[23] Finished drawing for a building, c1767, 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)
    - Design for a building, 1767, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/23

Purpose

[23] Finished drawing for a building, c1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, nineteen-bay building, with a part-sunken basement. There is a central, pedimented, five-bay, stepped portico, with a entrance set within a three-bay bow. The Corinthian portico is also bowed, and has a frieze of rosettes and wreaths, with a conical roof above. All this is flanked by four bays, with quarter-height windows in basement, full-height windows on the ground storey, and a string course and three-quarter height windows on the first storey. The building terminates in three-bay, bowed pavilions, surmounted by a balustrade, a Diocletian window and a pyramidal roof

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/8 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for Luton Park one of the seats / of The Right Honble The Earl of Bute (all in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / This is as carried out 1767 (pencil, modern curatorial hand)

Signed and dated

c1767
c1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (911 x 523)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 16, 119, pl. 17; Volume II, pp. 88, 131
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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