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Reference number

SM Adam volume 27/29

Purpose

[5] Preliminary design for the walls of the circular room, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a circular wall which is composed of an arcade of relieving arches, containing a Venetian window, Venetian window-shaped mirror frames, with fan heads, and an apse with a semi-dome ornamented with a medallion and festoons, and containing a sideboard table and an elaborate girandole, and with a doorway on the far left-hand bay

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Circular Room at Gn Fitzroys house Exte[ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]

Signed and dated

  • 1774
    datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (548 x 290)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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