[18] Finished drawing for 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 42/79

Purpose

[18] Finished drawing for a house, c1784, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial section for a two-storey building, with a hipped roof and a part sunken basement. At the basement-storey level there is a central, barrel vaulted passage, a barrel-vaulted room, and a room with wine bins. The basement storey extends beyond the north and south fronts with covered passages. At the ground-storey level there is a single storey stepped Tuscan portico entrance, surmounted by a balustrade. This leads to a room with an apse set with an Ionic screen. To the south there is a two-storey, pedimented, stepped Ionic portico, which leads to a room with a central fireplace, which is set within a relieving arch, articulated by Corinthian columns. The spandrels are ornamented with figurative roundels. At the first-storey level there is a central barrel vaulted passage, flanked by rooms. At the attic-storey level there is a central passage with a conical oculus forming a light well, and this is flanked by garret rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section from North to South / (and in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) of Doctor Turtons house at Brasted in Kent / No. 29.

Signed and dated

c1784
c1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and Naples yellow within a single ruled border on laid paper (495 x 358)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with part-title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

4 / 4

Watermark

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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