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[17] Design for the east front, 1787, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 31/5
Purpose
[17] Design for the east front, 1787, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay building with a balustraded, hipped roof and rustication at the ground-storey level. There are three-quarter-height windows at the ground-storey level, and at the first-storey level there is a central, balustraded window set within an apse and behind an Ionic screen. The screen has a frieze of festoons and the semi-dome of the apse is ornamented with coffering. The apsidal window is flanked by full-height, balustraded, aedicula windows articulated by Ionic columns. In the upper register there are quarter-height windows. The building terminates in giant Corinthian pilasters, with capitals containing rosettes and a frieze ornamented with fluting and a central panel containing anthemia and calyx and an apron of guttae
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/8 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Elevation of the East / end of Kings College Cambridge (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / No. 19-
Signed and dated
- 1787
Robt Adam Architect 1787
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (585 x 477)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Robert Adam, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
6 (crossed through) / 5 / 6 (crossed through) / 5
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.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 53
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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