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[9] Preliminary design for a rustic cottage, 1768
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 10/205
Purpose
[9] Preliminary design for a rustic cottage, 1768
Aspect
Elevation of a single-storey, nine-bay rustic cottage, with a hipped roof; with a central five-bay peristyle of tree trunk columns, ornamented with festoons, and supporting a conical roof, and behind which is a door flanked by windows and niches; and the peristyle is flanked to either side by a single bay containing a window, and a further bay at a diagonal, the upper part of the door and ll the windows contain a great small rectangular glazing panes
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (459 x 230)
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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