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[2] Preliminary design for a porch, 1761-74, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 21/66
Purpose
[2] Preliminary design for a porch, 1761-74, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a three-bay entrance portico, with fluted Doric columns and a pyramidal roof. The central entrance is surmounted by a band of Vitruvian scroll and a fan light, and there are rosette roundels above. The portico has a frieze of fluting, and there is a wreath flanked by festoons set within the tympanum. The bays flanking the entrance contain niches bearing urns, with a fluted string course and suspended cameos flanked by drop calyx above
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Porch for The House of Claudius Amyand Esq.r / Mount Street Barkelay. Sqr / This is the (cropped) / Following / 8 (pencil) / 12 (pencil) and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1761-74
date range: 1761-74 (see scheme notes)
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (183 x 275)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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