[19] 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)
    - Designs and finished drawings for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/88

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of the side (north) front of the north-east pavilion, being a two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay building, with a hipped roof surmounted by acroteria, a rusticated basement, with niches in the end bays on the principal floor, and ornamented with Corinthian pilasters at either end of the upper register

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Elevation of the South End of a New Design for Eaton Hall in Cheshire for the Earl of Grosvenor (verso) 3

Signed and dated

1768
datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (545 x 385)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

LVG and a fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

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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