[5] Design for a house, 1777, unexecuted

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  - Drummonds Bank, Charing Cross, London, 1777-1779, part executed (16)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/116

Purpose

[5] Design for a house, 1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house, with a hipped roof and the pedimented, central three-bays projecting. The stepped, central entrance has a fan light and is flanked by windows surmounted by lunettes, and each is set within a reliving arch, with rosettes ornamenting the spandrels. Above this there are full-height, balustraded windows surmounted by a panel ornamented with a sacrificial scene, and there are quarter-height windows in the upper register. The central three bays are flanked by single bays containing stepped entrances, set within niches with ornamental ceilings. Above this there are tripartite, balustraded windows, articulated by Ionic columns, and all set within relieving arches ornamented with figurative roundels

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 5 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of Messrs Drummonds Charing Cross (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

Jan 1777
Adelphi Janry 14. 1777-

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a double ruled border on laid paper (561 x 455)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 52
Sands, 2016, p. 25, 27
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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