[8] Preliminary design for an end bay of the south building, c1784, unexecuted

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [8] Preliminary design for an end bay of the south building, c1784, unexecuted

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - King's College, Cambridge, designs for a chapel altar, new college buildings and a library, 1768-88, unexecuted (28)
    - Preliminary designs, designs and finished drawings for the south front of the quadrangle, c1784, unexecuted (12)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/92

Purpose

[8] Preliminary design for an end bay of the south building, c1784, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-and-a-half storey, three-bay building with an alternative balustraded and pyramidal roof. At the ground-storey level there are three-quarter height windows with rusticated quoins. At the first-storey level there is a central relieving arch and a balustraded Corinthian screen, ornamented with a frieze of roundels and swags. Beyond the screen there is a central entrance and above this there is a roundel flanked by swags. The arch is flanked by balustraded aedicula windows, articulated by Ionic columns and the windows are flanked by giant Corinthian columns. In the upper register there is a string course and quarter-height windows

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

some dimensions given (pencil)

Signed and dated

c1784
c1784

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (262 x 243)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, pp. 173-79; Index, p. 6
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 53
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).