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  • image SM Adam volume 30/19

Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/19

Purpose

[3] Alternative design for a house, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Alternative elevation of the south front of a two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay house, with a balustraded, hipped roof, with the pediments of four windows shown behind the balustrade, and with the central bay projecting, and containing a tripartite door behind a single-storey Ionic portico, supporting a pediment, reached by a straight staircase, and the door is surmounted by a tripartite window, and ornamented with a cable moulding strong course, and a frieze of fluting and enclosed rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

South Front of Stockwood House the Seat of John Crawley Esqr (verso) 2

Signed and dated

  • April 1772
    Adelphi April 25th. 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (538 x 381)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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