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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/103

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for a house, c1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey, seven-bay balustraded block, with a hipped roof and a part-sunken basement. The central three bays form a bow, and there is a central stepped, aedicula entrance, with a sloped carriage approach. There are quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level, and full-height windows at the first storey level, which are surmounted by figurative roundels. There is a string course of Vitruvian scroll and half-height windows in the upper register. The central block is flanked by three-bay, pedimented pavilions, surmounted by acroteria. There are sunken windows in the basement storey, full-height windows on the ground storey, which are set within Corinthian pilaster screens, and oculi in the tympanum

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/8 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

3d Design of a House for John Robinson Esqr at Syon Hill (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / No. 40 (?) (brown ink, cropped)

Signed and dated

  • c1779
    c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (469 x 303)

Hand

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

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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