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The four drawings show lodges of varying designs flanking a triumphal-arch form gate. In drawing 17, the lodges are fronted by pairs of three-quarter fluted baseless Doric columns in antis and framing round-headed windows. Each lodge is surmounted by sculptural festoons and a pediment with corner antefixes. Drawing 18 has the same design but with gabled roofs over the lodges, apsidal niches on the front, and a variant design for the pediment crowning the arched gate. In drawing 19, the columns are omitted and a balustrade fronts the windows. Ionic columns frame the gated entrance, as well as flanking entrances. The strigillated urns that surmount the pedimented gate in drawings 17 and 18 are re-used here both over the gate and the flanking lodges. Drawing 20 shows a more compact design, with the lodges attached to the gate. Attenuated Ionic columns in antis frame the windows and the gated entrance. In this drawing, the gate is surmounted not by a pediment but a pedestal ornamented with festoons and supporting a strigillated plinth. Paterae decorate the building's frieze.
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Contents of Presentation drawings of variant designs for an entrance screen, 24 January 1794 (4)
- [17] Presentation drawing of a variant design for an entrance screen, 24 January 1794
- [18] Presentation drawing of a variant design for an entrance screen, 24 January 1794
- [19] Presentation drawing of a variant design for an entrance screen, 24 January 1794
- [20] Presentation drawing of a variant design for an entrance screen, 24 January 1794