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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/78

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a menagerie and banqueting house, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan and elevation of a two-storey, nine-bay building, with a peristyle bow front and a domed central circular room. To either side is an enclosed courtyard with compartments for animals

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

A Menagerie for Lord Grosr, A Dining room / with 2 Bed rooms above (in pen) and some dimensions given (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    datable to 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (194 x 153)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 10
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 218
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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