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Reference number

SM Adam volume 9/181

Purpose

[9] Preliminary design for a garden temple, c1758-63, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan and elevation of a single-storey, three-bay rectangular temple with a circular domed centre supported by Corinthian columns, flanked by apsidal compartments ornamented with square-headed, sculpture-filled niches

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

23 / 15 (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1758-1763
    datable to c1758-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (172 x 244)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 184, 226
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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