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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/139

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay, circular, domed temple, with a rusticated basement containing an arched door, flanked by urn-filled niches, and in the upper register is a central recessed window behind a screen of two fluted Corinthian columns, with a balustrade in between, and flanked by bays containing a window and relief panels of arabesques, griffons, and festoons, and each bay is articulated by a fluted Corinthian pilaster, and the whole has a frieze of enclosed anthemia

Scale

bar scale of 3/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Signed and dated

  • 1764
    1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (456 x 611)

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

Exhibition history

'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004

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