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Capriccio showing plan and elevation for a seven-bay symmetrical building with rusticated ground storey, having three doorways with steps and three-bay portico. Above is an arcade with domes at either end, another storey and domed cupola. Below the elevation is a plan showing three large halls with a triple exedra at one end.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/10
Purpose
Capriccio showing plan and elevation for a seven-bay symmetrical building with rusticated ground storey, having three doorways with steps and three-bay portico. Above is an arcade with domes at either end, another storey and domed cupola. Below the elevation is a plan showing three large halls with a triple exedra at one end.
Aspect
Plan, elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 10
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 56
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown wash311 x 222
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The plan is more typical of those found frequently in Adam volume 9, see Adam vol.9/50, which has much the same composition. Both these plans can be also be related to Adam vol.55/130, and this situation suggests that the separation between volume 55 and volume 9 is an arbitrary one. The elevation is of the same composition as found in Adam vol.55/11. This drawing belongs with Adam vol.55/10, 11 and 14 as a small group of symmetrical elevations with wings and a domed centre block.
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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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