[11] Variant preliminary design 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)
    - Variant preliminary design and finished drawings for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/56

Purpose

[11] Variant preliminary design for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of the principal (west) front of a three-storey, nine-bay central block, with a hipped roof, and with a three-bay, rusticated, arcaded entrance loggia supporting a portico and pediment. To either side (north and south) is a one-storey, three-bay arcaded link, and a one-storey, pedimented pavilion, containing a Venetian window within a relieving arch, ornamented with paired Ionic pilasters, and figurative sculptures supported by acroteria. With drawn annotations below

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1768
datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (539 x 308)

Hand

Robert 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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