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Three studies showing an obelisk on a square base with a circular relief panel on top of a supporting vault with two simple doorways and a plain rectangular window above.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/119a, 119b, 119c
Purpose
Three studies showing an obelisk on a square base with a circular relief panel on top of a supporting vault with two simple doorways and a plain rectangular window above.
Aspect
Plan, elevations
Scale
Scale on 119c 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Front representing the Door (119a); Section upon the Line A B. (119b); Plan of the Obelisk. (119c)
Signed and dated
- Undated
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink and grey wash
133 x 95 (119a); 133 x 94 (119b); 328 x 70 (119c)
Hand
William Adam, Office of
Watermark
CM on 119c IV
Notes
These three studies were originally part of the same sheet and divided later. The handwriting and style of draughtsmanship is typical of William Adam's office, and is similar to the academic exercise for Hot and Cold Baths (see A. A. Tait, Robert Adam: drawings and imagination, Cambridge, 1993, p.7). In the Blair Adam collection, Scotland, there is a sketch of obelisks (see BA 200) and several variations after James Gibbs, A Book of Architecture, London, 1728 (see particularly Adam vol.19/107).
Level
Drawing
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