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[7] Preliminary design for stables, c1763, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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
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