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[4] Preliminary design showing the first or second storey of the house, c1761
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 7/142
Purpose
[4] Preliminary design showing the first or second storey of the house, c1761
Aspect
Rough plan of the first or second storey of a square central block, with a central circular room, and encircled by circular, rectangular, and apsidal rooms, with a pencil-drawn wing to the rear, and set within a pencil-drawn wedge-shaped boundary wall
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Ld Shelburne and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1761
datable to c1761
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (100 x 132)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 130
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, Sir John Soane's Museum, 4 October 1996 - 1 March 1997; The Frick Collection, New York, December 1997 - April 1998; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May - June 1998; The Octagon Museum, Washington, July 1998 - January 1999; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1999
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk