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  • image SM Adam volume 54/7/156

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/7/156

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for the riding school, 1763, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay, pedimented central block, with a central arched entrance screened by Doric columns, and flanked by sculpture-filled niches, above which are square figurative relief panels in the upper register, and a chariot scene is contained in the tympanum of the pediment, and the central block is flanked by one-storey, one-bay, pedimented pavilions, each with a door

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1763
    datable to 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (70 x 61)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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