[5] Design for a villa, 1775, built to a modified and enlarged design

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  - St John's Lodge, Welwyn, Hertfordshire: designs for a villa, executed to a modified and enlarged design, and a mirror frame for Mrs Mary St John, 1775-78 (8)
    - Preliminary designs and designs for a villa, 1775, built to a modified and enlarged design (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/21

Purpose

[5] Design for a villa, 1775, built to a modified and enlarged design

Aspect

Plan of the bedchamber (first) storey of a three-bay villa with two projecting bows on each side, and a central staircase encircled by bedchambers and dressing rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Storey / Servants Bed Room / Servants Bed Room / Servants Bed Room / Bed Chamber / Bed Room or Dressing Room / Great Stairs / Bed Room or Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Bed Room or Dressing Room / Bed Chamber and dimensions given (verso) 5 / Number 5 and a cropped sentence of which only the tops of the letters are visible

Signed and dated

August 1775
Adelphi Augst 4t 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a double ruled border on laid paper (446 x 372)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS and IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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