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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/228

Purpose

[18] Preliminary design for a house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Two rough variant plans for a house, each with a central bow on the side fronts, a portico on the principal front, and a central circular room with niches, and one of the plans has the central portion of the garden front slightly projecting

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Note Concerning / Hutchinson Mure / Esqrs House at / Great Saxham / Suffolk / a letter

Signed and dated

  • 1779
    datable to 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (238 x 189)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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