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[37] Design for a castle-style building and walled terraces, c.1779-82, executed to a variant design
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 1/32
Purpose
[37] Design for a castle-style building and walled terraces, c.1779-82, executed to a variant design
Aspect
Elevation of a castle-style building with walled terraces in the foreground, set within a wooded landscape. The main building is four storeys tall and three bays wide with flanking three-storey wings with corner turrets. At one end is a single-storey range with a taller building to the rear with a conical roof. Across the elevation of the group of buildings are a mixture of square-headed windows, tripartite, arched, cross and slit windows, and oculi. There are also a mixture of corbelled bartizans, machicolated cornices, string coursing and crenelations. The walled terraces have corbelled coping and end towers with machicolated cornices
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- c.1779-82
datable to c.1779-82
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (490x351)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Watermark
Fleur de lis [in part]
Literature
King, 2001, pp. 330-3
Moss, 2002, pp. 70-71
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Moss, 2002, pp. 70-71
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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