[22] Design for the southeast front of a house, 1779, unexecuted

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  - Wyke House, Syon Hill, Isleworth, designs for a house for John Robinson, unexecuted (23)
    - Fourth design for a house, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/98

Purpose

[22] Design for the southeast front of a house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the southeast front of a two-and-a-half-storey, nine-bay building with a hipped roof. On the ground storey there is a central entrance, set behind a three-bay arcade, and this supports a pedimented, balustraded, Ionic portico, with a frieze of rosettes. On the ground storey there are three-quarter-height windows, and full-height windows at the first-storey level, with figurative roundels and tablets ornamented with rosettes and swags above. In the upper register there are half-height windows, and the building terminates in Ionic pilasters, with capitals containing rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

2nd Design (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / South East front of a new Design for John Robinson Esq.r proposed to be built at Syon Hill- (underwritten in pencil) / No. 57 (brown ink) / Mr. R. has a shaded copy in pencil (brown ink) / A (pencil) / faint pencil inscription bottom right / faint pencil calculations bottom left

Signed and dated

November 1779
Adelphi / 18.t Nov.r 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (448 x 344)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

1 / 1

Watermark

J KOOL surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 18
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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