[10] Finished drawing for the southeast front of a building, c1764, unexecuted

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  - Luton Park, designs for a house and interiors including an organ case for John Crichton Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1763-72 (56)
    - Designs for a building, c1764, unexecuted (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/42

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for the southeast front of a building, c1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, fifteen-bay crenellated building, with a nine-bay two-storey central block, which has full-height windows on the ground and first storeys. The building terminates in projecting three-bay square towers, with tripartite windows on the ground and first storeys, and these are surmounted by single-bay turrets

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

South East Front of Luton Castle in Bedfordshire- / one of the Seats of the Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Extends 160 Feet- / Drawing room 17ft in the Clear, requires / 5 steps over it & 3ft in to the Cill of the Window / The Library & Bed Chamber in the 2 Towers to the N. East Front to be 16ft 6in in the Clear, requires / 4 steps above & 3 1/2ft to the Cill of the Window / (and in pencil) Drawing Room 17ft in the Clear / requires 5 steps over it by 2ft 6 in to / the Cill of the Window / The Library & Bed Room in the / 2 Towers to [_ _] N. E. Front / to be 16.6 in the clear, requires / 4 steps above & 3ft to the (cill) (?) / of the (window) (?) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1764
c1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (532 x 378)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi or William Hamilton, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

3 / Luton Park Gothic (pencil)

Watermark

LVG surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
Russell, 1992, pp. 44-47
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 12; Volume II, pp. 85, 131, 163
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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