[10] Preliminary design for a house, c1778, unexecuted

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  - Harwich House, designs for a house for John Robinson, 1778, unexecuted (11)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/86 (verso)

Purpose

[10] Preliminary design for a house, c1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the rear front of an eleven-bay, crenulated building, which is alternatively shown at two storeys and two-and-a-half storeys, both with a part-sunken basement level. There is a central, stepped entrance leading to a raised ground-storey level. The entrance is flanked by three-quarter-height windows, and at first-storey level there is a string course and half-height windows. In the upper register there are quarter-height windows and the roof line is ornamented with miniature turrets. The rotunda is surmounted by a crenulated, circular tower with semi-circular-headed windows, and this is surmounted by a spire

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(cropped) [J]ohn Robinson Esq- Harwich House / 9 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (545 x 345)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

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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