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[2] Preliminary design for a villa, c1787, unexecuted
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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