[7] Unfinished design for a lodge and gateway, c1778, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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)
    - Preliminary design and unfinished designs for a lodge and kitchen offices, c1778, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/5

Purpose

[7] Unfinished design for a lodge and gateway, c1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, five-bay building, with the pedimented central three bays slightly projecting. There is a central stepped entrance with a cornice and a single storey Tuscan porte cochère. At the first-storey level there is a balcony with a wrought iron balustrade, which extends around the building. To the left-hand side of the principal building there is a half-bay link building, and a two-storey, three-bay arch. The spandrels are ornamented with rosettes, and the archway is flanked by niches and panels ornamented with ox skulls and swags. Above the arch there is a Tuscan balustraded screen with a frieze of fluting and rosettes, surmounted by a plain tablet. The screen terminates in single-bay, pedimented pavilions, with friezes of arabesques Below – Plan of a central entrance and porte cochère Left- Preliminary elevations and a preliminary plan for archways (pencil)

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Lodge at the Green Park for Lord William Gordon (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (665 x 359)

Hand

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

Verso

Preliminary oval sketches (pencil)

Watermark

IV / banded cartouche surmounted by a fleur-de-lis

Literature

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

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Drawing

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