Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [1] Finished drawing for a lobby or portico within a garden pavilion, 1762, possibly executed

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 19/122

Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/122

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for a lobby or portico within a garden pavilion, 1762, possibly executed

Aspect

Part plan and axial section, showing a rectangular lobby or portico with an apse on the right-hand side, and with a tripartite door on one wall, set within a relieving arch, and surmounted by a bust, and the wall is ornamented with Doric pilasters, and a frieze of festoons and rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section through the Portico Showing the Method of finishing / the Arch & Door into the Room and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    Robt Adam Architect 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and pink wash on laid paper (313 x 457)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk