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[1] Alternative design for a house, 1772, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 30/18
Purpose
[1] Alternative design for a house, 1772, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the south front of a two-storey, five-bay house, with a hipped roof, and a central Venetian window-shaped front door, within a relieving arch, reached by tapering external stairs, and surmounted by a tripartite window, and behind a central three-bay Ionic portico, supporting a pediment, and ornamented with a cable moulding string course, a fluted frieze, and with sculptures around the roof line, and with a pencil-drawn plan of the external tapering stairs below
Scale
bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
South Front of Stockwood House the Seat of John Crawley (on a small separate sheet affixed to the recto) (verso) 1
Signed and dated
- February 1772
Adelphi Feby 11th. 1772
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (521 x 509)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Watermark
D&CBLAUW IV
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, index p. 29
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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