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