[3] Preliminary design for alterations to the house, unexecuted, October 1778

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Weald Hall, Brentwood, South Weald, Essex: designs for alterations to the house, a cottage, dog kennels, and interior decoration for Thomas and Christopher Tower, 1778-1779 (21)
    - Designs for a cottage, dog kennels, and alterations to the house (7)
      - Preliminary designs for alterations to the house, unexecuted, October 1778 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/35

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for alterations to the house, unexecuted, October 1778

Aspect

Elevation of the south front of the house, showing a two-storey, eleven-bay building with a hipped roof, a frieze of swags, and a portico of six giant Ionic columns supporting a pediment, with pencil-drawn annotations

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

A Design of the South front of Weald Hall in Essex for _ Towers Esqr (in a later hand) / Plain / Plain / half (in pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

October 1778
datable to October 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (507 x 345)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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