[13] Finished drawing for the south building, 1784, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/5

Purpose

[13] Finished drawing for the south building, 1784, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial section of a two-and-a-half storey building with a pitched roof. The rooms to the front of the building contain double doorways and the rooms to the rear contain single doorways. The principal front of the building is formed with a pedimented Corinthian portico, with rustication at the ground-storey level, a fluted frieze with rosette capitals, and the pediment surmounted by acroteria supporting statuary. To the rear there is a bow front with a Venetian window at the ground-storey level and a figurative tablet above. In the upper register there is a quarter-height window and the bow is surmounted by a dome containing an oculus. The drum of the dome contains oculi windows, with a frieze of rosettes and festoons above

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section across the Building upon the line A.B. shewing the hights of the different storys. / Whites Chocolate House (incorrectly titled in the hand of William Adam, crossed through in pencil) / (and in modern curatorial hand, pencil) Provost's House at / Kings College Cambridge / No. 7 (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1784
Rob.t Adam Architect 1784.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and Naples yellow within a double ruled border on laid paper (587 x 480)

Hand

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

Verso

No. 5 / No. 5

Watermark

PVL

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

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