[7] Finished drawing for the south front of the house, 1767-68, executed with alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kenwood, Hampstead, London: designs for the house and park for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, 1764-83 (55)
    - House and interior
      - Finished drawings for the plan and south front of the house, 1767-68, executed with alterations (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/1

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for the south front of the house, 1767-68, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, nine-bay central block with a hipped roof, flanked on either side by a one-storey, one-bay, balustraded link containing a Venetian window, and a one-storey, five-bay pavilion with a hipped roof, the windows within relieving arches, and the bays articulated by fluted Ionic columns and with paired fluted Ionic pilasters at each end. The central block has a rusticated basement, string courses of fret and Vitruvian scroll, Spalatro pilasters ornamented with anthemia running across the first and second storeys, panels of arabesque acanthus leaves, a fluted frieze, and a central pediment containing figurative sculptures

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for finishing the South Front of Kenwood House. For The Right Honorable Lord Mansfield Lord Chief Justice of England and some measurements given (verso) Lord Mansfield / 1 / Lord Mansfield (in pencil)

Signed and dated

1768
Robt Adam Architect 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (1741 x 445)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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