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[7] Finished drawing for the house, N.D. unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 29/113
Purpose
[7] Finished drawing for the house, N.D. unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a one-storey, seven-bay greenhouse, with a pitched roof, and a central arched window surmounted by a broken-base pediment, and flanked by rectangular windows, and a door in each of the end bays. Below is the elevation of one-storey, six-bay domestic offices, with a pitched roof, and with two doors and four windows behind a Doric colonnade
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Green House / Front of the Offices / for Lord Frederick Campell at Petersham (in the hand of William Adam) for Lord Frederick Campbell's house at Petersham (in pencil) (verso) 9 / this to be placed Seventy Fourth (in red pen) / 24 (in pencil) / Lord Frederick Campbell at Petersham
Signed and dated
- N.D. These drawings might have been made at any time between Adam and Campbell's acquaintance in the early 1760s and Adam's death in 1792.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a double ruled border on laid paper (281 x 454)
Hand
Adam office. Additions to title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
LVG surmounted by cartouche surmounted by fleur de lis
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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