[2] Design showing an elevation for alterations to the house, 1774-75, partly as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Hampton House (later Garrick’s villa), Hampton Court Road, Richmond: designs for alterations to the house and garden buildings for David Garrick, 1774-77 (7)
    - Designs for alterations to the house, 1774-75, partly as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/58

Purpose

[2] Design showing an elevation for alterations to the house, 1774-75, partly as executed

Aspect

Elevation of the principal (south) front of a three-storey, seven-bay house, with a hipped roof, paired lotus capital pilasters articulating the corners, and with a central three-bay projecting arcade across the ground storey, surmounted by a three-bay lotus capital portico and pediment, and on the left-hand side of the house there is a two-storey, five-bay wing, with the ground storey projecting, and a colonnade of paired Doric columns across the central three bays, behind which is a central arched entrance, and to the left-hand side of this wing is shown a single-storey link in section, and beyond there is a single-storey, three-bay wing, with a hipped roof, and to the left-hand side of the sheet is another two-storey building shown in section, with a pitched roof, and a pediment facing the house

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Mr Garrick's House at Hampton (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) Mr Garrick

Signed and dated

1774-75
datable to 1774-75

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash, pink and yellow wash on laid paper (1071 x 334)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with pencil-drawn annotations in the hand of Robert Adam, and with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

'The Cloud-Capped Towers': Shakespeare in Soane's Architectural Imagination, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 21 April - 8 October 2016

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