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Preliminary design for a garden seat in the form of a temple and bird houses, ND
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 9/208
Purpose
Preliminary design for a garden seat in the form of a temple and bird houses, ND
Aspect
Above - Plan of a central set of steps leading to an apse set behind a colonnaded screen and containing a seat. To the rear of the apse there is a square space, with a small set of steps on the left-hand side. The stepped seat is flanked by curved yards for the storage of wood and kennelling of dogs, and the yards are enclosed within fences. In front of the yards there are single-bay, rectangular rooms, forming bird houses
Below - Elevation of a single-storey, three-bay, pedimented building with a central apse containing a seat, all set behind a rustic Doric screen. The apse has a frieze and a coffered ceiling, and it is flanked by plinths supporting draped statuary, with roundels set above. The pediment is bordered with bands of dentils, and it is surmounted by plinths supporting urns. The principal building if flanked by a low wooden fence, and on the right-hand side there is a single-storey, single-bay building with a pyramidal roof and a three-quarter-height window, with a band of dentils above
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
50 / Bird House / Wood Yard / Seat / Dog Yard / House
Signed and dated
- ND
ND
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (128x110)
Hand
Probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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