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[2] Preliminary design for a castellated house, 1783, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 10/76
Purpose
[2] Preliminary design for a castellated house, 1783, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation of the principal front of a crenellated house, of two storeys set over a half-sunk basement, with a three-bay, bow-fronted central block, with a conical roof, flanked by three-bay links, with pitched roofs, and three-bay pavilions, with crow-step pyramidal roofs, and with one-and-a-half-storey projecting bows on each side
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1783
datable to 1783
Medium and dimensions
Pencil in sugar paper (254 x 137)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Rowan, 1985, p. 122
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 166
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 166
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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