[4] Design for a villa, 1773, as executed

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  - 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 44/74

Purpose

[4] Design for a villa, 1773, as executed

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of a three-bay villa with apses on each side (east and west fronts), and with the roof of a portico over the entrance on the principal (north) front, and containing a bed chamber and drawing room

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the principal story of a house for / _ Stephenson Esqr (in the hand of William Adam) / Bed Chamber / Drawing Room (verso) 5 / Number 17 / Symonds

Signed and dated

1773
datable to 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (383 x 250)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Level

Drawing

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