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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/91

Purpose

[12] Preliminary design for a boathouse, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a boathouse, with three lancet-arched moorings, surmounted by crenellations, with the narrower, outer moorings surmounted by an additional half storey, and flanked by curved abutments and small pepper-pot turrets

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    datable to 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (473 x 204)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 243
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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