[1] Preliminary design for a triumphal arch, gatehouses and screens, c1778, unexecuted

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  - Hyde Park Corner, London, designs for a triumphal arch, gatehouses and screens, c1778, unexecuted (18)
    - Preliminary designs, design and finished drawing for a triumphal arch, first design, c1778, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/81

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a triumphal arch, gatehouses and screens, c1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite archway with the central arch set with columnar screens, and flanked by footways. To the east there is a pair of colonnaded entrance screens, terminating in gatehouses, and containing central gateways which provide access to driveways to the north and south

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Plan of the Gateway for Hide Park Corner (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (267 x 222)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Hyde Park Corner Gateway / 7 / 7 / 4 (crossed through) / (brown ink) November 17

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 41
Rowan, 1988, p. 56
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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