[4] Preliminary design for the ground storeys of a lodge and kitchen offices, c1778, unexecuted

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [4] Preliminary design for the ground storeys of a lodge and kitchen offices, c1778, unexecuted

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - Deputy Ranger's Lodge, Green Park, London, commissioned by Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglington, 1769, executed to a variant design, and for Lord William Gordon, 1778, unexecuted (10)
    - Preliminary design and unfinished designs for a lodge and kitchen offices, c1778, unexecuted (4)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/6

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for the ground storeys of a lodge and kitchen offices, c1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a five-by-three-bay building, with the central three bays of the principal front slightly projecting. There is a central entrance which leads to a hall with a staircase. To the rear there is a circular parlour with niches, and this forms the bow front for the rear façade. Beyond the principal front there are preliminary plans possibly for cellars at the basement storey level. To the left of this there is a plan of the ground storey of a three-by-two-bay building, which contains kitchen offices, and this building is enclosed by a wall. There is a preliminary plan for a tunnel which links the kitchen offices to the principal building. To the right of all this there is a preliminary elevations for a columnar screen, surmounted by an urn, and of a connecting balustrade

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Green Park Lodge / for Lord William Gordon (pencil) / Parlor / Hall / Kitchen / Larder / Scullery / Piccadilly and faint pencil inscription

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (542 x 380)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 45
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).