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  • image SM Adam volume 2/152

Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/152

Purpose

[8] Design for a building, c.1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Upper: Variant of SM Adam volume 2/151 showing a single-storey block with flanking lower wings which terminate in piers. The central block comprises an arched opening flanked by two pairs of fluted columns supporting an entablature with a fan light and broken-base pediment above. The flanking wings have statues in niches and terminate in paired-column piers. The left pier is surmounted by a sphinx. Adjoining the left side is a lower wall with a pencil outline of a small pier. Adjoining the right side is an additional block mimicking the central block on a smaller scale with a square-headed opening in a pedimented surround Lower: Plan of a building comprising five spaces with adjoining walls. The two outer spaces have apsidal ends

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • c.1791
    datable to c.1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including sepia (299x185)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

JB [_ _ ]adshaw

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
King, 2001, p. 213
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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