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Academic study for the plan of a large courtyarded building with square central hall or court enclosing a colonnade with four entrances between niches. These open into two rectangular rooms with colonnades and apsidal ends, with four square rooms or pavilions at the corners.
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Reference number
Adam vol.9/21
Purpose
Academic study for the plan of a large courtyarded building with square central hall or court enclosing a colonnade with four entrances between niches. These open into two rectangular rooms with colonnades and apsidal ends, with four square rooms or pavilions at the corners.
Aspect
Planverso perspective, plan
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 21
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 -56.
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk200 x 238
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Chalk capriccio showing in perspective an unfinished elevation of a pavilion with a five-bay projecting and pedimented portico. To one side are quadrant wings of niches and columns linking to a domed pavilion. This drawing is similar to a drawing in red chalk in Adam vol.55/165. To one side is a plan of a small staircase.
Watermark
names
Notes
This composition is a larger, grander and more obviously symmetrical exercise based on the pavilion drawings in Adam vol.9/18-20. There are other versions of this exercise, such as Adam vol.9/64, which explore the symmetrical composition. A pencil drawing with a similar scale and type of building is found in Adam vol.55/124.
Level
Drawing
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