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Two studies for façades of three bays. That at the top shows a church with projecting entrance tower with rusticated base, with a clock and steeple above. Below this is a mausoleum, with a tapering obelisk of three tiers with oval windows, above a rusticated, pedimented doorway.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/120
Purpose
Two studies for façades of three bays. That at the top shows a church with projecting entrance tower with rusticated base, with a clock and steeple above. Below this is a mausoleum, with a tapering obelisk of three tiers with oval windows, above a rusticated, pedimented doorway.
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Elevations
verso plan
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink James Adam Invt. 1752 and Jas. Adam invt. 1752
Signed and dated
- 1752
Medium and dimensions
Pen
234 x 102, two sheets joined, the upper trimmed to apprximately silhouette the subject
Hand
James Adam
Notes
These are similar to the academic studies in Adam vol.26/118 and 141, the latter also dated 1752. All may be compared with several drawings at Blair Adam, Scotland that show three-bay buildings in elevation (see BA 215-7) and belong to the period c.1752. The elevations here may be connected with James Adam's design for Cumnock Church, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1753 (see Clerk collection, Scotland), built the following year. The steeple in the lower elevation is similar to that on William Adam's Dundee Town House of 1732-5 (see J. Simpson, 'The Practical Architect', Architectural Heritage, I, Edinburgh, 1990, p.79). The lower spire appears as faint underdrawing at the top of the sheet in Adam vol.26/141.
The top drawing has been trimmed to correspond to the outline of the building (see also Adam vol.56/172).
The top drawing has been trimmed to correspond to the outline of the building (see also Adam vol.56/172).
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
The Adam Brothers in Rome: Drawings from the Grand Tour, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 September 2008 - 14 February 2009
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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