[20] Preliminary design for the west front of the kitchen offices, c1784, unexecuted

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  - Brasted Place, Kent, a house and interiors for Doctor John Turton, c1784-88 (44)
    - Preliminary designs and finished drawings for a second scheme for a house, c1784, unexecuted (14)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/183

Purpose

[20] Preliminary design for the west front of the kitchen offices, c1784, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a seven-bay building, with a central three-bay archway surmounted by a balustrade, and a belvedere with a clock and a ribbed dome supporting a weather vane. Above the arch there is a plain tablet and the pedimented piers of the archway contain windows, surmounted by oculi. This is flanked by one-and-a-half-storey bays with semi-circular headed windows, surmounted by blank tablets, and this is flanked by single-storey bays with windows

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

West Front of Kitchen Court of offices (pencil) / West Front of the Kitchen Court of Offices (pencil) / No. 19

Signed and dated

c1784
c1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (296 x 231)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

offices for Doctor Turtons house at Brasted

Watermark

GR surmounted by a crowned cartouche (cropped)

Literature

King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 106, 122
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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