[6] Unfinished design for a lodge, 1778, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - 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 45/7

Purpose

[6] Unfinished design for a lodge, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Longitudinal section of a single-storey building. There is a central entrance set within an apse, and this is flanked by niches which are raised to above the chair rail. The apse is flanked by chimneypieces and further raised niches. Above all this the joists for the roof are shown

Scale

bar scale of 3 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

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

Signed and dated

April 1778
Adelphi / 25.t April 1778.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (485 x 344)

Hand

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

Verso

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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