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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/7/118

Purpose

[15] Preliminary design for a garden pavilion, 1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a two-storey, five-bay, circular, domed temple, with a rusticated basement, with a central tripartite door, surmounted by a Diocletian window, and flanked by urn-filled niches, and arched doorways, and the upper register contains two windows alternating with recessed bays which are screened by Doric columns
  • image SM Adam volume 54/7/118

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1764
    datable to 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (119 x 121)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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