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[1] Preliminary design for the house, 1762, partly executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/7/219
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design for the house, 1762, partly executed with alterations
Aspect
Rough plan of a house with a five-by-four-bay central block, with a loggia across the central three bays on the principal front, with a pair of curved external stairs attached, and with these three bays recessed, and screened by two columns, and flanked in the end bays by tripartite windows, and with a central three-bay canted bow on the garden front. The central block is flanked by four-bay links, with a portico across the principal and garden fronts, and three-bay pavilions containing domestic offices
Scale
to a rough scale
Inscribed
Sketch for William Beckford Esqr (in pencil) / (and in pen and underwritten in pencil) Wash Ho / Brew house / Drawing room / Dining room / Dressing Room / Hall / Parlour / Larder / Scullery / Kitchen and some measurements given in pen and pencil, and some calculations in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1762
datable to 1762
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (318 x 195)
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Rough pencil-drawn plans for another house
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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