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[6] Finished drawing for the house, 1765, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 46/15
Purpose
[6] Finished drawing for the house, 1765, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front of a four-storey, three-bay terraced house, with a balustraded, pitched roof, with two chimney stacks, with a door in the left-hand end bay on the ground storey, surmounted by a fanlight, flanked by Doric columns supporting a Doric frieze, and a pediment, and with a string course of guilloche between the ground and first storeys
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
No 6th (in pencil) / Elevation of a House for Andrew Millar Esqr / Fronting to Pall Mall / to be Built (in pencil) and some measurement given
Signed and dated
- 1765
Robt Adam Archt 1765 (on a small separate sheet affixed to the drawing)
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (173 x 318)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 43
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk