Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [4] Alternative preliminary design for a cottage, unexecuted, October 1778

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 4/58

Reference number

SM Adam volume 4/58

Purpose

[4] Alternative preliminary design for a cottage, unexecuted, October 1778

Aspect

Rough elevation of a thatched cottage of five bays, the central bay being of two storeys supported by tree-trunk columns and with a Diocletian window on the first floor. There is also a rough elevation of a small circular temple and a bridge on this sheet

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • October 1778
    datable to October 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (295 x 445)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 259
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk