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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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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