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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Edinburgh Riding House, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh: executed designs for a riding house for John Fordyce Esq, 1763 (9)
    - Preliminary designs and finished drawings for the riding school, 1763, executed to the design in drawings 5-9 with alterations (9)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/116

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan in pencil of a five- by ten-bay rectangular building with three rooms at the front, one containing a staircase, and behind is a courtyard with stables to either side, and an elevation in pen of a one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay, pedimented central block, with an arched door flanked by fluted Doric columns, and sculpture-filled niches, and one-storey, one-bay, pedimented pavilions, with balustraded windows (verso) rough elevation as on the recto but in pencil, and a rough elevation of an internal screen wall in pencil

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

some measurements given

Signed and dated

1763
datable to 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (234 x 129)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 11
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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