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[3] Preliminary design for a doorway in the garden wall, 1774, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 10/175
Purpose
[3] Preliminary design for a doorway in the garden wall, 1774, unexecuted
Aspect
Alternative elevations of a doorway in the garden wall. The upper alternative is composed of double wooden doors crowned by crockets, and set between bays articulated by engaged Doric columns, and ornamented with a medallion, a frieze containing a festoon, rosettes, and surmounted by a sculpted sphinx, and beyond there is a perimeter wall. The lower alternative is shown from the road and garden sides, with a single-storey, single-bay pedimented gateway, with a central door within a relieving arch, and surmounted by a medallion, and on the road side this is surmounted by a tablet in the frieze containing an ox skull flanked by festoons, and on the side towards the house, the door is flanked by engaged columns, supporting a Doric frieze ornamented with ox skulls flanked by festoons
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Next the Road and some measurements and rough calculations
Signed and dated
- 1774
datable to 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (196 x 302)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
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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