[25] Design for a house, c1787, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Hill House, Putney Heath, three schemes for Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Bt., c1786-7, unexecuted (25)
    - Third scheme for Hill House, Putney, c1787
      - Unfinished designs and designs for a house, c1787, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/71

Purpose

[25] Design for a house, c1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay building, with a hipped roof and a part-sunken basement. The central three bays are projecting, with rustication at the ground-storey level, and surmounted by a blank tablet. There is a central stepped aedicule entrance, set within a relieving arch, and this is flanked by full-height windows at the ground-storey level, with a double string course above. There are further full-height windows at the first-storey level, and third-height windows in the upper register. The ground-storey windows of the east and west façades are bowed and surmounted by balustrades

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Signed and dated

c1787
c1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (421 x 259)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 26
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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