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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.
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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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