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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/138

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a building, c.1791-92, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and two elevations of a building comprising a central domed space, three bays wide adorned with a mixture of festooned friezes, Venetian windows and oculi, with four radiating wings

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Some calculations in pencil

Signed and dated

  • c.1791-92
    datable to c.1791-92

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (335x402)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Alternative elevation of a three-storey building with a rusticated, arcaded ground floor, and a central first-floor Venetian window with a Diocletian window above, and a festooned panel with acroteria at roof level. Across the elevation, there are a mixture of square-headed windows, pedimented windows within relieving arches, arched windows and oculi

Watermark

Portal & Co

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

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