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  • image Image 1 for SM Adam volume 51/75
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/75

Purpose

[30] Design for the Huntwick Lodge, 1774, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a rusticated segmental arch, flanked by niches; with a rusticated perimeter wall to the right-hand side, containing a door surmounted by an urn; and with a two-storey, single-bay lodge to the left-hand side, with windows surmounted by hood mouldings (verso) pencil-drawn elevation as on recto, but with a sculpted lion above the edges of the gateway, as indicated by the inscription on the recto, and without the urn over the door

Scale

bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot (verso) to a scale

Inscribed

Front of Lodge and Gate for Huntwick leading to Nostill from Featherstone Common / Lion / Dog and some measurements given (verso) Number 15 (in feint red pen) / Sir Rowland Winn Nostell

Signed and dated

  • 02/03/1774
    Adelphi March 2d / 1774 (in feint pencil)

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (572 x 491)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 358
William, 2006, p. 50
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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