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[4] Design for a farm building, 1773, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 46/150
Purpose
[4] Design for a farm building, 1773, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey, five-bay building with a pitched, thatched roof, and a conical, thatched roof over a central attic, and with a portico of four tree-trunk columns carrying a pediment. This is flanked on either side by a wooden perimeter fence terminated by a small hut at each end
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Farm Building for the top of a Hill at The Earl of Harborough's Seat at Stapleford
Signed and dated
- June 1773
June 21st 1773
Medium and dimensions
Pen within a single ruled border on laid paper (542 x 373)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 248, 252-53, 259
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 248, 252-53, 259
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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