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Academy study showing a symmetrical plan of a four-bay portico leading into a rectangular hall, with columns and dome, with courtyards to either side and two double staircases opening to a projecting apse of columns and piers.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/121
Purpose
Academy study showing a symmetrical plan of a four-bay portico leading into a rectangular hall, with columns and dome, with courtyards to either side and two double staircases opening to a projecting apse of columns and piers.
Aspect
Plan
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 121
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 56
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, black and red chalk
223 x 204, trimmed at top
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
list of partial names
Notes
The plan here is a development of those in Adam vol.55/120; it overlays a plan in pencil of a saltire form also seen in Adam vol.9/8 and 39. There is overdrawing in ink and red chalk, of which the latter may possibly be a correction or compositional suggestion by Laurent-Benoít Dewez (1731-1812); a similar instance of this may be found in 55/124 where a portico has been added to the design.
Level
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
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