[5] Design for a garden pavilion, 1764, unexecuted

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  - Sir William Stanhope, unexecuted designs for a garden pavilion, either for Pope’s Villa in Twickenham or Eythrope House in Buckinghamshire, 1764 (19)
    - Designs, finished drawings and a record drawing for a garden pavilion, 1764, unexecuted (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/127

Purpose

[5] Design for a garden pavilion, 1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a circular, domed temple, supported by a square stylobate, with steps leading to a central door with a frieze ornamented with arabesques. The temple also contains three windows alternating with four sculpture-filled niches, and each bay is articulated by an engaged fluted Ionic column. The temple is ornamented with urns, relief panels containing half-figures and griffons, patera, and with a frieze of festoons. There is extensive pencil underdrawing

Scale

bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

measurements given

Signed and dated

1764
datable to 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (428 x 607)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 218
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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