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  • image SM Adam volume 21/139

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.

Level

Drawing

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

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