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  • image Adam vol.55/35

Reference number

Adam vol.55/35

Purpose

Capriccio showing a sketch for an elevation for a symmetrical villa with shallow dome over a three-bay centre, linked by colonnades to single-bay pavilions with hipped roofs.

Aspect

Elevation

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink on drawing 35

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 - 56

Medium and dimensions

Pen86 x 205

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This is a simpler version of the elevation shown in Adam vol.55/34. Both are developments of the Palladian villa elevation, particularly the Villa Trissino illustrated in A. Palladio, I Quattro Libri Dell'architettura, II, 1570, p.60. Robert Adam only visited Vicenza and the Palladian villas on his way home from Italy in the summer of 1757, so such studies would have been derived from the woodcut illustrations in I Quattro Libri, a copy of which he owned and is now in Sir John Soane's Museum (see vol.54 addenda, SM AL6A. There are similar but smaller designs in Adam vol.9/5 and 9/135.

Level

Drawing

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