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  • image SM Adam volume 9/132 verso

Reference number

SM Adam volume 9/132 verso

Purpose

[31] Preliminary design for the pheasant house, c1760, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan and elevation of a two-storey, five-bay house, each front with a pediment, and roofed with a dome, with canted bays on opposite fronts, one containing a staircase and the other a door flanked by niches, and colonnaded bows on the adjacent fronts, one containing a further door. The interior is divided into three rooms, and all four bows are crowned with balustrading forming balconies on the first floor

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1760
    datable to c1760

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and pen on laid paper (199 x 287)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, pp. 14, 88
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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