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[18] Preliminary design for remodelling Buckingham House and its entrance gate, c1761-63, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/7/137
Purpose
[18] Preliminary design for remodelling Buckingham House and its entrance gate, c1761-63, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation of the principal (east) front with a four-storey, five-bay central domed central block, with an arcaded, rusticated basement, Venetian windows on the first floor, and a portico of eight giant columns supporting a pediment, flanked on either side by three-storey ranges. The range to the right is seven bays in length with pedimented windows on the first floor, and the range to the left is eight bays in length, with an arcaded rusticated basement, and the bays articulated by giant columns in the upper register
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1761-1763
date range: 1761-63
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (229 x 137)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume I, p. 49
Tait, 1993, pp. 51-52
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 129, 221
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Tait, 1993, pp. 51-52
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 129, 221
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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