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[2] Preliminary design for the principal front, c1772-79
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 10/68
Purpose
[2] Preliminary design for the principal front, c1772-79
Aspect
Rough elevation of a two-storey, ten-bay building, with three projecting bays, rusticated on the ground storey, and with relieving arches over the central door and flanking windows, and with the first storey articulated by pilasters, and containing a central sculpture-filled niche, flanked by balustraded, pedimented windows, with a frieze of festoons, and an attic ornamented with rectangular tablets, and to the right-hand side of these projecting bays are three balustraded bays, and to the left is a single-bay link, and a three-bay wing, with a central window flanked by niches on the ground storey, and a Venetian window within a relieving arch, and flanked by narrow rectangular windows on the first storey, and this wing is surmounted by balustrading, and a single-storey, domed cupola
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1772-79
datable to c1772-79
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on sugar paper (437 x 282)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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