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  • image Adam vol.55/182

Reference number

Adam vol.55/182

Purpose

Capriccio showing a plan of a pavilion with six-bay portico opening into a large apsidal hall with staircases and a circular room on either side. Also on the sheet is a sectional elevation through a domed three-bay building with lower adjoining wings. Below is a detail of a plan with columns.

Aspect

Plan, and section verso detail

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink on drawing 182; and in ink in a contemporary hand 14.5 / 31.12

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 - 56

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, on inverted grey paper 134 x 197

Hand

Robert Adam

Verso

Pen outline drawing of a group of trees on grey inverted paper.

Notes

The pavilion plan is probably a version of the scheme in pencil on the verso of Adam vol.55/170 or the elevation in Adam vol.55/63. The small column plan is the same as that in Adam vol.55/181.

Level

Drawing

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