[7] Design for the house, 1762, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Hatch House (now Mersham-le-Hatch), Mersham, Kent: executed and unexecuted designs for the house and interior for Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 6th Baronet, and Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet, 1762-66 (34)
    - Preliminary designs and designs for the house, 1762, unexecuted (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/97

Purpose

[7] Design for the house, 1762, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal front of a three-and-a-half-storey, nine-bay house, with a hipped room, and the central five-bays slightly projecting, and supporting a pediment, and with a Doric aedicular door on the first storey, accessed by paired quarter-turn external stairs, and with a central balustraded window on the second storey

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/10 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

North Front of a New Design for Hatch in Kent. The Seat of / Sir Wyndham Knatchbull Baronet and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1762
datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (463 x 522)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Verso

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 126
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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