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Upper: Elevation of a two-storey building with single-storey projecting wings flanking the central block. There is a central three-bay loggia and each range has a pitched roof. Adjoining the left of the building is a gated screen with piers
Upper middle: Ground-storey plan showing three large rooms with a loggia. The are piers to the left of the house
Lower middle: Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay building. The central bay is adorned with a columned, broken-base pediment
Lower: Elevation of a two-storey building comprising a three-bay central block with flanking single-bay wings. The central block contains a large arched opening flanked by paired columns supporting a broken-base pediment with an oculus
Verso:
Upper: Perspective showing a single-storey building with adjoining gates and piers. The building has a pitched roof and projecting porch
Lower: Perspective showing a single-storey, three-bay building with adjoining gates and piers. The building has a central pedimented portico. The piers are surmounted by vases
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Signed and dated
- c.1791
datable to c.1791
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Hand
Robert Adam
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Literature
King, 2001, pp. 253-255, 258
Further literary references in scheme notes
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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