Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [6] Finished drawing for the principal elevation of a house, ND, unexecuted

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 42/116

Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/116

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for the principal elevation of a house, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of two-storey, seven-bay house over a half-sunk basement, with a hipped roof and a central three-bay pedimented portico with corinthian columns, a fluted frieze with enclosed rosettes, and a wide set of balustraded entrance steps terminating in pedestals surmounted by lamps. The basement is rusticated and there are a mixture of windows in moulded and plain surrounds, as well as a dentilled cornice and moulded string course

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Principal Front of a New Design for Herbertshire House The Seat of William Morehead Esqr. ~ with some dimensions

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (367x526)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 17
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk