[24] Design for the entrance/west front of a building, c1767, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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, c1767, part executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/34

Purpose

[24] Design for the entrance/west front of a building, c1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, seventeen-bay, balustraded building set behind a Corinthian colonnade and with a central Corinthian portico supporting an acroterion and surmounted by a stepped dome. There is a central entrance which is flanked by several niches containing statuary. Above this there is a band of fluting and three central figurative tablets flanked by figurative roundels. In the fourth and fourteenth bays there are full-height windows on the ground storey and three-quarter-height windows on the first storey. The building has a frieze of rosette roundels, and set within the tympanum there is the Bute crest of arms surmounted by a coronet and flanked by a horse and stag supporters. The building terminates in two-and-a-half-storey pavilions with pyramidal roofs and two-storey bow fronts. On the ground storey there are full-height windows, with a band of fluting and three-quarter-height windows above. In the upper register there are balustraded Diocletian windows

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

A New Design for Luton Park one of the seats of the Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Entrance Front as carried out 1767-7 (modern curatorial hand, pencil)

Signed and dated

c1767
c1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (966 x 521)

Hand

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

Verso

20 / 4

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
Russell, 1992, pp. 44-47
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 119
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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