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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/1

Purpose

[6] Design for a building, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, three-bay building, with a slight incline from right to left, and rustication at ground-storey level. The central, stepped Doric portico is projecting, and contains an entrance surmounted by a fanlight, and flanked by semi-circular-headed windows. In the first and third bays there are windows set behind Doric screens. At the first-storey level there are windows set behind Ionic screens and surmounted by lunettes. The central window is set behind a balustraded, bowed, Corinthian screen, and the windows in the first and third bays have ironwork balconies, and are flanked by paired Corinthian columns. Above all this there is a frieze of festoons and ribbons. In the upper register, in the central bay, there are three windows with a pediment, set behind a bowed balustrade, and all this is surmounted by a ribbed dome. In the first and third bays there are lunette windows flanked by Doric pilasters, and the bays are surmounted by plinths supporting reclining sphinxes

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Whites Chocolate House / Elevation towards St. James's Street / Whites Chocolate house (pencil) / Extends 63 feet / See Sk. Vol 10. 36 (A.T. Bolton, modern curatorial hand, pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1787
    (cropped) m Architect 1787.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (608 x 529)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

9 designs

Watermark

JWHATMAN; Fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 50
Sheppard, 1960, pp. 457-58
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57, pl. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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