[1] Preliminary design for a villa, 1773, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - St Edmund's Hill (later The Mount, and now Moreton Hall), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: executed designs for a villa for Professor John Symonds, 1773-76, (9)
    - Preliminary design and designs for a villa, 1773, as executed (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/183

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a villa, 1773, as executed

Aspect

Rough plans for the basement, ground and first storeys of a three-bay villa with apses on either side (east and west fronts)

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Bed Chamr / Parlor Story / 1 pr Storey / Drawing room and some dimensions and calculations given

Signed and dated

1773
datable to 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (179 x 303)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Rowan, 2003, p. 46
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004

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