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  • image SM Adam volume 54/7/114

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/7/114

Purpose

[9] Alternative preliminary design for the house, 1762, as executed

Aspect

Rough plan of the principal storey of a rectangular house, with a central three-bay bow across the garden front, and with paired dog-leg stairs on the principal front, and flanked by three-bay links, and square pavilions, and with a rough wall elevation of a three-bay apse in the top left-hand corner

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Ding room / Draw room / Dressg room / Parlor and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (212 x 130)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 113
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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