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  • image SM Adam volume 41/104

Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/104

Purpose

[16] Record drawing for the house, 1762, as executed

Aspect

Longitudinal section through a three-storey central block, with pitched roofs, with the ground storey partly barrel-vaulted, and with the central room on the second storey toplit by a domed skylight. The central block is flanked by two-storey links, and three-storey pavilions, with pitched roofs, and the ground storey is partly barrel-vaulted

Scale

1 1/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the House of Sir Windham Knatchbull in Kent (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (816 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, additions to inscription in the hand of William Adam

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

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

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