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