[12] Design for the kitchen and laundry offices, 1776, possibly executed

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    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Designs for kitchen offices and stables, 1776 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/33

Purpose

[12] Design for the kitchen and laundry offices, 1776, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay, balustraded building, with a sunken basement. On the basement storey there is a half-height window, a tripartite window and an entrance. On the ground storey there is a Diocletian window flanked by three-quarter-height windows. On the first storey there is a string course and a central semi-circular-headed, balustraded window. The window is flanked by paired Ionic columns, which are surmounted by friezes of fluting and rosette capitals, and with full-height windows beyond. On the second storey there is a string course formed with a guilloche band, and a central figurative panel which is flanked by half-height windows

Scale

bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Duke of Roxburghs House in Hanover Square (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Front of Kitchen Landry (sic) &c. next the Houses- / A fair Copy of this delivered and some dimensions and figures given

Signed and dated

August 1776
Adelphi / August 6.t 1776 / Adelphi August 16.t 1776.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (448 x 368)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

3 / 3

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 293
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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