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[16] Preliminary design for a garden temple, c1763-65
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/7/119
Purpose
[16] Preliminary design for a garden temple, c1763-65
Aspect
Rough plan of a circular building, with a central circular room, encircled by four small rooms: two rectangular, one semicircular, and one elliptical and containing a staircase, and these small rooms alternate with recessed portions of the exterior wall which are screened by two columns
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Moor Park and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1763-1765
date range: 1763-65
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (198 x 112)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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