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  • image SM Adam volume 19/150

Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/150

Purpose

[54] Record drawing for a pavilion, 1770, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial and longitudinal sections of the building as Adam volume 19/149, showing an interior ornamented with Spalatro pilasters, a caryatid chimneypiece and aedicular overmantel, semicircular-headed niches, a frieze of rosettes, a barrel-vaulted ceiling ornamented with octagonal compartments and oval fans, and the apse heads ornamented with medallions and drops of calyx

Scale

bar scale of 3/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Lord Scarsdale Garden Building (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770 (in pencil)

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (419 x 603)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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