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  • image SM Adam volume 2/133

Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/133

Purpose

Preliminary design for a rustic building, ND

Aspect

Above- Elevation of a single-storey building with a pitched, thatched roof and a circular, rustic, Doric portico, with a conical roof which supports a weathervane. Above the central entrance there is a Diocletian window, set within the tympanum, and the portico is flanked by cross-shaped windows. The building has a frieze of rosettes Below- Plan of a circular building, set behind semi-circular colonnades and flanked by single-bay wings

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (208x189)

Hand

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

Level

Drawing

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