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Adam Volume 10
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- Main Year: 0
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Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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Contents of Adam Volume 10
- Capriccio showing a plan for a large symmetrical building with a three-bay deep portico of fifteen bays opening into a square court of peristyle with steps and colonnade; two additional courts with bowed elevations.
- Unfinished capriccio showing a street scene with two large irregular buildings in a mixture of classical and Renaissance styles. That on the left has a tiled roof and balconies, and the other has a projecting portico with pediment.
- Unfinished design for the elevation of a large building with a towered and domed centre block. This is flanked by obelisks. There is a pavilion of four stories, connected by a pyramid form. All are decorated with rich sculptural decoration.
- Unfinished capriccio showing the elevation of a large building composed as a porticoed central block of seventeen bays on steps, with large thermal window and relief sculpture above and flanking pavilions with thermal windows, and facades composed as triumphal arches.
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