[9] Preliminary design for an arch and gateways, c1778, unexecuted

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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 designs and a finished drawing for an arch, gatehouses and entrance screens, c1778, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/60

Purpose

[9] Preliminary design for an arch and gateways, c1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Above- Elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey archway, flanked by entrance screens. The arch has a central Ionic screen, with a frieze of fluting and roundels, and the spandrels are ornamented by roundels. The screen is flanked by paired Tuscan(?) pilasters, with festoons and ox skulls above, and the arch is surmounted by recumbent stags. Beyond this there are niches containing urns, and double entrances flanked by pilasters supporting urns and chimney stacks. Beyond this there are wrought iron balustrades, with pilasters ornamented with swags and rosettes, and the pilasters are surmounted by recumbent sphinxes Below- Elevation of a Tuscan screen, with wrought iron balustrades, a frieze of swags, and terminating in pilasters ornamented in swags and rosettes, and surmounted by sphinxes. Beyond this there are further pilasters supporting urns, and ornamented with a band of drop calyx and arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for Lord William Gordon (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / 60 (modern curatorial hand, pencil)

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (633 x 489)

Hand

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

Verso

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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