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[4] Preliminary design for a castle-style building, c.1790, unexecuted
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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