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[9] Finished drawing for a house, 1778, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 37/81
Purpose
[9] Finished drawing for a house, 1778, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front of a two-and-a-half storey, nine-bay, crenulated, v-shaped house. At the ground storey level there is a central, semi-circular headed, stepped entrance set within a crenulated portico. Above this there is a string course and at the first storey level there is a Venetian window flanked by three-quarter-height windows. In the upper register there are quarter-height windows, with the central windows forming oculi. The roof line of the building is ornamented with miniature turrets and there is a central, crenulated, octagonal tower, with semi-circular-headed windows, and this is surmounted by a spire
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Elevation towards the Town of a House proposed to be built at Harwich for John Robinson Esq.r (underwritten in pencil) / No. 16 (brown ink) / the Design delivrd wants(?) a smaller scale / 80 (pencil)
Signed and dated
- October 1778
Adelphi / 1.st Oct.r 1778
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (444 x 592)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
Verso
1 / 1
Watermark
D & C BLAUW
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 17
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 162-63
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 162-63
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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