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[17] 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 4/138
Purpose
[17] Preliminary design for remodelling Buckingham House and its entrance gate, c1761-63, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan of a house containing four courts arranged in a grid, and with extrnal stairs, and a curved roadway leading to a porte cochère on one side. The building has the central three bays projecting on the same front as the porte cochère, and the end bays of each front is projecting, and on the other three fronts there is a central five-bay bow
Scale
to a rough scale
Inscribed
Kings Closet / Dressg room / Bed room / Anti room / Saloon or private Eating room / Anti room / Anti room / Bed room / Dressg room / Queens Closet / 3d or private Drawg rm / 2d Dg room / Picture gallery or Queens Publick drawing room / 2d a room / An. room / Portico / Hall / Saloon or first An. room / 2d An. room / 1st Levee room / 2d Levee room / Drawings / 3d L. room / 4th Levee room / Books / Court / Chapel (in pencil) / Anti room / Saloon or private Eating room / Servants room / Anti room / powderg room / dressing room / Cabinet / Anti room / Statue gallery or publicke eating room / Anti room / Court and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1761-1763
date range: 1761-63
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (372 x 278)
Hand
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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