[5] Unfinished design for the west front of a house, ND, not known to have been executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Harley Street, number 1 (now 2) and Cavendish Square number 16, London, designs for exterior and interior alterations for James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun, ND (9)
      - Designs and unfinished designs for alterations to a house, ND (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/85

Purpose

[5] Unfinished design for the west front of a house, ND, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, five-bay building, with a half-hipped roof. At the ground-storey-level there is a tripartite window in the central bay, and this is flanked by Tuscan porticos with stepped entrances beyond. At the first-storey-level there is a pedimented window with an Ionic screen, all set within an apse. This is flanked by further pedimented windows with Ionic screens, and there is a string course of Vitruvian scroll above. The second and fourth bays are surmounted by pediments articulated by Corinthian columns, and there is a preliminary design for a half-height tripartite window in the upper register of the second bay. There are preliminary designs for further windows in the first bay, along with a preliminary design for a string course of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

West front as proposed of Hopetoun House to Harley Street (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / 31

Signed and dated

ND
ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (490 x 270)

Hand

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

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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