[121] Finished drawing for an orangery greenhouse, c1767-80, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Additions to the park
      - Finished drawings for an orangery greenhouse, c1767-80, executed with minor alterations (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/99

Purpose

[121] Finished drawing for an orangery greenhouse, c1767-80, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a one-storey, nine-bay greenhouse, with a pitched roof, and resting on a shallow stylobate of four steps, and the central seven bays are articulated by Doric columns, are glazed, and surmounted by a pediment with a wreath and arabesques in the tympanum, and with three acroteria supporting figurative sculpture, and the end bays slightly recessed, articulated by Doric pilasters, and containing sculpture-filled niches, and the whole has a Doric frieze

Scale

bar scale of 2 2/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design of a Green House for Osterley Park Middlesex / one of the Seats of Francis Child Esqr (all in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

1767-1774
date range: 1767-74

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (654 x 493)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably William Hamilton, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 350
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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