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[4] Alternative preliminary design for a house, c1787
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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
Robert Adam
Watermark
Banded cartouche
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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