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[1] Preliminary design for the house, c1774, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 1/38
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design for the house, c1774, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and rough elevation of an L-shaped building, with a central step-gabled tower, containing octagonal rooms, and with two circular single-bay towers on the curving principal front, and one central four- or five-bay circular tower on the garden front, and the central tower is flanked by links with circular towers on each corner, with conical roofs, and with a single-bay square tower on the principal front of each link, and a three-bay bow on the garden front of one link, and a three- or five-bay projection with engaged columns on the garden front of the other link
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1774
datable to c1774
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (354 x 302)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Rowan, 1985, p. 100
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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