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[149] Preliminary design for the building, c1769-76, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 1/166
Purpose
[149] Preliminary design for the building, c1769-76, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan of a rectangular building, with the central three bays at the east end projecting, and containing a three niches behind a segmental perimeter wall, and with the central five bays on the principal front projecting, with a central three-bay colonnade, screening an elliptical lobby, flanked by niches, and accessed by straight external stairs, and flanked by recessed bays containing doors, and inside the building is a large circular room, with an apse containing niches at either end, and with a small circular room with four niches in each corner of the building
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
some rough calculations given
Signed and dated
- 1769-76
date range: 1769-76
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (158 x 207)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 66
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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