[3] Design for a porch, 1761-74, unexecuted

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    - Mount Street (later 34 Berkeley Square), designs for a porch for Claudius Amyand, 1761-74, unexecuted (3)
      - Preliminary designs and design for a porch, 1761-74, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/70

Purpose

[3] Design for a porch, 1761-74, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-bay pedimented portico with a pyramidal roof and a frieze ornamented with fluting and ox skulls, alternating with rosette roundels. There is a central stepped entrance surmounted by a fan light, with rosette roundels above. The entrance is flanked by fluted Doric columns and niches containing urns. Above the niches there is a string course of fluting and cameos flanked by festoons

Scale

bar scale of 4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Faint pencil inscription (modern curatorial hand, Arthur Bolton) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (443 x 309)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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