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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/175

Purpose

[18] Preliminary design for a rectangular house, 1769, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house, with a hipped roof, with an arcade across the central three bays on the ground floor, and surmounted by the first and second storeys, which are recessed in the central three bays, and behind a screen of two columns. The end bays are slightly projecting, rusticated on the ground storey, articulated by pilasters on the first and second storeys, and have Venetian windows on the first storey

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sir James Lowther Baronet

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (198 x 153)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 21
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 131
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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