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Unfinished capriccio showing a plan of a courtyard building with colonnaded quadrants linking four pavilions with other, possibly circular pavilions at the four corners.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/171 extra
Purpose
Unfinished capriccio showing a plan of a courtyard building with colonnaded quadrants linking four pavilions with other, possibly circular pavilions at the four corners.
Aspect
Plan
Inscribed
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1757
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk
170? x 220 drawing size
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
This chalk plan is drawn directly onto one of the original pages of the album to which the collection of drawings has been mounted. There is a similar large courtyard scheme in Adam vol.55/28 and several in volume 9 (see Adam vol.9/45 recto and verso). The drawing thus appears to be contemporary with the other exercises in this and similar volumes and makes clear that the volume was acquired and used by Robert Adam for some purpose around 1757, and the drawings were inserted subsequently (see Adam vol.55/107). There is a similar instance of an additional page inserted after Adam vol.55/179, and another plan similarly drawn on the original page of the album at the start of this volume (see Adam vol.55/1 extra).
This suggests that the purpose of this volume was always to contain architectural exercises of some sort, presumably commenced in Italy around 1755.
This suggests that the purpose of this volume was always to contain architectural exercises of some sort, presumably commenced in Italy around 1755.
Level
Drawing
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