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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/64

Purpose

[151] Preliminary design for the building, c1769-76, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a seven-bay church, with the central five bays projecting, articulated by lotus capital(?) columns and surmounted by a pediment, and with a central door, flanked by sculpture-filled niches, and the recessed end bays contain pedimented doors, and the whole has friezes of festoons and arabesques, and is surmounted by a spire which has been crossed out

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769-76
    date range: 1769-76

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (137 x 161)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 66
Rowan, 2007, p. 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Vaulting Ambition: The Adam Brothers, Contractors to the Metropolis in the Reign of George III, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 14 September 2007 - 12 January 2008; The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham, 19 April - 24 May 2008; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 24 October - 13 December 2008

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

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