Explore Collections
You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[18] Design showing a gateway and lodges, 1775, unexecuted
Browse
Reference number
SM Adam volume 37/29
Purpose
[18] Design showing a gateway and lodges, 1775, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and elevation of an entrance gate and porter's lodge, with a central double wooden gate, ornamented with studding and finials, flanked by single-storey, single-bay towers, and single-storey, single-bay crenellated link walls containing doors, and beyond, on the edge of a prominence, are single-storey, three-bay crenellated circular towers, with conical roofs, and containing porters' lodges, and beyond are wooden fences, terminated by pedestals surmounted by sculpted sphinxes (verso) pencil-drawn unfinished plan and elevation as recto
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of the Gateways proposed at the East and West Ends of the Wings of the North Front of Fleurs Castle / One of the Seats of the Duke of Roxburghe / Ha Ha Wall / Plan of the Gateway / Part of the Wing to serve as a Porters Lodge (verso) 6 (in pencil) / Number 6 (in brown pen) / Earl of Roxburgh Gateway
Signed and dated
- 1775
Adelphi 8th. Septemr. 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (490 x 498)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 244
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 244
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
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk