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  • image SM Adam volume 4/163

Reference number

SM Adam volume 4/163

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for the building, c1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan of a rectangular building, with a central circular room with four niches, with a tripartite porticoed loggia at the front, and flanked by screened square rooms, with screened apses to each end, and screened apsidal recesses to front and rear, and one of the apsidal ends gives access to a oval room, and a screened apse in the side wall containing an external doorway

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • c1772
    datable to c1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (209 x 320)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

LVG

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
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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