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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/94

Purpose

[29] Preliminary design for gates and lodges, 1785, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite castle-style gateway within a landscape. There is a central carriage arch, with a pyramidal roof, and with small corner turrets, flanked by one-storey, one-bay lodges, with pyramidal roofs, each with a central pedestrian gate, and flanked by corner turrets

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

A design of a Castle Gateway for the Earl of Lonsdale

Signed and dated

  • 1785
    Octr 1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including sepia and olive green on laid paper (203 x 143)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 246
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

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