[9] Preliminary design for a rustic cottage, 1768

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  - Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex: designs for the round drawing room and a rustic cottage for Horace Walpole, 1766-68 (9)
    - Preliminary designs for a rustic cottage, 1768, unexecuted (3)

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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.

Level

Drawing

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