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  • image SM Adam volume 39/94

Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/94

Purpose

[9] Finished drawing for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the side (north) front of the northern pavilion, being a two-storey, seven-bay building, with a pitched roof, a rusticated basement, with a central arched door on the ground floor, flanked by rectangular windows, and three Venetian windows within relieving arches on the first floor, alternating with sculpture-filled niches. The first floor with a Corinthian pilaster at each end, panels containing swags, and the roof is surmounted by figurative sculptures supported by acroteria

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

End Front of Eaton Park one of the Seats of / Earl Grosvenor (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (463 x 325)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 10
King, 1992, Volume II, p. 124
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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