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The rough preliminary design in Adam's own hand (Adam volume 4/25) shares the paired columns articulating the central apse, albeit being Doric rather than Ionic, as well as the same shaped segmental apse containing an urn on a pedestal, and with the central bay projecting and surmounted by a pediment. The design (Adam volume 30/121) makes use of the same frieze, tablet and pediment, but the apse is much wider than the engraving in The works, screened by Corinthian columns, and articulated by single Corinthian columns rather than paired Ionic (one column and one pilaster).
The garden seat was not executed. See scheme notes.
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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Contents of Alternative preliminary design and design for a garden seats, 1772, unexecuted (2)
- [1] Preliminary design for a garden seats, 1772, unexecuted
- [2] Design for a garden seats, 1772, unexecuted