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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/180

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a house, c1775

Aspect

Rough plan and garden front elevation of a three-storey house, with a five-bay principal front, with the central three bays recessed and screened, and flanked by triangular projecting sides, containing windows within relieving arches, and a five-bay bow at the rear, behind an arcade on the ground storey, and a balustraded portico on the first and second storeys, and with a small three-bay drum and dome across the top

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • c1775
    datable to c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (191 x 235)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

PROPATRIA

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 136
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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