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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/116

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a villa, c1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan of the principal storey of a three-bay house, with a tripartite window in each bay, and with the central bay projecting, and a colonnaded bow at the rear, and with a central elliptical staircase, and a shallow apse on one side

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1787
    datable to c1787

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (133 x 95)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Rowan, 1985, p. 32
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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