[1] Preliminary design for a screen wall and gateway, c.1761, unexecuted

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    - Little Wallingford House, Whitehall: designs for a screen and gateway, and mirror frames, for Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull, 1761-69, executed to a variant design (5)
      - Preliminary design and finished drawing for a screen and gateway, 1761, executed to a variant design (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 9/195

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a screen wall and gateway, c.1761, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a detail of a screen wall and gateway, with a central carriage arch containing doors, and flanked by Ionic columns supporting a broken-base pediment. The carriage arch is flanked by single-storey, single-bay link walls, that on the left-hand side is visible, and contains a door with a tablet above, and is crowned by balustrading. Beyond the link is a two-storey, single-bay, balustraded pavilion or lodge, with a sculpture-filled niche on the ground floor, an oculus window surmounted by festoons on the first floor and balustrading at roof level with urns

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Ionick of Le Roy

Signed and dated

c.1761
datable to c.1761

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (160 x 132)

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

Rowan has attributed this drawing to Piccadilly House for Lord Holland, however, King suggests that it is for the Earl of Kinnoul. There are more similarities between this preliminary design and the finished drawing for the Earl of Kinnoul than there are with the design for Piccadilly House. Therefore, this drawing has been catalogued within this scheme. Rowan also pointed out that the motifs and inscription for SM Adam volume 9/195 'suggests that Adam at one stage intended to take the order from J.D. Le Roy’s Plus Beaux Monuments de la Grece, although the finished drawing makes use of the Spalatro order instead.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 45
Rowan, 1988, p. 60
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 222
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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