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[6] Design and a view for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 41/17
Purpose
[6] Design and a view for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Elevation as Adam volume 41/16, but the pediment over each wing contains an oculus and has a central stack and two acroteria, set within a landscape, and without any pencil annotations
Scale
1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Elevation of the East Front of Compton House in Warwickshire / One of the Seats of the Right Honble The Lord Willoughby de Broke and rough calculations in pencil
Signed and dated
- September 1760
Robt Adam Compton 2d Septr 1760
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (425 x 252)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 8
Bearman, 2000, pp. 105, 110
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Bearman, 2000, pp. 105, 110
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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