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  • image SM Adam volume 19/133

Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/133

Purpose

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

Aspect

Section of a circular, domed temple, supported by a stylobate, containing three windows, and containing pilasters ornamented with arabesques, with relief panels of arabesques, rosettes, and half-figures, a dado of Vitruvian scroll, a frieze of naturalistic palmettes between a serpentine ribbon, and with enclosed rosettes, and with a dome ornamented with arabesques, rosettes, tripods, festoons, medallions, and enclosed anthemia

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

above the Cornice to be Plaister (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1764
    datable to 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash on laid paper (444 x 599)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

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

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