[21] Design for the northwest front of a house, 1779, unexecuted

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [21] Design for the northwest front of a house, 1779, unexecuted

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Wyke House, Syon Hill, Isleworth, designs for a house for John Robinson, unexecuted (23)
    - Fourth design for a house, unexecuted (7)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/99

Purpose

[21] Design for the northwest front of a house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the northwest front of a two-and-a-half-storey, seven-bay building with a hipped roof. The central bay of the ground storey contains a window set within a relieving arch. On the first storey there is a balustraded Venetian window, with a tripartite window in the upper register, and these are set within an Ionic portico, with a frieze of rosettes. The flanking bays have three-quarter-height windows at the ground storey level and full-height windows at the first-storey level, with ornamental tablets above. In the upper register there are half-height windows, and the building terminates in raised Ionic pilasters

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

2d Design (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / A Design for the North West front / of Syon Hill House (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) N: B: The S: W. & N: E: fronts were not copied but may easily be drawn from the Plan / All the four fronts was shaded (brown ink) / No. 59. (brown ink) / Mr. R. has a shaded copy in pencil only (brown ink)

Signed and dated

November 1779
Adelphi / 18.t Nov.r 1779.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (536 x 383)

Hand

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

Verso

Syon Hill (obscured) / 2 / 2

Watermark

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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