[12] Finished drawing for variant designs for the Crackmore Gate, 1767, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Sherborne Castle, Dorset: unexecuted designs for alterations to the house, interior, a new gateway and bridge for 7th Lord Digby, 1760-67 (16)
    - Preliminary designs and finished drawing for variant designs for the Crackmore Gate, 1767, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/115

Purpose

[12] Finished drawing for variant designs for the Crackmore Gate, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay crenellated central block, with a central semicircular-headed arch, flanked by bays with semicircular-headed windows on the ground floor and an oculus above. The central block supports a crenellated single-storey, arcaded drum, surmounted by a single-storey, one-bay crenellated smaller drum with a semicircular-headed window. The central block is flanked on either side by single-storey, one-bay crenellated links containing a door, and a two-storey, one-bay crenellated tower with a semicircular-headed window on the ground floor and an oculus above. Either side is wooden fencing

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Gateway for Sherbourne Castle in Dorsetshire The Seat of the Rt Honble Lord Digby and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1767
datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (507 x 349)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 230
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's Castles, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 16 June - 16 September 2000

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