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  • image SM Adam volume 1/190

Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/190

Purpose

[7] Design for a castle-style building, c.1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Perspective of a three-storey castle over a half-sunk basement with projecting ends flanked by circular turrets, and a central bow one side. The central bay has tripartite windows framed in a tall, recessed arch with a spire above. The elevation is adorned with arched windows, square-headed windows, crosses, and oculi as well as machicolated cornices, and string coursing

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • c.1789
    datable to c.1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (220x159)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

fleur de lis [in part]

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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