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Academic study for the plan of a circular building composed around a square court surrounded by a double colonnade, with four oval staircases and four openings with niches on either side on the elevations.
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Reference number
Adam vol.9/2
Purpose
Academic study for the plan of a circular building composed around a square court surrounded by a double colonnade, with four oval staircases and four openings with niches on either side on the elevations.
Aspect
Plan
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 2
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen136 x 132
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
This is the first of several exercises in Adam volume 9 that are based on the composition of a circular building (see 9/3, 26 and 38; also 9/132 and 220, both dating from post-1758) such as a Maritime Theatre at Tivoli, Italy. They appear in a variety of later Adam designs, of which the most impressive, in the form of a country house, was Wyke House, Sion Hill at Isleworth, Surrey of c.1779. A plan sketched in chalk in Adam vol.55/128 combines the ideas that appear here and in Adam vol.9/3, which emphasises the connection between volumes 9 and 55 (another example of which can be seen in the oval schemes on the verso of 55/29). The corrections in pencil that change the internal court to an octagonal form can be compared with the scheme in 55/128.
Level
Drawing
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