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[4] Preliminary design for a new house, 1770, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 10/49-50
Purpose
[4] Preliminary design for a new house, 1770, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a three-storey, eleven-bay house, with a balustraded, pitched roof, and a rusticated basement, and with the central five bays projecting on the ground storey, with a three-bay arcade, flanked by half-turn stairs, and this is surmounted by balustrading, and a five-bay portico with alternative Spalatro order and Ionic fluted columns, supporting a pedestal, and the central block is flanked by three-and-a-half-storey, single-bay pavilions, with pitched roofs, and rusticated basements, articulated by pilasters across the first and second storeys, and with a Venetian window within a relieving arch on the first storey, and a Diocletian window in the fourth storey
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet (on separate sheet)
Inscribed
East front of Winnstay house and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1770
datable to 1770
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (508 x 279)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 32
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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