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Scotland: Edinburgh, Adam Mausoleum. Academic study for a section through a mausoleum of three bays, divided by semi-engaged columns with spiral fluting on a base of relief sculpture, with three statues of seated figures in niches. Above is more sculpture and a coffered and compartmented dome with oculus.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/38
Purpose
Scotland: Edinburgh, Adam Mausoleum. Academic study for a section through a mausoleum of three bays, divided by semi-engaged columns with spiral fluting on a base of relief sculpture, with three statues of seated figures in niches. Above is more sculpture and a coffered and compartmented dome with oculus.
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Section
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 38
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756 - 57
Medium and dimensions
Pen204 x 202
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
grapes [?]
Notes
This is an enlarged version of the section shown in Adam vol.55/37 through the unbuilt scheme for the Adam Mausoleum in Edinburgh, Scotland. The three plaques between the column capitals are inscribed: 'Lista delle anime di Purgatorie'; 'Pater Noster de Ave Maria'; 'Plena et[?] Indulgenzia', all of which would have made strange reading in a Protestant churchyard. In Adam vol.56/2 there is a view by Robert Adam of the Mausoleum in Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh that was completed in October 1755; there is also a pencil drawing for the 'Adamian Sepulchre' in the Blair Adam Collection (BA 201); both predate the scheme shown here, which is probably 1756-57.
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Drawing
Exhibition history
The Adam Brothers in Rome: Drawings from the Grand Tour, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 September 2008 - 14 February 2009
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk