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  • image SM Adam volume 21/1

Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/1

Purpose

[122] Design for a ruinous garden fort or folly, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Perspective view of a ruined castle within a landscape, with a central circular keep, and two castellated wings

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1774
    datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and brown wash on laid paper (362 x 257)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Astley, 2000, p. 34
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 246
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's Castles, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 16 June - 16 September 2000

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk