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  • image SM Adam volume 42/85

Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/85

Purpose

[38] Design for stable offices, c1786, unexecuted

Aspect

Above- Elevation of a fifteen-bay building, with the pedimented central three bays surmounted by a belvedere supporting a weather vane, and with a Tuscan pilaster screen with a frieze of swags and rosettes. The building terminates in projecting pavilions with broken pediments, and with semi-circular headed entrances surmounted by Diocletian windows. The remaining bays alternate between entrances and windows Below- Plan of a fifteen-bay building, with the central three bays containing a coach house, and the end bays forming a workshop and a further coach house. The remaining bays contain stables, a harness room and a boiling room, with a circular staircase to rooms above. The building is enclosed by a wall, with an entrance and an additional enclosed space to the left

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Designs of Offices for Doctor John Turton at Brasted Kent (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Workshop etc. / Stable / Harness room / Coach house / Coach house / Coach house / Boiling room / Stable / Coach House and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1786
    c1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (470 x 487)

Hand

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

Verso

Stable (crossed through) offices for Doctor Turton / 3 / 3 / 18 (pencil)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 4
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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