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  • image SM Adam volume 29/3

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/3

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a new house, c1770-76, unexecuted

Aspect

Longitudinal section through a curved gateway, a small courtyard, and a second, larger, circular and colonnaded courtyard, and a four-storey house

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section through The Gateway, Circular Court and Body of the House, For His Grace The Duke of Portland, Fronting Mansfield Street

Signed and dated

  • 1770-1776
    date range: 1770-76

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink and yellow washes within a single ruled border on laid paper (901 x 466)

Hand

(1-2) Adam office hand (3-4) Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi (3) title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

2

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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