[2] Finished drawing for the house, 1768, unexecuted

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [2] Finished drawing for the house, 1768, unexecuted

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Killerton Park, Budlake, Devon: unexecuted designs for a house, for Sir Thomas Acland Dyke, 7th Baronet, 1768 (7)
    - Designs and finished drawings for the house, 1768, unexecuted (7)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/53

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for the house, 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the principal (first) storey of a house with a five- by five-bay central block, with the central three bays on the principal front slightly projecting, with a central door, and behind a three-bay balustraded portico flanked by curved external stairs, and the central three bays on the garden front form a bow, with niches either side of the central bay, and behind a five-bay balustraded portico, and the central bays on the side fronts are slightly projecting and contain tripartite windows, and the house contains reception rooms, a bedroom, and dressing room, and two central symmetrical elliptical staircases. The central block is flanked by three-bay quadrant links, with the windows alternating with niches, and beyond are three- by three-bay wings, with the a central tripartite window on the principal front, and containing the kitchen and bedrooms on one side, and bedrooms and hay lofts on the other

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of a New Design of a House For Sir Thomas Ackland Baronet in Devonshire / Kitchen continued / Cooks room / Servants room / Servants Bed room / Servants Bed room / Corridore / Water Closet / Bath / For Boiling Water / Anti Room / Side board / Dining Room / Anti Room / Drawing Room / Stairs / Stairs / Powdering Room / Water Closet / Ladys Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Anti Room / Hall / Portico / Library / Gentlemans Dressing room / Water Closet / Staircase / Servants Bed room / Servants Bed room / Grooms room / grooms room / Hay Loft / Hay Loft and measurements given (verso) 6 / Sir Thomas Ackland / Original Finch's Design

Signed and dated

1768
datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and yellow wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (944 x 601)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 127
For a full list of literature see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).