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[1] Design for a gateway, 9 June 1777, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 37/61
Purpose
[1] Design for a gateway, 9 June 1777, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and elevation of a castellated gateway between two one-storey turrets, flanked on either side by a wall, and to the left a large three-storey, five-bay, castellated lodge with a hipped roof and turret end bays. There is a pencil-drawn isometric projection of this lodge in the top right-hand corner of the sheet
Scale
bar scale of 3/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Gateway for the Earl of Oxford (in a later hand) / Lord Oxford / Copy of C
Signed and dated
- June 1777
Adelphi / June 9t 1777
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (493 x 363)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
GR and a fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 243
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 243
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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