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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/9

Purpose

[45] Design for the fishing room and boat house 1769-70, executed

Aspect

Elevation of a one-and-a-half storey, three-bay building, with a broken-bed pediment, with a central roundel and festoons, and supporting acroteria. On the ground floor the bays are articulated by Doric pilasters, with rectangular windows in the outer bays, with rectangular panels or medallions above, and a door in the central bay surmounted by a fan-light, and with pencil annotations and alterations (verso) rough drawing for a chimneypiece with Ionic pilaster stiles

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769-1770
    date range: 1769-70

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (385 x 322)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 1991, Volume I, pp. 339-41
Musson, 1996, p. 42
Harris, 2006, pp. 24, 26
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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