[17] Design for the first scheme of alterations to the house, 1774, unexecuted

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  - Mamhead, Ashcombe, Devon: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, a garden seat, a temple and stable offices for the 1st Earl of Lisburne, 1767-80 (32)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/28

Purpose

[17] Design for the first scheme of alterations to the house, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the garden front of a house, with a three-storey, three-bay central block, with a hipped roof, a rusticated basement, the bays articulated by Ionic pilasters across the first and second storeys, and with paired pilasters at the edges of the end bays, and with tripartite pedimented windows in the first storey, surmounted by panels of fluting, and urns, and with half-height tripartite windows in the second storey, and with a frieze of enclosed rosettes connected by festoons. The central block is flanked by two-storey, three-bay balustraded links, with balustraded windows on the first storey, and beyond are two-storey, one-bay, pedimented pavilions, with tripartite windows, balustraded and pedimented on the first storey, and surmounted by a rectangular grisaille panel

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Second design (in pencil) / Second Design (in the hand of William Adam) / Elevation of the North East Front of Mamhead House in Devonshire. The Seat of Lord Viscount Lisburne

Signed and dated

1774
Adelphi July 4t. 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (594 x 414)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 22
Rowan, 1988, p. 88
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 132
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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