[3] Preliminary design for a house showing the principal (south) front, 1777, not thought to have been executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Projects known only by patron
  - Mr Henderson: designs for an unknown house, 1770-77 (3)
    - Preliminary design and designs for alterations to an unknown house, 1770-1777, not thought to have been executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/34

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for a house showing the principal (south) front, 1777, not thought to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a house with a five-bay, two-storey central block, set over a three quarters-sunk basement, and with a pitched roof shown alternately with balustrading or a pediment across the full breadth. The central block has a central door, behind a Doric portico supporting a pediment, as well as a string of guilloche between the ground and first storeys, and the bays are articulated by rough pencil-drawn giant Ionic columns or pilasters. The central block is flanked by two-storey wings with hipped roofs. In the ground storey of each wing is a three-bay Doric bow, behind which is a window flanked by niches or arched windows. The bow supports a tablet of festoons, and above is a Venetian window. The Venetian window on the left-hand side is supported by Doric columns and moulded along the top, while the Venetian window to the right-hand side is plain, and ornamented only with a keystone. In each wing, the whole is enclosed within a giant relieving arch, and flanked by medallions

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of a House for Mr Henderson (in the hand of William Adam) and some rough measurements and calculations given in pencil

Signed and dated

24/01/1777
Adelphi / Janry 24t. 1777.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (533 x 376)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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