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[14] Preliminary design for a gateway, c1775-79, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 21/139
Purpose
[14] Preliminary design for a gateway, c1775-79, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation of a crenellated gateway, with a central block of three bays, with a central two-storey lancet arched gateway, flanked by three-storey pepper-pot turrets. The central block is flanked by one-storey, five-bay links, and two-and-a-half storey, one bay circular end turrets, and with a pencil-drawn alternative end turret of three bays above
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Design of a Gate for Burghleigh House For The Rt Honble Brownlow Cecil Earl of Exeter
Signed and dated
- 1775-1779
date range: 1775-1779
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (375 x 175)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 243
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 243
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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