[14] Finished drawing for the house, 1762, as executed

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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)
    - Alternative preliminary design, and finished drawings and a record drawing for the house, 1762, as executed (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/102

Purpose

[14] Finished drawing for the house, 1762, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of the principal (south) front of a two-and-a-half-storey, seven-bay house, with a hipped roof, and the central three bays projecting and supporting a pediment, and with a central aedicular door on the first floor, accessed by external stairs. The central block is flanked by one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay, balustraded links, with a central window flanked by niches, and beyond are two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay pavilions, with pyramidal roofs

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

South Front of a New Design for House & Offices for Sir Wyndham Knatchbull Wyndham Bart at Hatch in Kent and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1762
datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border (869 x 461)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 113
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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