[11] Finished drawing for a house, 1778, unexecuted

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- Country houses
  - Harwich House, designs for a house for John Robinson, 1778, unexecuted (11)
    - Preliminary designs, designs and finished drawings for a house, 1778, unexecuted (11)

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Reference number

SM Adam 37/82

Purpose

[11] Finished drawing for a house, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-and-a-half storey, eleven-bay, crenulated building, as SM Adam Volume 37/86 (verso)

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation towards the Sea of a House proposed to be built at Harwich for John Robinson Esq.r / No. 15 (brown ink) / The Design delivered wants(?) a smaller Scale / 81 (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 (594 x 443)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Verso

2 / 2

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.

Level

Drawing

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