[22] Design for the principal front of a building, c1767, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/27

Purpose

[22] Design for the principal front of a building, c1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, thirteen-bay building, with a part-sunk basement, and a central entrance set behind a five-bay, stepped Corinthian portico, with a pediment surmounted by acroteria. The portico is flanked by three-bays, with quarter-height windows in the basement storey. On the ground storey there is a triple string course and full-height windows, and on the first storey there is a double string course and half-height windows. The building terminates in two-and-a-half storey pavilions, with pyramidal roofs, Venetian windows on the ground storey, half-height windows on the first storey, and quarter-height windows in the upper register

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Another (in the hand of William Adam) / Elevation of the Principal Front. / of Luton Park / one of the Seats of the Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

c1767
c1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (596 x 511)

Hand

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

Verso

Rough preliminary design for a side elevation of a building with a stepped entrance (pencil)

Watermark

D & C BLAUW

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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