[3] Designs for the north and south fronts of a lodge, executed to a variant design, 1766

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  - Deputy Ranger's Lodge, Green Park, London, commissioned by Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglington, 1769, executed to a variant design, and for Lord William Gordon, 1778, unexecuted (10)
    - Designs for a lodge, 1766, executed to a variant design (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/26

Purpose

[3] Designs for the north and south fronts of a lodge, executed to a variant design, 1766

Aspect

Above- Elevation of a two-storey, five-bay, balustraded building, with the pedimented central three bays slightly projecting. There is a central stepped entrance surmounted by a cornice Below- Elevation of a two-storey, five-bay balustraded building, with the central three bays canted. There is a string course and balustraded windows at the first-storey level. There are preliminary designs for a Doric pilaster screen and a frieze of fluting and roundels

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the Lodge towards the North. / South Front of a Lodge for The Hon.ble Collonel Archd Montgomerie / Extend[s] [_]4.8 / 96 (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1766
Robt Adam Arch.t 1766.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (332 x 465)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Watermark

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 45
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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