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[6] Record drawing for the house, 1761, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 43/93
Purpose
[6] Record drawing for the house, 1761, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the side (north) front of a three-storey, ten-bay house, with a balustraded and hipped roof, and with a rusticated basement containing a door off-centre in the sixth bay, and this is flanked by three-and-a-half-storey, one-bay corner towers, with a half-height attic surmounted by a pyramidal roof, a rusticated basement without a window, and the aedicular window on the first floor on the principal front (Adam volume 43/92) shown in profile
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
North Front of Osterly House one of the Seats of / Francis Child Esqr (one of the Seats of / Francis Child Esqr in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Copy at Osterley (in pencil in the hand of A.T. Bolton)
Signed and dated
- 1761
datable to 1761
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (529 x 346)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Agostino Brunias, with additional title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
2
Watermark
LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Stillman, 1966, p. 68
Rowan, 1988, p. 63
Harris, 1994, p. 24
Harris, 2001, p. 160
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 194, Volume II, p. 132
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 68
Rowan, 1988, p. 63
Harris, 1994, p. 24
Harris, 2001, p. 160
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 194, Volume II, p. 132
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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