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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/7/140

Purpose

[19] Preliminary design for remodelling Buckingham House and its entrance gate, c1761-63, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a detail of an entrance gate, with a screened carriage arch under part of a pediment, flanked by a further screened carriage arch ornamented with niches, roundels and relief panels

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

(verso) an unrelated bill

Signed and dated

  • 1761-1763
    date range: 1761-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (188 x 158)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 129, 221
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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