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  • image SM Adam volume 10/103

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.

Level

Drawing

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