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  • image SM Adam volume 4/25

Reference number

SM Adam volume 4/25

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a garden seats, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a single-storey, single-bay, pedimented garden seat, with a segmental arch, containing an urn on a pedestal, and articulated by paired Doric pilasters, and surmounted by a frieze, and set within a landscape

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

(verso) a letter in pen: [cropped] Mr Adam to call at his House [in? pasted down] / Chelsea the as soon as he can to give his / Advice about a Beam that appears to be very / dangerous & desires Mr. Adam will inform him / by a Line when he can wait on him

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    datable to 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (189 x 208)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 223
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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