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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Eaton Hall, Cheshire, unexecuted designs for a menagerie and banqueting house, and for alterations and additions to the house for Baron Grosvenor (later 1st Earl Grosvenor), c1766-68 (19)
    - Preliminary designs and finished drawings for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/96

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a nine- by five-bay cellar storey, containing rooms with vaulted ceilings

Scale

1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Ground Story [incorrect] of Eaton Park one of the Seats of / Earl Grosvenor (in the hand of William Adam) / Still Room / Larder / Still Room / Servants Hall / Maids room / House Keepers room / Her Store room / Stone Parlour / Butlers Pantry / Butlers room / Stewards Room / Store room / Scullery / Kitchen and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1768
datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (597 x 510)

Hand

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

Watermark

LVG and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche / IHS IVILLEDARY

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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