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  - Mamhead, Ashcombe, Devon: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, a garden seat, a temple and stable offices for the 1st Earl of Lisburne, 1767-80 (32)

Preliminary designs and finished drawing for a fountain, 1776, unexecuted (3)

Adam volume 19/155 is inscribed as being rustic, but is actually deliberately ruinous in style.

There is no evidence that this fountain design was executed.

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Mamhead, Ashcombe, Devon: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, a garden seat, a temple and stable offices for the 1st Earl of Lisburne, 1767-80 (32)

[23] Preliminary design for a fountain, 1776, unexecuted

Mamhead, Ashcombe, Devon: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, a garden seat, a temple and stable offices for the 1st Earl of Lisburne, 1767-80 (32)

[24] Preliminary design for a fountain, 1776, unexecuted

Mamhead, Ashcombe, Devon: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, a garden seat, a temple and stable offices for the 1st Earl of Lisburne, 1767-80 (32)

[25] Finished drawing for a fountain, 1776, unexecuted

22nd Novr 1776

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

SM Adam volume 19/155

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