[10] Finished drawing for an arch, gatehouse and entrance screens, c1778, 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 designs and a finished drawing for an arch, gatehouses and entrance screens, c1778, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/61

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for an arch, gatehouse and entrance screens, c1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey arch, with a central double entrance surmounted by a frieze of fret, and a half-patera set within a fan. The piers are ornamented with a band of fret, and giant paterae, and the arch has a frieze of fluting with a central figurative tablet. All this is surmounted by a chimney stack, ornamented with a patera, and with a preliminary design for a surmounting balustrade. The arch is flanked by single-storey, three-bay gatehouse, with the pedimented central bay containing an entrance, and with a tablet ornamented with festoons and rosettes above. Beyond this there are Tuscan colonnaded screens, surmounted by croquettes, with a wrought iron balustrade. The pilasters for the screen are ornamented with festoons and rosettes, and are surmounted by recumbent sphinxes

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)

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (1010 x 369)

Hand

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

Verso

3 / Gateways for Ld Wm Gordon Green Park / 1

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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