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  • image SM Adam volume 1/94

Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/94

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for a castle-style building, c.1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, thirteen-bay building with a hipped roof, circular corner towers, a central porch with ramped carriage access, and adjoining single-storey walls to the ends of the building. The entire house is adorned with multipaned arched windows, slit windows, machicolated cornices, string coursing, crenelations, and heraldry

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • c.1790
    datable to c.1790

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (341x174)

Hand

Robert or James Adam

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

King, 2001, p. 162
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

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