[16] Finished drawing for the south front of a house, c1784, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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 42/76

Purpose

[16] Finished drawing for the south front of a house, c1784, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation for the south front of a two-storey, seven-bay building, with a part-sunken basement and a hipped roof. The central five bays are projecting, terminating in paired Ionic pilasters, and there is a pedimented, stepped Ionic portico across the central bay. At the ground-storey level there are balustraded Venetian windows, and this is flanked by balustraded aedicule windows. There is a string course of guilloche and half-height windows in the upper register. The building has a frieze of anthemia alternating with calyx

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the South front of a new Design for Brasted Place in Kent / The Seat of Doctor John Turton. / no. 27 / 75 (pencil)

Signed and dated

c1784
c1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (493 x 359)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J KOOL surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 4
Rowan, 1985, p. 42
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 106, 122; Volume II, pl. 116
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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