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  • image SM Adam volume 2/118

Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/118

Purpose

[11] Preliminary design for a garden porch, possibly executed, c1786

Aspect

Elevation of a garden porch, forming a triumphal arch, with a central entrance set within a relieving arch, and with roundels and a frieze of fluting above. This is flanked by pairs of tapering pilasters ornamented with drop calyx and surmounted by herms

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Adelphi terms Ld Delaval’s porch to Garden

Signed and dated

  • c1786
    c1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (131 x 189)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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