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[18] Finished drawing for a house, c1784, unexecuted
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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
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with part-title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
4 / 4
Watermark
IV
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.
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 106, 122
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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