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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/7/269

Purpose

[18] Preliminary design for a sundial, c1763-85

Aspect

Four rough plans, and one rough elevation of a sundial, with a fluted stylobate supporting winged half-sphinxes, supporting a tapering, rectangular pedestal, ornamented with a figurative panel, surmounted by anthemia, calyx, and ram masks, and a slab ornamented with Vitruvian scroll to the side, and divided in variant ways as a sun dial in the four plans

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sir John Griffin Griffin and some measurements in pen and pencil (verso) part of a letter

Signed and dated

  • 1763-85
    date range: 1763-85

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (134 x 322)

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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