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Capriccio showing an outline for a large, complex building of five stories with a variety of windows and niches, culminating in twin domes linked by a colonnade. It is entered by an aedicular archway in a series of projecting and recessing façades.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/163
Purpose
Capriccio showing an outline for a large, complex building of five stories with a variety of windows and niches, culminating in twin domes linked by a colonnade. It is entered by an aedicular archway in a series of projecting and recessing façades.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 163
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1757
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk
113 x 270
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
This chalk drawing can probably be associated with several schemes for Robert Adam's vast and monumental palace design of 1757 in Adam vol.28/1; there are similar although larger, drawings for this scheme in Adam vol.9/110, vol.10/14 verso and vol.21/40. There are also hints of this scheme in Adam vol.55/12 and 49.
Level
Drawing
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