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  • image SM Adam volume 4/9

Reference number

SM Adam volume 4/9

Purpose

Preliminary design for a rustic building, ND

Aspect

Perspective view of a three-storey, three-by-one-bay building with a hipped roof, which supports chimney stacks. At the ground-storey level there are three bays of relieving arches, which support a sloped roof, and this is flanked by irregularly-shaped, one-and-a-half-bay wings, which contain half-height windows. To the rear of the principal building there is a two-storey(?) block, and the building is flanked by a wooden fence, with a gateway on the right-hand side

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (545x390)

Hand

Probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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