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[55] Preliminary design for a monument or triumphal entrance screen, unexecuted, date range: 1767-83
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 21/195
Purpose
[55] Preliminary design for a monument or triumphal entrance screen, unexecuted, date range: 1767-83
Aspect
Rough elevation of a pyramidal structure, with a central arched, rusticated, and pedimented entrance, flanked by pilasters, surmounted by a one-bay portico set against the pyramid, screened by caryatids, with a frieze of festoons, and surmounted by a military trophy, and possibly a figure of Britannia or Justice. The pyramid is flanked by one-storey, one-bay links, with flat roofs, and one-storey, one-bay pavilions, articulated by pilasters, surmounted by sphinxes, and with pyramidal roofs (verso) rough elevation as on the recto but with additional pencil-drawn annotations
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Painting Lord Mansfields Columns [ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] / with Mr Kennedy
Signed and dated
- 1767-83
Date range: 1767-83
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (292 x 187)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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