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[1] Preliminary design showing a plan for a building, c1755-56 or 1765-68, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 55/173 verso
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design showing a plan for a building, c1755-56 or 1765-68, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan of a building, with projecting three-bay wings containing niches, flanking a colonnaded concave centre, with a screened entrance, beyond which is a rotunda, screened from two segmental lobbies, and U-shaped staircase, and the rotunda is flanked by a large rectangular room for dancing, and a large rectangular room for music concerts, with a bow on the side of each
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
chambre pour /La Te et la Jeus/ Endroit pour les/ Fruits et des ju[?] les/ musique/ Chambres a/ jouer il au [?] / Desau le cuisine / Directeur de Concert / Grand / niche a / jouer ou - [?] / d'allondre les / Dances / Chambre de / Danse / Fruit. En bas et / Musique en haut / Salle interiure / Salle enterieure / orchestre / Salle du / Musique / Chambres / du Livres / de / Musique
Signed and dated
- 1755-56 or 1765-68
dated by Tait as c1755-56 or datable to 1765-68
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (257 x 203)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Rowan, 2003, pp. 27-29
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk