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[8] Preliminary design for a rustic cottage, 1768
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 10/206
Purpose
[8] Preliminary design for a rustic cottage, 1768
Aspect
Plan of a seven- by three-bay building, with canted ends behind which are octagonal rooms; with porticoes to the front and rear, with a five-bay peristyle on the principal elevation, behind which is a door flanked by windows and niches; and on the rear garden front there is a central apse
Scale
bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Library (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (446 x 302)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 259
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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