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  • image SM Adam volume 38/66 (verso)

Reference number

SM Adam volume 38/66 (verso)

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for the ground storey of a chapel, c1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a building, with a portico entrance containing niches. The entrance leads to a space alternatively designed as circular and apsidal ended. The central space is flanked by colonnades. To the rear there is a window/entrance flanked by niches

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Plan of the Chapel for the Emmanuel Hospital (pencil) / 2

Signed and dated

  • c1778
    c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (530 x 356)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 59
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 66
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

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