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  • image SM Adam volume 1/17

Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/17

Purpose

[10] Design for a temple, c1787, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a single-storey, single-bay building. There is a central doorway flanked by Doric pilasters supporting a pediment ornamented with a rosette and festoons of husks. The capitals contain rosettes and there is a frieze of fluting, with a central plain tablet

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Little Temple at Claremont (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1787
    c1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (266 x 218)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 183, 222
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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