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[1] Finished drawing for a coach house, 1779, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 44/107
Purpose
[1] Finished drawing for a coach house, 1779, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and elevation of a five-bay coach house. The central three bays are one-and-a-half storeys high and contain three coach houses behind an arcade articulated by lotus-capital pilasters, surmounted by a frieze of enclosed rosettes, and with an attic composed of military trophies flanking a tapering pediment containing a clock and ornamented with festoons, rosettes, ox skulls and drops of bell flowers, and surmounted by sphinxes flanking a Doric monopteral colonnade supporting a dome and bell. The central three bays are flanked by single-storey, single-bay lodges with arched doors, and a string course of roundels
Scale
bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of Stable Offices for General Plaistow / Plan of the Stables (all in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) Gen’l Plaistow
Signed and dated
- 1779
datable to 1779
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (356 x 495)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam (underwritten in pencil)
Watermark
JKOOL surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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