[20] Design for gateway to Saltram Park, c1773, as executed with alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Saltram Park, Devon: designs for the house and estate, for John Parker, 1768-82 (31)
    - Preliminary design and designs for gateway to Saltram Park, c1773, as executed with alterations (3)

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Reference number

Adam volume 51/90

Purpose

[20] Design for gateway to Saltram Park, c1773, as executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation, plan and section of a tripartite gateway, as in Adam volume 51/91, except the lodges are square and unpedimented, with corbels on the doors, and the urns are moved to niches in the connecting walls

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Elevation of the Gateway and Lodges at Saltram / John Parker Esqr (in the hand of William Adam) / Plan of the Gateway and Lodges and some measurements given

Signed and dated

c1773
datable to c1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (490 x 592)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

D&CBLAUW IV

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 27
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 353
For full literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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