[7] 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 29/87

Purpose

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

Aspect

Axial section of a three-and-a-half-storey building, with a sunken basement. At the basement-storey level several of the rooms are barrel-vaulted. At the ground-storey to the right there is a bifurcated staircase, with preliminary designs for additions to the stairwell including balustrades, a suspended oil lantern, and a pedimented screen at the first-storey level Upper left - Preliminary design for an arcade (pencil)

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)

Signed and dated

ND
ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pink and yellow coloured washes on laid paper (611 x 477)

Hand

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

Verso

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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