[6] Finished drawing for a triumphal arch, gatehouses and screens, c1778, unexecuted

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  - Hyde Park Corner, London, designs for a triumphal arch, gatehouses and screens, c1778, unexecuted (18)
    - Preliminary designs, design and finished drawing for a triumphal arch, first design, c1778, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 28/4

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for a triumphal arch, gatehouses and screens, c1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a triumphal archway, with flanking link bays and piers as SM Adam volume 1/14, but with an alternative composition of statuary surmounting the pediment. A central figure depicting Britannia is flanked by statuary depicting King George III and Queen Charlotte, with the piers beyond surmounted by a recumbent lion and unicorn. Beyond this there are entrance screens, with central three-bay archways as SM Adam volume 1/140, and this is flanked by three-bay, arcaded links, with a frieze of ox skulls and festoons, and with wrought iron fences. The screens terminate in single-bay Ionic pavilions, with a relieving arch containing a window. The pavilions are surmounted by a drum, pierced with oculi, ornamented with caryatids, all supporting a ribbed dome

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/8 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for a Gateway at Hide Park Corner with Side Gateways into Hide Park & Constitution Hill (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (1577 x 350)

Hand

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

Verso

1 / (and in modern curatorial hand, pencil) vol 28 no 4 / 81

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 41
Rowan, 1988, p. 56
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 38-9, 57, pl. 44
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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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