Preliminary design for a mausoleum, ND

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Unattributed drawings
    - Unattributed designs for funerary monuments and mausolea

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/22

Purpose

Preliminary design for a mausoleum, ND

Aspect

Rough elevation of a rusticated five-bay mausoleum, with a central circular, domed two-storey bay, with a door, surmounted by an oculus, a tablet of guilloche, and a frieze of swags. This central bay has buttresses supporting flaming urns. The central bay is flanked by single-storey, single-bay links containing doors, and single-storey, single-bay pavilions with arched windows and pyramidal roofs

Scale

not to scale

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and seipa wash on laid paper (206x167)

Hand

Probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792) - Collections

Level

Drawing

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