[21] Design for a garden building, 1778, not known to have been executed

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  - Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, executed designs for interiors and furniture, and designs for garden buildings, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1777-80 (24)
    - Designs and record drawings for a garden building, 1778-1779, not known to have been executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/167

Purpose

[21] Design for a garden building, 1778, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Above - Rear elevation of a single-storey, balustraded building, with a central Venetian window, articulated by Ionic columns. Above this there is a key stone ornamented with a mask, flanked by festoons and cameos. All this is flanked by paired Ionic pilasters and niches containing urns. The capitals contain roundels enclosing rosettes, and there is a frieze of fluting Below - Plan of a one-by-one-bay building, with columnar screens set before apses containing niches, and with a tripartite window

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 5 feet

Inscribed

Plan & Elevation of a Design for a Garden Building for Sir Abraham Hume Baronet and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

Nov 1778
13. Nov. 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (373 x 536)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 183-84, 210, 226
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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