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Academic study for the plan of a rectangular building with projecting three-bay pilastered entrance. A colonnaded hall with large staircase at one end opens onto a circular room with columns.
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Reference number
Adam vol.9/11
Purpose
Academic study for the plan of a rectangular building with projecting three-bay pilastered entrance. A colonnaded hall with large staircase at one end opens onto a circular room with columns.
Aspect
Planverso elevation (part)
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 11
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 56.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen164 x 202
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Fragment of a small sketch in black chalk showing the base of an elevation with columns and niches.
Notes
This plan belongs with a small group of pavilion designs that incorporate a large circular hall; it closely resembles Adam vol.9/7. The use of diagonal hatching is also found in 9/7 and 9/12. This drawing has been worked up from pencil under-drawing; there are corrections made in the pen drawing, particularly to the pilastered entrance where the original drawing has been partially erased. Such corrections suggest the serious and professional attitude held by both Robert Adam and Laurent-Benoít Dewez (1731-1812) towards such schemes. There is a version of this scheme in the Dewez drawings in the Rijksarchief, Brussels (see Dewez 1/11). Similar, but more casual, exercises are also found in Adam vol.9/46-50.
Level
Drawing
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