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[1] Preliminary design for a garden seats, 1772, unexecuted
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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