[1] Finished drawing for a screen wall and gateway, c1764, unexecuted

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    - Piccadilly, number 147, London: unexecuted design for a screen and gateway, for Henry Fox, 1st Lord Holland, 1764 (1)
      - Finished drawing for a screen wall and gateway, c1764, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/68

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for a screen wall and gateway, c1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a five-bay screen wall and gateway, with a central carriage arch containing doors, flanked by enclosed rosettes, and articulated by fluted Spalatro order columns, supporting a Doric column with enclosed rosettes and ox skulls, and a pediment with three acroteria. The central gateway is flanked by single-storey, single-bay links, containing a door, flanked by urn-filled niches, and surmounted by a rectangular compartment containing rosettes and festoons, and beyond the link the end bay is slightly projecting, and with a pyramidal roof, and containing doors, flanked by Doric pilasters ornamented with scrolled hearts, and surmounted by a Diocletian window within a fluted frame, and flanked by enclosed rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design of a Porte Cochere for The House of The Right Honble Lord Holland in Piccadilly and some measurements given

Signed and dated

c1764
datable to c1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (636 x 478)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Verso

Number 12 (in red pen) / Lord Hollands Gateway

Watermark

D&CBLAUW

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 45
Rowan, 1988, p. 60
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 130
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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