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[35] Preliminary design for a banqueting house, 1785, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 10/103
Purpose
[35] Preliminary design for a banqueting house, 1785, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation showing the central block of a three-storey building, flanked by wings. The central block is behind a single-storey screen to the porte cochère, with a central arched door within a relieving arch, flanked by paired narrow towers containing slit windows. Beyond the screen is visible to first and second storeys of the building, with a central roundel, or oculus window in the first storey, flanked by towers containing arched windows surmounted by cross-shaped slit windows, and the second storey above is narrower and crenellated, with three arched windows, a pyramidal roof, and surmounted by a flag
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1785
datable to 1785
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (157 x 213)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 245
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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