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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/147

Purpose

[1] Record drawing for a garden pavilion, 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a one-storey, five-bay building on a stylobate of three steps, with a hipped roof, apsidal ends, and a peristyle around a bow across the central three bays, with four Spalatro columns matching the pilasters which articulate the niche-filled end bays. The interior is composed of a single room with apsidal ends, containing a chimneypiece opposite the bow front, windows on the side walls, and six niches
  • image SM Adam volume 19/147

Scale

bar scale of 3/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Building for Edward Popham Esqr proposed to be executed in his Park / at Littlecote in Wiltshire / Plan of the building and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    1768 (in pencil)

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (416 x 615)

Hand

James Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 21
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 221
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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