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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/114

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a villa, c1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the principal storey, and elevation of the principal front of a two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay house, with a pitched roof, and external stairs leading to a tripartite, pedimented door within a relieving arch, and in a projecting central bay, and containing an elliptical room. The end bay contains tripartite windows within relieving arches, and the house has a central elliptical staircase, and a three-bay bow at the rear

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

W / W / W / W and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1787
    datable to c1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (136 x 221)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Rowan, 1985, p. 32
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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