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  • image SM Adam volume 9/187

Reference number

SM Adam volume 9/187

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a garden temple, c1760-61, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a three-bay, domed temple, supported by a shallow stylobate, and with an open front screened by two fluted Doric columns, supporting a frieze of ox skulls and festoons, and a pediment, with a central acroterion, and with an enclosed rosette and festoons in the tympanum. The screen is flanked by panels containing drops

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • c1760-61
    datable to c1760-61

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (103 x 111)

Hand

Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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