[11] Finished drawing for a second scheme for the house, 1765-74, unexecuted

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  - Fennells Place, Ewell, Surrey: unexecuted designs for a house, interior works, and rustic offices, for Anthony Chamier, 1765-74 (14)
    - Preliminary design and finished drawings for a second scheme for the house, 1765-74, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/97

Purpose

[11] Finished drawing for a second scheme for the house, 1765-74, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the garden front of a house with a two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay central block, with a hipped roof, and with a splayed staircase leading to a central door on the first storey, which is flanked by consoles. The central block is flanked by single-storey five-bay links, with niches in the first bay, and a door in the second bay, and beyond are one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay pavilions, with blind arches in the ground storey, half height windows in the upper register, and with pyramidal roofs. Under the fliers alternative links are shown, being one-and-a-half-storey, five-bay buildings, with flat roofs, and with single-storey projecting porches with pyramidal roofs and niches on the ground storey

Scale

bar sale of 7/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

North Front of Fennells Place House and Offices

Signed and dated

1765-1774
date range: 1765-74

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (531 x 366 and fliers 173 x 63 and 163 x 63)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Verso

2 / 5 / 2 / 5

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 125
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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