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Academic exercise showing the plan and elevation of a stepped dome octagon that has a pedimented doorway with decorative panel above flanked by two windows with swags and rosettes above. Below, the plan shows eight openings, one a doorway that opposite blind to the chimneypiece.
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Reference number
Adam vol.19/114
Purpose
Academic exercise showing the plan and elevation of a stepped dome octagon that has a pedimented doorway with decorative panel above flanked by two windows with swags and rosettes above. Below, the plan shows eight openings, one a doorway that opposite blind to the chimneypiece.
Aspect
Plan, elevation
Signed and dated
- Undated, but between 1756/7 and 1760
Medium and dimensions
Pen, grey wash390 x 255
Hand
Adam Scottish Office
Watermark
crowned shield with fleur de lys
Notes
In the opinion of A. A. Tait, this drawing relates in time and place or subject to those contained in Adam volume 7.This is the most complex design in the group of pavilion exercises (see Adam vol.19/107-114), of which there is a more elaborate version in Adam vol.19/113. The idea may have been taken from Isaac Ware, A Complete Body of Architecture (London, 1756/7, published in weekly parts), where he divided his garden pavilions into three: '1. A simple. 2. A more ornamented, and, 3. A nobler, more elevated, and more expensive' (see pl.101, p.640). The composition may also be compared with a similar one in James Gibbs, A Book of Architecture (London, 1728, p.81), a copy of which was in the library at Blair Adam. William Adam also subscribed to the volume.
Level
Drawing
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