[1] Preliminary design for the riding school, 1763, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - Edinburgh Riding House, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh: executed designs for a riding house for John Fordyce Esq, 1763 (9)
    - Preliminary designs and finished drawings for the riding school, 1763, executed to the design in drawings 5-9 with alterations (9)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/7/172

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for the riding school, 1763, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a five- by six-bay rectangular building, with three rooms at the front, one containing a staircase, and separated by screens of two columns, and there is also a screen of two columns across the central entrance, and behind these rooms is a courtyard with aisles behind colonnades to either side, and with a three-bay bow across the rear front, and this is screened from the courtyard by two columns

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

1763
datable to 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (74 x 127)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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