[19] Finished drawing for a house and offices, 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 42/80

Purpose

[19] Finished drawing for a house and offices, c1784, unexecuted

Aspect

Longitudinal section of a building with a hipped roof and a part-sunken basement. There is a dog-leg staircase to the west, which extends from the basement-storey level to the first-storey level, and this is lit by a conical oculus. At the ground-storey level there is a central room with an apse set behind an Ionic screen, and the ceiling is ornamented with a central patera and fan. To the west of the principal building there is an elevation of a two-storey building, with three bays projecting which contain an entrance and windows, with Diocletian windows above, all set within relieving arches. Flanking the three bays there are single-storey Tuscan colonnades. Further west the colonnade links to a two-storey building, surmounted by a belvedere, and supporting a weather vane

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section from East to West / (and in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) of Doctor Turtons House / No. 30.

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 (587 x 360)

Hand

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

Verso

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 4
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 106, 122; Volume II, pl. 118
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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