Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [9] Finished drawing for a garden pavilion, 1764, unexecuted

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 11/107

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/107

Purpose

[9] Finished drawing for a garden pavilion, 1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a circular ceiling with a central rosette encircled by fluting, cable moulding, a fan enclosing arabesques and calyx, masks, a band of anthemia enclosed by scrolled hearts, bows, festoons, medallions enclosed within wreaths, urns supported by tripods and a border of arabesques, calyx and rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Plan of the Ceiling of the Temple

Signed and dated

  • 1764
    1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (454 x 615)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 218
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