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  • image SM Adam volume 21/85

Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/85

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a villa, 1775, built to a modified and enlarged design

Aspect

Rough elevation of a two-storey, three-bay villa, with a hipped roof, pedimented, projecting end bays, a central, tripartite, pedimented entrance surmounted by a tripartite window on the first floor, and a two-storey, projecting bow on each side

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1775
    datable to 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (186 x 95)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 133
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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