[9] Design for a villa, c1787, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Projects known only by patron
  - Princess Isabella Lubomirska, unexecuted designs for a villa, possibly intended for ?a?cut, Rzeszów, Poland, c1787 (9)
    - Preliminary designs, designs, and finished drawings for a villa, c1787, unexecuted (9)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/93

Purpose

[9] Design for a villa, c1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the garret (third) storey, with a projecting central portion to the front and rear, and a plan of the roof, with a central circular skylight to the central spiral staircase, and an elevation of the side of a two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay central block, with a section of a one-and-a-half-storey link, with a pitched roof, in front of the central block

Scale

bar scale of 1/12 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Elevation of one end of the Villa shewing the Section thro the Passage / & Offices between the House & Kitchen wing / Plan of the Garrett Storey / Serv'ts room / Lumber / Lumber / Servts room / for the Princess Lubomirski / Plan of the Roof (in a later hand) (verso) Lubomirsky / A Villa / 2 Elevations 4 Grou[cropped]

Signed and dated

c1787
datable to c1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen and yellow and pink washes on laid paper (516 x 267)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 55
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 128
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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