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[66] Design for the gateway, c1763-65, executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 51/94
Purpose
[66] Design for the gateway, c1763-65, executed with alterations
Aspect
Elevation with a central segmental carriage arch with ornamental iron gates, flanked by Composite pilasters ornamented with arabesques and surmounted by two lamps and a lion. To either side the carriage arch is flanked by a five-bay colonnade of Composite columns, with ironwork fences in between and supporting a fluted entablature and lamps, and beyond a one-storey, one-bay, pyramidal lodge with a central stack and an urn-filled niche, and with pencil annotations of details of the ornamentation below
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Sion Gateway (verso) No 25 / Unknown
Signed and dated
- 1763-65
datable to c1763-65
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (584 x 493)
Hand
Adma office hand, possibly George Richardson, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Beard, 1978, p. 44
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Beard, 1978, p. 44
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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