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Unfinished academic study showing a plan with a concave entrance portico of five bays on concave steps, opening into a hall with three-bay screens at either end, beyond which is another oval hall with columns and niches and two curved staircases.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/131
Purpose
Unfinished academic study showing a plan with a concave entrance portico of five bays on concave steps, opening into a hall with three-bay screens at either end, beyond which is another oval hall with columns and niches and two curved staircases.
Aspect
Plan
verso perspective, plans or diagrams, mostly trimmed
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 131
Signed and dated
- Undated, 1755 - 56
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen
160 x 178
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Capriccio in pencil and pen showing a landscape with trees and buildings partly cropped by trimming of sheet. Also on the sheet are diagrams or a plan.
Notes
This composition may be compared with that in Adam vol.55/124 and 132; these drawings are all part of a group of pavilion exercises. The ink hatched plan is an overdrawn reworking and variation of the pencil scheme, as can also be seen in Adam vol.55/121 and 125.
Level
Drawing
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