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Unfinished design showing a section through a domed hall with oculus with three bays and two windows on either side of a door with panels above. At the top of the sheet are details of pilaster capitals and a panel.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/226
Purpose
Unfinished design showing a section through a domed hall with oculus with three bays and two windows on either side of a door with panels above. At the top of the sheet are details of pilaster capitals and a panel.
Aspect
Section, details
Scale
1 inch to 7 feet
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Section of the great Room
Signed and dated
- Undated
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil
318 x 203
Hand
James Adam
Watermark
crown above circle
Notes
The inscription suggests that this drawing is connected with the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms and Musical Society project of c.1755 (see Adam vol.7/194 and 225). However, the building shown in section is considerably smaller than the other proposals and may be connected with the casino for Robert Adam's house at 46 Lower Grosvenor Street, London (see A. A. Tait, Robert Adam: drawings and imagination, Cambridge, 1993, pp.83-85; and see also Adam vol.7/227 and 228).
Level
Drawing
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