[8] Design for a garden temple, 1775, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Projects known only by patron
  - Reverend Dovey: unexecuted designs for ceilings, chimneypieces, and a temple, 1774-75 (8)
    - Preliminary design and design for a garden temple, 1775, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/153

Purpose

[8] Design for a garden temple, 1775, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a single-storey, single-bay, stepped domed temple, with paired engaged Doric columns with bands of stiff leaf around their necks, and these columns are between the door and three windows, and the door is shown on the elevation, with a frieze of alternating fluting and enclosed rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Garden Temple for the Reverend Mr. Dovey (underwritten in pencil) and some measurements given

Signed and dated

23/08/1775
Adelphi 23 August / 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (341 x 525)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 53
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 226
For a full list of literature reference see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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