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Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/151

Purpose

[7] Design for a building, c.1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of single-storey block with flanking lower wings which terminate in piers surmounted by sphynx. The central block comprises a central opening flanked by two pairs of fluted Doric columns, with circles on the architrave, supporting an entablature with a fan light and broken-base pediment above. There are pencil outlines in the lower wings to show niched openings and a raised level or pitched roof

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • c.1791
    datable to c.1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including sepia (314x102)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

orb surmounted by crown

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
King, 2001, p. 213
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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