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Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/115

Purpose

[11] Preliminary design showing a longitudinal section through the concert hall, c1765-68, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough longitudinal section through the concert hall, showing a wall containing an apse, flanked by winged half-figures in the spandrels, and with a compartmental semi-dome, divided by bands of fret, and ornamented with octagonal, oval and rectangular tablets, and compartments of arabesques, and with a central recess containing an organ, flanked by rectangular panels surmounted by brackets supporting figures holding swags, and beyond are sculpture-filled niches

Scale

to a rough scale

Signed and dated

  • 1765-68
    date range: c1765-68 (see scheme notes)

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (316 x 327)

Hand

Either Robert or James Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 53
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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