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[10] Preliminary design for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 1/37
Purpose
[10] Preliminary design for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of the bedchamber storey of a D-shaped house, with an eleven-bay, principal front, with the central three bays, and two bays at each end slightly projecting, and with a thirteen-bay curved garden front, with the first, fifth, ninth, and thirteenth bays projecting. The house contains various bedrooms and dressing rooms, and a central oval staircase
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Anti Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Dressing room / B / DR / BR / DR / DR
Signed and dated
- 1779
datable to 1779
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (342 x 201)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
Rowan, 1985, p. 48
King, 2001, Volume II, p.126
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Rowan, 1985, p. 48
King, 2001, Volume II, p.126
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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