[17] Preliminary design for the interior of a temple, 1772, executed with minor alterations

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  - Audley End, Saffron Walden, Essex: designs for the house and park for Sir John Griffin Griffin Bt (later 4th Lord Howard de Walden), 1763-85 (18)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 27/28

Purpose

[17] Preliminary design for the interior of a temple, 1772, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Section through a small circular, domed temple, showing a chimneypiece with a fluted frieze, and a tablet containing an urn, surmounted by a band of festoons, and a circular overmantel mirror frame ornamented with half figures, winged griffons, tubular flowers, calyx, an urn, and anthemia. The chimneypiece is flanked on either side by a window, and the wall is ornamented with a frieze of wreaths, and anthemia, and the dome is ornamented with winged griffons, urns, anthemia, arabesques, rosettes, and medallions, and with pencil-drawn annotations of various details, and an alternative overmantel mirror frame drawn in feint pencil

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of Sir John Griffin's Temple (in pencil) / N.B - There is no Chimney in this Temple (in pen)

Signed and dated

21/05/1772
May - 21st - 1772 / Adelphi

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (488 x 657)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, index p. 2
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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