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

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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

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