[5] Unfinished design for a lodge, 1778, unexecuted

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  - 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)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/8

Purpose

[5] Unfinished design for a lodge, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a five-by-three-bay building, with an additional one-by-one bay projection to the rear. There is a stepped entrance in the first bay of the right-hand façade, and this leads to a tripartite suite of rooms, with an apsidal ended central room, which also forms a shallow canted bay in the principal front. The one-by-one bay room projecting to the rear is of an irregular octagonal form, and contains niches

Scale

bar scale of 3 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of Lodge at the Green Park for Lord William Gordon (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

April 1778
Adelphi / 25.t April 1778.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (394 x 492)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

4 / Lord W.m Gordon / Number 2 (brown ink, in the hand of William Adam)

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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