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Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/35

Purpose

[33] Preliminary design for the stables, 1785, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a circular building, with an outer curtain wall composed of three-bay links containing arched windows, alternating with projecting arched doors flanked by circular towers containing slit windows, and the inner building is two storeys in height, and octagonal; containing a stable on the ground storey, and with windows within relieving arches on the first storey, with a pepper-pot turret at the roofline of each angle, and with a conical roof
  • image SM Adam volume 33/35

Scale

to a rough scale

Signed and dated

  • 1785
    Rt Adam Archt / Octr 19. 1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including sepia and cerulean blue on laid paper (199 x 307)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Astley, 2000, p. 34
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's Castles, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 16 June - 16 September 2000

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk