[11] Finished drawing for a gate and lodges on Batchworth Heath, 1763, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire: designs for the house and park, for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1763-66 (28)
    - Designs for buildings in the park
      - Alternative preliminary design and finished drawings for a gate and lodges on Batchworth Heath, 1763, drawing 11 executed with minor alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/47

Purpose

[11] Finished drawing for a gate and lodges on Batchworth Heath, 1763, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan and elevation of an arched gateway, articulated by engaged Doric columns, and surmounted by a Doric frieze, and a small attic, and the gate is flanked by single-bay link walls containing doors, and single-storey, single-bay pyramidal pavilions, with a fluted frieze, and each pavilion has a chimney stack

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

A Design of a Gateway for Sr Lawrence Dundas Bart at Moor Park and some measurements give

Signed and dated

1763
Robt Adam Archt and datable to 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (490 x 338)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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