[123] Design for a ruinous garden fort or folly, 1774, unexecuted

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  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/2

Purpose

[123] Design for a ruinous garden fort or folly, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Perspective view of a ruined castle within a landscape, with a central circular keep, with two castellated wings, each with their own smaller towers, the whole behind an arched entrance bridge and gateway, flanked by a wooden fence, and with pencil-drawn annotations in the top right-hand corner

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

1774
datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and brown wash on laid paper (358 x 258)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Astley, 2000, p. 34
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 246
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's Castles, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 16 June - 16 September 2000

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