Academic study for the plan of a rectangular pavilion with a double portico of five bays on steps leading into a central circular hall that has four niches. On each side, a long corridor with staircase separates the hall from, on one side, one room and on the other side, three rooms.

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- Adam Volume 9

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Adam vol.9/29

Purpose

Academic study for the plan of a rectangular pavilion with a double portico of five bays on steps leading into a central circular hall that has four niches. On each side, a long corridor with staircase separates the hall from, on one side, one room and on the other side, three rooms.

Aspect

Planverso plan

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink on drawing 29

Signed and dated

Undated, probably 1755 - 56.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, grey wash117 x 166

Hand

Robert Adam

Verso

Part of a plan in pen showing an apsidal hall with flanking colonnades.

Notes

This drawing is a companion to those in Adam vol.9/24 and 28; it is the most formal of the three, as well as having an asymmetrical interior. The academic, if not pedagogic, character of this and similar drawings is demonstrated by the crossing out in pen of two side doorways to the central room at the top of the plan, which could indicate a revision made by a hand other than that of Robert Adam.

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Drawing

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