[2] Preliminary designs for the building, c1772, unexecuted

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  - Lloyd's Coffee House, probably Freeman's Court, London: unexecuted designs for the building, 1772 (7)
    - Alternative preliminary designs for the building, c1772, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/7/194

Purpose

[2] Preliminary designs for the building, c1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan of a rectangular building, with three rectangular screened recesses on each long side, and a single rectangular screened recess on each of the short sides, and with a central door on each of the long sides, with a horseshoe-shaped staircase across the rear, and a rectangular screened loggia at the front, flanked by horseshoe-shaped staircases, and with a rough wall elevation below, showing one of the long walls, with three recesses screened by Doric columns, articulated by large Doric pilasters, and surmounted by two sets of Diocletian windows (verso) similar pencil-drawn plan

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

some measurements given

Signed and dated

c1772
datable to c1772

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (162 x 208)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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