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  • image SM Adam volume 10/124

Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/124

Purpose

[4] Alternative preliminary design for a house, c1787

Aspect

Two partial plans and a partial elevation. The elevation shows a three-bay, two-storey building with a pitched roof, ornamented with Doric orders, a semicircular arched window on the ground floor, and with a two-storey bow front across the central bay, extending up into a dome. Each of the plans show the arrangement of the bow front

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • c1787
    c1787

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (244 x 245)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

Banded cartouche

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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