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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/66

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a porch, 1761-74, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-bay entrance portico, with fluted Doric columns and a pyramidal roof. The central entrance is surmounted by a band of Vitruvian scroll and a fan light, and there are rosette roundels above. The portico has a frieze of fluting, and there is a wreath flanked by festoons set within the tympanum. The bays flanking the entrance contain niches bearing urns, with a fluted string course and suspended cameos flanked by drop calyx above

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Porch for The House of Claudius Amyand Esq.r / Mount Street Barkelay. Sqr / This is the (cropped) / Following / 8 (pencil) / 12 (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1761-74
    date range: 1761-74 (see scheme notes)

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (183 x 275)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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