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

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [1] Finished drawing for a new house, c1770-76, unexecuted

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Portland House, New Cavendish Street, London: unexecuted designs for a house, a gateway, and a chimneypiece for the 3rd Duke of Portland, c1770-76 (8)
      - Finished drawings for a new house, c1770-76, unexecuted (4)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/4

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of an eleven-bay house, with a projecting porte-cocherè on the principal front, and a bow across the central three bays of the garden front, and with an enclosed rectangular courtyard and gateway at the front

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Storey of a House for His Grace the Duke of Portland/ Shed / Shed / Gold Fish & c / Cold Bath / Anti room / Hot Bath / Privy / Privy / Powdering room / Lobby / Book room / Duke's Bed Chamber / Library / Butler's Pantry / Servants Hall / Passage / Staircase / Passage / Staircase / Housekeeper's Store room / Housekeeper's Bed room / Wine Cellar / Empty bottles / Steward's Bed room / Steward's Dining room / Poultry / Privy / Porters room / Lobby for Chairs / Confectioner's room / Confectioner's Bed room / Under Butler's bed room / Plate room / Passage / Ice house / Cook's Pantry / Pastry / Larder / Stair case / Dry Larder / Kitchen / Scullery to Kitchen / Cook's room / Privy / Stable yard / Stable / Closet / Porter's room / Coach House / Coach House / Coach House / Stable / Stable yard / Stable / Coach House / Coach House / Coach House / Stable / Stable yard / Porters room / Closet / Stable / Stable yard / Privy / Stable / Coach house / Coach house / Coach house / Coach house / Coach house / Harness room / Stair case / Boiling room / Yard and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1770-1776
date range: 1770-76

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (560 x 1150)

Hand

Adam office hand

Verso

Duke of Portland (in pencil)

Watermark

DXCB within cartouche; D&CBLAUW IV

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).