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  • image SM Adam volume 2/60

Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/60

Purpose

[14] Variant design for a town house or garderner's house, 1775, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, three-bay house flanked by single-storey arcaded walls with a balustrade. There is a rusticated central arch to the ground floor of the cottage flanked by niches with medallions above framed by pilasters. The first floor has a screen of Ionic columns and pilasters and above is a central oculus framed by festoons. The hipped roof of the house has a bottle-neck balustrade

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

In the style of an Italian Casino or Villa.

Signed and dated

  • 1775
    R. A. 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including sepia, olive green, Naples yellow and Payne’s grey (320x207)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, p. 217
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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