[5] Finished drawing for the house, 1761, unexecuted

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  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/92

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for the house, 1761, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal (east) front of a three-storey, five-bay central block, with a balustraded and pitched roof, and the central three bays slightly projecting, and with external stairs leading to a central entrance, within a three-bay Corinthian portico supporting a pediment, and with Venetian windows within relieving arches in the end bays on the first floor. The central block is flanked by three-storey, two-bay projecting wings, with balustraded and hipped roofs, and with aedicular windows on the first storey, and the wings are flanked by three-and-a-half-storey, one-bay, square corner towers, with balustraded, aedicular windows on the first storey, and with a half-height attic surmounted by a pyramidal roof. The basement storey of the entire house is rusticated

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

New Design of the East Front of Osterly House in Middlesex, One of the Seats of Francis Child Esquire / Copy at Osterley (in pencil in the hand of A.T. Bolton) and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1761
Robt Adam Architect 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (539 x 359)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Agostino Brunias, with additional title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Watermark

JVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Stillman, 1966, p. 68
Rowan, 1988, p. 63
Harris, 1994, p. 24
Harris, 2001, p. 160
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 194, Volume II, p. 132
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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