[1] Preliminary design for refacing the house, 1774, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - St James's Square, number 11, London: executed design for refacing the house, for Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet, 1774 (2)
      - Preliminary design and finished drawing for refacing the house, 1774, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/109

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for refacing the house, 1774, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a four-storey, five-bay terraced house, with the central three bays projecting and rusticated on the ground storey, and with a door on the left-hand side, with external steps within a Doric portico across the door, and with the central three bays articulated by lotus capital pilasters across the first and second storeys, supporting a lintel ornamented with roundels, and this supporting Doric pilasters in the third storey, supporting a balustrade surmounted by one feintly drawn figurative sculpture, and the house has a string course of guilloche between the first and second storeys

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Signed and dated

1774
datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (294 x 382)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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