link)

Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/64

Purpose

[151] Preliminary design for the building, c1769-76, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a seven-bay church, with the central five bays projecting, articulated by lotus capital(?) columns and surmounted by a pediment, and with a central door, flanked by sculpture-filled niches, and the recessed end bays contain pedimented doors, and the whole has friezes of festoons and arabesques, and is surmounted by a spire which has been crossed out

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769-76
    date range: 1769-76

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (137 x 161)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 66
Rowan, 2007, p. 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Vaulting Ambition: The Adam Brothers, Contractors to the Metropolis in the Reign of George III, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 14 September 2007 - 12 January 2008; The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham, 19 April - 24 May 2008; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 24 October - 13 December 2008

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).