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[2] Preliminary design for the house, 1762, partly executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/7/220
Purpose
[2] Preliminary design for the house, 1762, partly executed with alterations
Aspect
Rough elevation of a house with a three-storey, five-bay central block, with the end bays projecting, and with the central three bays rusticated, and flanked by external curved stairs, with a giant Doric portico across the central three bays, and Venetian windows within relieving arches in the end bays on the first storey. The central block is flanked by links, one of which is a one-storey, five-bay structure, with a Doric colonnade, and the other is a two-storey, five-bay balustraded structure, with windows and a door on the ground storey, and a Doric colonnade across the first storey, and beyond the links are two-storey, three-bay pedimented pavilions, one of which has a central aedicular window on the first storey, and the other has a central Venetian window within a relieving arch on the ground storey
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1762
datable to 1762
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (319 x 91)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
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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