Explore Collections
You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[19] Preliminary design for a banqueting room, c.1783, unexecuted
Browse
- Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
Reference number
SM Adam volume 36/60
Purpose
[19] Preliminary design for a banqueting room, c.1783, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and elevation of a single storey banqueting room, with a central drum tower with a conical roof, over a basement. The banqueting room comprises a rear circular tearoom with niches, chimneypieces, and a balustraded bow, flanked by a staircase and butler’s storeroom with a corridor across the front. The principal elevation is rusticated and comprises a square-headed opening within a voussoired-arch flanked by windows. The flanking wings have pitched roofs with cupolas at the corner. There is a mixture of enclosed rosettes, medallions, fluted friezes, dentilled cornices, and urn-filled niches and segmental arches across the elevation
Scale
to a scale of 1/4 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
(In the hand of William Adam) Design for a Banqueting Room / (in a different hand) Earl of Findlater at Cullen ~ / Butlers / store / room / Tea Room / Lobby / Stairs to / Kitchen / 50 feet in front with some dimensions
Signed and dated
- c.1783
datable to c.1783
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (509x203)
Hand
Probably
Robert or James Adam
Robert or James Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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