[41] Finished drawing for a gateway, unexecuted, c1761-3

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)
    - Finished drawing and record drawing for a gateway, unexecuted, c1761-3 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/108

Purpose

[41] Finished drawing for a gateway, unexecuted, c1761-3

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a triumphal-arch ornamented with lion masks and swags on the pedestals, paired rusticated half Roman Doric columns, a mask in the keystone, and a central ox skull in the entablature, flanked by picket fences, and with trees behind

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

For Willm Drake Esqr Buckinghamshire and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1761-63
date range: 1761-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (467 x 352)

Hand

Robert Adam, title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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