[26] Design for the south front of a building, c1767, as executed

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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)
    - Design for a building, c1767, part executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/36

Purpose

[26] Design for the south front of a building, c1767, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, nine-bay building with a hipped roof and the central five bays projecting with the third and seventh bays surmounted by pyramidal roofs. There is a central entrance set behind a Corinthian colonnaded screen, with a Diocletian window set within a relieving arch above. The entrance is flanked by full-height windows and on the first storey there is a fluted string course and three-quarter-height windows. In the upper register there are quarter-height windows, with the central three windows set behind a balustrade. To the left- and right-hand sides of the building there are two-storey, balustraded bow fronts

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Another Design for Luton Park one of the Seats of the Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / South (pencil) / Elevation of North End as executed (modern curatorial hand, pencil)

Signed and dated

c1767
c1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (591 x 499)

Hand

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

Verso

number 10 / 3 Elevations for Luton in corner(?) [_ _ _]

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
Russell, 1992, pp. 44-47
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 119, 157
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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