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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/121

Purpose

[35] Preliminary design for the pyramid gate, 1776, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

View of a gate, flanked by a perimeter wall, and set within a landscape. The gate is composed of a central pyramid; with an aedicular arched opening running through the middle, flanked by small windows, and surmounted by a medallion; and the pyramid is flanked by short link walls terminating in pedestals, ornamented with festoons and supporting sculpted sphinxes

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1776
    datable to 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (289 x 204)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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