[8] Unfinished design for 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 29/86

Purpose

[8] Unfinished design for a house, ND, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Longitudinal section of a three-and-a-half-storey house with a half-hipped roof and sunken basement. At the basement-storey level there are a number of barrel-vaulted spaces and a central room containing a chimneypiece. At the ground-storey level a bifurcated staircase extends to the first-storey level, and below this there is a barrel-vaulted passageway. Beyond, there is a room with a central chimneypiece flanked by doors, and with Tuscan screens at either end. The room above this has a coved ceiling and a central chimneypiece flanked by doorways, with preliminary designs for an overmantel mirror frame and girandoles. At the second-storey level there is a room with a chimneypiece and a window into the passage beyond. Steps up lead to a partitioned room, and the attic-storey level contains a room with a small fireplace. The principal front has a ground-floor portico, and this is surmounted by a Tuscan pilaster screen

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the Earl of Hopetowns House in Harley Street (in the hand of William Adam) / Section through the Earl of Hopetowns house in Harley Street (pencil) / 29

Signed and dated

ND
ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pink and yellow coloured washes on laid paper (606 x 499)

Hand

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

Verso

Watermark

PVL

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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