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  • image SM Adam volume 10/195

Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/195

Purpose

[6] Preliminary design for the east front of a house, c1784, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, seven-bay building, with a hipped roof, a part-sunken basement, and a sloping ground level from south to north. The central three bays are slightly projecting, and are surmounted by a broken pediment. There is a central balustraded screen, with a frieze of fluting and roundels, all set within a relieving arch. This is flanked by niches and figurative roundels, and is surmounted by an oculus, flanked by swags and festoons. To the north there is a raised Ionic screen. To the south a pedimented Ionic portico

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Signed and dated

  • c1784
    c1784

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (235 x 201)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

Banded cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Literature

Rowan, 1985, p. 38
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 122
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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