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[1] Preliminary design for the building, c1772, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 4/163
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design for the building, c1772, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan of a rectangular building, with a central circular room with four niches, with a tripartite porticoed loggia at the front, and flanked by screened square rooms, with screened apses to each end, and screened apsidal recesses to front and rear, and one of the apsidal ends gives access to a oval room, and a screened apse in the side wall containing an external doorway
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- c1772
datable to c1772
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (209 x 320)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
LVG
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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