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[37] Preliminary design for a gate and lodges, 1776, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 10/199
Purpose
[37] Preliminary design for a gate and lodges, 1776, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation of a gateway, with a single rusticated carriage arch, surmounted by an attic ornamented with fret, fluting(?), and a tablet containing a medallion flanked by festoons, and surmounted by a fluted socle; and the arch is flanked by single-storey, single-bay, pedimented lodges, (only a detail of the right-hand lodge is visible), with a central stack and one window, and beyond which is a wooden fence
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1776
datable to 1776
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (196 x 156)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 223
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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