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[11] Preliminary design for a garden temple, c1758-63, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 9/177
Purpose
[11] Preliminary design for a garden temple, c1758-63, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan and elevation of an open, single-storey, single-bay pedimented garden temple on a semicircular plan, with a large ornamental frieze of griffons flanking an urn, supported by Tuscan columns, and with a suggestion of arabesque decoration on the right-hand pilaster
Scale
bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Column to be 7 1/2 Dm and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c1758-1763
datable to c1758-63
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (181 x 300)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 184, 226
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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