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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.
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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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