[6] Design for the house, 1768, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Killerton Park, Budlake, Devon: unexecuted designs for a house, for Sir Thomas Acland Dyke, 7th Baronet, 1768 (7)
    - Designs and finished drawings for the house, 1768, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/50

Purpose

[6] Design for the house, 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Longitudinal section of the central block and wings as seen in Adam volumes 43/48, 43/49, 43/52-43/54, albeit with unfenestrated garret storeys, and a subterranean storey beneath the right-hand wing

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section of Sir Thomas Acklands House (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1768
datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (740 x 382)

Hand

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

Watermark

IVILLEDARY and LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 127
For a full list of literature 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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