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Capriccio showing a section through a hall with doorway flanked by aedicular niches with sculpture below a decorated vault. At either end are coffered apses with columns and niches. Below on the sheet is part of a plan of the same building.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/102
Purpose
Capriccio showing a section through a hall with doorway flanked by aedicular niches with sculpture below a decorated vault. At either end are coffered apses with columns and niches. Below on the sheet is part of a plan of the same building.
Aspect
Section, plan (part)verso section, elevation (part)
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 102
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 56
Medium and dimensions
Pen70 x 154
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Pen and ink capriccio showing part of a section through a dome and part of a two-storey elevation of columns and aedicular niches.
Notes
This section can be compared with a similar design in Adam vol.55/94. The interior is a smaller version of the section shown in Adam vol.55/103. The very small scale of the drawing on both recto and verso is also found in drawings in volume 9. The sheet is the remains of a larger one, as the drawings on the verso make clear.
Level
Drawing
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