[2] Design for the first storey and section for 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 42/28

Purpose

[2] Design for the first storey and section for a lodge, executed to a variant design, 1766

Aspect

Above- Longitudinal section of a two-storey, five-bay building, with a central pitched roof, flanked by shallow sloped roofs which terminate in balustrades. The three bays of the central ground-floor and first-floor rooms form canted bay windows, and the windows of the first storey are set within relieving arches, and are flanked by Doric pilasters. Above this there is a frieze of fluting and a domed ceiling, and the central first-storey room is flanked coffered spaces Below-Plan of the first storey of a five-by-three-bay building, with the central three-bays of the principal façade slightly projecting. Beyond this there is a staircase and landing, flanked by a symmetrical formation of bedchambers, dressing rooms and closets. To the rear there is an octagonal drawing room with niches and additional flanking spaces. The drawing room forms the central canted bay window to the rear

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the Lodge- / House for the Honorable Archibald Montgomorie (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Plan of the One Pair of Stairs Story- / Dressing Room / Drawing Room / Dressing Room / Closet / Closet / Bed Chamber / Landing of the Stairs / Bed Chamber / 86 (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1766
[R]obt Ardam Archt. 1766.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including Naples yellow and pink (314 x 503)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Col.l A Montgomerie / 3 / 3 / 5 (pencil) / Number 5 (brown ink, in the hand of William Adam)

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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