Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [1] Preliminary design for an unknown house, ND, unexecuted

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 10/137

Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/137

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for an unknown house, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan and elevation of the principal front of a two-storey, three-bay central block, with a hipped roof and a central stack, flanked by one-storey, three-bay, arcaded quadrant links, and one-storey, three-bay pedimented pavilions, one of which has a carriage arch and contains stables. There is an unrelated pencil-drawn gateway to the right-hand side

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Front of a House for Lady Innes / James Golant Esqr

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (468 x 297)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 55
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 122
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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk