[9] Unfinished design for the south front of a house, c1776, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Designs for a house, 1776 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/31

Purpose

[9] Unfinished design for the south front of a house, c1776, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay house with a balustraded, hipped roof. On the ground storey there is a rusticated arcade with full-height windows. On the first storey there are full-height windows set behind wrought-iron balustrades with a figurative frieze. The windows are flanked by giant Corinthian columns. On the second storey there are half-height windows, with a frieze of rosette roundels above. There is an alternative design for a pedimented roof, with a crest set within the tympanum

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¾ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

South Front of Roxburghe House in Hanover Square / as proposed to be finished in Liardet / Extends 60 Feet / Lamp (pencil) / Lamp (pencil) and some figures given

Signed and dated

c1776
c1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (499 x 497)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Verso

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 292-3
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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