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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/129

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design showing a plan for the house, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan for a nine- by five-bay house, flanked by quadrant links, with a circular tower on each corner, and with the central three bays recessed on the principal front, and flanked by circular towers, and with central three-bay bows on each side. The central three bays on the garden front projecting and flanked by circular towers, and containing a central circular room

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1774
    datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (195 x 116)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 162
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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