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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/90

Purpose

[10] Preliminary design for a boathouse, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a boathouse, with three lancet arched moorings, surmounted by balustrading, the widest central arch is flanked by two-and-a-half-storey turrets, and the outer moorings are flanked by narrow two-storey pepper-pot turrets

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    datable to 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (497 x 255)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 243
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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