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  • image SM Adam volume 9/114

Reference number

SM Adam volume 9/114

Purpose

[7] Preliminary design for stables, c1763, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal front, of a two-storey, seven-bay building, with a hipped roof, and the central three bays projecting, and surmounted by a pediment ornamented with three acroteria supporting urns. The central bay contains a semicircular carriage arch, flanked by further arches containing Diocletian windows. There are half-height windows in the upper register, and a pencil-drawn annotation adding an eighth bay to the right-hand side

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • c1763
    datable to c1763

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (319 x 188)

Hand

Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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