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  • image SM Adam volume 28/57

Reference number

SM Adam volume 28/57

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for a house, 1763-65, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, thirteen-bay house with a hipped roof, and a central drum and dome, and ornamented with a frieze of fluting, enclosed rosettes and ox skulls. The end bays are framed by porticos of paired giant Doric columns, and there is a portico of giant Doric columns across the central five bays supporting a pediment with three acroteria

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Elevation for the Duke of Richmond and some dimensions given (verso) Duke of Richmond

Signed and dated

  • 1763-65
    date range: 1763-65

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (657 x 481)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 126
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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