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  • image SM Adam volume 45/8

Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/8

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a five-by-three-bay building, with an additional one-by-one bay projection to the rear. There is a stepped entrance in the first bay of the right-hand façade, and this leads to a tripartite suite of rooms, with an apsidal ended central room, which also forms a shallow canted bay in the principal front. The one-by-one bay room projecting to the rear is of an irregular octagonal form, and contains niches

Scale

bar scale of 3 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of Lodge at the Green Park for Lord William Gordon (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 (394 x 492)

Hand

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

Verso

4 / Lord W.m Gordon / Number 2 (brown ink, in the hand of William Adam)

Watermark

GR surmounted by 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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