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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/22

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a house, c1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the rear front of a one-and-half-storey, building with a central seven-bay rotunda. The rotunda contains a central entrance flanked by full-height windows and niches containing statuary, with a band of guilloche and figurative tablets set above. All this is set behind a Corinthian colonnade, with a frieze of rosettes and festoons above. The building is surmounted by a stepped dome, which is bordered by a band of fluting and surrounded by plinths supporting draped statuary. The rotunda is flanked by single-storey, two-bay link blocks containing pedimented entrances flanked by Ionic pilasters. Beyond this the linking wall is ornamented with panels bordered with moulding, and a ram mask. The link buildings connect to one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay pavilions raised on rusticated arches, which are ornamented with bands of Vitruvian scroll. At the ground-storey level of the pavilions there are projecting, tripartite, leaded windows, with leaded Diocletian windows set above

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

General Hervey (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Extends 94 Feet and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1766
    c1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including sepia and Indian red within a single ruled border on laid paper (503 x 634)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 260
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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