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Adam Volume 1
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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 1
- Scotland: Edinburgh, Edinburgh Assembly and Musical Society (designs for concert hall). Design showing a section through a large hall with coffered and coved ceiling supported by pilasters flanking a large columned niche of three bays. On either side are lower sections of niches, panels and sculpture.
- Scotland: Edinburgh, Edinburgh Assembly and Musical Society (designs for concert hall). Unfinished design for a coffered coved niche with pilasters, architrave and cornice at either end. In the spandrels above are winged victories.
- Scotland: Edinburgh, Edinburgh Assembly and Musical Society (designs for concert hall). Unfinished design for a section through a domed hall showing a coffered dome with Greek Key cornice. Below are two coved and coffered niches flanking a pedimented doorway with sculpture on either side and a rectangular relief panel above.
- Design for the elevation of a palace composed as a main block of nine bays arranged over two stories, with a shallow stepped dome on a drum over a central three-bay bow, with two wings linked by a six-bay Doric colonnade to five-bay pavilions showing alternative designs, with pediments and sculpture. Above this is a small plan showing two staircases.
- Italy: Sora, Isola di Liri, Falls of Liri. View showing a large waterfall and bridge with a rocky riverbed below. To the left is an irregular castello with a classical porch, and below are domestic buildings incorporating ancient ruins.
- View of the remains of a circular mausoleum beside a ruined two-bay bridge and archway beyond amongst trees. In the foreground is a ruined overgrown arch with columns, and remains of a pediment.