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  • image SM Adam volume 1/214

Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/214

Purpose

[21] Preliminary design for a stables and offices, 1786, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevations and part-sections of a two-to-three storey stables and office range with a large circular stable range adorned with buttresses, oculi, and a ground floor arcade, with a central drum tower. The adjoining offices alternate between round towers and curved ranges of varying heights. The entire elevation is adorned with machicolated cornices, string coursing and corbelled bartizans

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • c.1786
    datable to 1786

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (242x401)

Hand

Probably
Robert or James Adam

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Literature

King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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