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[12] Design for the kitchen and laundry offices, 1776, possibly executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 37/33
Purpose
[12] Design for the kitchen and laundry offices, 1776, possibly executed
Aspect
Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay, balustraded building, with a sunken basement. On the basement storey there is a half-height window, a tripartite window and an entrance. On the ground storey there is a Diocletian window flanked by three-quarter-height windows. On the first storey there is a string course and a central semi-circular-headed, balustraded window. The window is flanked by paired Ionic columns, which are surmounted by friezes of fluting and rosette capitals, and with full-height windows beyond. On the second storey there is a string course formed with a guilloche band, and a central figurative panel which is flanked by half-height windows
Scale
bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Duke of Roxburghs House in Hanover Square (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Front of Kitchen Landry (sic) &c. next the Houses- / A fair Copy of this delivered and some dimensions and figures given
Signed and dated
- August 1776
Adelphi / August 6.t 1776 / Adelphi August 16.t 1776.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (448 x 368)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
3 / 3
Watermark
GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 293
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 293
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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