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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

Level

Drawing

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