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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/192

Purpose

[11] Preliminary design for a town house or garderner's house, c.1775, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a two-storey building with projecting bays to each side and a staircase at one end. The house is adorned with a first-floor pedimented opening, a continuous balustrade, and arched windows or niches

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • c.1775
    datable to c.1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (233x189)

Hand

Probably
Robert or James Adam

Watermark

Crowned cartouche in part

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
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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