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This possibly unfinished design showing a battlemented tower with which be circular in plan flankled by two smaller attached and battlemented corner towers with lancet windows. A central entrance door is in a recessed arch, with window in niche above.
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Reference number
Adam vol.54/Series 4/4
Purpose
This possibly unfinished design showing a battlemented tower with which be circular in plan flankled by two smaller attached and battlemented corner towers with lancet windows. A central entrance door is in a recessed arch, with window in niche above.
Aspect
Elevationverso plan, detail
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 4
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1757
Medium and dimensions
Pen197 x 140
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Pen drawing of part of a tree; pencil drawing showing a small triangular plan of a building with round towers at apexes. The plan may be related to that in Adam vol.54/Series 4/9.
Watermark
GR in circle
Notes
This probably unfinished elevation may be related to the perspective in Adam vol.54/Series 4/1, which shows a similar composition although with a less military air than this drawing, and also to the two elevations in Adam vol.54/Series 7/169.
Level
Drawing
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