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[7] Finished drawing for a design for the house, 1759-1762
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 35/6
Purpose
[7] Finished drawing for a design for the house, 1759-1762
Aspect
Elevation of the garden (south) front of a house with a three-storey, nine-bay central block, with a hipped roof, aedicular and balustraded windows on the first storey, and the central three bays on the ground storey are slightly projecting, and support a Corinthian portico and pediment, and with a frieze of anthemia, and anthemia enclosed by scrolled hearts. The central block is flanked by two-storey, three-bay links, with flat roofs, and the upper register is recessed and behind an Ionic colonnade, and beyond the links are pavilions as in Adam volume 35/5, but the entire ground storey of the south front is rusticated
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
South Front of a new design for Gawthorpe House in Yorkshire the Seat of / Edwin Lascelles Esquire. and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1759-62
Robt Adam Architect date range: 1759-62
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (1576 x 605)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Harris, 2001, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2001, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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