[16] Record drawing for a gateway, c1775-79, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Burghley House, Lincolnshire: designs for the interior of the house, partly executed, and unexecuted designs for a boathouse and gateway for the 9th Earl of Exeter, 1765-79 (16)
    - Designs for a boathouse and an entrance gateway (10)
      - Preliminary design, design, and record drawing for a gateway, c1775-79, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/54

Purpose

[16] Record drawing for a gateway, c1775-79, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a crenellated gateway as Adam volume 51/53, but showing the elevation of the inner, colonnaded side, and with single, square rather than circular end turrets

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Another Design of a Gateway for Burleigh Castle (in the hand of William Adam) / Extends 158.6 and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1775-1779
date range: 1775-1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (652 x 490)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 243
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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